About The Company

Golf Defined was founded by John Benkovic. Having taught golf professionally for 25 years John brings a unique perspective to the world of golf instruction.

You see, John was tired of hearing about “model swings” and a certain ball flight being forced on students.

John believes that everyone should be treated as an individual. We all have different goals, body types, and strengths. It’s up to the student and coach to collaborate on the direction to proceed, but it is a team decision, not solely a coach’s decision.

That’s why at Golf Defined every coach is a member of the PGA and trained to LISTEN to what the student wants. They are further trained to help you develop a plan to reach your goal in the shortest amount of time. If you don’t have a goal, that’s okay too. We’ll work together to develop one.

About John

John is one of only a limited number of PGA Members in the DC Metro area with the distinction of being Certified in Instruction and Teaching by the Professional Golfers Association (PGA). With this distinction, John represents the top 2.5% of all PGA Members.
John played on the South African PGA Tour in 2004. With that said, he was a former 90’s shooter! Because of this, he knows the skills it takes to become a better than scratch golfer.
John has taught over 25,000 individual lessons. Why is that important? No group lessons were incorporated in that 25,000. These were all one on one lessons paying intricate detail to an individual. No one in the Tysons area comes close to this metric.
Perhaps John’s greatest honor is that he is touted by Jimmy Ballard as an “Expert on Connection” in the golf swing.