Anne Cain began playing competitively at age 13, and by age 15 was selected as a GOLF Magazine Junior All-American. This selection ranked her in the top 3 female juniors in the country. After high school, she attended the University of Georgia on a full golf scholarship. Cain earned All-American honors and captured 3 individual titles her senior year. She ranked #11 nationally and #1 in the Eastern U.S. In addition, she qualified for the 1989 U.S. Women’s Open as an amateur at age 21.
Cain turned professional in 1991 and played professionally worldwide on the Ladies Asian Tour and Futures Golf Tour. Cain competed through 1996 and captured 2 professional titles before setting her sights on a teaching career.
After joining the LPGA in 1995, Cain began a mission to become a world-class instructor. She has personally studied with
many of the games’ leading experts and has guided numerous tour players and collegiate competitors. In 2007, Cain was selected by Golf Magazine as one of the TOP 100 TEACHERS IN AMERICA and in 2008 was named by Golf Digest as a “Top 20 Teacher Under 40”.
ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS:
- Selected by Golf Digest as one of the Top 20 Teachers under 40
- Selected by GOLF Magazine as one of the Top 100 Teachers in America; published dozens of articles and videos
- Featured on “The World’s Greatest Teachers” series produced by J Golf Channel in Korea in 2011. This series filmed me for 2 days covering 15 instructional topics, my philosophies, and teaching methods.
- Selected as the LPGA East Coast Teaching Summit Coordinator for 2012
- Member of the LPGA National Member Growth Committee
- Named by Golf Magazine as one of the Top Teachers by Region for the state of Florida
- Nominated by peers for LPGA Teacher of the Year Award (1999, 2002, 2005)
- Named as a “Favorite Instructor” in Golf for Women
- Contributes golf instruction articles to GOLF Magazine and Florida Golf Magazine
- Became the first LPGA instructor to become an authorized instructor of Homer Kelley’s The Golfing Machine. This book is the leading technical manual on the physics and geometry of golf.
- Cain’s published article “Einstein’s Golf Lesson” is used by Johnson and Johnson in training its pharmaceutical sales managers the importance of coaching
