Golf Team

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GOLF TEAM 

Darrell Kestner | Advisor / Featured Professional

We are proud to have Darrell Kestner as the Director of Golf at Golf & Body NYC. Darrell has been the Director of Golf at Deepdale Golf Club in Manhasset, New York, for the past 23 years. He played the PGA Tour in 1981 and 1983 and over five decades has competed in18 Major Championships including 8 U.S. Opens and 10 PGA Championships, plus 11 Senior Major Championships.  In 1984, Darrell won the Charlie Pride Fiesta, a Nationwide Tour event, and in 1996 he won The National Club Pro Championship by setting a new tournament record, 17 under par. He also is a two-time FootJoy National Assistant’s Champion and has captured three Metropolitan Opens, five Met PGA Championships, two New York State Opens, and four Long Island PGA Championships. 

Among his other accomplishments, Darrell was PGA of America National Senior Player of the Year in 2004 and ’05. He’s also be names Metropolitan Player of the Year three times and Metropolitan Senior Player of the Year five times. His instruction awards include being named Metropolitan Teacher of the Year in 1997, Bill Strausbaugh Award Recipient in 2008, and Metropolitan Horton Smith Award Recipient in 2012.

The very rare instructor who plays almost as well as he teaches, Darrell has worked with many tour pros, club pros, and amateurs on their games. He has been the featured speaker at numerous national and local educational forums. He is a frequent guest instructor on Golf Channel, particularly on “The Golf Fix,” which is hosted by his friend—and former first assistant—Michael Breed. Kestner has made the lists of Top 50 instructors by Golf Digest and Top 100 Teachers from Golf Magazine for many years. His greatest honor was induction into the Metropolitan PGA Hall of Fame in 2011 as it is the ultimate proof of his dedication to the game of golf and his continuing desire to help others enjoy and improve in the game he loves so much.

Ron McDougal | HEAD Professional

Frequently honored for his work as a golf professional, Ron has been recognized by Golf Digest as one of the top 25 instructors in New York and New Jersey, and has been a featured instructor on Golf Channel. He also is one of the most accomplished players in the Met Area, having been a former National Club Professionals Champion, Metropolitan Senior Champion, New York State Open Champion, and Metropolitan PGA Player of the Year. Ron also competed in five PGA Championships, qualified for three PGA Cup teams, and completed in one Senior PGA Championship.  Along with his success as a teacher and player, Ron has extensive experience in the operations of high-end private clubs, with stints at, among others, Old Westbury Golf and Country Club, Hollywood Golf Club, Liberty National Golf Club, and Century Country Club. Ron has distinguished himself among golf professionals with the ability to successfully manage all aspects of club and golf operations and his dedication to delivering the highest level of service to members and guests.

He is a native of Missouri City, Texas; Ron attended the University of Texas where he was co-captain of the golf team.

EDEN FOSTER | FEATURED PROFESSIONAL

Golf Body NYC welcomes Eden Foster to our team of golf professionals. For the past 18 years, Eden has been the Head Golf Professional at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton, New York, and the Head Professional at Calusa Pines in Naples, Florida, since 2001. Selected as a Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor, Eden has coached aspiring collegiate juniors, and tour players while working every day with the members of his clubs. Eden has had the honor to present at numerous Teaching and Coaching events and has written various instructional articles. Originally from Socorro, New Mexico, he was a member of the golf team at Eastern New Mexico University where he majored in Finance and minored in Psychology.

JOE OSTROWSKI | Director of Golf

An accomplished collegiate golfer who turned professional in 2008, Joe accumulated extensive knowledge in high-end private-club operations having worked for some of the nation’s top PGA  professionals prior to his arrival at GBNYC.

Joe joined the staff at Golf & Body NYC in 2013 as a teaching professional. Since then, he was selected as one of Trackman’s first 20 certified Master Teaching Professionals in the United States and been certified by K Vest 3D.

Through the team approach at GBNYC, Joe has worked alongside fitness and medical professionals to create personally tailored practice plans based for his students based on how their bodies move. Combining this approach with his use of Trackman has helped his students hit the ball further, win club championships, and lower their  handicaps.

Joe developed the GBNYC junior golf program for ages 4 through college.His students have gone on to become passionate about golf, even winning US Kids Regional tournaments.

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