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Joe Buttitta has been active in Southern
California sports and media for more than 25 years, and is a
man who wears a variety of hats in his many community-based
activities. The latest hat he is wearing these days is that
of a PGA Professional golfer. He teaches both NATURAL
GOLF and conventional golf at Westlake Golf Course
in Westlake Village.
Buttitta also has experience in radio, television,
newspapers and magazines. After nearly a decade as sports director
at KGIL-Radio in the San Fernando Valley, he entered television
as the director of sports at KTLA, Channel 5, in Los Angeles,
where he was the nightly sports anchor and called the play-by-play
for the California Angels major league baseball
team, as well as UCLA football and basketball.
While at KTLA he won an Emmy and a Golden Mike
for his work, along with awards from the Associated Press and
United Press International. He has also reported sports on channels
9, 11 and 13 in the Los Angeles market. While at Channel 11
he covered the Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Buttitta, a Notre Dame High School/Cal State
Northridge graduate, is currently a PGA Teaching Professional
at Westlake Golf Course. He has been a Class-A member of the
PGA for eight years and has written golf for Executive Golfer
Magazine, Golf World Magazine, and Natural Golfer Magazine.
For 23 years his by-line appeared in the L.A. Daily News as
its golf columnist. During the summer of 1995 he served as the
host of “Talkin’ Golf”, a live call-in show
on XTRA-Sports 690, an all-sports radio station in Southern
California. The show was produced by the Southern California
PGA.
“Teaching Natural Golf
has revitalized my teaching career,” says Buttitta, who
has been teaching the Moe Norman-inspired swing for eight years.
He estimates that 90-95 percent of his students are Natural
Golfers. “The Natural Golf method is easier to explain
and understand, therefore easier to teach to everyday players
who just love to play this game. It’s the most logical
way I know to hit a golf ball off the ground with a stick. Teaching
is fun again!!”
Buttitta currently makes his home in Simi Valley
with his wife, Teri, and young son, Joey, who is a student/athlete
at Royal High School. Two older children, Deborah and Anthony,
are out in the world working on careers in family counseling
and as a television news cameraman, respectively.
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- Class-A Member, PGA of America
- Member, PGA Advisory Committee
- Los Angeles News Media Champion, 1973, 1977
- Inducted into CSUN Athletic Hall of Fame
- Golf Columnist, L.A. Daily News for 23 years
- Wrote/Produced "Eye on Golf", Westar Entertainment
- Wrote/Produced "For Juniors Only", SoCal Golf
Assn.
- Asst. Golf Coach, CSUN, 1975-1979
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