About Rita Slavetskas

Rita Slavetskas has been rated one of the TOP 50 LPGA INSTRUCTORS IN THE USA!  She was accepted into the Ladies Professional Golf Association Teaching and Club Professional Division in 1997 and earned her Class A status in 2002.  Since joining the LPGA, Rita has been involved in instructing all levels of golfers, male and female; in private and group settings.  Ms. Slavetskas is the LPGA Teaching Professional on the staff of Cacapon State Park in the spring and summer.

Rita is also a featured instructor with the LPGA Golf Clinics For Women and the LPGA Girls Golf Club in Bluffton, SC. She has had the honor to instruct with many professional golfers including Nancy Lopez, Peggy Kirk Bell, Dottie Pepper, Sandra Haynie, Sally Little, Jane Blalock, Jane Frost, Elaine Crosby, Vicki Fergon, Emilee Klein, Laurie West, Marlene Floyd, Jim McLean, Alicia DiBos, Kathy Whitworth, Paula Creamer, Mike Shannon, Gale Peterson and Cindy Miller.  Rita believes in working with a person's abilities and enhancing them to the most extent possible within their overall lifestyle.  Rita also continues to maintain contact and a working relationship with the best in the industry so that she others may benefit from their skill.

Some of the adjectives used to describe Rita relative to her teaching style are:  passionate, awesome, caring, real, sensitive, energetic, inspiring, understanding..................  

Rita comes from a background of education, initially attaining her BA degree in Education & Performance.  A former professional musician and computer guru, Rita feels her students like the fact that she gives them a fun experience, and is able to identify what will help them most.  Rita shows genuine interest in their individual development.  Having experienced sports at different phases of her life, Rita has an increased awareness and understanding of a person's tendancies relative to their previous sport of choice.  Rita has little trouble trying to find something to relate to in each of her students.

When not instructing golf, Rita enjoys learning tennis, working out, sharing time with her friends and family and spending time with her rescue cats!