Marty Jertson

PGA Classification: A-19
PGA Section: Southwest
PGA Membership: 2010

Facility: PING Golf, Inc., Phoenix, Ariz. & The Stack System

Notes: Making his 11th career start in the PGA Professional Championship...T-5 in 2011 is his best career PPC finish...Has played in five PGA Championships: 2011/Atlanta Athletic Club; 2012/The Ocean Course, 2018/Bellerive, 2019/Bethpage Black, 2020/Harding Park...Made the cut in 2019 at Bethpage Black after posting a 69 on Friday (finished 82nd)...Played in the 2020 U.S. Open at Winged Foot Golf Club (after finishing top-three in the 2019 Professional Player of the Year Standings)...Secured the decisive point for the U.S. Team at the 2019 PGA Cup in the event's final match, a 4 and 2 win over Craig Lee of GB&I...He also played for a victorious U.S. Team in the 2011 PGA Cup and finished a perfect 4-0-0...Winner, 2019 Southwest PGA Professional Championship; 2008 Southwest PGA Assistant Championship; 2017, '11 Southwest PGA Player of the Year; 2001 Colorado State Amateur...Has played in the WM Phoenix Open (2020) and the Shriners Children's Open four times...Member of the Colorado School of Mines Athletic Hall of Fame...Won 11 collegiate events...In his 20th year as an engineer at PING...His career started in club design where he was the lead designer of more than 30 product families, including the G30 and G410 drivers...Helped bring Turbulator technology to the market, is the co-inventor of the iPING Putting App, led the creation of Ballnamic (www.ballfitting.com), golf's first brand agnostic, modelling based golf ball fitting solution, and most recently PING Co-Pilot (www.pingcopilot.com) a suite of advanced fitting tools on the cutting edge of club fitting and player optimization...As Vice President of Fitting & Performance (previously the Chief Engineer), he is credited with the design of the G410 and G30 drivers, along with a variety of fairway metal, hybrid, and iron designs...Helped create the iPING putting App...Named as an inventor for more than 135 patents...Along with Shane Bacon, Marty is the co-host of the PING Proving Grounds Podcast...Is the Co-Founder and CEO of The Stack System, an innovative App-based speed training solution that has helped over 35,000 golfers gain an average of 9.2 mph and 24 yards, and has taken the golf world by storm...Matt Fitzpatrick famously credited TheStack after his US Open victory at Brookline, saying that "I'll be honest, it works wonders".