Podcast appearances and mentions of dan van horn

Dan Van Horn is the President and Founder of U.S. Kids Golf. What started as a father simply trying to make golf easier and more enjoyable for his kids has become the world's leading provider of kids' golf equipment, tournaments, and development best practices in the world. Since 2018, U.S. Kids Golf has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Businesses in golf by the National Golf Foundation. In 2022, Golf Business Magazine stated “no organization has done more to grow the game of golf than U.S. Kids Golf. It's not even close.” The annual U.S. Kids World Championships will mark its 19th year competing inside the Home of American Golf and annually brings together some of the best junior golfers from all 50 states and more than 30 countries. The event has an estimated $16.5 million economic impact on the Pinehurst area. Check out this episode of Paradise in the Pines as Dan Van Horn talks about the growth of U.S. Kids Golf, how much Pinehurst has played a role in his success, and what the future holds for the organization.

Dan Van Horn is the President and Founder of U.S. Kids Golf. What started as a father simply trying to make golf easier and more enjoyable for his kids has become the world's leading provider of kids' golf equipment, tournaments, and development best practices in the world. Since 2018, U.S. Kids Golf has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Businesses in golf by the National Golf Foundation. In 2022, Golf Business Magazine stated “no organization has done more to grow the game of golf than U.S. Kids Golf. It's not even close.” The annual U.S. Kids World Championships will mark its 19th year competing inside the Home of American Golf and annually brings together some of the best junior golfers from all 50 states and more than 30 countries. The event has an estimated $16.5 million economic impact on the Pinehurst area. Check out this episode of Paradise in the Pines as Dan Van Horn talks about the growth of U.S. Kids Golf, how much Pinehurst has played a role in his success, and what the future holds for the organization.

Are you looking for ways to diversify your portfolio? Investing in notes can be a good way to do that. In this Highlights episode, we feature our conversations again with Dan Van Horn of PPR Note Co. and Susan Elliot of Flow State Investing.Dan reveals some little-known facts about the note investing business and shares the pros & cons of note investing over other asset classes. Meanwhile, Susan details how she found out about note investing and how she is helping investors add notes to their portfolios to build wealth. Listen now and understand how note investing works!

In a year full of incredible challenges and unprecedented demand, golf is at a crossroads. The question is, are we smart and intentional about truly growing the game, or are we too focused on each day’s bottom line? Dan Van Horn, the president and founder of U.S. Kids Golf, joins “Game Changers” to talk about the year it's been, and how golf has to learn from it to prepare for the future.

In the 2nd part of our talk with Dan Van Horn, the President and Founder of U.S. Kids Golf, Dan talks about tournament play for kids, the value of a great coach, and the future of the golf industry. 

Dan Van Horn just wanted to spend quality time with his son on the golf course. But his frustration with how golf served the junior market led him to find a new approach. His unique background, every facet of it, worked together to help him start a new company - which became a revolution for the game. Anyone who has a kid that wants to play or compete, any club that wants to reinvigorate its junior program, and any coach that wants to make a difference needs to hear his story. 

This episode's story, "Berlin Ben's Big Night Out," was written by Corin Reyburn. Corin's website is http://www.infrastratos.com. Both the episode and the tale within touch on what fun it might be to be able to change your gender at will while living within a society that doesn't blink an eye. (Unless batting both eyes in a flirtatious manner.) You'll meet a TransAgent, Jacques Jules and Berlin Ben/Bethany within the SubverCity tonight. The voice of AM Onymous is Erin B. Lillis (http://www.ErinLillis.com). Other featured voices in this episode include Kristin Roybal, Jose Perez (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgq3GHh2BmIXLki5MwXg1A), Jupiter Q. Hurst (https://www.hitrecord.org/users/Jupiter_Q_Hurst) and our intro was read by Evienne Zander (https://soundcloud.com/evienne-zander) and Dan Van Horn (https://www.hitrecord.org/users/DVanHorn) as the TransAgent. To contact us or submit stories, please visit our website at SubverCityTransmit.com. This episode was written by Erin B. Lillis and Corin Reyburn and is a Krockett and Greyvyn Production. SubverCity Transmit is now a part of Dark Quill Productions. Please consider becoming a patron atwww.patreon.com/DarkQuillProductions/ Podcoin --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/subvercity-transmit/support

A true visionary sees a problem and finds a solution. That's exactly what Dan Van Horn did in 1996 when he founded U.S. Kids Golf.  His children wanted to learn to play golf and while they were enthusiastic at first, their interest quickly dropped. "They weren't having fun," Van Horn recalls. "At the time, I didn't realize that cutoffs and junior clubs were so heavy; they were not only hurting my kids' swings, but also their desire to play." That's when the former golf professional and engineer began developing Ultralight kids clubs, which were designed to be 25% lighter than adult and most junior clubs, and he formed the company, U.S. Kids Golf. Since then, parents and pros around the world have seen the incredible difference that lightweight and correctly fit clubs have made in their young player's swing and enthusiasm for the game. Today, the company is the world’s leading provider of equipment. Dan was kind enough to spend some time with us recently, but not specifically about U.S. Kids Golf products.  He shares with us what he and his company are doing to grow the game at the youth level through coaching, tournaments and their foundation.  Not only here in the United States, but around the world. Take a listen below on Soundcloud, on our website or on subscribe free on iTunes. You'll not only be impressed, but also proud that we have people like Dan taking an interest in our most important asset.  Our youth. https://soundcloud.com/worldwide-golf-shops/dan-van-horn-of-us-kids-golf-podcast-208 Tom Brassell: Welcome to GolfBetter at Worldwide Golf Shops. Episode 208. Hello, everyone. My name is Tom Brassell, thanks so much for joining us. If you're a first-time listener or a long-time subscriber, doesn't matter. We're just glad you joined us today. We have a special guest joining us. He's from up in Atlanta. Actually, he is on the course at Pinehurst today where they're hosting an event. He is the president and CEO of US Kids Golf, up in Atlanta, Georgia, Mr. Dan Van Horn. Dan, thanks so much for joining us. It's great to have you. Dan Van Horn: Well, thank you, Tom. It's great to invited. Tom Brassell:  First off, give us just a brief history of your background, how you got started and how this all came about, because this is so, so important to the game. Dan Van Horn: Well, we started 20 years ago. I had kids, I wanted to bring kids a sport that I enjoyed the most playing, which is golf, after having played all the sports myself. I really wanted them to play and enjoy golf. That's how US Kids Golf got started. A dad who was trying to get his kids involved. Tom Brassell:  Wow. What you're doing is so, so important. I think when I was a kid, I'm not sure how old you are, but the way we started was, "Hey, here's dad's old clubs," or if you really got lucky, you got some cut down for you. I don't know if this is true or not, but I think there's a direct correlation with how good the young players are today with the equipment that they grew up with. Would that be far off? Dan Van Horn:  Well, clearly, the idea of providing kids something that would be proportionate to their size was not what we were doing at the time, 20 years ago, it's hard to believe. In other words, we weren't really looking at the length of the club or weight of the club to see if it could be improved to help the young player enjoy the game. As a dad, when it became apparent to me there was a need, then that was the beginning of US Kids Golf, to provide kids with the best equipment to help them learn the game and have fun with it. Tom Brassell: Well, many on the retail side, we know about what you do with regard to equipment, but there's so much more than that, Dan. I'm looking at your website and you have 4 tabs there. The very last one is products. Before that is coaching and lessons, learning to play in tournaments. Share with us a little about that and what's behind all that. Dan Van Horn:   Yeah, if you look at every sport,

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