Rich Marik works with players on the PGA, LPGA, Korn Ferry, PGA Tour Americas, as well as elite collegiate athletes, juniors and competitors in other sports.
Rich’s approach reflects a rare integration of experience and training seldom found in a single coach. It brings together:
Together, these form a modern model of coaching — one that recognizes that developing champions requires far more than technical instruction alone.
These pillars form the foundation of Rich’s work and guide how athletes develop, prepare, and perform.
Rich competed at the highest levels of amateur golf — reaching #1 in the United States, winning the U.S. Junior Amateur, captaining Stanford’s men’s golf team, and competing as a professional.
That experience is not background. It is foundational to how he coaches. He understands what elite competition actually demands — the preparation, the pressure, and the internal work required to perform at the highest level — because he lived it.
As National Director of Instruction for Nike Golf Schools, Head Instructor for Hank Haney, and a TPI Instructor across the U.S. and Europe, Rich has spent decades developing technical expertise across every area of the game — full swing, short game, scoring, practice design, and course strategy.
He focuses not on isolated mechanics but on building complete, functional golf games that hold up under pressure.
Rich has spent decades building complete golf games from the ground up — working with players from their earliest development through college and into professional careers.
Players he has worked with have reached #1 in the United States, won NCAA conference championships, and competed and won on the PGA, LPGA, and Korn Ferry Tours.
This is not advisory work. It is the long, deep process of building competitors — technically, mentally, strategically, and competitively — over years of sustained development.
Rich has worked alongside many of the most respected coaches and performance specialists in the game — including Justin Parsons, Hank Haney, Greg Rose, Randy Smith, Mark Blackburn, and Julie Elion of CAPE Performance — in integrated environments supporting players at the highest levels of professional golf.
Working within these teams provided valuable insight into how elite coaching operates at the tour level and deepened his understanding of what players at the highest level truly need.
Rich holds a master’s degree in depth psychotherapy from Pacifica Graduate Institute and completed clinical training at the CIIS Psychological Services Center.
This goes well beyond positive thinking or surface-level sports psychology. It is training in deeper psychological work — the kind that addresses confidence, identity, emotional regulation, self-trust, and the patterns that shape how athletes respond under pressure.
This dimension of the work often creates breakthroughs that technical instruction or conventional mental coaching alone cannot reach.
Rich integrates advanced attention training and contemplative practice into his coaching work — developing the qualities that determine performance when pressure is highest: focus, awareness, emotional stability, presence, and clarity.
This dimension of his coaching supports athletes in performing with greater consistency and resilience while helping them remain grounded, adaptable, and fully engaged in demanding competitive environments.
It addresses aspects of performance that technical instruction and conventional mental coaching often do not reach, creating a deeper foundation for sustained development and elite performance.
Coaching players from junior golf to major championships.