Highlander, I'm really not understanding your point, and I think you are mis-understanding the original proposal (post #1). The original proposal suggests that youth, folks working at minimum wage jobs, and retired/semi-retired folks would do the training if they could make a little money at it. There's no mention, really, of anybody making what I would call much of a "business" out of this. The post makes it clear that the instructors would pay their full way in terms of AMA insurance provided, and that everything else would be worked out at the club level, if a club was even interested in the concept.

Personally, I really doubt anybody would get rich teaching. Frankly, you seem a little hung up on the idea that you worked hard for your business, why should we make it easy for anyone to conduct theirs? Well, doesn't the golf pro just sit there waiting for interested persons to walk through the door? Just because the system helps you find customers, it's still hard work to run a business. There's accounting, grumpy customers, liability and taxes. Lastly, instructors would compete for customers. I see a club making a list of instructors available to newbies. Some instructors would charge more than others, and the ones that charge more would have to justify it by offering something the others don't, such as the willingness to work hours the others don't, or perhaps they provide better training equipment, or they are better instructors, or maybe they just appeal to the folks that want to pay more. Some instructors would get better word of mouth, and could charge more. New instructors would have to charge less until they gained a reputation.

Some guys would find out that they just weren't cut out for paid instruction, while others would find they really enjoy it and even if you paid for an hour, they would help you for two. Some clubs might try it out, and find that it generated a lot of bad will, so next year they vote no longer to permit it. Other clubs would find it solves enormous problems, and frees up the officers to do other things and they can't see how they lived without it.

The original proposal suggests that 80% of clubs wouldn't even consider using paid instructors. So why all the controversy?