Jim Wisinski, a second-generation PGA professional, decided he wanted to bring a customer-focused golf shop to Grand Rapids. Born and raised here, he grew up around the game and followed his father into the profession, and he knew early on that his passion ran in two directions, toward golf itself and toward the people who play it.

Long before Tee 2 Green opened its doors, Jim spent years working nearly every corner of the business. He ran a golf course, taught players of every level, worked with equipment, and spent enough time behind a counter and on a lesson tee to understand what golfers actually need, which is not always what a catalog tells them they need.

Built on Relationships, Not Transactions

That experience is what shaped the idea for the shop. Jim saw plenty of places in West Michigan that could sell a golfer a club, but very few that would sit down with a player, ask the right questions, and put something in their hands that genuinely fit. He believed Grand Rapids deserved a store built on relationships rather than transactions, where a customer could walk in, be greeted by name, and leave with equipment chosen for their swing instead of whatever was stacked highest on the rack. Tee 2 Green was his answer to that, and the philosophy has not changed since.

More Than Four Decades in Grand Rapids

Jim and his wife Trudy have owned and operated Tee 2 Green together ever since, and more than four decades later, they are still here, still behind the counter, still doing it the same way. The family's tie to the game has carried into a third generation as well. Jim's son, Jimmy, is now a PGA professional at Kent Country Club, continuing the Wisinski name in the West Michigan golf community that his father has served for a lifetime.

What started as one professional's idea about how a golf shop ought to treat people has become a Grand Rapids fixture, and Jim and Trudy still run it the way they always have, one golfer at a time.