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DJ Trahan (born December 18th, 1980) is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia and currently resides in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.

DJ Trahan burst into the PGA tour by joining the small fraternity of pros ever to win a tour event during their rookie season, yet due to his epic career as an amateur, his immediate success as a pro came as no suprise to the PGA. By the time Trahan led the Clemson Tiger golf team to the NCAA National Championship in 2003, DJ was already one of the most decorated collegiate golfers in the history of the sport. DJ won the Jack Nicklaus Award (voted by the College Golf Coach's Association) as the top player in the nation. He was also named the Player of the Year by the NCAA. He was a Ben Hogan Award honoree and he was also Golf World's top ranked collegiate golfer. In addition to a tremendous cache of NCAA and ACC trophies, honors, and records, Trahan was also named a 1st Team All-American and an Academic All-American.

Following a winning season on the Nationwide Tour in 2004, DJ began his PGA Tour career in 2005 and continued to exhibit the skill and technical consistency of a man who is destined to play the game at a very high level for a very long time. Over his first five seasons, Trahan has finished in the Top Twenty 39 times and the Top Ten 20 times, including his second tour victory in 2008 at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. At just 30 years old, Trahan has already earned over $8 million in career winnings. DJ is the son of the very popular PGA teaching pro/author Don "The Swing Surgeon" Trahan. "The Surge" is most respected for his revolutionary teaching concepts but is also famous for having made 18 official aces (holes in one) during his career.

On numerous occasions, golf analysts and commentators have stated that DJ has one of the simplest swings on the PGA Tour. The swing they are referring to is "The Surge Swing." It is the only golf swing DJ has ever used and the swing that's made him close to $10 million as a professional.

DJ Trahan is the youngest golfer in history to win a round in match play at the U.S. Junior Amateur, where he won a first-round match when he was just 13 years old (summer of 1994).

Awards and Honors:

  • All-ACC: 1st Team - 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
  • ACC Freshman of the Year - 2000
  • ACC Player of the Year - 2002
  • All-American - 2000 (Honorable Mention, 1st Team Freshman), 2001 (Honorable Mention), 2002 (1st Team), 2003 (1st Team)
  • Ben Hogan Award - 2002 -Jack Nicklaus Award - 2002
  • ACC 50-Year Anniversary Golf Team - 2002 (only active collegiate golfer named to the list)
  • Carolinas Golf Association Player of the Year - 2000, 2001, 2002

Collegiate wins:

  • Las Vegas Intercollegiate - 2000
  • Carpet Classic - 2001
  • Jerry Pate Invitational - 2001
  • NCAA East Regional - 2002
  • Mercedes-Benz Intercollegiate - 2003

Amateaur Wins:

  • U.S. Amateur Public Links - 2000
  • Jones Cup, South Carolina Amateur - 2001
  • Azalea Invitational, Monroe Invitational, South Carolina Amateur - 2002

Professional Wins:

  • Nationwide Tour: 
    • Miccosukee Championship - 2004 
  • PGA Tour:
    • Southern Farm Bureau Classic - 2006
    • Bob Hope Chrysler Classic - 2008

Donald Roland Trahan (born November 13th, 1949) is an American PGA Master Professional golf instructor. Known as "The Swing Surgeon," Trahan is the father of PGA Tour professional golfer D.J. Trahan.

Trahan was born in New Bedford, Massachussetts. His father introduced him to the game of golf when he was 10 years old. By the age of 12, Trahan was a scratch golfer and a member of New Bedford Public Links, now called Whaling City Golf Club (known as The Whale).

Trahan graduated from Bishop Stang Catholic High School in 1967. He was the top player on the high school golf team all four years he attended. Trahan then brought his talents to Southeastern Massachusetts University (now University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth) where he was again the top player on the golf team all four years he attended. He is a member of Delta Kappa Phi Fraternity. He graduated in 1971 with a double major in political science and history with plans to become a corporate attorney.

Trahan met his wife, Susan, while attending college. The two married in 1973 and moved to Port Orange, Florida where Trahan would begin his effort to obtain his PGA Tour Card. From there, Trahan took an assistant's job at Sugar Mill Country Club in New Smyrna Beach, Florida and entered into the PGA of America Apprentice Program. He earned a Class A membership in 1977.

He would later achieve the rare status of PGA Master Professional in 1992.

Don Trahan is one of the most respected teachers in the game of golf in the United States of America and around the world. Golf industry experts, Tour players, and fellow professionals consider him one of the most knowledgeable instructors in golf. They gave him his nickname, "The Swing Surgeon," because it is said that Trahan can take apart a golf swing and put it back together without leaving any scars.

While Director of Golf Instruction for Sea Pines Resort at the famed Harbour Town Golf Links, Don created one of the most organized and successful teaching centers in the United States, including a teaching certification program for all of the resort's golf instructors. His list of regular students includes a growing number of members of the PGA, LPGA, and other mini tours. He also works with college and junior players. Don's exceptional reputation as a teacher comes from both his unique training methods and swing methodology, acquired through years of study with engineers, physicists, a kinesiologist and an orthopedic surgeon to learn the physics and physiology of swinging a golf club. From this study evolved "The low stress, low maintenance golf swing," through which Don shows students how to hit the ball straight and long without stress and strain.

Prior to his work at the famed Harbour Town Golf Links, Don ran golf schools in Florida and was head golf professional at Pinetree Country Club in Kennesaw, Georgia. He has been a golf professional for over 35 years. Don's passion for helping golfers play better and enjoy the game more resulted in the creation of several distinctive training aids and instructional videos. These instruction and training tools have become the nucleus of his company, The Swing Surgeon Group.

Don was a teaching editor for Golf Magazine from 1987 - 1992 and continues to have articles published there and in numerous national magazines. The February 1998 issue of Senior Golfer Magazine featured a six-page article outlining the results of a study based on Don's theory of the short, 3/4 length, limited turn backswing. The biomechanical study in which Don participated, and scientifically proved correct, showed that a short swing does not lose clubhead speed versus a full parallel swing. Don was featured in the July 1993 issue of Choice Magazine, the award-winning publication of Golf-Digest Japan. Most recently Don wrote the feature instruction article for the February 1998 issue of Senior Golfer Magazine.

Currently, Trahan is fully involved in developing his website, which includes a daily blog, instructional videos, golf training aids, golf schools, golf instructor and club fitter certification programs, as well as healthy living products.

Awards and Honors:

  • PGA of America Apprentice Program 
  • Class A member - 1977 
  • PGA Master Professional - 1992 
  • Golf Magazine, "The Best 50 Teachers in America" - 1991 
  • Golf Magazine, "The 100 Best Teachers in America" - 1996 
  • Carolinas PGA Senior Player of the Year - 2002 
  • Carolinas PGA Senior Player of the Year - 2007 

Tournament Wins:

  • Carolinas PGA (CPGA) Senior Championship - 2002 
  • 12 CPGA Senior Wins Collegiate 

Golf Record:

  • Match Play record (53-0-3) - 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971