Unsolicited PGA golf instruction DVD

No.  But you should read the fine print for joining USGA.

If it is indeed that they sent it to you without your consent (again you must read the fine prints), you are under no legal obligation to pay or return the item.

I haven't gotten any such thing and I've been a USGA member for quite some time.

Been a member of the USGA for years and never got any instructional DVD from them or the PGA.

I got one a few days ago.  Watched it then sent it back to them.  It came from the PGA.

I got one last year like JAMO.  Not really worth watching.  Just send it back or they will hound you with e-mails.

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Originally Posted by chilepepper 

  Has anyone received this unsolicited dvd from the PGA? I'm a little annoyed they send this and if you do nothing the send more and bill you for the "instructional" dvds. Maybe I made a mistake by joining USGA and they sold my info to a marketing outfit. Perhaps one of the online stores sold my info

I've been a USGA member for 26 years, and they don't do anything like what you are accusing them of unless you have given them permission to do so.  The only things you get from them are what they inform you of up front.  The only golf spam I've ever gotten has come from places like TGW.  I don't even remember what I bought from them, but I got endless advertising emails from them until I cancelled my Comcast account when we moved here.  I think you've gotten on the list from some other source.  

I got one, too, several months ago.  I’m not sure what mailing list was used to send it to me.  The address label used a military rank I used to have, but which I haven’t held for several years. So they didn’t get it from my USGA membership data, Golf Galaxy, Golf Digest, or Medicus.

Off topic, but related to the quality of the DVD instructional content:

On the DVD, they show Brandel Chamblee on a launch monitor hitting shots with commentary by the PGA Director of Instruction, Rick Martino.  In deliberately hitting a slice, Chamblee has an out-to-in swingpath 1.0* relative to the target line, and open clubface 10.6* (to target line or swingpath?).  Martino says, “The path is slightly across, starting the ball a little left. The face is wide open, overriding the path and sending the ball way to the right.” The monitor clearly shows the ball starting right and staying right. 

They then show a “hook” with swingpath 4.0*in-to-out and face angle 0.7*closed (relative to target line?).  Martino says, it “started out to the right and curved back to the target.” But the monitor shows it started left and stayed left.   (The shot ended up 8.6 yards left of center. Chamblee describes this as a “big hook.” Looks more like a pull-draw to me.  Is 8.6 yards enough to call it a big hook?)

Chamblee goes on to talk about how the numbers on the monitor don’t lie.  But they’ve just finished ignoring what the monitor really showed.

I got one to, watched it once and forgot all about it, Received a few bills/ offers to send more but they petered off. Just thinking we went to the Connecticut Golf show last February, wrote our names and addresses on a few "chances to win" offers etc. Who knows where that info ended up... Didn't win anything I guess.

LOL. When I read the thread title I picture a DVD of random people walking up to other random people on range and saying things like, "you lifted your head", "don't straighten your trail leg, you'll lose power", "your back needs to be straighter, you're too slumped", and other unsolicited advice....now I see that it's not a DVD of unsolicited instruction but an unsolicited DVD of instruction. I need reading lessons! Oh, well, gave me a chuckle anyway.

Marketing tactics sounds a little bit like the old PGA Tour Partners Club resurrected.