Daniel Marinello

Founder

Daniel was born and raised in Seattle. He's been a golfer his whole life thanks to a golf obsessed family. In high school, Daniel developed a passion for teaching his friends how to strength train. He went on to become the youngest National Academy of Sports Medicine Certified Personal Trainer in the country. While a junior at Penn State, Daniel discovered the Titleist Performance Institute. He quickly fell in love with TPI’s methods, and was determined to share them with the golfers of Seattle.

In 2018, Daniel started Seattle Golf Fitness. It's first location was as a sublease of a small personal training studio on Mercer Island. SGF went from 0 members to a completely booked schedule in 8 months thanks to some hard work and great client results.

Once at capacity, Daniel began looking for his own space for SGF. After a long and thorough search he signed a lease in downtown Mercer Island in June 2020. Daniel then worked vigorously over the next few months to build out the Mercer Island Golf Club . Within a few months of the MIGC opening he was able to acquire more space next door to build out the new home of Seattle Golf Fitness.

In February of 2021, SGF moved into it’s first independent facility and Zach Johnson was soon hired to be Director of Performance. Now in 2023, SGF has a staff of 10+ and continues to grow with the addition of Vancouver Golf Performance.

Daniel has always loved visiting Vancouver and has really liked how many golfers there are in the area. He knows that VGP will serve them well to help them accomplish any golf or fitness related goal they many have.