Creative vision

Nathalie Sheehan built no magical career ladder in her head before entering the golf industry. That doesn’t mean a college-age Sheehan, née Filler, wouldn’t be pinching herself at certain parts of her résumé. Sheehan, the director of women’s golf at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida, spends her days largely giving lessons in person, but she’s recognizable to a much bigger audience through online instructional videos featured on GolfPass, a subscription service under the Golf Channel umbrella. The second season of her latest GolfPass show, “The Next Shot,” premiered last month. Previous shows she has filmed with the company still run on Golf Channel. Sheehan, 30, also posts simple, easy-to-understand instruction tidbits on her Instagram page, @nattiegolf.

She has become a leading and increasingly visible female instructor, and that’s the part she might not have believed when she was on the roster at the University of Delaware, helping kickstart a fledgling program. “I never had any huge goals,” Sheehan said. “I just have been som...