The Dick's Sporting Goods chain has laid off 478 Professional Golfers' Association teaching pros months after the company reported that sales of golf gear are dwindling.

Based in the Pittsburgh suburb of Findlay Township, Dick's operates more than 500 stores nationwide, most under the Dick's name. Those stores sell golf equipment as do 79 stores the chain operates under the Golf Galaxy name. Dick's still employs PGA pros at its Golf Galaxy stores, but not at Dick's locations.

"We had some internal restructuring that affected the Dick's stores," Matt Trimbur, the PGA pro at the Golf Galaxy store in Robinson Township, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

- Associated Press