Alex Cavaliere

Please indicate past awards won/recognitions:
PGA Section Teacher of the Year, Other (Indicate specific awards below in 3-a)

Other awards won:
CTPGA Youth Player Development Award (2024) Operation 36 Top 50 Coach (2023 & 2024)

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 100
Female: 70
Junior: 550

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
52 Clinic offerings resulting in 195 clinic hours. (Most are multi-week clinics.)

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
Advanced Youth Player Development was created and implemented by me in 2025. We have many beginner and intermediate programs at Lyman, but not a successful program that fits the needs of tournament players. This program is a supervised practice program that features competitive junior players that I privately teach on a regular basis. This program meets every week for 90 minutes. The junior golfers who participate in this program are elementary and middle school aged, and this program gives them the chance to bond with other kids that are attending the same tournaments and playing PGA Jr. League at our club.

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
Operation 36 Spring and Summer Junior Golf Camps:
I added Operation 36 to our spring and summer camps upon my arrival to Lyman in 2022. I make sure that campers are enrolled in the Operation 36 app at Lyman so that I can track progress throughout the week. This is done by logging scores as the campers attempt to pass their current Operation 36 division throughout the week. Campers typically play three Operation 36 rounds on-course during a week of camp. Playing rounds and tracking progress drives interest in returning to camp and enrollment in our junior clinics.

Adult Operation 36:
Adult Operation 36 was implemented in 2024 to capture a new audience that might not have been interested in our other clinic offerings. I first aimed to market towards parents of junior golfers who participate in our Operation 36 junior program. I attract various types of golfers to this program and often have beginner, intermediate, and advanced golfers all participating in the same session together. I take participants through an accelerated version of the first two levels of Operation 36 to work on all shots from 50 yards and in. This provides great value to all skill levels since starting closer to the hole is an effective way to learn golf from scratch and intermediate and advanced players enjoy the opportunity to receive more instruction and practice from 50 yards and in.

Advanced Youth Player Development:
Advanced Youth Player Development was created and implemented by me in 2025. We have many beginner and intermediate programs at Lyman, but not a successful program that fits the needs of tournament players. This program is a supervised practice program that features competitive junior players that I privately teach on a regular basis. This program meets every week for 90 minutes. The junior golfers who participate in this program are elementary and middle school aged, and this program gives them the chance to bond with other kids that are attending the same tournaments and playing PGA Jr. League at our club. The objective of this program is to spend extra time with some of the more committed junior golfers that I teach to show them good practice habits and drills that they can do on their own when they come to the course during the week.

SuperSpeed Golf Winter Clinics:
I created my own SuperSpeed golf clinic to provide speed training for all levels of players at Lyman Orchards. These clinics include lectures regarding movements in the golf swing and training that create power. The topics include centers of mass and pressure, vertical force, muscular loading, swing modifications for power, and exercises that will strengthen the golf swing. The speed training coupled with the extra information about creating power, create more distance which makes participants eager to play more golf. The outcome of SuperSpeed training is improved driving distance. I found that once participants take my SuperSpeed clinic and see distance gains, it piques their interest in playing more rounds, or taking other types of clinics or lessons.