Alex Cavaliere

Please indicate past awards won/recognitions:
PGA Section Teacher of the Year, GRAA Top 100 Growth of the Game Teaching Professional, Other (Indicate specific awards below in 3-a)

Other awards won:
Golf Digest Best Young Teachers in America (2027 – 2028), CTPGA Youth Player Development Award (2024), CTPGA Professional Development Award (2024), Operation 36 Top 50 Coach (2023 & 2024), Operation 36 Master Coach (2025)

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 100
Female: 100
Junior: 600

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
450 Clinic Hours

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
We launched a brand new Spring PGA Jr. League 17U program this year to give more kids the opportunity to participate in PGA Jr. League. High school golf has traditionally taken place in the spring season but schools have been given the choice to switch their season to the fall recently. With about half of the schools switching to fall golf, some of our junior golfers were looking for a team to play on in the offseason. Eighth graders who are interested in playing high school golf also participated alongside the high school kids which provided a great atmosphere for all involved.

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
Advanced Youth Player Development:
Advanced Youth Player Development was created and implemented by me in 2025 and thrived in 2026 as well. I created this program to fulfill the needs of the younger but more advanced players that I teach privately. My goal was to introduce players of a similar skill level to each other and teach them good practice habits while promoting healthy competition against each other and themselves. This program meets every week for 90 minutes on Sunday mornings which is often a couple hours before the tee times for our local US Kids Tour. The boys and girls have been able to bond over the past two years and their families have been able to get to know each other outside of just playing golf at Lyman.

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. Junior golfers are continuing their Operation 36 progress with interest and excitement year after year when they return to our Lyman Summer Junior Golf Camp.

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.

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.