Alex Iguchi

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

Other awards won:
South Florida PGA South East Chapter Teacher of the Year.

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 321
Female: 195
Junior: 90

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
300

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
Our growth of the game programs are PGA Jr League, First Tee, Get Golf Ready and PGA HOPE. The PGA Jr League is a game on the course. I built the weekly lesson program around this in association with First Tee, which allows us to also accept kids who could normally not afford this to attend, so I watch them play on the weekend and teach them during the week. I see about 4 kids on scholarships a week. The weekday sessions also serve as a qualifier, so they know who they will get paired with. This keeps things competitive. Get Golf Ready of course attracts a lot of beginners, but also people returning to the game. The PGA HOPE program runs year round and sees about

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
I have created some new fun Top Tracer events, like our socials: Closest to the Pinot, Bourbon and Bombs Longest drive, and Top Tracer League Skills contest, a spin off on The Golf League. We only have the mobile use, so with limited options I make the most of the T12 combine and closest and longest drive to create more engagement. I also help them establish their distance chart, so they know how far each club hits. When it comes to golf schools, I follow the following pattern: Day 1: Short game + course management + Play the course, Day 2: Swing + play the course, Day 3: Personalized coaching + Play the course. The reason for a heavy emphasis on short game on Day 1 is to help them lower their score by reading the greens better and making more putts by chipping it closer, making smarter decisions, this guarantees satisfaction as they see their scores drop. Then Day 2 or Day 3 is more swing and individual needs focused. The reason for this is I find that being patient makes me more effective. I hate working on swings with people I don't know, because sometimes I get it wrong. Seeing them in action makes me much more accurate and reduces the possibility they'll be stuck in limbo the next 6 months.