Bob Madsen

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

Other awards won:
California Teaching Hall of Fame

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 1200
Female: 500
Junior: 400

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
Normal year Staff combined: 200+ and 8 four day Junior Camps

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
Madsen Golf presence online has expanded to over 600+ posts on Instagram
18 hole playing lessons for 4 “advanced” players practically every Saturday since 1991
Swift Walk And Golf “SWAG”—groups/individuals walking 9 holes in 1 hour and 10 minutes with 2 clubs
“EASY BOGEY” Playing Lessons—caddying for the learner who can’t yet break 90 easily–based on my 2015 book EASY BOGEY
Junior World Championship and Future Champions—preparatory playing lessons every July
Women’s On Course and ½ Day Men’s and Women’s Golf Schools– 2 and 3 hour group playing lessons
Intermediate and Advanced ½ Day Junior Academies–preparatory for tournament, high school, and college golf
THINK LIKE A PRO Fall Series—training for high school golfers readying for tryouts
Wounded Warrior golf clinic—Instructor Camp Pendleton, CA
Annual Spring Break and Summer Junior Golf Camps 3 hrs/day M-Th.
Coach Mike’s Autistic Athletes: our weekly class for young athletes challenged by autism
Singing Hills hosts six local high schools: 72 players, boys and girls
Dehesa School: we provide weekly golf lessons as P.E. for our local elementary school children
Sycuan Tribal Youth Golf Clinics: golf classes especially designed for the children of our owners
Youth Golf Summit presenter So Cal Section 2019
California Teaching and Coaching 2-Day Summit Keynote Panelist 2020
Philosophy/Mission: “Enhance peoples lives, not just their golf.”—Bob Madsen, PGA

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
Customized Semi Private/Friends and Family Lessons as we continue to stay away from group lessons for the most part. We have gotten super busy with novices and folks whohave not played for years. All five instructors basically booked solid.
The Lesson Tee Newsletter come out periodically via Mailchimp to well over 600 recipients: golf tips, golf course architecture, Rules of Golf, course condition updates, etc.