Brad Pluth

Please indicate past awards won/recognitions:
Golf Digest Best in State

Other awards won:
PGA Master Professional (10/13/2025), US Kids Top 50 & Master Coach, Top 25 Eliete Coaches, MN PGA Player Development Award, Junior Golf Leader, Bill Straughsbaugh

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 700
Female: 200
Junior: 450

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
80

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
Junior Development

PGA Junior Camps (Director): 4 camps, average 8 campers each (32 total). Fundamentals, on-course games, and family wrap-ups.

PGA Junior Winter League: 50 juniors from 25 families; weekly skills + simulated league play; tracked scoring and skill benchmarks in CoachNow.

Access & Affordability

Youth on Course: Enabled $5 rounds for youth; ~150 participants supported with sign-up help, course access, and parent education.

Inclusion & Adaptive Golf

PGA HOPE: Completed training and volunteered at veteran sessions; intro clinics focused on confidence, community, and safe return to play.

Special Olympics—Blues Golf Team (Braemar): Coached alongside Larry Nelson, PGA; weekly practices and competition prep with ability-appropriate games.

Community Programs & Camps

FCA Golf Camp (Volunteer Coach): 45 students over 4 days (≈180 participant-days); faith-and-fundamentals curriculum with daily benchmarks.

Leadership & New Opportunities

US Kids Golf—Minneapolis Local Tour: Launched local tour to expand competitive, family-friendly playing opportunities for entry- and mid-level juniors.

PGA Junior Camp Director: Oversaw staffing, safety, curriculum, and parent communications.

Education & Outreach

Speaker—Minnesota Golf Show: Presented growth-focused practice frameworks and family programming.

Media & Publications: Contributed articles to PGA Magazine and local newspapers; podcast guest (MN PGA and regional shows) promoting pathways into golf.

Scholarships & Player Outcomes

Evans Scholars: Five students earned or maintained Evans Scholarship awards; supported through recommendations, play/academics tracking, and service milestones.

Impact in short: New playing pathways, low-cost access, inclusive programs for veterans and athletes with intellectual disabilities, robust winter engagement, and consistent education to parents and the golf community—all designed to keep juniors and families in the game year-round.

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
Winter Bundle (2025)
10 lessons + 10 practice sessions
6-week TrackMan League
Full-bag fitting
10% off one-time retail purchase

Training Day with reps so athletes can demo and compare equipment

How We Coach & Measure
3D Maps Warm-Up (The Gray Institute): Six global motions that drive 66 human movements; athletes commonly gain +3–13 mph clubhead speed (TrackMan measured).
Comprehensive Assessment: TrackMan + GEARS for equipment fit, movement patterns, and skills across putting, wedges, approach, full swing, and tee shots.
Movement Screen: Identifies each player’s natural matchups—stance width, grip, pressure in the feet, athletic posture, backswing track, downswing slot, dominant core region, and more—so the swing fits the body, not the other way around.
Proprietary Swing Assessment: Maps Natural Movement Patterns to produce more speed, tighter dispersion, and less effort.

Purposeful Practice (Data-Driven)
With support from a Microsoft data partner (20,000,000+ rounds analyzed), we built games and benchmarks for the 10 most common shots and for players shooting Par, <100, <90, and <80.
Players track progress in the CoachNow app with written guides, videos, and scorecards for putting, wedges, approach, tee shots, and speed.
Key targeting insight:
Par or better: eliminate 94% of distance error (≈ one finger right/left of target).
Breaking 100: eliminate 90% of distance error (≈ four fingers right/left, AimPoint-style reference).
Built 65+ Golf Achievement Scorecards to focus practice and reveal where strokes are gained or lost.

Partnerships, Programs & Reach
Clinical Partner: Revival Physical Therapy—co-hosted Dominate with Your Driver and Dominate with Your Putter events; $8,000+ in combined session and fitting sales.
Winter Indoor League: 70 participants.
Corporate & Community Events: First Tee Minneapolis, Huntington Bank, 3M Open, Chick-fil-A, Eagles Veterans Group (Crystal Lake), FCA (Purcell Farms & Keller GC), Southwest Christian HS, Chapel Hill Academy, Eden Prairie Chamber, LPGA (Open House/Clinic), Minnesota Golf Association, Minnesota Golf Coaches Association, Minnetonka Hockey Association, Stein Financial, Twin Cities Orthopedics.

Chambers & Media: Minnetonka & Lake Minnetonka Chambers; appearances on KFAN, FOX 9, WCCO Radio/TV, KARE 11, ESPN, Bally Sports North.

Travel Schools: Bandon Dunes, Waikoloa, Orange County National, Houston, Austin.

Author & Mission
Author of “Purposeful Conversations”—a family-first approach that uses golf to spark connection, build habits, and sustain participation across generations.

Bottom line: Simple systems, objective measurement, and family-friendly programming keep golfers engaged, improving, and bringing others into the game.