Brandon Stooksbury

Please indicate past awards won/recognitions:
PGA Section Teacher of the Year, GRAA Growth of the Game Teaching Professional, Golf Digest Best in State

Other awards won (if provided):
4x PGA Section Horton Smith/Professional Development Award winner

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 800
Female: 100
Junior: 350

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
10

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
• Operation 36 programming grew another 18% over 2023 numbers
• Introduced a weekly “Ladies Only” clinic series for 2024 season
• Introduced a monthly ladies “Twilight Tuesday” event series: 9 holes are converted to all par-3s and two person teams play a scramble format
• Introduced a stroke-play Junior Club Championship for the first time in the Club’s history

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
The following programs were introduced to increase engagement, either in between regular lessons, or as an introduction into our instruction programming:

• Just opened a brand-new, 2-bay, indoor/outdoor Golf Learning Center with Trackman launch monitor technology Swing Catalyst force plate and swing analysis technology

• “Instruction Night:” monthly, complimentary adult clinics on varying topics. We started the program in 2022 and have now grown it to be monthly in-season.
• “Town Hall:” a quarterly program that is a cracker barrel style event with guest speakers discussing all things golf and player development.