Brian Jones

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

Other awards won (if provided):
2025 Great Cincinnati PGA Hall of Fame Member, Southern Ohio PGA Hall of Fame Inductee, 2023 Southern Ohio PGA Bill Strausbaugh Award, 2023 Southern Ohio PGA Patriot Award Winner, 2018 Southern Ohio PGA Teacher of the Year, 2016 Youth Development Award, 2010 Horton Smith Award, Southern Ohio PGA, 2008 Golf Professional of the Year, Southern Ohio PGA

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 500
Female: 335
Junior: 100

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
18

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
This year, we introduced our Adult Foundations Programs. Using the concepts in OP36, we wanted to offer beginners a more fun way to start the game and give established players the option to work on their games, starting from 25 yards in. The three 4-week sessions we offered were very popular and averaged about 5 participants per session. The students also had the opportunity to join our challenge days with our juniors to advance from 50 yards to 100 yards.
I also offered an In-Season program for students that included on-course work, TPI evaluations, short game, and course stats to help develop their game throughout the season. This piggybacked off our Winter Program and helped them apply what they learned indoors on the course.

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
This year, we made sure we offered something for players of all levels, from beginners to elite players. Our programming included Birdie Basics, Operation 36, and PGA Junior League for our juniors. For adults, we offered classes/clinics on short game, putting, bunker play, and wedge play, with different topics in each category. On-course evaluations were also a great way to get our members on the course and evaluate the areas in their games they needed to improve, from short game, putting, course management, and mental game to having more fun! We continued to offer our Winter Coaching Memberships, which included TPI evaluations, 3D analysis using SportsBox, video, and TrackMan data. This is a great way to keep them engaged during the off-season. The Season-Long Coaching Program let us get them on the course to evaluate their games, assign practice plans using CoachNow, continue improving their swings, run short-game and putting sessions, and really let them use what they learned to improve their games. Our Women's Coaching programs offered a variety of topics in three-week sessions for our ladies to work on full-swing with woods and irons, putting, and short-game skills.
Our main focus this year was to offer something for everyone and continue to create a funnel of students through our coaching and instructional programs.