Chris Knobloch

Please indicate past awards won/recognitions:
GRAA Top 100 Growth of the Game Teaching Professional

Other awards won:
2017 GPGA Section Youth Development Award Winner, 2011 USKIDS Master Kids Teacher, 2008 GPGA Growth of the Game Award Winner

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 200
Female: 200
Junior: 300

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
40

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
I have opened and added an indoor teaching facility to our Academy – This allowed us to teach more lessons without cancelling due to weather – and provided the opportunity to do Summer Junior Golf Camps in the afternoon as well as Winter break – Our indoor facility has provided what we call an "Accelerated Learning Lesson" using technology (club impact video & ball data ) to show students concrete information about their golf swing… especially the clubface.

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
Our indoor teaching facility provides memberships/ bay time – where we can see our students practicing and guide them during their time in between lessons. This relationship building time has increased lesson packages.

A new program and benefit of an indoor teaching facility in the south is the ability to teach in the summer afternoons. This time frame was non existent in the past, but proved to be a great time for our students and myself.