Cody Carter

Please indicate past awards won/recognitions:
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:
Golf Magazine Top Teachers to Watch 2024-2025, Golf Digest Best Young Teachers in America 2018-2026, Chapter PGA Teacher of the Year 2017, 2019 & 2022

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 450
Female: 175
Junior: 250

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
50

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
We launched 2 new junior programs for our intermediate and advanced junior golfers. They called the Junior Player Development Program and the Elite Player Development Programs.

Junior Player Development Program:
It is a monthly program where we meet once a week for 2.5 hours. The juniors we are focused on in this program are middle school aged kids who have advanced out of our Op36 junior program. We will cover everything from swing mechanics, mental strategies, clubfitting, on course management, and fitness. Once a month this program meets and plays 9-holes on the course. Each of the junior also get one private lesson a month included in the price of the program.

Elite Player Development Program:
The Elite Players are middle and high school aged tournament players. We meet twice a week for a total of 5 hours a week and on the course for a 9-hole match once a week. We will cover everything from swing mechanics, mental strategies, clubfitting, on course management, and fitness. These juniors also get one private lesson a month.

Since starting these programs we have seen a 20% increase in junior play on the golf course.

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
Programming that we run to keep our customers and students engaged:
Ladies:
We offer weekly free 30 min clinics for the ladies who are in the Ladies Golf Association. (30 participants a week)
We run 3 8-week semesters of a Ladies Operation36 Academy with 8 participants per semester.

Juniors:
Junior Operation36 Academy. We run two 12-week semesters a year with 3 classes of 12 running each semester. (36 kids per semester)
Junior Player Development Program: A monthly team academy with 8 participants totaling 11 hours a month of instruction.
Elite Player Development Program: A monthly team academy with 12 participants totaling 21 hours a month of instruction.

Adults:
Tune Up Tuesday: a one hour lunch clinic ran twice a month
Top 100 Golf Schools: A golf school where myself and a guest instructor will run a two day golf school. (Guest instructors are Golf Magazine Top 100)
Free monthly ball fittings
Free monthly quick fit days: 20 min. quick fit, is where a golfer can come and get fit for one club category with one brand. (Example: Taylormade driver compared to their driver.)