Daniel Fowler

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

Other awards won:
US Kids Top 50 Teachers

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 700
Female: 400
Junior: 600

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
200

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
PGA HOPE – Our PGA HOPE bolsters an incredible turnout every year for each session. We offer 6 sessions per year and host 30 unique veterans per session

PGA Her Shot – Her Shot is a unique program that targets young of color ages 11-18 and gives them a free session of clinics during the summertime for 6 weeks. We have had a huge turnout each year getting over 100 unique new golfers into the game of golf that may never have had the chance originally

PGA Junior League – We offer 2 sessions during spring and 2 sessions in fall that hosts over 60 kids per session aging 5-13 years old. This year we introduced a summer and winter session as well on our par 3 course that reached 30 additional kids. Our program is one of the biggest in the country and each year as our kids age out of the PGA Jr League, most continue play whether in more competitions or continued lessons and clinics.

GSGA Adaptive Golf – Our Adaptive Golf program has absolutely exploded this year. Every third Tuesday in the month we host over 30 adaptive golfers for a 2 hour clinic working on all aspects of the game for free.

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
US Kids Mastery Program – Every kid that steps thru our doors gets put through our US Kids Mastery Program. As the kids take lessons and participate in clinics, they are award progression pins to help track progress and incentivizes parents to keep their kids coming to our programing.

Trackman and TPI – For standard lessons, every time someone comes in, at the end of the lesson I record a custom video detailing all information given during this lesson. After the video, I create a game plan for my students and send it over to detail practice routines and keep goals that we will achieve together through our lessons. These game plans include not only swing adjustments, but even fitness and wellness goals that serve as homework for between sessions. I use TPI to help achieve these goals with my students and create on and off season programs that allow us to see progress all year long.

All Levels Clinics – We have found giving clinics targeted at specific golfing groups in huge to pull in a more social crowd. We offer all different levels of clinics from beginner golfers clinics to much more advanced and course management clinics. For our new golfers clinics I have created workbooks and pdfs to help our students learn while having a fun time. For our more advanced groups, I have found challenging them and forcing students to keep notebooks and having post round discussions keep them much more engaged. For these groups I find the easiest way to keep them engaged is by just being available to answer all questions and to keep everyone aligned to our team game plan.