David La Pour

Please indicate past awards won/recognitions:
GRAA Top 100 Growth of the Game Teaching Professional, Golf Digest Best in State, LPGA Awards

Other awards won:
Operation 36 Top 50 Coach (current), Teacher Of The Year Carolina Section – Hilton Head Island Chapter, US Kids Top Instructor (hon. men.), PGA Jr. League Top 25 National Team

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 400
Female: 800
Junior: 500

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
100

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
In the past year Mission Golf Academy has expanded to three facilities: Hilton Head National GC, X-Golf Hilton Head, and Pinecrest GC. By offering an extensive and diverse coaching program to fit each facility, we are growing and cultivating this great game of golf. Our Results Based Coaching platform uses group sessions, private coaching, on course work, complemented by indoor (X-Golf HH) coaching at a great facility. We offer something for everyone and use Operation 36, CoachNow, PGA Jr. League, local school golf coaching, along with community outreach. We currently have 165 students in our Op 36 program, and 140 juniors in our programs.

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
Briefly mentioned in the previous question, we offer a unique program called the Results Based Coaching Program. This RBC program uses on course assessments/lessons, group coaching, private coaching, and virtual coaching to get results for our students. The Seven Building Blocks that are used by the students to improve is revolutionalry and unique to golf coaching.The retention rate is very high and our reviews on google among other places is five star. We will be expanding our coaches next year to accomiate the growth.