Deb Vangellow

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

Other awards won (if provided):
Deb is the 2021 LPGA Ellen Griffin Award Winner and the 2012 LPGA National Teacher Of The Year .She was recently inducted into the LPGA Professionals Hall of Fame, the UNI Athletics Hall of Fame, the UNI School Of HPELS Hall of Excellence, and the Fairport High School Hall of Fame. She writes regularly for Texas Links and Southern Gaming/Destinations magazines, and has contributed to Golf Digest, Golf World, Golf Illustrated, Golf For Women, Gulf Coast Golfer, Tee Time, Junior Golfer, Avid Golfer, Corporate Golfer, Ladies Links For Golf, and Golf Fitness magazines. She was the longtime female online “Professor” for Golf Illustrated magazine “University” and has written for numerous online golf instruction websites. Deb is one of Golf Digest Magazine’s “America’s 50 Best Women Teachers”, an LPGA “Top 50 Teacher”, a GOLF Magazine “Top Regional Teacher”, a Golf Digest Magazine “Top Regional Teacher”, a US Kids Golf “Top 50 Master Kids Teacher" an Edwin Watts Golf "Top Golf Instructor", and a GRAA "Elite Top Growth Of The Game Teaching Professional". The retired Golf For Women Magazine continually listed her as one of their “Top 50 Teachers”. She is a contributing author to the “Chicken Soup For The Woman Golfer’s Soul”, Donald Trump’s “The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received”, Greg Peddie’s “I Am Not A Golfer, I Play Golf”, and LPGA Founder/World Golf Hall Of Fame Member Marilynn Smith's "Have Clubs, Will Travel" top selling golf books. In 1997, Deb was honored as a recipient of the "Young Alumni Award" at the University of Northern Iowa and was a 3-time LPGA Central Section Teacher of the Year in 2002, 2009, and 2012. In 2008, her research project entitled “Less Is More And More Is Better: The Benefit Of Less Length And More Loft In The Driving Club For Recreational Women Golfers” was accepted for presentation and publication in two top Golf Research conferences; “Better Golf Through Technology” and the “World Scientific Congress Of Golf”. Deb was named one of Houston’s “Most Influential Women Of 2015”. Most recently, Deb returned to her alma mater for a special speaking engagement and was honored with the Monica R. Wild and Doris E. White Scholar Award from the School of Kinesiology, Allied Health, and Human Services at the University of Northern Iowa. Continually learning, Deb studied with the late PGA Long Drive Champion and kinesiologist Mike Austin in Los Angeles, CA and has been implementing awareness/learning from her experiences with Educational Kinesiology/Brain Gym, The Alexander Technique, Bikram Yoga, GolfPsych, Tour Tempo, SNAG, ThinQ Sports, Vision 54, and Tathata Golf into her instruction programs, emphasizing body/mind/spirit balance. She credits much of her education in golf to invaluable experiences with instructors Betsy Cullen, Betsy Clark, DeDe Owens, Deborah Graham, Karen Palacios-Jansen, Jackson Bradley, Paul Schempp, Bob Christina, Craig Harmon, Kathy Murphy, Debbie Crews, Dana Rader, Michael Hebron, Tom Patri, Matt Reams, Penny Zavichas, Bryan Hepler, and LPGA Hall of Famers Carol Mann, Marilynn Smith, and Kathy Whitworth.

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

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
30+

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
Nine and Wine (Women Golfers)
Junior Golf Camps

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
Ongoing Group Clinics and Events For Men, Women, and Juniors