Gaylon Cude

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 Digest Best Young Teachers in America, Tennessee PGA Youth Player Development Award

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 400
Female: 100
Junior: 700

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
400

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
I launched a senior winter development program last winter. The program met weekly for 3 months and had 10 participants that have continued to be avid users of the facility throughout the season. The program was conducted both indoors and outdoors as weather allowed and covered all aspects of the game from putting, chipping and full swing to fitness and course management.

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
At Golf House Tennessee we conduct 16 sessions of the Tennessee PGA Junior Golf Academy which is a day camp for juniors age 8-17 and we sold out our summer with 256 junior participants. We also conduct over 300 junior clinics for ages 4 and up with approximately 800 participants from March – October. Also, we conducted 8 Get Golf Ready adult beginner classes with over 90 participants. In addition to these classes we conducted an in-house PGA Junior League with 48 participants and a spring and fall junior league with 144 participants.