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 and Tennessee Youth Player Development Award

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 300
Female: 100
Junior: 600

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):
We conduct a six step Junior Development Program and the Tennessee PGA Junior Golf Academy. The JDP is a program that meets weekly throughout the season, while the Academy is an 8-week summer program. Between these two programs we typically host over 1000 junior golfers. We also host Get Golf Ready adult programs, senior clinics, ladies clinics, PGA Jr League, PGA Hope and other programs which will annually receive approximately another 200-300 registrants.

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
In order to keep our clinic participants engaged we hosts PGA Junior League during the summer for 48 junior golfers as well as spring and fall golf league for those juniors which will hosts another 144 players. We conduct weekly senior and ladies leagues in conjunction with our classes to allow them the opportunity to take the skills that they are learning and apply them on the course.