Gaylon Cude

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

Other awards won (if provided):
Golf Digest Best Young Teachers in America, Tennessee PGA Youth Player Development Award, Middle TN PGA Growth of the Game Award

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 500
Female: 100
Junior: 500

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 have begun hosting One Day Adult Golf schools geared toward newer to average golfers. These seven offering this year host a maximum of 8 participants with a focus in the morning on mechanics with an afternoon playing lesson on our par 3 course. This is addition to our Get Golf Ready classes, ladies clinics, senior clinics, PGA HOPE classes, junior development program, home school golf classes and many more. In all we have over 1200 participants in our programming each season.

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
We have begun to rollout out more of our Operation 36 programming that we have done for several years with junior golfers to our adult program participants as well. The goal is to make the game easier and more fun while learning to play. This has been fantastic for retention.