Jake Bader
Colwood Golf Center
7313 Columbia BLVD
7313 Columbia BLVD, Portland, Oregon 97213, US
jakebader@pga.com
Please indicate past awards won/recognitions:
2019 OPGA Youth Development Award 2020 OPGA Player Development Award
Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 1200
Female: 400
Junior: 200
Total number of individual clinics given per year:
50
Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
Free BIPOC clinics Black Indigenous people of color
Free Clinics to the Latino Network – this was for non-English speaking youth and adults. We hired a translator for this.
Intro to to golf 101 – this was our most popular class which is a 5 week class covering all aspects of the game. We usually had 5 classes going on at at time
Golf 202 – this is a 5 week class focusing on getting people on the course
Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
PGA Junior League
PGA Junior Camps
Ladies clinics
Guys night
Open clinics
We held 24 classes for the local Portland Community College
We have an Indoor teaching studio for the winter months