Jake Bader

Please indicate past awards won/recognitions:
GRAA Top 100 Growth of the Game Teaching Professional

Other awards won:
2019 Oregon PGA Youth Player Development Award 2020 Oregon PGA Player Development Award

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 1400
Female: 250
Junior: 100

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
75

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
I’m the director of Player Development for the 4 Portland Parks & Rec facilities to include Colwood, Heron Lakes, Eastmoreland and Rose City. Through my career I’ve given 28,000 lessons with over 400 Camps, clinics, 5 week get golf ready classes, single day workshops and skill specific classes

Added ladies and open clinics to the 3 other facilites
Added 5 week Intro to Golf Classes to Eastmoreland GC and Heron Lakes
Southwest Washington Special Olympics 6 week prep program to prepare for their regional and state competitions. Been with them for 10 years but only had a structured program the last 5 years. Thank you to the grant money we receive to help pay for this.
Conducted 16 week long junior camps a season with 18 participants per camp. Added 3 at Colwood and another 3 at Heron.
Hold on average 5 PCC classes per term and had Eastomerland and Heron add classes at their facilities. I hold 1 senior specific class every term.
Added 2 classes at the East Portland Community Center last winter with the idea to have 4 over late winter early spring in 2025. I have Tom Mueller teaching this class
Asked Tom Hinton to get a grant to teach golf in the schools over the winter. Last year we taught 4 classes over 4 weeks at Scott Elementary.
Conduct Ya-Golf Clinics – YA golf is for Young Adults 19-29, this is a discounted clinic.
Conduct a yearly half day camp for Reynolds’s Sunshine group for troubled teens.
Conduct a yearly single day High School Players Workshop. We are going to change this to a 5 week program. I will be adding 1 workshop to the other 3 facilities in 2025
Conduct a half day Adult Players Workshop.

Community outreach in conjunction with our community outreach manager. These were free clinics for those who haven’t been exposed to golf. We also provided a meal and a drink
POCO – People of Color Outdoors
Outdoor Afro
Latino network which we hired a translator
Black Men’s wellness group
Fore the Ladies which is another BIPOC group

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
For Juniors once they take a camp we try to funnel them into our PGA Junior League

For Adults we have 5 Intro to Golf 5 week classes going and once they complete we try to get them into 201 or our Ladies and Open Clinics