Jeff Smith

Please indicate past awards won/recognitions:
PGA Section Teacher of the Year, GRAA Growth of the Game Teaching Professional, Golf Magazine Top 100, Golf Digest Best in State

Other awards won (if provided):

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 900
Female: 550
Junior: 250

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
50-60

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
Every afternoon at 4pm (so they can make it home for dinner) we have Your 4 some – Your Topic – On The Course – In these very popular classes that we limit to 4 players, we let the players tell us what part of their game needs addressing while on the course and we take them all to the course to make that better AND they get more comfortable on the course – all in 90 minutes. Each player gets an individual lesson, and the rest of them get to be better in those situations as well. They have been full ever since we implemented them at The Vintage Club and Pine Canyon and also at Talking Rock Ranch. our fall sign ups for these clinics have filled on 3 weekdays so we are adding a 4th day of the week. We are now going to add some competition between the groups that are improving as a result of these clinic afternoons. The competition is how many 9 hole rounds can that group play together in a month. Winners get dinner on the pros!

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
Speed and Power Clinics – No one wants to be slow and powerless. Every Saturday from 10 am to noon we have this class for 4 people. we analyze where they are inefficient using force plates, 3D Motion Capture and what they could do to immediately get more ball speed and distance without a big change and without getting hurt. Money back guarantee if you do not gain speed and at least 5 yds distance.

Putting Out of Your Mind Classes – Common sense green reading, improving on speed control, aim and ball start line. Once those physical factors are solid, then we turn up the pressure so they learn to handle the pressure they put on themselves on the course.

Hybrids and Fairway Woods Class – the 2nd shot for many players involves one of these clubs. we make sure they are able to easily hit the ball high and straight with these so the player can feel confident hitting into the greens with a chance to make it on.

Strategy and Mental Aspects of the Game Class. Many players (mostly men and boys) take more risks than they should and do not understand their own ball flight patterns and they choose to play shots that do not match their skill set nor their shot pattern and cause higher scores. This done on the course with the player learning they best playing strategy for them.