Joe DeBock

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

Other awards won (if provided):
Golf Professional of the year – San Diego Chapter PGA / Junior golf Leadership Award – SCPGA

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 400
Female: 200
Junior: 150

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
70

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
Large Sip & Swing Clinics, Sip & Chip Clinics
We do very large group outings at our practice facility which are fully catered and are a lot of fun. We usually have 4-5 golf stations in which we move the groups around from station to station or they move around freely. The stations include full swings, chipping & pitching, putting and golf challenges at each of the stations as well. They get great instruction and each of the stations and are great for any and all abilities. We even have music and other entertainment happening with these events. They have been extremely popular at our facility and has been a great way of introducing golf and making it fun. And most recently we added merchandise and prizes with these events which benefits the customer and helps out our entire facility!

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
Aside from the golf clinics, I teach mostly private lessons. I feel I am very popular and as busy as need to be. At this stage of the game, my best ability is getting them better right away and making the changes that’s easy on the student and something they can understand and repeat. I feel I become a specialist in most areas of the golf swing and can pin-point the cause and effect and describe it perfectly to my student, through my own personality, experience and pure determination to get them better! But the most important aspect and engaging with my customers is to make a connection with each and every one of my students and that can be done in so many different ways and it doesn’t have to be just about golf. It can be about anything bringing you and your customer together on some common ground.