Joey Wuertemberger

Please indicate past awards won/recognitions:
GRAA Top 100 Growth of the Game Teaching Professional, Golf Magazine Top 100, Golf Digest Best in State, Other (Indicate specific awards below in 3-a)

Other awards won:
Golf Digest Top Young Teacher 2010-2018 / Future Champions Top 100 Coach / Methodist University Teacher of the Year 2022 / Golf Digest Pros on Demand Featured Coach / PGA and LPGA Credentials since 2019

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 250
Female: 50
Junior: 1800

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
3

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
I have been fortunate to run a full-time junior golf academy with Jim McLean from 2007-2019. Since 2019, Crown Golf has been established and we currently train 12 players from all over the world at our facility. Our graduates have played in the Masters, US Open, US Women’s Open, Canadian Women’s Open, Volunteer of America Classic, and other TOUR events. Our juniors have earned the titles of Latin American Amateur Champion, US Women’s Amateur Champion, US Women’s Four Ball Champion, US Amateur runner-up, US Junior Girls’ runner-up, AJGA Thunderbird Champion, Women’s Southern Amateur Champion, and many other prestigious titles.

The Junior Academy is a nine-month residential program that provides a world class golf experience for junior golfers. The goal of the program is to provide each student with the skill set necessary to reach their full potential as golfers. The program focuses on developing each student in all four areas of the game: Technical, Mental, Physical, and Strategic.
Crown Golf is predicated on the development of the student golfer as a well-balanced athlete, a sportsperson, and a budding professional. Any of the great players of this game will tell you that there is so much more to golfing well – especially golfing well in tournament play – than simply striking the ball. This is why we focus equally on the technique necessary to make that consistent stroke and make shots like a pro, the mental focus and toughness required to fight through injury, adversity or a critical hole under pressure, the physical fitness needed for a player to stretch to their potential, stay healthy and continue playing without injury, and finally the strategic capability expressed by the sports’ top practitioners that encompasses club selection, course management and working through a myriad of other factors.

Crown Golf Junior Academy is designed to give each player an opportunity to maximize their potential. Students will receive world-class golf instruction as well as athletic development and mental coaching. In other words, the Junior Academy equips young players with all of the tools needed to maximize their golf potential. The program creates an individualized developmental pathway for each player. The Crown Golf culture will teach the players to become independent-thinking golfers who work hard, know the rules, and play the game with honesty and integrity. Our players excel at shooting low scores, managing their time, and practicing effectively.

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
1.) Private Instruction – Includes Video Analysis / Customized Notes and Detailed Practice Plans on On-:Line Platform w/ Coach Now
2.) Lesson / Lunch / Golf – 3 Hour Training Session combined with the afternoon on the course
3.) Scoring Zone Schools
4.) JW Instruction Performance Juniors – 2 lessons a month combined with Sunday supervised group practice
5.) Annual and Semin-Annual Parent Meetings with players – one on one regarding college golf recruiting