John Platt

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

Other awards won (if provided):
1999 NCAA National Coach of the Year Division II/III, 2012 Illinois section Junior Golf Leader Award, 2021 Illinois section Youth Player Development award, Callaway Hall of Fame, Illinois Golf Coaches Hall of Fame

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 1000
Female: 300
Junior: 1500

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
30

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
As per last year, my top growth of game initiative is my CAP program (committed athlete program). This program consists of 120 juniors, ranging in 3 different skill levels. This program starts in November in Mistwood golf dome and ends in May at the Mistwood Golf Course. It's designed to help less talented players become better players, average players to become high school players and the top 30 players are in our APPEX version, in which all these juniors are college bound. The success has been unbelievable over the past few years, with over 100 of the kids qualifying for the IHSA state tournament, numerus top ten finishes, 0ver 30 rounds in the 60's and one round from last year's state champion on the girl's event shot 59 in one of her tournaments. Many of the kids have or committed to universities around the country, including top D1, D2 and D3 schools.

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
Ladies nights have always been popular, plus we also have a CAP version for are members (Mistwood is semi-private with 225 members) every Thursday night in the summer. We encourage couples to come to this program which has been a huge success. We have a PGA junior league, but we conduct it with 3 teams of 12 we organize, this last for 8 weeks.