Jonathan Mielke

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

Other awards won:
Us Kids Top 100 Kids Coaches, US Kids Top 50 Master Kids Coaches, Nebraska PGA Youth Player Development Award

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 550
Female: 350
Junior: 250

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):
Nike Jr Golf Camps
Full and half day camps along with Girls Only
The coaching staff provides campers with top-quality instruction that builds skills and then coach them to transfer those skills to the course.

This is what makes our camps unique. The Nike Junior Golf Camps accommodate all skill levels; the junior player just discovering the game, the high school player trying to move up on the team, and the tournament level junior looking to improve their tournament results.

All participants are evaluated with a 25-point check list that tests their physical, golf and mental skills. This allows us to place them into the correct group to maximize their enjoyment and improvement.

Simplicity For Women Clinic
The Simplicity For Women clinic will simplify golf swing and stroke techniques that are needed to play the game. This clinic is designed to allow lady participants to have fun and learn the game in a no pressure learning environment. No matter the skill or experience level the clinic will be presented in an easy to follow and understand format that can jump start their golf game. The clinic is open to all ladies. Class size is limited to 8 students.

Our Ladies 101 Series is the perfect starting point for women new to golf who are eager to learn the fundamentals of golf in a supportive and welcoming environment. 4 week program

Our Ladies 201 Series is perfect for women who have experience in the game of golf. This program is designed to give every lady a personalized lesson plan based on their goals and previous experience. In this program ladies will learn the What, Why and How of their golf game.

Bunker Basics
Does finding your ball has come to rest in a bunker leave you with an uneasy feeling? The bunker can be a very intimidating if the player has the wrong approach in their set up and swing. The Bunker Basics Clinic focusses on the ability to obtain the fundamental approach to bunker play. This a 90-minute session designed to teach the player bunker fundamentals the most important metal game/approach, such as set-up, swing and wedge design. Participants will also receive drills specific to their swing along with a bunker reference guide.
Don’t rely on luck in the bunker (because it does not happen), let the Bunker Basics Clinic help build your sand skills. This clinic is open to all. Class size is limited to 8 students.

Project Short Game
Project Short Game is a five-week program designed to lower golf scores in a fun and exciting learning atmosphere by focusing attention solely on short game training. The program consists of two different levels which allows students the ability customize their training according to goals, desire, and schedule. Students may attend one or both levels of the P.S.G. program.

Project Short Game will guide students of all skill levels to develop the correct motor skills, strategies and techniques that are required for all types of short game shots. The short game is unique in that each type of short game shot is played with different swing mechanics and different locations from the fairway, rough, fringe, bunker and putting green. Having the knowledge to choose the correct set-up, swing mechanics and club will drastically improve your chances of getting the ball closer to the hole and ultimately lowering you golf scores.
You don’t need extraordinary strength or coordination to become a skilled player around the greens, but you do need the correct motor skills and strategies and mental game.
Sign up for Project Short Game and start lowering your scores.
The P.S.G. Goal
The goal of Project Short Game is to lower you short game handicap by 5 points in 5 weeks.
Why Project Short Game?
How often do you find yourself practicing the short game? If you are, are you practicing correctly? Are your practice routines focused on the areas that need improvement?
The short game has more to do with your score than any other aspect of the game. More strokes are played and often lost around tricky greens, in deep bunkers and from imperfect lies and difficult pin positions.

Ask yourself this question.
How many greens in regulation (G.I.R.) do you hit per 9 holes or per an 18-hole round?
(Greens in regulation—Par 3’s ball in on the green in 1 stroke, par 4’s in 2 strokes and par 5’s in 3 strokes or less.
Looking at the greens in regulations category on the PGA, LPGA and Champions tour, the best players in the world average 12 G.I.R.’s per round and still shoot an average score of 70. What does that say about their skill with the short game?
The USGA Average Amateur Score/Category chart shows the relationship of greens hit in regulation, per score, and the direct relationship it has with the number of putts, chips, pitch, and sand shots. Notice that as the number of greens in regulation goes down, the chip/pitch/sand shots increase as well as the average score.

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
Meet the Pro Free Demonstrational Clinic
Join Director of Instruction, Jonathan Mielke for a fun and exciting demonstrational clinic that will discuss Jonathan’s background, teaching philosophy and some of the game biggest swing myths. Attend this eye-opening clinic to find out what a skateboard, Swiss ball, 2 x 8, blindfold and more, have to do with golf’s biggest swing myths.
This clinic is open to all ages and abilities.

Feel Vs. Real Free Demonstrational Clinic
If you have found improving your golf swing to be a difficult task or that the improvements you have made don’t last, join Jonathan for the free Feel vs. Real clinic. This demonstrational clinic will dive into the two most significant barriers in the learning process.
1. Feel vs. Real
2. Communication

Topics of discussion include.
Mind/Body/club relationship – Vision and sensory system – Visual Field – Motor learning – How to get the most out of your lesson and more…
If your goal is to enjoy the game and lower your scores, the insight from this clinic will build the foundation for improvement.
This clinic is open to all ages and abilities.

TPI Introduction Free Clinic
What is TPI? – The Titleist Performance Institute, the world’s leading educational organization and research facility dedicated to the study of how the human body functions in relationship to the golf swing.
Join Jonathan Mielke, a Titleist Performance Institute Level 3 Golf Instructor and TPI Level 3 Junior Coach for a free TPI introduction and demonstrational clinic that will discuss one of the most important tools you have as a golfer – the mind/ body.
Not sure if this is the clinic for you? Ask yourself the following questions.
Over the past 2 years has your handicap remained relatively the same or gone up?
Have you been dealing with the same swing issue for over 6 months?
Even with the most technologically advanced golf club in your bag, have you been posting relatively the same scores?
Do you have any pain when playing golf?
Have you had any injuries or surgeries in the last 7 years?
Is the lack of consistency or distance or both an issue in your golf game?
Do you feel you feel flexibility is important for golf?
If you have answered “yes” to any of these questions the TPI introduction Clinic will help shed light upon the true reasons your golf scores are not where you would like them to be.
Participants will also be given the opportunity to partake in a TPI Screening Assessment that will measure and highlight any area of the body that may be of concern.
This is a no pressure clinic, open to all ages and abilities.

Meet The SAM Puttlab Free Clinic
The Science and Motion (SAM) Puttlab is an analysis and training system that analyzes the 28 parameters of your putting stroke.
With 43% of your score coming from putting, the putter is arguably the most important club in the bag. Yet it remains one of the most misunderstood clubs.
The ‘Meet the SAM Puttlab” demonstrational clinic will utilize the analysis and training systems to demonstrate how the following aspects can help your confidence and stroke on the green.
Eye Alignment
Loft and Lie
Path and Face
Timing and Rhythm
Attack Angle
Putter Fitting
And More…
If three putts seem to follow you around the course or holing the short ones are an issue, let SAM help you discover your stroke.