Justin Martin

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

Other awards won:
Golf Digest Best Young Teacher 2025-2026; 2024 South Florida PGA Southeast Chapter Youth Player Development Award

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 500
Female: 100
Junior: 50

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
60

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
We do a little of everything. We run PGA Jr League, PGA HOPE, a Men’s League, a Ladies League, and PGA Family Golf. All of these programs are run so that people can come out and enjoy the game at whatever level they deem fit. Our internal goal at The Park is to Positively Impact Lives, and in order to do that, we want as many people exposed to the game as possible.

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
New for 2024 was our Golf 101 and Golf 201 Programs. Keeping with college courses, Golf 101 is designed for the brand new player that has never been on a golf course before. Golf 201 is similar, but slightly elevated to reflect the modest experience of that player. We also have a new afterschool program for juniors that is run 2 days per week. We also have hosted corporate instruction events, as well as been the host facility for City Girls Golf. Our group programming so far in 2024 has generated over $57,000 in gross revenue, and we’re looking to expand for 2025.

Lastly, I can go on and on about our community giveback entitled The Path. It is a program we operate at The Park where we partner with local Title 1 schools to connect with the kids that are most disconnected. Our Fairway Finders afterschool program currently has 55 kids in it from ages 6-11, and two days a week they receive homework help, physical education, and golf lessons – all at no cost to them. We also have a Mobile SNAG program where we take golf directly to the kids in elementary, middle, and high schools – again, at no cost to the schools or students. Most recently, through the PGA of America REACH Jr League Scholarship, 8 kids from our Fairway Finders program competed in a fall preview of PGA Jr League at no cost.