Kellie Stenzel

Please indicate past awards won/recognitions:
PGA Section Teacher of the Year, Golf Magazine Top 100, Golf Digest Best in State, LPGA Awards

Other awards won (if provided):
2025 LPGA Teacher of the Year

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

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
24

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
As the new Director of Instruction at The Yellowstone Club, in Big Sky, Montana the job has allowed for great growth with the ability to guide so many young professionals to be their best selves and how to navigate our industry.

This year, the ladies camp, I added Stefanie Shaw as a guest instructor to deliver the best ladies instruction that anyone could ever have.
This three- day camp was able to provide simple and direct improvement that was catered to each student's ability no matter how new or experienced.
This event also allowed us to showcase the other amazing abilities of the club, including food and beverage experience with a top chef as well as gifting ideas that supported the bottom line and experience.

I also hosted a Golf Magazine Top 100 Teacher 3 day golf school with Chuck Cook and Jeff Smith (Indiana) as the guest instructors. Bringing in Hall of Fame instructors and giving the membership access to the top teachers they may not be able to get to otherwise due to supply and demand.

Additionally, at Yellowstone Club it is my responsibility to train and certify the LARGE staff. We employ almost 50 professionals, many of which are interns. Some are more anxious to learn than others, but those that are, I spend a lot of time with each. I also have helped many of them with their own games. I hosted zoom webinars for the staff and observed many of their junior clinics, schools and lessons.

At Dutchman's Pipe I also hosted a large ladies golf school that was fully subscribed with guest instructors.

Private, multi-day golf schools were the majority of my new and fun programming. I hosted 4, 3 day ladies schools with groups that came together and planned this in advance as a group. This format allows me to bring in other great teachers as well as use our faculty to its full degree, including on course and fantastic food and beverage.

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
I find different programming really interesting and fun to try.

While it was my first year as Director of Instruction at The Yellowstone Club, I had been there before as a guest instructor so I knew many of the members. This allowed me to direct our programming based upon their needs.

Most of my instruction was private lessons, but as a new teacher, I also offered help to those who were on the range and needed and wanted help. This also opened conversations to invite them to attend our schools as well as club tournaments.

I also joined a group of members from the club who traveled to Moonlight Basin for a ladies traveling golf day.

One of my priorities this past year has to increase my commitment to social media instruction. My followers has increased by over 1000% and this has led to many new students as well as helping golfers I may not meet in person to improve their games. I will attach one of my videos in the below link.