Kellie Stenzel

Please indicate past awards won/recognitions:
GRAA Top 100 Growth of the Game Teaching Professional, Golf Magazine Top 100, Golf Digest Best in State, LPGA Awards

Other awards won:
South Florida PGA Chapter Teacher of the Year

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 1000
Female: 1000
Junior: 60

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
100

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
I am certified on the PGA coach platform.
I still actively follow the Get Golf Ready beginner curriculum developed by Mike Adams and Ted Sheftic.

I travel as a visiting instructor to several facilities to allow for consistency in good information and training for the members. I travel to Ocean Reef and host women’s golf schools and clinics, with fellow PGA member Stefanie Shaw.

I also travel to Shooting Star in Jackson, Wyoming as a visiting instructor for the last 5 summers where we run many different programs including large ladies schools, short game clinics, putting clinics, game improvement clinics, take it to the course clinics and OPS 36.

I also consult for 8am golf and our chairman, Howard Milstein, donated 1 million dollars to PGA reach as a result of our suggestions.

I have two full length videos for women on amazon prime – full swing and short game to provide more detail and supplement private lessons or schools.

The challenge of these forms is that at times they don’t give you a chance to tell your best story so I wanted to share it here. As a consultant to 8am golf, we own Golf Magazine and GOLF.com. This give me the great opportunity to write a ton of instruction as well as provide writing opportunities for other Golf Magazine Top 100 teachers as well as our Teachers to Watch. I also recently organized and ran our Golf Magazine Top 100 Teachers Retreat in Scottsdale, Arizona, where we hosted over 130 teachers for education and speakers, filming opportunities as well as a World Golf Hall of Fame teachers induction, inducting Randy Smith, Mike McGetrick and Ben Doyle. I am extremely proud of all we are doing and are continuing to do. I hope to provide opportunity for many great teachers to be recognized but also share their knowledge with the golfing population.

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
When we create programming for our students we try to make sure that we have something for everyone.
Our golf school types include:
Game Improvement – all skills
Short game – putt, chip, pitch, sand and short game decision making
Speed clinics
Junior clinics
Ladies only clinics and schools
Putting – including aimpoint green reading
Large corporate events

I also give online lessons on Skillest to allow students to be able to get to me who may not be able to otherwise.

I also contribute to women’s golf – Facebook group