Peter Egazarian

Please indicate past awards won/recognitions:
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:
Golf Digest Best Young Teachers in America 2021-2022, 2017 Northeast New York PGA Section Player Development Award, 2021 CT PGA Player Development Award

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 1000
Female: 700
Junior: 800

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):
NPI has launch a comprehensive player development program that includes collaboration between golf coaches, fitness professionals, doctors of physical therapy, and mindset and resilience coaches. The players in these programs range from junior golfers looking to improve their competitive scoring through senior golfers looking to prolong their playing careers.

NPI has partnered with Travelers Insurance to launch the SHE Golfs initiative for Hartford Travelers Insurance Employees. This initiative is intended to empower women’s professional development through the game of golf. This initiative introduced 100 women to golf in the month of October 2022. NPI will be continuing this relationship with SHE Golfs through the winter to offer “next step” developmental programing for the 100 players introduced in the fall. NPI will be hosting 3 events per month in the 2023 golf season introducing over 400 women to golf. NPI has been asked to aid Travelers in taking this program to a national level to all of their locations in the US.

NPI has partnered with Active City – Hartford to offer free golf clinics for city of Hartford Youth This program provided 60 7 to 12 year old kids with free golf programing in 2022.

NPI has partnered with African American Sports Officials Association to provide free golf programing for 13 to 22 year old kids. This program introduced the game to 35 kids in 2022

NPI Annually offers a full day of free 30 minute lessons on TrackMan for Veterans day. Providing over 20 veterans and active military with coaching over the past 2 years.

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
NPI works to constantly engage our community of players regardless of age, gender, or ability. Junior Golfers are constantly engaged on the Operation 36 App, parent child playing events, tournament planning, and recruiting services for our competitive junior golfers. The NPI Adult players are engage with monthly brewery meet ups, online webinars with our team, and fun days of golf to local courses or travel to courses to play.

The NPI community has over 2000 members and we are constantly adding new ways to engage these players on and off the golf course. Their feedback is invaluable as to how we can work with them to find new and exciting ways to engage with our community of people. Our work with Baseball, Golf, Hockey, Hartford HealthCare, University of Connecticut Kinetics Lab, Chris Cote’s Golf Shop and Apex Fitness has made our community a very unique and diverse group of people.