Randy Dietz

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 awards won:
GRAA Top 100 Growth of the Game Teaching Professional 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021……. Golf Digest Best in State 2022-2023, 2023-2025, 2026-2027…. NOPGA Teacher and Coach of the Year 2021….. NOPGA Player of the Year 2019…. NOPGA Associate Player of the Year 2003, 2015

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 450
Female: 50
Junior: 550 (400 boys/150 girls)

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
Oversaw 37 programs in 2025 for a total of 145 sessions

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
PGA Hope- Free lessons for veterans (Two 6-week programs with 12 participants each)
Drive, Chip, and Putt local qualifier

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
Randy Dietz Golf Academy Adult Summer Practice Club- 6th year of a 6-week program for an hour each week. Each week has a different area of focus, and we worked on those areas and how to practice them. This has been an extremely successful program that started with one program and has grown into multiple.

Randy Dietz Junior Development Academy- 6th year for ages 7-11. This program focuses on rotating stations in weeks one and two covering different areas of the game. Weeks 3-6 shifts to on course play through scramble and individual format, culminating in a final week 6 scramble competition.

Macedonia Parks and Rec junior programs- We offered 2 Winter and 2 Summer programs collaborating with the local community rec center to provide a community-based opportunity to learn the fundamentals and have a foundation to play.

NOPGA Jr Winter Camp- For 12 years, we have collaborated with the NOPGA and facilitated a multi-week camp. This camp has provided fundamentals of the game and instruction for Northeast Ohio middle school and high school players. It has provided an opportunity for well over 300 participants over the years.

St Barbabas School Golf Program- We have collaborated with a local private school to provide their students grades 1-8 with an opportunity to learn and develop their golf skills. We offer a 6-week Spring and Fall program, this year we had 37 Spring participants and 30 Fall participants, many being repeat players.

WGC Adult Beginner Clinics- An introductory to fundamentals over 3 weeks each month. 53 participants this year.

WGC Adult Intermediate Clinics- A program that is a little more advanced than the Beginner clinic. This program is also 3 weeks and runs each month, with 51 participants this year.

WGC Little Linksters Clinics- This is an introductory program for 4–7-year-olds over 3 weeks each month. 30 participants this year.

WGC Jr Development Program- Ages 8-15 for a 3 week program that runs each month. 69 participants this year.