Robbie Blackwell

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:

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 800
Female: 200
Junior: 300

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
250

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
Each summer we host PGA Junior League at our facility. In 2026, we had 58 juniors playing on our four teams. With that amount, we were able to provide two All-Star teams in our section championship.

We have also hosted Ladies Beginner Clinics and Ladies Advanced Clinics for the past few years in an attempt to grow our lady's involvement in golf. Year to date, we have had roughly 25 women participate in these various clinics.

Lastly, we offer a FREE Junior Clinic on Saturdays for kids age 5-9 that are interested in golf and want to learn more about our junior program. This gives the juniors and their parents the opportunity to see the structure of our lessons and get the juniors excited about coming out for golf by having creative challenges at the end of every clinic. These clinics take place April thru October.

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
Being at Hoover for 5 plus years now, I now have junior golfers who have aged out of our normal Junior Academy activities, so we have an advanced opportunity for those juniors to continue in our developmental programs.

We also continue to add opportunities for ladies to develop and participate such as Nine and Dine for couples, a new Couples Tournament, and a Ladies Birdies and Bubbles. With all of these programs, it drives our ladies to our clinics and individual lessons for their development.

We also still continue offering our Trackman learning sessions for members to get education as to how Trackman works and how to utilize it. We offer club fitting services for members to shore up the equipment side of the equation.