Robbie Fritz

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 (Indicate specific awards below in 3-a)

Other awards won:
Golf Digest Best Young Teacher in America list 2021-2022, 2018-2019. 2022 Distinguished PGM Graduate in Golf Instruction Methodist University. 2023, 2022, 2021 Operation 36 Master Top 50 Coach, 2020, 2019 Operation 36 Top 50 Coach. 2023 Carolinas PGA Player Development Award. 2020 Carolinas PGA Youth Player Development Award. 2019 Carolinas PGA Palmer Maples Teacher of the Year. Golf Digest Best Teacher by State list 2024-2025, 2022-2023, 2019-2020. GRAA Top 100 Growth of the Game Teaching Professional 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 2023 US Kids Golf Top 50 Coach. US Kids Golf Honorable Mention 2021, 2020, 2019, 2010. 2010 Jackie Burke Award Jim McLean Golf School

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 800
Female: 700
Junior: 130

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
400

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
Since adding the Operation 36 curriculum to our golf academies in 2017 we have created over 590 golfers. By definition, a golfer is “created” when they have enrolled in our golf academy and played at least 9-holes from 25 yards and recorded scoring a 36 or better. Since 2017 we have had over 2,300 participants.

Operation 36 is a structured multiple week commitment where golfers can enroll in weekly Academy Classes, Supervised Practices, and on course “Matches” where students play nine-holes from their “division” trying to score 36 or better. There are six different levels and students must pass all objectives in each level before ranking up to the next. We use the Operation 36 app and website to track their progress.

We also offer other programs including: private golf lessons, semi-private golf lessons, corporate clinics, a la carte clinics, ladies golf clinics, junior golf clinics, two hours bootcamps, summer junior golf camps, summer all sports camps (tennis, swim, golf), clubfitting, on course playing lessons, TPI fitness assessments, Drive/Chip/Putt Bootcamps, etc.

We also offer Sunday Future 36er junior golf clinics for ages 4-6 using Kate Tempesta’s Birdie Basics.

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
Operation 36 has been our home run to keep customers and students engaged. We track their progress so we can measure how often they practice and play along with tracking their number of strokes lost (improvement). The long term curriculum provides structure along with the correct challenge point has been very successful for us. The long term curriculum keeps them committed and engaged through all the ups and downs during their journey in golf.

To keep students engaged we have also had success with: private golf lessons and clubfittings. On course playing lessons. Demo days. We use the Operation 36 curriculum for:

Juniors – 10 week fall semester, 8 week winter semester, and 10 week spring semester.
Ladies – 10 week fall semester, 8 week winter semester, 10 week spring semester, and 8 week summer semester.
Men – 10 week fall semester, 8 week winter semester, 10 week spring semester, and 8 week summer semester.

Sunday Future 36er clinics for juniors ages 4-6 using SNAG golf and Kate Tempesta’s Birdie Basics.

Special a la carte clinics including topics: wedges distance control, putting distance control, “ultimate drill clinic.”

Weekly Thursday morning 9:00a.m ladies clinic where the topics vary each week.

Two hour bootcamps that focus on either long game or short game and including mental game and course management tips.

Formerly have hosted speed clinics using both SuperSpeed and Rypstick products.

Drive, Chip, and Putt bootcamps to help prepare juniors for the drive, chip and putt qualifiers.

Formerly hosted PGA Junior League.

Summer junior golf camps and Summer All Sports (tennis, swimming, golf) Camps.

With the increase in participation in our instruction programs we have also seen an increate in our golf tournament participation. We also offer parent/child tournaments, holiday tournaments, weekly Tuesday ladies day events, weekly Captains Cup men’s golf summer league events, season long fourball match play tournaments for men, women, and couples. Member Member tournament, Member Guest Tournament, 1909 Invitational Member Guest, and one day Member Guest events.