Spencer Sweitzer

Please indicate past awards won/recognitions:
N/A

Other awards won:
— Southwest PGA Teacher of the Year Award nominee — South Florida PGA Youth Player Development Award nominee

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 500
Female: 100
Junior: 40

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
About 80

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
While I am the newest member of our team here at The Legacy Golf Performance Center, my boss and mentor Jeremy Anderson worked to come up with a more effective way to increase the number of beginners ladies in our programing. He and I came up with the idea of finding what avenues those demographics are already using, and adding a golf offering to an already established system. So, I joined a website called ClassPass and started offering "Welcome To Golf" classes. We advertised it as "Welcome to Golf!

If you haven't ever picked up a club, you have but only gone out golfing a few times, or you are very interested but still a beginner – welcome, this class is for you!
In Welcome to Golf you'll learn the fundamentals of the game! Things like how to swing, what clubs are for what, putting and chipping close to the hole, along with basic rules, etiquette, and a bunch more."

The response has been fantastic since we started trying it out this summer! We have hosted over 20 clinics so far via ClassPass and have gotten nothing by 5 Star ratings. I have also been able to have students progress from these beginner clinics over to full private lessons outside of ClassPass. Also, over 80% of the students who've come for our Welcome to Golf ClassPass clinics have been women. It's really wonderful to see!

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
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