Travis Becker

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:
3 Time Wisconsin PGA Youth Development winner, Wisconsin PGA Player Development

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 400
Female: 100
Junior: 840

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
12

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
Teaching the Teachers: I trained 12 physical education teachers from the Sun Prairie School District to deliver indoor golf instruction using SNAG equipment, focusing on safety, setup, and swing fundamentals—empowering educators to introduce the game confidently to their students.

Girls Golf Academy: Provided four hours of dedicated instruction to girls (grades 7–12) from Madison East, LaFollette, Parkview, and Amherst High Schools to support the development of school golf programs and encourage more girls to participate. These clinics were no charge to all of the students. Had approximately 50 girls participate.

Middle School Golf Academy: Traveled to LaCrosse which is about 2 hours away and provided a free clinic to 7th and 8th grade boys and girls of the Holmen School district.

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

Winterizer Game Changer – January-March objectives: goal setting, swing fundamentals, proper practice methods, shot process training, mental game, and physical game best practices.

PGA Junior League – May-August objectives: team-driven program that teaches the game in a fun and social way and learns the competitive side of golf by playing matches against other teams.
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Executive Women’s Golf Clinic-In June during the American Family Championship I offered a FREE short game clinic to Executive women that were employed by American Family Insurance.

Madison East & Madison LaFollette – This program will work with a diverse population with a goal of getting enough girls out for golf to fill a team at Madison East and Madison LaFollette. The next phase of this program is to develop the players to compete and win against the best teams in the area.

New High School Girls Golf Academy – I offered FREE golf academies for three brand new High School girls' golf programs in the months of July and August. These schools included Orfordville, Amherst, and Rhinelander. I had approximately 50 girls participating in these programs. The objective is to raise the bar for girls' golf in the entire state.

Teaching the Teachers- I had the opportunity to conduct a live golf lesson for about 50 PGA/Associate Professionals. The objective was to assist Associate Professionals going through the PGM programs with their book work portfolios and give other PGA Professionals another viewpoint on how to conduct a golf lesson.