In Golf Club Fitting with PGA Professional Gary Balliet, we’re discussing how to fit different golfers for different clubs. We’ve already discussed wedges and putters as well as how to fit women, seniors, and juniors. But how do you fit a golfer for the proper driver? The length of a driver should allow for good, …
Today was a special day at the Golf Academy of America in Phoenix. That’s because for the first time in the school’s history, there was a tournament at TopGolf in Gilbert. As part of our Managing Golf Facility Operations and Planning/Organization of Tournament Golf classes earlier this semester, we got a unique, behind-the-scenes tour of …
On Friday in Managing Golf Facility Operations, we had a really interesting guest speaker. Rayl (pronounced RAIL) Evans has been an independent sales representative in the golf industry since the late 80s and also runs his own company, Rayl Group LTD. Evans played college golf at Southern Oregon University, and after graduating, started selling insurance. But …
Todd Sones was recently named one of Golf Digest’s 50 Best Teachers in America for 2015-2016 and has been a Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor every year since 1995. He’s also on the Golf Academy of America’s National Advisory Board and made a visit to the Phoenix campus just last month. Todd is based out of Vernon …
We got some sad news at the Golf Academy recently. Dr. Jordan Mackner, who’s in his first semester teaching Anatomy, Exercise, and Bio-mechanics at the GAA, will not be back for the last few weeks of the semester because he has cancer. Dr. J was first diagnosed with cancer several months ago, and after undergoing a …