My PGA Golf Coach

Introducing the ALL NEW Grand Traverse Resort & Spa Golf Academy, featuring 2008 PGA Professional National Champion and six-time Michigan Open Champion Scott Hebert as Director of Instruction.

This is a great opportunity to learn from PGA Professionals who have played competitive golf, and know how to win!

Whether you want to refresh your swing, sharpen your fundamentals, or gain confidence for your next golf outing, some of the finest professional golf instruction in Michigan is found right here at Grand Traverse Resort & Spa.

The Academy is open April-September and offers private instruction as well as one-day, two-day, and three-day schools, public clinics, on-course instruction, corporate clinics, team builds, ladies-only schools and clinics, junior camps, junior clinics, golf academy memberships, and club fitting.

In addition, Grand Traverse Resort & Spa is proud to have been selected as a site for the PGA Tour Academy Junior Golf Camps.

Video analysis is included with instruction as well as a video review with all instruction for the student to keep.

The Academy is housed in a 2,000 square-foot building that features three heated, indoor-outdoor hitting bays equipped for video and computer analysis.

In winter, the facility serves as the Winter Golf Center offering lessons and practice sessions. It is the only facility in northern Michigan where golfers can practice in winter in comfort and see the flight of their ball.

Visiting Grand Traverse Resort & Spa on business? Take a break from the daily routine of corporate meetings and enjoy an hour of basic golf instruction with schools in session from April through September at Grand Traverse Resort & Spa.

Instruction
Let Director of Instruction and PGA Professional Scott Hebert or Lead Instructors and PGA Professionals Lee Houtteman and Terry Crick guide you through the overall learning experience. You can pursue a variety of intriguing options, formatting your instruction to include short game, full swing, on-course, and personalized, video-based, swing analysis.

Grand Traverse Resort & Spa has one of the most advanced learning facilities that golf instruction has to offer. Multiple indoor-outdoor hitting bays combine the latest digital video and computer equipment to analyze your swing. The instant evaluation you receive will lead to dramatic breakthroughs in your game. You’ll leave with a full understanding of your golf swing and a great game plan for further improvement.

Ready to Get Started?
For more information, call 800-236-1577 ext 6550 or send an email to golfacademy@gtresort.com .

Click here for more information about the Grand Traverse Golf Academy located at the beautiful Grand Traverse Resort & Spa Http://grandtraverseresort

The Golf Academy’s street address is:
Grand Traverse Resort & Spa Golf Academy
4669 North Village Drive
Williamsburg, MI 49690

The Golf Academy’s mailing address is:
Grand Traverse Resort & Spa Golf Academy
100 Grand Traverse Village Blvd.
Acme, MI 49610

I will never forget a ruling I made about 10 years ago in a major amateur event to a young man on the putting green. I had volunteered as a PGA rules official and was assigned to a medium length island green par three hole. This young man hit a great iron shot to the green and had left himself about a 20 footer for birdie. He marked the ball and tossed it to his caddy who missed it and the ball rolled off the edge of the green and into the water. They could not retrieve the ball from the lake and substituted another ball, then the young man made the putt for what he thought was a birdie. I had to be the bearer of bad news and inform the young man that rule16-1b does not permit substitution of another ball, accordingly there is a penalty of 2 strokes and his 2 is now a 4. Sometimes the rules don’t work in your favor.

For those of us who have spent the winter up north we’re looking out the window dreaming about hitting golf balls in the beautiful sunshine. If you didn’t have an exercise regime set up over the winter it’s not to late. Pre-season and ongoing conditioning utilizing core strengthening exercises are vital for strength, endurance and injury prevention. Abdominal crunches, back extensions, side lifts, and fast walking are a few that can help.

Many injuries are caused by tightened and inelastic muscles. You need to increase elasticity to allow them to respond to physical demands without injury. Increased elasticity in your muscles increases the force of recoil contraction which improves your downswing. Stretching is mandatory to playing golf well and staying healthy. Make an appointment with your provider to customize a program that’s right for you.  Personally I use Dr. Greg Chappell who runs a wellness center in Acme. He can be contacted at this link for help.

http://www.chappellhealth.com/

People have been asking me why I end my videos telling people to let it rip.  I always talk to  my students about being aggressive through the hitting area, deceleration through the hitting area has destroyed many a golf swing.You can’t steer a golf ball or wish it next to the hole it just doesn’t work. Get the club into the proper position during the backswing  then as I like to say,  let it rip .

Sometimes when I am feeling low, I remember a little poem I heard when I was a boy. Harvey Penick said this many years ago and from a teachers standpoint it makes me smile to this day.

When your time comes to

Pass on someday

The only things you can keep

Are what you gave away.