March April Newsletter 2018

It is extremely gratifying to know our team’s teaching and coaching is developing players at all levels. In 2017, our Lead Instructor and Operations Manager, Brian Speakman was awarded the Alabama Northwest Florida Section PGA, Teacher of The Year, the highest teaching award in our Section. We suggest the membership seek him out and engage in his programs. Our new Scoring Club and Scoring Workshops will highlight Brian’s skills so we encourage you to participate. Liz Mattioli has grown our active ladies programing to over 100 women which is amazing. This season we are adding an LPGA 101 class to introduce new golfers and continuing our Ladies Spring Clinic Series. Chip Thomas drives our junior programs while also fulfilling his duties as the First Assistant at the Legacy golf shop. In 2017, Chip was nominated for the Section Player Development award, which is a huge honor. Eric Blinn at Legacy also continues to be a integral part of the instructional team assisting in our coaching programs whenever possible. To further develop our Junior programming and lighten Chip’s load, we are excited to add Max Doster, PGA, to the Instructional team for 2018. Max brings a wealth of experience in junior development having won the Section Player Development award during his time at Highland Park. Max will head up our Golf 101, Operation 36, PGA Sports Academy, and Junior League Team aimed at growing our junior programs and memberships. Max will also direct our PGA Hope program which offers our Veterans access to golf through PGA Grants. All members are encouraged to attend our free “Edumertainment” (hybrid of education and entertainment) evenings that will run through the spring and summer. These events are an opportunity to learn and be entertained by your instructional team. Our first event will be Thursday, March 15th with our second on Thursday April 19th. We will post topics via the weekly news but are open to discussing any golf related subjects, so feel free to send any requests you might have our way. In the interim, please know you are always welcome to drop in at the Performance Center whether to observe a lesson from the comfort of our lounge or try one of our coaching programs. If you’re looking to develop your golf game in 2018, we strongly urge you to come visit the Performance Center and let us help you develop a program to accomplish your goals.

GREYSTONE PERFORMANCE CENTER While the weather outside has been less than inviting this winter, our Greystone Performance Center has been bustling with member coaching programs. If you have not yet experienced a lesson or one of our coaching programs at The Performance Center, it is a must for developing your golf game. With the latest video and biofeedback technologies, the facility offers members and guests an amazing learning environment. Regardless of the weather, we have the ability to work on improving all aspects of your game from putting to driving. Members can send the instructional team videos from their smart phone to be analyzed and returned with a practical solution to improve their scores. Our members who have utilized the instructional team have had some fantastic success with their golf over the last few years, both home and away from the Club. Our

Matchplay Champions for the last three years are all students and our multiple club Champion, Steven Muncher can often be seen at Legacy striping shots out of the Performance Center. Our juniors continue to earn college scholarships and excel in high school and elite junior tournaments across the country. Our Player Develop- ment Members and Ambassadors are earn- ing PGA Latinoamerica and LPGA Symetra Tour status. While our PGA Tour players have been winning tournaments and competing in The Presidents Cup. The proof is definitely in the pudding as they say!

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Mark Blackburn Director of Instruction

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