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State of the art award winning golf academy with personal individual attention and customizable private or group instruction, club fitting, and fitness options from a highly trained, certified, and successful PGA staff focused on results. Tips for an hour, learn for a day, stay for a week, train for a month, or succeed for life!  The academy has opportunities for all ages, skill levels and desires!

• Golf Instruction
  • Build Your Own Stay, Play and Learn Packages – Lodging Included
    • Half Day (3 Hours of Instruction Each Day)
    • Full Day Premium (6 hours of Instruction Each Day)
  • Private and Semi Private Instruction
  • Ladies Golf School – Lodging Included
  • Junior Development Program
  • Scoring Clinics – Short Game
  • Driver’s Education Class – Hitting the Tee Ball
  • Get Golf Ready Classes for Beginners or Lapsed Players
  • Golf Fitness and Performance Classes
  • Online Academy
• Custom Club Fitting Studio – Golf Digest “Top 100 Club Fitter”
• Flightscope/TrackMan Combine and Yardage Guides

Teaching Philosophy

The first step in training any student is to fully understand the player’s own knowledge of the sport, their swing, basic swing mechanics and setup, shot shapes, and fundamentals; what we call the “Golfer’s IQ.”  With each student we conduct an interview to determine their knowledge of the sport.  We also use this interview to discover each student’s strengths, weaknesses, ball flight, club to ball contact, tendencies, short term and long term goals.  We must also determine the age, ability, and desire of each student; desire being the most important and clearly defined.  We must have a clear understanding and agreement before we can make recommendations on what program or plan of attack best fits a specific student.

Many sophisticated and somewhat complicated biomechanical movements in a golf swing require the human body to do complex tasks that require timing and efficiency.  A TPI (Titleist Performance Institute) Physical Screening will help us diagnose each student’s physical abilities regarding mobility and stability.  The more we know about the body’s abilities or inabilities, the better we can make a body to swing connection as well as establish the best approach.  This ultimately helps us focus our efforts in a manner that aligns with the physical condition of the athlete.  We now have essentially three ways to manage our time.  1 – If a student is a perfectly physical conditioned athlete, which is rare, than we simply work on playing golf.  2 – If a student is not a perfectly conditioned athlete, are they willing to take the time to improve their physical conditioning as it applies to their game?  3 – Are we going to find ways to improve by working around physical abilities? With the 3^rd option we would still encourage each athlete to take care of their body and still show them the potential that better conditioning can provide.  It would be of disservice not to.

Once a route is chosen, communication becomes the difference between memorizing and truly learning.  Without the understanding of why we should do it, how we are going to do it, and what happens when we achieve it; then why do it in the first place?  Connecting the “What and Why” to the “When, Where, and How,” is communication.  Communication is simply the glue that connects mechanics to performance, conscious thoughts to athletic movements, or ideas into skills.  Communication along with purposeful, dedicated, and motivated repetition that aligns with the desire and ability of the athlete is the key to learning any motor skill.

Let’s align our understanding, desires, physical abilities, communication, and practice habits in order to get on the right track.  We will admit, this isn’t always the path of least resistance.  However, our job is to get you down the road to success as fast as possible.

Brian Natzel, PGA Director of Instruction

Experience

2015 Indiana PGA Player Development Award

Nominated:  2014 Indiana PGA Teacher of the Year

Nominated:  2015 Indiana PGA Junior Development Award

Nominated:  2015 Indiana PGA Teacher of the Year

2011 and 2013 Golf Digest “Top 100 Club Fitter”

TPI (Titleist Performance Institute) Certified

SPi (SeeMore Putter Institute) Certified

OEM Manufacture Certified Fitter – Titleist, Callaway, Mizuno, Ping, KBS, SeeMore,

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Please Visit www.swanlakeresort.com for rates and programs available at The Golf Academy at Swan Lake Resort.

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