One year after inception, innovative golf academy becomes stepping stone to college golf scholarships, U.S. Women’s Open and more
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – In less than one full year, a number of junior golf success stories emerged from the OB Sports Golf Academy at Longbow Golf Club. Five students received division-one college scholarships and one was offered an early commitment for 2011. Two students, Mina Harigae and Sun Gyoung Park, recently competed in the 2010 U.S. Women’s Open at Oakmont Country Club; and Park, competing as an amateur, made a hole in one on the 175-yard, par-3 sixth hole. Other current highlights from OB Sports Golf Academy students include:
– Seven OB Sports Golf Academy students have spent time in the top 100 AJGA Polo rankings, thus far in 2010
– Trey Kaahanui won the PING Phoenix Junior
Chan Kim won the 2010 Arizona States Stroke Play Championship
– Eight OB Sports Golf Academy students competed in the Winn Grips Heather Farr Classic Hosted by Longbow Golf Club in April of 2010.
– Peter Koo was the winner of the Junior World Qualifier – Boys 13-14
– Winner PGA National Junior Qualifier (Dana Finkelstein – Girls 15-18; Peter Koo – Boys 13-14)
– Alex Belleville was the winner of the JGAA Thunderbird Classic – Boys 15-18.
– Two of the three Arizona qualifiers for the US Junior Girls Championship came from OB Sports Golf Academy – Dana Finkelstein and Mikayla Harmon.
– OB Sports Golf Academy student, Konstantin von Beringe was honored as the Dixon Golf Desert Junior Golf Tour, Player of the Year.
“We are extremely proud of our student’s accomplishments during the past year,” stated Jeff Fisher, Director of Instruction for the OB Sports Golf Academy. “It’s equally rewarding for us to see their hard work on the golf course turn into scholarships to universities like Yale, Washington, Purdue, Kansas and Arizona. We even had two players compete that the highest level during the U.S. Women’s Open. And success in the competitive-golf arena is certainly a central focus of the OB Sports Golf Academy, but it’s not the only one. Basically, we encourage our student to define their own goals. We then customize a plan to help them reach those goals through the game of golf. Some students want to earn exemptions to AJGA events; some want to secure college scholarships; some want to play professional golf; and some simply want to play better golf on a recreational level. Whatever it may be, we’re here to make it happen.”
Located at Longbow Golf Club in North Mesa, Arizona, the OB Sports Golf Academy is a comprehensive golf instruction program that is dedicated to enhancing the student’s golf skills as well as guiding their overall development as a golfer. Led by Director of Instruction, Jeff Fisher, and Director of Player Development, Stacie Bryan, students of the academy benefit from personalized instruction along every step of their development as a golfer. While the academy offers instructional programs for adults, the junior program at OB Sports Golf Academy is unique in that it is designed to recognize each golfer’s personal goals within the game, and implement a customized lesson plan to reach that goal. Then, junior golfers are matched to the appropriate starting point based on their initial skills – Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced or Elite. Each level of the program prepares the students for the next level, and periodic skills tests are used to determine when a golfer is ready to jump to the next level. The OB Sports Golf Academy motto is: Learn. Practice. Play! Students receive lessons, unlimited practice time and the ability to play for one very reasonable monthly fee. The group instruction fees start at just $150 per month and include: weekly instruction with OB Sports Golf Academy teaching professionals, a monthly practice card for complimentary practice balls, complimentary golf after 3 pm at Longbow Golf Club. Pricing and instructional focus varies at each level, and special summer/fall packages are being offered for a limited time.
For more information about OB Sports Golf Academy, visit www.obsportsgolfacademy.com, call (480) 414-9330 or email: jfisher@obsportsgolfacademy.com or sbryan@obsportsgolfacademy.com You can follow OB Sports Golf Academy on Facebook www.facebook.com/obsportsgolfacademy or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/obsportsacademy
Home of the OB Sports Golf Academy, Longbow Golf Club and Business Park is a 330-acre, mixed-use commercial development that incorporates office, light industrial, retail and hotel uses surrounded by desert vegetation and a main street transportation design and features the award-winning Longbow Golf Club. Longbow Golf Club features a 7,003-yard Ken Kavanaugh-designed golf course that was recently ranked as one of the “Top 20 Best Courses You Can Play in Arizona” by Golfweek magazine for 2010. Daedalus Real Estate Advisors, LLC is a Phoenix-based commercial real estate services company that provides investment, development and communications consulting to corporate real estate clients in Arizona and the Southwest. For more information about Longbow Golf Club visit www.longbowgolf.com, call 480.807.5400 or become a fan of Longbow on Facebook at www.facebook.com/longbowgolfclub, or follow Longbow on Twitter at www.twitter.com/longbowgolfclub.
Longbow Golf Club is professionally managed by OB Sports Golf Management, a diversified, golf-oriented company with a long history of success. OB Sports currently manages 36 premier golf courses and country clubs throughout the United States. Known for its comprehensive and personalized services since 1972, OB Sports has become widely acclaimed as the leader in boutique-style golf course management. For more information about OB Sports Golf Management, visit www.obsports.com, call (480) 948-1300, follow on Twitter at www.twitter.com/obsportsgolf or become a Fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/obsports.
Contact:
Jeff Fisher
(480) 414-9330
jfisher@obsportsgolfacademy.com
Kris Strauss
(480) 518-5003
kstrauss@obsports.com
