Orlando, Fla. (Nov. 1, 2018) – Garrett Froggatte, head teaching professional at The Club at Flying Horse in Colorado Springs, Colo., has been named a lead coach for Golf Channel Academy.

Froggatte, an accomplished player and coach who played alongside 2016 PGA champion Jimmy Walker at Baylor University, is the most recent addition to Golf Channel Academy (GCA), a dedicated network of teaching facilities operating with the active support of Golf Channel, the game’s leading global multimedia and golf entertainment source.

“I’m very excited to be among this group of highly successful, motivated and influential teachers,” said Froggatte, who has been at Flying Horse since 2008 and has since grown its junior and women’s golf programs many times over. “This is a great opportunity for golf coaches to work together and learn from one another, adopting best coaching practices to better serve their students. My goal is to help clients learn to play better and enjoy playing golf more.”

Golf Channel Academy is the first network of its kind devoted to efficiently growing the business of golf instruction. With 87 locations already committed, GCA will be inviting additional coaches to become part of the network as it continues to grow.

After graduating Baylor University, Froggatte apprenticed under Mike Bender, coach to two-time major champion Zach Johnson and one of Golf Digest’s “50 Best Teachers in America,” and also served as director of instruction at Woodmoor Pines Country Club in Monument, Colo. He continues to compete in local professional events, including the Colorado Open, and once shot a 66 to win a U.S. Open Local Qualifier.

Froggatte enjoys teaching beginning and intermediate golfers, as well as juniors, and has helped grow The Club’s PGA Junior League program from zero to four teams and 48 players. Several of Froggatte’s juniors have gone on to play collegiate golf.

The Golf Channel Academy at Flying Horse is a year-round facility designed to help players improve without being dependent on the weather. Complete with four heated hitting bays and state-of-the-art synthetic turf, the academy is open to all golfers of all levels of ability, and offers individual, group and corporate instruction programs.

For more information about the Golf Channel Academy at Flying Horse or to book a lesson with Garrett, visit www.flyinghorsegolfacademy.com or call 719-201-0240. For more about Golf Channel Academy, including a full listing of all its current locations and coaches, go to www.golfchannelacademy.com.

 

ABOUT GOLF CHANNEL

Golf Channel is a multimedia, golf entertainment and services company based in Orlando, Fla. Serving the most-affluent audience in all of television, Golf Channel – co-founded by Arnold Palmer in 1995 and now part of NBC Sports Group – is available to nearly 500 million viewers in 78 countries and nine languages around the world. Golf Channel features more live golf coverage than all other networks combined, including tournament action from the PGA TOUR, LPGA Tour, The Open, Olympics, and Ryder Cup, as well as high-quality news, instruction and original programming. Delivering unmatched coverage of the world of golf, fans are able to enjoy 24/7 live streaming of Golf Channel content through Golf Channel Digital and the NBC Sports App, powered by Playmaker Media. In addition, Golf Channel connects the world to golf through a wide array of digital and lifestyle services including Golf Channel Mobile, a comprehensive app covering golf’s latest headlines, scores and analysis; GolfNow, the world’s largest online tee time booking platform and golf course technology partner, which includes the GolfNow Mobile App, featuring on-course GPS tracking, in-round scoring and game tracking; Revolution Golf, the largest direct-to-consumer digital platform in golf ; GolfAdvisor.com, the world’s largest golf course ratings and review resource for golfers, by golfers; a North American network of Golf Channel Academy instructional facilities; and Golf Channel Am Tour, the world’s largest amateur golf tour; and as the Official Media Partner of St. Andrews Links, the Home of Golf.

 

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Orlando, Fla. (Oct. 29, 2018) – A record 13 Golf Channel Academy coaches, including nine lead coaches, were among those selected to Golf Digest magazine’s sixth biennial listing of the “Best Young Teachers in America”.

“We’re elated that so many of our coaches have been recognized by Golf Digest in this prestigious list of young, top teaching talent,” said Lorin Anderson, VP Instruction, for Golf Channel. “Golf Channel Academy is all about assisting the best teachers in the game with growing their businesses and standing out in their communities, and to have so many of our younger coaches included on this esteemed list validates the quality of our coaches and the trajectory their careers are headed.”

The group of top instructors under the age of 40 was expanded to 114 for 2018-’19, and includes teachers from New York to California. Among the Golf Channel Academy (GCA) lead coaches to make the list were:

 

• Jeremy Anderson – Legacy Golf Performance Center, Phoenix, Ariz.
• Jason Birnbaum – Manhattan Woods Golf Academy, West Nyack, N.Y.
• Devan Bonebrake – Southern California Golf Academy, Carlsbad, Calif.
• Eujone (EJ) Kim – Axis Golf Academy & Fitness Center, Montgomery, Texas
• Sean Lanyi – Tri-Mountain Golf Course, Ridgefield, Wash.
• Anders Mattson – Saratoga National Golf Club, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
• Kyle Morris – The Golf Room, Dublin, Ohio
• Jason Sedan – Fore Door Golf, Lake Winnipesaukee G.C., New Durham, N.H.
• Scott Wickham – Avila Golf & Country Club, Tampa, Fla.

 

Birnbaum is making his fourth consecutive appearance on the list of up-and-coming instructors, which debuted in 2008 as the “Top-20 Teachers Under 40”. Bonebrake, Kim, Mattson, Morris and Sedan are making their second straight appearance while Anderson, Lanyi and Wickham are all new to the list.

The four GCA staff coaches named to the list include:

 

• Tommy Sharp – Golf Lab, Salt Lake City, Utah
• Kaylin Skovron – Jeff Isler Golf, Southlake, Texas
• Mark Walder – DiJulia Golf, New Hope, Pa.
• Tyrus York – High Performance Golf Academy, Lexington, Ky.

 

Sharp and Walder are making their first appearance on the list.

Golf Digest’s editors surveyed teachers from their state and national rankings and tour players to assemble their list. They also looked at each candidate’s accomplishments and student successes, and who they learned from. The selected nominees were then categorized into six regions: Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest and West.

Golf Channel Academy is a dedicated network of the highest quality instructors and teaching facilities (currently at 90 locations), all sharing marketing resources provided by Golf Channel, the game’s leading global multimedia and golf entertainment source. For more about Golf Channel Academy, including a full listing of all current locations and coaches, go to www.golfchannelacademy.com.

For the entire Best Young Teachers in America list, check out the November issue of Golf Digest (www.golfdigest.com).

 

ABOUT GOLF CHANNEL

Golf Channel is a multimedia, golf entertainment and services company based in Orlando, Fla. Serving the most-affluent audience in all of television, Golf Channel – co-founded by Arnold Palmer in 1995 and now part of NBC Sports Group – is available to nearly 500 million viewers in 78 countries and nine languages around the world. Golf Channel features more live golf coverage than all other networks combined, including tournament action from the PGA TOUR, LPGA Tour, The Open, Olympics, and Ryder Cup, as well as high-quality news, instruction and original programming. Delivering unmatched coverage of the world of golf, fans are able to enjoy 24/7 live streaming of Golf Channel content through Golf Channel Digital and the NBC Sports App, powered by Playmaker Media. In addition, Golf Channel connects the world to golf through a wide array of digital and lifestyle services including Golf Channel Mobile, a comprehensive app covering golf’s latest headlines, scores and analysis; GolfNow, the world’s largest online tee time booking platform and golf course technology partner, which includes the GolfNow Mobile App, featuring on-course GPS tracking, in-round scoring and game tracking; Revolution Golf, the largest direct-to-consumer digital platform in golf ; GolfAdvisor.com, the world’s largest golf course ratings and review resource for golfers, by golfers; a North American network of Golf Channel Academy instructional facilities; and Golf Channel Am Tour, the world’s largest amateur golf tour.

 

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