Over the years, the Golf Academy at Swan Lake Resort has helped thousands of golfers. We use state-of-the-art diagnostics to enhance your learning experience and provide precise club fitting. This technology eliminates guesswork and increases learning efficiency, shortening the time required to develop and refine the student’s technique. Golf Academy staff is here to help your game rather than teach a system.

Our mission is to help people explore every aspect of golf, allowing them to fully enjoy its many benefits. Golf offers positive impacts on life, from strengthening family connections and promoting fitness to building social and professional relationships. It also helps shape character in young players. Beyond being an enjoyable sport, golf provides the calm and reflection that comes from spending time outdoors in nature.

We believe golf instruction should be enjoyable and easy to connect with others. Our PGA Professionals have worked together to create a unique variety of lessons and programs to meet every golfer’s needs. Along with our popular Stay and Play Academy Packages, we offer private lessons, budget-friendly introductory clinics, and free clinics for adults, couples, ladies, juniors, and members.

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INSTRUCTION

Academy “Stay, Play, and Learn” Packages Lodging Included

Students of all ages and abilities are welcome. Our half and full-day programs are designed to be bookable around your schedule. Come learn, relax and play when you are available. Packages include lodging, unlimited golf with cart, continental breakfast, instruction, and an academy gift.

Private Instruction

Ever since 1971 The Golf Academy at Swan Lake Resort has been known for high quality personalized golf instruction. John Ericsson, Director of Instruction, leads our PGA staff in the effort to take your game to the next level by offering a wide variety of instruction packages. We custom-fit instruction packages for every experience level.

Group Lessons and Clinics

Group lessons are a fun and social way to entertain clients or bring people together. Our PGA teaching staff makes learning golf easy and enjoyable for everyone. They’re also an excellent option for team-building or strengthening bonds in a corporate setting.

Get Golf Ready

For those looking to return to the game or begin their golfing journey, Get Golf Ready offers an ideal introduction. This program provides clear, focused instruction on the fundamentals, rules, and enjoyment of the game. In just five weeks, Get Golf Ready offers a thorough orientation to golf, preparing participants to confidently enjoy the game with friends and family.

Remote Video Lessons

V1 Sports is an advanced video analysis technology designed to enhance visual learning for teachers and coaches. At Swan Lake Resort, we use this program and its app to offer a personalized and top-tier learning experience for each student.

Technology

Flightscope Radar Technology

FlightScope employs cutting-edge radar technology to capture the complete 3D flight patterns and launch parameters of every golf shot, from a short pitch to a 300-yard drive. By tracking the ball’s entire flight, it calculates all the essential data to ensure a precise fit for each shot.

PGA Professional

Our PGA professional recognizes that having clear, statistical data can be a powerful tool for teaching and fitting. However, they also deeply understand the importance of the human element. Our highly trained staff combine their expertise, keen observation, communication skills, and valuable customer feedback to ensure the perfect fit and boost the golfer’s confidence.

Club Repair

As an additional service, our academy specializes in club repair. Our staff offers re-gripping, re-shafting, swing weight and overall weight measurements, loft and lie measurements, shaft bending, shaft frequency matching, and more. If your club needs repair or adjustment, we can do it quickly and at an affordable cost.

Facilities

The Golf Academy at Swan Lake Resort is host to an impressive facility, both indoor and outdoor.

Outdoor Facilities

Outdoors, our 20-acre practice facility offers multiple measured targets, large teeing areas, fairways, green side and fairway bunkers, uneven lie areas, short game chipping and pitching greens, putting greens, and five executive practice holes. At The Golf Academy, there is no such thing as a shot that cannot be practiced and perhaps perfected.

Indoor Facilities

Our 3000-square foot indoor facility offers a variety of year-round learning and practicing opportunities. We offer indoor putting, hitting nets, heated indoor to outdoor hitting bays, equipment testing, custom club fitting, launch monitoring with FlightScope Radar Technology, high-speed digital video swing analysis, club repair, and equipment sales with many leading manufacturers.

Custom Club Fitting

Characteristics of Properly Fit Equipment

The key to scoring better is certainly a better golf swing. However, properly fitted equipment can make a significant difference in reaching your potential.

• Using a putter that is properly fitted to your body and posture helps ensure a smooth, true roll on every putt.
• Understand the importance of having the correct wedge lofts and bounces for the individual player, course conditions distances, and shot shaping requirements.
• Get the right transition from Hybrid to Iron and fill in any gaps in yardages that can lead to extra shots.
• Get the perfect length, lie angle, grip, and shaft in your irons to maximize pin seeking.
• Learn how the perfect ball can help you maximize distance, backspin, and sidespin.
• Dial in the Driver Fit by optimizing the highest possible ball speed, optimum launch angle and angle of descent, with optimum spin rates to help you reach your bombing potential.

The Academy has the ability through our many suppliers to find the perfect shaft and head combination of any club to achieve these goals.

Custom Club Fitting

Fitting sessions are done by certified PGA Professionals using dynamic fitting and FlightScope launch monitor while maximizing the perfect fit and verifying personal specifications.

Current Fitting Carts Available

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