Rising Pros Program

For Juniors, Ages 10 to 17

Clubgolf has created a unique and different Junior Golf Program to get your junior ready not just for golf but for athletics in general. It is a broad-based program that focuses on rotational speed development which is great for any sport.

The Rising Pros Program focuses on the middle stages of Long Term Athletic Development (LTAD). Junior golfers are engaged in a system for improvement, not just a series of tips and hints about the game of golf. The Risings Pros will feature the Smash Zone Training Circuit to turn your kids into rotary ballistic missiles with unlimited potential. The Smash Zone Training Circuit was developed based upon the most current junior development protocols developed by the Titleist Performance Institute (we will teach your kids what today's best players did when they were teens). They also will learn proper alignment, course management and how to read greens.

The program will be a lot of fun, and one in which they can participate with their friends.  Our approach focuses on having kids perform age appropriate skill acquisition drills to maximize their athletic potential. It gets more complicated and specialized as the junior develops and reaches the next level. There are several stages a junior goes through in their athletic development, and we will make sure they follow the correct development with the parents' help.

BACKGROUND

The reason for this program is that many of the world's leading authorities on athletic development say a Sport Specific Skill (golf in our case) should be built upon a well-developed base of Fundamental Movement Skill and Fundamental Sport Skill.  Those will be broken down into sub-categories.

In the Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS), we will break it down to:

Locomotive Skills
  • Running, Jumping, Dodging, Skipping, Hopping, Bounding and Sprinting
Stability Skills (ABC’s of Athleticism)
  • Agility, Balance, Coordination, Speed, Change of Direction, Disassociation
Manipulative / Object Control Skills (ABC’s of Athletics)
  • Throw, Kick, Strike, Catch, Dribble, Dodge
Awareness
  • Space Awareness, Kinesthetic Awareness, Body Awareness, Rules

Most experts will say that a child who develops a better base of Fundamental Movement Skills will develop golf-skills at a faster rate and will peak at a higher level of expertise.

In the Fundamental Sport Skill (FSS), the sub-categories are the major skill areas of the golf game:

Full Swing
  • Grip, Posture, Alignment
  • Ball Position, Stance, Balance
Chipping
  • Distance Control, Force Control
Putting
  • Green Reading, Speed Control, Alignment
Course Management
  • Tactics, Club Selection, Risk Reward

Rising Pro participants will receive skill-specific testing and instruction in each of these areas.

Parents will be amazed at how much fun their children will have in this program and how advanced their athletics will be.

WINTER SCHEDULE, 2009 - 2010

Winter Schedule sessions will be held at Clubgolf Performance Center for the months of December, January, February and March. 

For your convenience, the Rising Pros Program will be offered 2 days per week:

Wednesdays, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Saturdays, 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm

(Note: during December, the Wednesday Rising Pro Sessions will be held on Tuesdays from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm)

Juniors can attend Wednesdays, Saturdays or both.  You have the flexibility to pick and choose -  the more sessions that your junior attends, the faster they will progress.

WINTER SCHEDULE PRICING

Pricing:    6 Sessions       -     $270
               12 Sessions    -      $480 
               18 Sessions    -      $630

To sign up or for information, call Clubgolf   

(301) 519-1920.