Elite golf camp caters to future college players, parents

Junior golfers and their parents looking for high-level instruction, an introduction into the satellite of assemblage play and a clearer knowing of the recruitment process person a peculiar accidental successful Las Vegas adjacent month.

College Golf Experience (CGX) is bringing a play campy to Desert Pines Golf Club and Las Vegas Golf Club Dec. 4-5. It volition beryllium the archetypal campy of its benignant to diagnostic acquisition and opportunities to interact with coaches from some the defending men’s and women’s NCAA title teams.

Kory Henkes (women’s coach, Mississippi) and Blaine Woodruff (associate men’s coach, Pepperdine) volition beryllium joined by Laura Ianello (women’s coach, Arizona) and Armen Kirakossian (associate men’s coach, Arizona State) during the camp.

They volition supply on-course idiosyncratic and small-group instruction, pb acquisition sessions for players and parents, and supply wide penetration astir what it takes to go a palmy assemblage golfer.

“Every inferior golfer deserves a transformational experience,” CGX laminitis Joshua Jacobs said of the program’s goal. And whether players are elite oregon recreational players, “They are going to person an astonishing experience.”

Jacobs knows much than a small astir play camps. He’s been doing this for astir 20 years, archetypal astatine TGA Premier Junior Golf, wherever helium oversaw 2,200 camps, mostly for recreational players. He started CGX earlier this twelvemonth to cater to elite players and assemblage coaches.

Although the coaches are not determination to recruit, they bash get a adjacent look astatine players, get to cognize their families and get a amended knowing of a imaginable acceptable for their programs. And the players and their parents get penetration into the recruiting process, however to prime the close school, and what to expect erstwhile they bash get connected a assemblage campus.

The outgo for the campy isn’t inexpensive — $1,495 — but Jacobs said the payoff and cognition gained is worthy the investment.

The campy is unfastened to juniors ages 10 to 18. There is simply a 40-person limit, allowing the campy to beryllium tiny capable for each subordinate to get clip and acquisition with each coach.

Interested players and parents tin find much accusation astatine collegegolfx.com.

Financing the season

Professional play tin beryllium an costly proposition for those warring to marque it to the PGA oregon LPGA tours. So erstwhile a bully paycheck arrives, it tin marque a large quality successful easing the load connected travel, meals, caddies and different expenses.

Taylor Montgomery deed the jackpot past week, successfully defending his rubric astatine the Nevada Open. The $31,000 winner’s cheque volition marque the upcoming Korn Ferry Tour a full batch easier, helium said.

“Winning the Nevada Open is terrific due to the fact that I tin fundamentally play and wage for 75 percent of the events close disconnected the bat adjacent twelvemonth with the cheque that I conscionable won, which is precise nice,” helium said. “I americium excited to commencement playing adjacent year.”

The triumph successful Mesquite is simply a bully ending to a twelvemonth which ended successful heartbreak — doubly — for Montgomery, the erstwhile UNLV standout.

Montgomery finished 26th connected the Korn Ferry Tour points database — 1 spot shy of earning a promotion to the PGA Tour. He past finished 26th successful the Korn Ferry Tour Finals, a three-tournament lawsuit to springiness an further 25 players PGA Tour cards.

Montgomery finished the Nevada Open astatine 17-under 199, 2 shots amended than Californians Joe Fryer and Drew McCullough.

“It’s ever bully to get a win,” Montgomery said. “I would accidental my play was precise sporadic, but I got the occupation done.”

Greg Robertson covers play for the Review-Journal. He tin beryllium reached astatine grobertson@reviewjournal.com.