Junior Golf
The Advantages
What makes our program the best:
- Coaching Team with national award winning teachers, and playing professionals
- Individual attention, specific practices, work load, repetition and variation
- Mental Performance Training
- Golf specific conditioning program
- Nutrition, proper fueling (5 star dinning buffet and a la carte restaurant included in the price)
- Daily goal and performance evaluation
- 5 hours of training daily (4 hours of golf / 1 hour of fitness/mental coaching/etc.)
- Trackman, V1 and FlightScope
- Customized program design for specific improvements
- Daily emphasis on competitive play, short game and putting
- Indoor hitting bay and putting green
- On-site driving range, practice greens, short game course, regulation golf course
- On-site laundry facilities and complimentary Wi-Fi connection in all rooms
- Supervised Teen Lounge with games, table tennis, foosball
- All-Inclusive, on-site sports facilities; 18-hole golf course, 20 tennis courts (6 clay), basketball court, soccer field, beach volleyball courts, FIT Performance Center (free weight, Olympic rack, machines and cardio equipment), 3 swimming pools, table tennis, circus and trapeze.
Training Methodolgy
Our team of coaches have developed a world class training methodology that caters to the needs of each individual athlete. Using their vast experience and the most up-to-date training technology, our athletes experience noticeable improvement in a very short period of time.
By individualizing a specific developmental plan for each student we are able to maximize athlete performance in training and match play. A personal file is created and updated continuously with videos, spectrums, catalogs, and ball flight data (TrackMan); all geared toward improving the basics: controlling low point (hit the ground in front of the ball), distance (hit the ball far enough to compete at highest level), and predictable curve (control shape of shot). Other areas of focus will include the ins and outs of course management, tournament preparation and play (yearly schedule for each player), practice rounds/routines, learn how to use the “Grid System” to play consistent, short game habits, putting repetition and constant reinforcement of the rules of the game.
Testing/Evaluation
To enhance performance every student is individually evaluated during their stay. Tests can include; putting, chipping, sand, pitch/finesse shots, Trackman combine and a Trackman wedge combine. The results are graded and then a practice schedule is tailored specifically for the areas needing improvement. If a student does well on all tests then the level of testing will increase (testing levels scale from 1 to 5, 1 being the easiest). Results are collected and given to students at the end their stay, with some exception.
Technology
Club Med golf academy features many high tech training systems including; Trackman, SAM PuttLab,K-Vest, V1 swing analysis, BodiTrak and Casio high speed cameras. The technology we use at this academy is the same technology used by players on both the PGA and LPGA tours.
Mind Performance
History has shown time and again that a player with a strong mental and emotional approach to the game will almost always outperform a player with equal physical talent but less mental training and skill. The ability of a player to stay focused and calm in the face of pressure and adversity is what separates true champions from the rest.
As coaches, we remain strongly committed to working on each student’s mental and emotional development – what we call the mind game – every single day. If anything, the clarity that comes from a solid mind game could be considered the most important skill we share, since no movement happens within the body that is not first generated within a confident or upset mind.
To facilitate mind game development, performance workshops are conducted throughout the academic year in which we share leading-edge techniques that blend mind skills with swing mechanics. Students have additional access to our new Peak Performance Mind Coach who specializes in helping them manage self-talk and emotions by accessing Zone-like states of performance time and again.
Our bottom line philosophy: Positive thoughts and emotions – the kind we learn to deliberately access and teach ourselves to think and feel – are imperative to each player’s performance and success. On-site peak performance coach Tim N. Kremer is our mind training coach and works with our players weekly.
Physical Performance
Academy training players must engage in a multi-day Fitness and Conditioning regimen that includes a variety of training modalities such as, aerobic and anaerobic development through sustained low intensity activities as well as short duration sprinting and flexibility exercises; not to mention overall strength training and nutritional awareness.
In addition, our students receive golf specific workouts some of which are adapted from the Titleist Performance Institute (TPi) to ensure they are strengthening the proper core muscles to help develop the most efficient and powerful golf swing.
Let’s not forget the brain however, with our Mental Performance program designed to help athletes maintain their focus and performance output, athletes can experience improved levels of performance in a relatively short period of time.
Schedule - Sample
We have several training schedules to meet your specific needs. Schedules are determined by age, skill, level, academic choice and other individual factors. The sample schedules shown below will give you a general idea of what the program offers and what you can expect on a typical day of training at Club Med Academies. Note that there are two schedules, one for ourfull-time program and one for our short-time or camp program.
School Year – Full-Timers – Golf Schedule
Monday through Friday
7:00 – 7:30am |
Breakfast |
7:30 – 10:00am |
School |
10:00 – 12:00pm |
Golf Training – Short Game, Full-Swing, Putting, etc. |
12:00 – 12:45pm |
Lunch |
12:45 – 1:30 pm |
School |
1:30 – 1:45pm |
Daily Meeting – Planning, Course Management |
1:45 – 4:30pm |
Match Play, Competitive Situations (9 holes) |
4:30 – 5:30am |
Fitness – Cardio, core, flexibility, strength, TPI |
6:00 – 7:00pm |
Dinner |
7:00 – 9:00pm |
School |
9:30pm |
Curfew |
9:45pm |
Head Count |
10:30pm |
Lights out |
***Saturday afternoon and Sunday off. Scheduled and Supervised Activities
***Schedules may vary week to week
***Mental and Fitness Sessions Weekly
***US Kids Tournaments – most tournaments within 30 min. of Club Med (Available most every week)
Saturday
8:00 – 9:00am |
Breakfast |
10:00 – 12:00pm |
Golf – Match Play, Competitive Situations |
12:00 – 1:00pm |
Lunch |
1:30pm |
Afternoon Activity |
6:00 – 6:45pm |
Dinner |
6:45pm |
Mandatory Activity Check-in |
7:00 – 9:00pm |
Activity |
9:30pm |
Curfew |
9:45pm |
Head Count |
10:30pm |
Lights out |
***Saturday afternoon and Sunday off. Scheduled and Supervised Activities
***Schedules may vary week to week
SUMMER – Short-Timer – Golf Schedule
Monday through Friday
7:30 – 8:15am |
Fitness |
8:30 – 9:30am |
Breakfast |
10:00 – 12:00pm |
Golf Training – Short Game, Full-Swing, Putting, etc. |
12:00 – 1:30pm |
Lunch |
1:30 – 1:45pm |
Daily Meeting – Planning, Course Management |
1:45 – 4:30pm |
Match Play, Competitive Situations (9 holes) |
4:30 – 6:00am |
Free Time |
6:00 – 7:00pm |
Dinner |
6:45 – 9:30pm |
Evening Activity (Mandatory Check-in) |
9:30pm |
Curfew |
9:45pm |
Head Count |
10:30pm |
Lights out |
***Saturday afternoon and Sunday off. Scheduled and Supervised Activities
***Schedules may vary week to week
***Mental and Fitness Sessions Weekly
***US Kids Tournaments – most tournaments within 30 min. of Club Med (Available most every week)
Saturday
8:00 – 9:00am |
Breakfast |
10:00 – 12:00pm |
Golf – Match Play, Competitive Situations |
12:00 – 1:00pm |
Lunch |
1:30pm |
Afternoon Activity |
6:00 – 6:45pm |
Dinner |
6:45pm |
Mandatory Activity Check-in |
7:00 – 9:00pm |
Activity |
9:30pm |
Curfew |
9:45pm |
Head Count |
10:30pm |
Lights out |
***Saturday afternoon and Sunday off. Scheduled and Supervised Activities
***Schedules may vary week to week
Tournaments
Located in southeast Florida, our students have the opportunity to play in many tournaments. We compete in high level tournaments to help build our players national junior ranking. Tours we participate in include; AJGA, South FL PGA Junior Tour, Florida Junior Tour, HJGT, FCWT and US Kids.
Facilities
With an on-site, 18-hole golf course, driving range, multiple putting greens, indoor hitting bay and a short game course Sandpiper Bay is an ideal location for year-round training. Let’s not forget that there are over 20 competitive courses in our neighboring areas that give us yet another edge in our training facilities arsenal.
Additionally, to meet all the training needs of our athletes Club Med Academies has a complete fitness center with, Life Fitness treadmills, full line of strength machines, free weights, Olympic platform, run paths contained within our onsite golf course, as well as mapped off-site courses, a turf soccer field for functional workouts, a 6 lane outdoor lap pool, a secluded open water swim course and meeting rooms for performance lectures and clinics, and a full service L'Occitane spa for all of your regeneration needs.
Results
Our high performance academy has a track record of helping players reach their potential. With many players a top the rankings in the PGA, LPGA, and AJGA Polo, and Junior Golf Scoreboard, Club Med Academies is accomplishing its mission to develop champions in the sport of golf.