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Tee Time on the Gulf: Learn From the Pros of the Original Golf School

Program No. 21807RJ

Learn from professionals through custom-tailored golf lessons and daily instruction as you improve your swing, situational play and on-course etiquette with the Original Golf School.

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6 days

5 nights

14 meals

5B 4L 5D

Check-in, Registration, Welcome Dinner, Orientation

Crystal River, Florida

Expert Instruction, Course Play, Pro Talk: Golf Etiquette

Crystal River, Florida

Expert Instruction, Course Play, Pro Talk: Course Management

Crystal River, Florida

Expert Instruction, Course Play

Crystal River, Florida

On Course Play, Scramble With Pro, Awards Ceremony

Crystal River, Florida

Program Concludes

Crystal River, Florida

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At a Glance

When the Green Mountains of Vermont are covered in snow, the teaching pros from the Original Golf School set up shop on Florida’s beautiful Gulf of Mexico. If you want to improve your game, then pack your clubs and come on down. Receive daily on-course instruction in small groups led by experienced Original Golf School pros, and enjoy outstanding resort accommodations on the wildlife-rich waters of Kings Bay. Don’t miss your chance to learn from the best this winter.

Activity Level

Outdoor: No Sweat

Golf instruction 4-5 hours each day; Both left and right hand rental clubs are available at an additional cost. Requires standing, walking, swinging of clubs outside on practice facilities and on the course.

Small Group

Love to learn and explore in a small-group setting? These adventures offer small, personal experiences with groups of 13 to 24 participants.

Best of all, you’ll…

Get pointers on the short and long game, bunker play, putting and course management, all with a student-instructor ratio of no more than six to one.
Take home a golf pro’s analysis of your swing, recorded using JC Video Systems' motion-analysis technology, and stay in email contact with your pro instructor throughout the season.
Learn principles of on-course etiquette, course management and USGA rules of the game in classes off the links.

General Notes

Due to the nature of this program, listening devices are not available.

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Jay Morelli

Jay Morelli is the owner of The Original Golf School at Mount Snow, Vermont and The Plantation Golf Resort and Spa in Crystal River, Florida. He has served as the director for The Original Golf School since 1978, and until 2005 was also the director of golf at Mount Snow Golf Club. Jay was the winner of the Northeast New York State PGA Championship, a three-time U.S. Open local qualifying medalist and a two-time Vermont PGA Pro-Pro Champion. He has also won numerous awards for his work as a golf instructor, including the Bill Strausbaugh Award, the New England PGA Teacher of the Year award, and is a four-time recipient of Golf Digest’s “Best Teacher in State” award.

Please note: This expert may not be available for every date of this program.

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Tee Time on the Gulf: Learn From the Pros of the Original Golf School

Program Number: 21807

365 Golf Tips & Tricks from Pros

by Jay Morelli

A golf tip a day helps keep the bogeys away! This handy, illustrated guide contains the very best advice from more than 60 PGA teaching pros, compiled by a PGA Teacher of the Year. Designed to improve the long game, chip and pitch shots, sand play, putting, physical conditioning, and more, these hints are what you'd learn if you paid thousands of dollars at a golf school, country club, or university. Color photos by a Sports Illustrated photographer clearly illustrate each skill! It's a must-have for every golf enthusiast.

Beginning Golf

by Jay Morelli and Bruce Curtis

"...this cogent, amply illustrated volume will certainly help novice golfers get started, and it provides a wealth of information for kids who have played a few rounds....begins with an overview; equipment, swing, full play, and short game. For those...ready to go a little further, there is information on course management, and tournament play, and...visualization....the chapter on golf etiquette is most welcome. The authors conclude their treatment with information on training devices and physical conditioning. Most of the color photographs illustrate technique, but there are some atmospheric shots, too, and the pictures feature a wide range of players...new golfers will find plenty to digest right here."--Booklist. "Any young person interested in learning to play golf will find this book informative and helpful....skills, equipment, courtesies, and competitions are clearly described and depicted. Attractive full-color photographs on every double-page spread clarify the text and show individuals...playing the game or exhibiting specific skills....strokes are shown in picture sequencing. The glossary provides additional information...An easy-to-read and informative how-to book."--School Library Journal.

Short Game Secrets of the Pros

by Jay Morelli

Lower your score with insider lessons from the very best teachers in the golf world Take strokes off your game and develop your own winning style of finesse and technique with Short Game Secrets of the Pros. Celebrated instructor Jay Morelli has interviewed dozens of tour professionals and teachers to give you on-the-green instruction. You'll learn how to: Sink putts using the penny-pitching approach of Winged Foot head professional Tom Nieporte Goose your bunker shots with PGA Hall of Famer Ken Morton Sr.'s “fried egg theory” Improve your stroke by playing “beat the clock” with PGA Hall of Famer Jim Brotherton Chip and pitch with pendulum power from Doug Dalziel of golf's legendary Carnoustie Club Use the lettering to align the ball like Tiger Woods with Joe Rehor, director of golf at Bethpage

Age is Not a Handicap: A Complete Guide to Playing Great Golf for Seniors

by Jay Morelli

From one of Golf magazine's top 50 teachers of the year, fundamental instruction for senior golfers of all skill levels Golf can be enjoyed forever, as evidenced by the millions of seniors playing today. In Age Is Not a Handicap, instructor Jay Morelli provides a thorough improvement plan for players over 50. With helpful step-by-step photographs and practice drills, Morelli offers solid instruction on: Game fundamentals Choosing and using the right equipment Getting good nutrition Mastering the mental game Exercising and stretching to stay in playing shape By following this comprehensive program, seniors will discover that their best golf is still ahead of them.

The Original Golf School Way

by Jay Morelli

How to improve your game with "The Accelerated Teaching Method."

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