Set on one of the most historic university campuses in the world, our Notre Dame Boys and Advanced Golf Camps provide a fun filled week of golf and summer activities. Instructed by the Fighting Irish coaching staff, with assistance from PGA professionals, our camps are designed to foster both golf improvement and lasting relationships. While the Boys Golf Camp includes daily individual and group instruction sessions, competition and various fun activities similar to the Advanced Golf Camp, the Advanced Camp offers more individualized instruction and a higher level of competition.

Golf and Flexibility

Championship Fitness by Kelly Shobe

Golf is a highly dynamic sport that requires stability, balance, flexibility and coordination in addition to body awareness so using explosive and reactive power will generate the golf swing that a player desires! In the explosive power movements, you create a single movement in one direction but reactive power combines two or more muscle movements or create power.

If the goal is to create more acceleration with the club head, then increased flexibility would logically produce more power.

As you work on your technique it is important to be able to measure your progress so that practice doesn’t become complacent and you always are working on improving your results relative to a physical target.

One of the training stations at the Mike Bender Elite Golf Academy is our Wedge Range. Mike Bender designed this wedge range at the beginning of 2007 and it already has been copied by more than 100 other facilities around the world.

Over 11,000 Junior Golfers Ranked!

Most Junior Golfers ever Ranked on the Junior Golf Scoreboard

Who says there are less golfers in the upcoming Generation X or Y? As of June 1st, 2013, we have exceeded ranking 11,000 junior golfers for the first time in our existence. We are proud to be an inclusive ranking system where every junior golfer who tees it up and plays in a 36 hole tournament has the opportunity to be ranked in our system.

We would like to thank every junior golfer, junior golfer parent, golf tour, junior golf association, USGA, PGA, and all the independent tournament directors who support junior golf.

Samantha Griffith of Ooltewah, TN won the 2013 Tennessee Junior PGA Championship presented by Under Armour and Hotel Fitness Tuesday, June, 4th at Brentwood Country Club in Brentwood, TN.

By winning the girls’ division, Griffith qualified for the 38th Junior PGA Championship presented by Under Armour and Hotel Fitness, July 30-Aug. 2, 2013, at Trump National Golf Club – Washington D.C. in Potomac Falls, Va.

Do you take practice rounds prior to a tournament seriously? After completing a practice round, do you have a game plan for the tournament? Are you keeping score in a practice round and then setting a score expectation for the tournament? Ask yourself these questions as summer approaches and you ready yourself for the tournament circuit. Many of you will be playing in multi-day tournaments or high-level one-day qualifiers like the US Junior qualifier this summer. Playing a practice round for these types of events will allow you to create an effective game plan for the tournament.