Which Myrtle Beach Golf Pros Are the Best Teachers?
For better or worse, I'm essentially a self-taught golfer - duffer, really, who occasionally breaks 90 with the help of an old Ken Venturi VHS series that's otherwise collecting dust in my storage closet.
I keep telling myself: "This is the year I finally take some lessons, get some one-on-one instruction from a golf pro." After all, my window of preparation for the Champions Tour is rapidly closing.
Never mind that I've been loosely clinging to that last pipe dream for the past decade, and telling myself I'm going to get some help for just as long. The hypothetical question remains: once I do get off my keister, where in Myrtle Beach do I turn?
Now if my talents really did lend themselves to competing as a pro, the first place I'd look would be Champions Golf Academy at Long Bay Club. Director of Instruction Hugh Royer III, a former PGA TOUR player, has launched a program and is building a facility at Long Bay Club specifically geared to helping budding professionals raise their games to the next level.
Then there's the rest of us - recreational golfers who love the game, get out as much as we can, and just want to improve so we can beat our buddies like a drum and spend all of eternity never letting them hear the end of it. Where do we go?
For that information, I turned to Christa Bodensteiner, head pro at River Club and Litchfield Country Club who's highly regarded in her own right for her teaching skills - helping her students build on their core strengths; reducing the game's intimidating factors; and keeping the game as simple, comfortable and enjoyable as possible.
Who and where does she suggest? She starts us off with several, and without hesitation:
- Cyndi Evans Graham, The Dunes Golf and Beach Club - Just honored by the Carolinas PGA as Assistant Golf Professional of the Year. "She has developed an outstanding reputation - not only as a great teacher for women, but all golfers. Cyndi's highly sought after."
- Mike Schroder, Links Illustrated - The 1996 Carolinas PGA Teacher of the Year. "He's done some great work with juniors and college kids."
- Steve Dresser, Steve Dresser Golf Academy - Operating out of True Blue Plantation, "Steve's golf school has drawn lots of golfers to the South Strand who rave about his program."
- Brad Redding, Grande Dunes Golf Academy - "Just honored as one of the top 100 teachers in the country (by Golf Magazine)."
OK, your turn. Which Grand Strand golf pro has helped your game the most?
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