One-time non-refundable Annual Junior Registration Fee of $100 includes:
- Access into all 2010 Hanging Rock Junior Programs
- Adidas ClimaCool Chip's TOUR Academy logo collared shirt
- Chip’s TOUR Academy logo cap
- Complete evaluation of your junior’s progress
- 3 complementary "bring a friend" passes (only one time per friend)
- Pictures and other prizes
- USGA Rules of Golf booklet
- Junior membership for club matches (including Club Championship)
- Use of range balls and all equipment during instruction
- Half price range balls all year
- Complimentary USGA handicap
- Complimentary rules/etiquette classes offered each month
- Discount Summer Jr. Play Card for only $100. Includes free green fees weekdays after 2:00PM & Wed/Fri AM before Summer Sessions
- Discount Annual Jr. Play Card for only $300 (savings of $200 off our normal rate)
In addition to joining Chip's TOUR Academy, junior sessions will be offered 2 days per week on Wednesdays and Fridays starting March 17th. (See schedule below).
Juniors can attend Wednesdays, Fridays or both. Attendance at consecutive sessions is not required. You have the flexibility to pick and choose. The more sessions that your junior attends, the faster they will progress.
Beginners to advance juniors from ages 7-17 are encouraged to sign up! Groups will be divided by ability. Call the Golf Shop to sign up at (540) 389-7275.
SCHEDULE:
Summer
June 16 – August 13
Wednesdays and Fridays 9:00AM – 10:30AM
Fall
September 15 – October 15
Wednesdays and Fridays 4:30PM – 6:00PM
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Session Pricing:
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Pay as you go (per session):
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$25
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5 Sessions:
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$100
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10 Sessions:
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$175
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*Session prices are additional to the Annual Registration Fee.
INTRODUCING……
Chip’s TOUR Academy.......A junior program LIKE NO OTHER!
After attending the “run of the mill” annual Junior Golf Camp, many youth leave feeling bored or stagnant. I confess, I have taught those boring junior camps in the past. Typically, the instructor spends 3 hours a day talking to the kids; lecturing on how to swing a golf club and hitting ball after ball and doing drill after drill….the typical focus being centered on only the golf swing. However, the golf swing is built around many other basic athletic skills.
In Chip’s TOUR Academy we will be focused on fundamental movement skills, which are great for any sport. We will teach your kids what today's best players did when they were juniors. It's all about getting your junior ready not just for golf but also for athletics in general.
When I was growing up I played a variety of sports besides golf: tennis, football, basketball, track, baseball, soccer and swimming. My father always encouraged me to be a well-rounded athlete. To this day, I feel that having played a variety of sports and being a well balanced athlete have helped me achieve success as a professional golfer. When I played on the PGA TOUR, we were surveyed about how active we were in other sports as a junior. It was fascinating to find out that just about everybody on TOUR was competitive in other sports besides golf. (To that end, golf was not many TOUR players’ #1 sport in high school or even in college!)
I want to build athletic confidence and bring FUN back into junior golf! With the help of Roanoke College’s Strength and Conditioning Coach, Dave Sampson, I have incorporated a list of fun activities designed to enhance each junior’s fundamental movement skills. These skills include:
Locomotive Skills
• Running, Jumping, Dodging, Skipping, Hopping, Bounding and Sprinting
Stability Skills
• Agility, Balance, Coordination, Speed, Change of Direction, Disassociation
Object Control Skills
• Throw, Kick, Strike, Catch, Dribble, Dodge
Awareness
• Space Awareness, Kinesthetic Awareness, Body Awareness, Rules
The world’s leading authorities on athletic development say that a child who develops a better base of fundamental movement skills will develop golf-skills at a faster rate and will peak at a higher level of expertise.
Let us not forget that this is a dedicated “Golf Academy”. We will have many other engaging and hands on golf specific activities including the short game, course management, rules, etiquette and full swing. Oh, and by the way, we will definitely be playing A LOT of golf!
In closing, my mission is to teach young minds and bodies how to be the very best they can be in golf, in athletics, and in LIFE. My hope is that these young people will have an engaging and memorable experience, all while learning important life long skills. Based on a concept of educating that “Total Athlete”, I want your child to learn and come to love what I consider to be the epitome of sports enjoyment…GOLF…the sport of a lifetime.
Looking forward to making your young athlete a star of the future in the new Chip's TOUR Academy at Hanging Rock Golf Club,
Chip Sullivan, PGA
Director of Golf
Hanging Rock Golf Club
