Family Golf and Learning Center creates an encouraging and positive learning experience for all golfers. Regardless of experience or age, we have every resource necessary to help you reach your golfing goals through programs, clinics, camps, and leagues. We make St. Louis play better.
Our nine professional golf instructors assist individuals, from beginners to experienced players. We love hosting our couples series, ladies' leagues, and, most of all - our parent/child scrambles. Let us help you improve your game.
Improve Your Wedge Game
In a round of golf, a player will hit a shot within 100 yards 70% of the time. Improving your wedge game can be your ticket to lower scores. Consistently hitting your wedges is the most important factor in hitting your yardage. Your setup and impact position factor in promoting good, solid contact. Start by placing the ball in the middle or slightly back in your stance with your grip or hands slightly ahead of the club head. Your club and upper body turn off the ball together or as one. I like my students to feel close enough to the ball with a sufficient bend from their waist so that their biceps and underarms feel close to one another and their arms hang softly below their shoulders. This encourages the connection of the upper body, club, and arms. As we turn off the ball, the wrists hinge to create a right angle, and your lead arm first reaches parallel to the ground. As we return to the ball in our downswing, we promote the pressure in your feet transferring to your forward leg as your upper body's rotation leads the club through impact. We need to ensure the handle or grip end of the wedge remains ahead of or forward of the clubhead to impact. The rotation of your body promotes this. The most common mistake we see with wedge play is the player trying to scoop or throw the clubhead with their hands and wrists. Avoid that by keeping your wrist angles constant, moving down into impact while feeling a good transfer of pressure in your lower body, and good rotation with your upper body to your finish. Done correctly, you will see more consistent contact, and your body will be rotated to face the target while you watch your ball finish near the hole.
My favorite Short Game tips:
1. Always land the ball on the green if you can. You can better predict the ball's reaction on a green than the fairway or rough.
2. Play the low shot around the greens and the high shot only when you have to.
3. Keep your hands consistently soft throughout the entire shot.
4. Don't ever let your arms outrace your body's rotation.
5. Always pick the spot you want to land the ball and take practice swings to gauge the length of swing you'll need to produce that distance.
Test your skills at our Virtual Practice Center. Available only on Trackman Simulators, this practice center creates the ultimate practice session. Create and practice any type of shot that you can imagine!
Junior Golf at FGLC
We've created a developmental, skill-based approach that includes instruction, practice guidance, and on-course game improvement. Our newly implemented approach in Operations 36 allows our juniors to play and learn on the golf course, starting from a short distance. To advance through the program, each junior must shoot 36 on nine holes, making each hole a par 4 starting at 25 yards. We graduate them to a longer distance (50yds, 75yds, White, and Blue) once they shoot 36 from the previous distance. We do this through sanctioned play days, but it can also be done outside class. This teaches juniors the skills necessary to get the ball in the hole from a short distance, and this will undoubtedly serve them well as they get older, build skills, and begin playing longer distanced golf courses. Operations 36 involves the student and parents developing their junior's game. It is an app-based program that allows the junior golfer and the parents to see, in real-time, the skills the junior has learned, how well they are progressing, and the level they are currently at in the program. The app provides practice drills and videos to help students improve outside our clinics, camps, and play days. We absolutely love providing families with the opportunity to develop their juniors into the best golfers they can be through our developmental approach and our new Operations 36 Program. We welcome you to explore Junior Golf at FGLC and register online.
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Junior Golf Roadmap
Our Junior Golf Clinics have a new curriculum this year with the introduction of Operation 36 Golf. Ops 36 will help to improve our Junior Golf Clinics with clear and concise goals for golfers at every stage, helping teachers and parents track each student’s progress. Our goal at Family Golf is to have a developmental model that moves your junior through our clinics based on their improvement. We offer Birdie Bandits, Fundamentals, and Learn to Play along with the new 8-week, hour-long classes and play days on the golf course!
Birdie Bandits
3- 6 Years Old
Beginning Golfer
Fundamentals
6 - 8 Years Old
Beginning Golfers
Learn To Play
9 - 12 Years Old
Intermediate Golfers
OPS 36
8 Years Old and Up
Intro to Golf Course and Individual Play
PGA Junior League
6 - 13 Years Old
14 - 17 Years Old
More Competitive, Team League Format
Competitive Junior Program
Advanced Junior Golfers
We love providing families the opportunity to develop their juniors into the best golfers they can be through our developmental approach and Operations 36 Program.