Growing up in Alexandria, Virginia, I started playing golf at age nine and really started dedicating myself to the game about a year later. I was hooked on golf in my mid-teens, played four years of high school golf and turned pro at 18 years old. At Don Law Golf Academy, I’m coaching and mentoring kids who have the same dreams that I had way back when.
Our High Performance Academy is a comprehensive program geared towards tournament-playing juniors ages 8-18 who see golf as a serious part of their future. They want to take their game to the next level, and we do so through this holistic program - skill development, competition and physical and mental fitness. With the success our students have had in this program, we’re welcoming new clients from all over the United States and internationally.
With a stellar and accomplished team of PGA of America Golf Professionals on hand to mentor the students of the Don Law Golf Academy with modern player development concepts, golf fitness is a prominent facet of our programming. As such, we have partnered with a local gym and bus our High Performance Academy students there twice per week to work on their stretching and warmup routines. Back at our academy, we place a focus on speed training and ground force techniques to help students get faster and stronger.
We initially had to fend off many questions from parents who were “curious” about the merits of this aspect of our training. But with education (of the parents as much as the students), everyone now understands the importance of fitness, speed, power, endurance, agility, mobility, stability and so much more on the golf swing and to our young golfers.
As PGA Professional coaches and mentors, we discuss the importance of nutrition and a solid mental game to their long-term development and ultimate performance to truly provide a well-rounded approach to helping them achieve their goals in golf.
We also implement some remedial fitness concepts into our general youth programming and summer camps, but focus the more intense and thorough fitness programming on our high-level juniors.
Bill Scott, a seven-time South Florida PGA Section Special Awards Winner, including the 2018 Section Teacher of the Year, is a Quarter Century PGA Member, a GRAA Elite Growth of the Game Teaching Professional and a Senior Lead Instructor at Don Law Golf Academy at Osprey Pointe in Boca Raton, Florida.