The Advanced Academy is designed to develop your game for the college level. The Academy operates throughout the year and works towards preparing the junior's for their high school season and beyond. The Advanced Academy offers the most unique and rewarding junior golf experience in North Carolina.

Since its inception, the program's goal has been to develop well-rounded junior golfers capable of realizing their full potential. The comprehensive training program covers the technical aspects of the game and strengthens the mental and physical aspects of every junior golfer's game. Based on our past experiences as professional, collegiate and junior golfers, Robert and I have worked to develop a program that offers the best opportunity to accelerate players games as they work to play collegiate golf.

Past participants have won five state championships & numerous junior golf titles while receiving collegiate golf scholarships.

A ten-week program involving two-hour weekly sessions directed by Junior Academy Director Chris Haarlow

Additionally, participants will work with Sport Physiologist Dr. Mark Tobin and Physical Trainer Wendel Lamason. Each junior receives a total game evaluation and plan of improvement. With weekly reports, the juniors can follow their improvement and stay focused on their progress.

The mental aspects of the game are covered by one of the southeast’s leading sport psychologists. Based on his seven keys to success, Dr. Tobin gears the golfers towards peak performance and goal setting to take their games to the next level.

After teaching and working with Physical Trainer Wendel Lamason, we have studied numerous swings and found several key areas that juniors need to focus their training. After evaluating these areas, each student receives an individualized training program to follow throughout Academy.

The program also includes two playing lessons that provide the instructors and juniors the chance to train the mental aspects learned through Dr. Tobin and develop stronger mental conditioning.

The Scoring Shots Program provides a six-week system to develop all shots needed to score better on the course. The juniors learn how to control wedge distances using Robert Linville's Precision Short Game System. The session runs in the late-Fall in preparation for the upcoming High Schools season.

More information coming soon!!

Session #18 - June 14 - 16 - Bryan Park
Session #19 - June 21 - 23 - Bryan Park

Short Game Camp #20 - August 2 - 4 - Bryan Park
Short Game Camp #21 - August 14 - 16 - Bryan Park

More information about this Summer Advanced Camps coming soon!!

Wendel Lamason, PT, MHS is a licensed physical therapist who specializes in golf fitness and training and has worked with Robert Linville’s Precision Golf School since its inception. Wendel is also a Certified Strength and Conditioning Instructor and, in 1998, developed one of the first formalized golf-specific fitness programs in the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina.

Since then, he has worked with several players ranging from the PGA Tour, Buy.com Tour and other mini-tours. In addition, Wendel has served as a consultant for major university and college teams and junior golf schools. His goal is to provide individualized fitness and training programs for the non-injured golfer and rehabilitation for the injured golfer. Preventing injuries and enhancing golf performance can be accomplished by addressing each golfer’s physical limitations, which may be preventing a more ideal swing. The result allows each golfer greater potential to achieve his goals through enhanced swing efficiency, consistency, power and control.

Wendel can be contacted through Robert Linville’s Precision Golf School or by calling Deep River Rehabilitation at (336) 625-3333 or via email at wlamason@drrehab.net.

Dr. Mark Tobin is a sport psychologist who works with professional athletes, elite amateurs, promising juniors and recreational athletes in a variety of different sports to help them achieve peak performance. Dr. Tobin has worked with athletes in professional or amateur football, baseball, basketball, golf, swimming, tennis, and equestrian to enable them to achieve excellence in their chosen sport.

Dr. Tobin is also a leadership consultant and executive coach with KRW International, a firm working with senior leaders of Fortune 500 companies throughout the world. He uses concepts of performance enhancement in sport psychology to help senior international executives develop leadership qualities to achieve peak performance in their lives and careers. Whether he is working with professional athletes, CEOs or promising juniors, Dr. Tobin’s approach is to provide clients with the mental skills necessary to develop a psychology of excellence and peak performance.

Although Dr. Tobin works with many different types of athletes, his background provides a unique understanding of the game of golf and the skills necessary to excel. He was formerly a PGA Assistant golf professional at Sea Pines Plantation in Hilton Head, SC and the Country Club of Sapphire Valley in the North Carolina Mountains. Mark authors a monthly column on the mental aspects of golf in the Metrolina Golf Magazine published in Charlotte, which can also be found at the Precision Golf Online Academy. He also appears periodically as a guest commentator on WFNZ’s sports radio program devoted to golf, On the Green.

Geoff Mangum's PuttingZone™ - The future of putting now takes an in-depth approach at the physical and mental side of putting. His knowledge of putting is unparalleled and has spent innumerable hours researching, reading, observing, experimenting, analyzing, and practicing putting.

He has learned the critical role the brain plays in all human targeting and movement, and concentrated study on the neuroscience of perception and motor control. Rigorously applying this science, along with the physics of golf and over 100 years of putting lore, he spends his time pushing the envelope on putting performance and developing and refining physical routines and procedures for optimizing targeting and stroke control in putting.

Some Credentials

12 years daily working out putting with well over 2 million thoughtful putts, reading everything there is to read about putting, and studying the neurophysiology of perceptual and movement processes strictly for the purposes of putting

55 articles in the past 2 years in print and electronic media

Putting expert for NBC Sports' Golf.com and many others, including Florida Golf Magazine, Carolina Fairways, Eurogolfnet.com

Top website in the world for putting instruction with 35,000+ visits monthly

Member of the World Scientific Congress on Golf, St Andrews, Scotland

Most extensive putting research in history, written up by the Human Kinetics Institute and used by the World Scientific Congress on Golf

Consultant in putting to top collegiate teams and coaches, including Robert Linville of Greensboro College, and Larry Penley of Clemson