Golf Gurus

Off site, CES sets up sports medicine tents at golf outings, providing care for injuries and showing players how to overcome golfers’ injuries such as back pain long enough to get through a tournament. Recently, CES Fitness teamed up with Chris Foley Golf Schools in Brainerd to offer a summer program, the Performance Golf School, which combines CES’s fitness assessments with Foley’s swing analysis and training.

Bird Golf School, Nisswa
(birdgolf.com)

The Game: Golf programs for every facet of business life.

The Pros: When I asked Director of Instruction Jay Ewing if Bird Golf ever used celebrity instructors, he said “All of our instructors are stars.” Bird Golf instructors across the country are trained in the precepts of golf psychologist Carey Mumford, author of Golf’s Best Kept Secret and the innovator of the concept of “playing the game within yourself.”

The Dance Floor: The four courses at Grand View Lodge on Gull Lake in Nisswa. The Preserve, Garden, Pines, and Deacon’s Lodge courses provide a range of terrains, from garden-like settings to forested hills. In addition to cabin accommodations, the resort offers clubhouse suites, golf villas, and fairway townhomes. Bird Golf Schools also operates schools in posh golf resorts in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Tennessee.

Bird Golf Schools offer several corporate services, including skills challenges, tournaments, a presentation by Mumford of his “Think Like a Pro” and “Clear Key” seminars and group clinics, any of which can be enhanced with meeting spaces, food service, and accommodations.