A year-round home for getting better — tour-grade teaching, motion and launch labs, a putting studio, club fitting and building, golf fitness, and mental performance, all under one roof at the edge of the prairie.
Most resorts bolt a lesson tee onto the range and call it instruction. We built something closer to what the tours use: a dedicated performance facility with motion capture, force plates, launch monitors, a putting lab, a fitting workshop, and a fitness studio — staffed by PGA and LPGA professionals, a sport psychologist, and a fitness director who between them hold most of the certifications the field has invented.
It is, by some distance, the most advanced instruction facility ever built for a course you can see from end to end. We are aware of how that sounds. We built it anyway, because the shorter the golf, the finer the margins — and fine margins are exactly what this kind of measurement is for.
Six purpose-built spaces, climate-controlled and open year-round, each tuned to the way Strawgrass actually plays.
Heated indoor bays for winter and weather, a grass tee for fair days — every bay wired to a launch monitor calibrated for the sub-seventy-yard window the course actually lives in.
GEARS three-dimensional motion capture and force plates read body, club, and ground together, so a swing can be understood rather than guessed at.
SAM PuttLab and AimPoint on a roll-true surface matched to our greens — the only place you can rehearse a two-square-foot target indoors.
A dedicated wedge yard that mirrors the course’s lies, bunkers, and run-offs — Sonny Cresswell’s classroom, and the heart of the place.
A launch-monitor fitting bay beside a full building bench, where wedges, short irons, and putters are matched to you and assembled by hand.
A TPI-equipped strength and mobility studio where Renée Castellano screens the body and builds the engine behind the swing.
The same instruments the tours rely on — pointed, here, at the smallest golf in the game.
Radar launch and ball-flight data, calibrated for the wedge and short-iron distances that decide every Strawgrass round.
Full-body, full-club motion capture — the swing rendered in three dimensions, frame by frame.
Ground-reaction measurement that shows exactly how you load and deliver into a twenty-five-yard pitch.
Ultrasound putting analysis — face, path, and start line read to the tenth of a degree.
Camera-based launch for fitting and building, accurate down to the softest little flighted wedge.
The Titleist Performance Institute movement screen, mapping what your body will and won’t let your swing do.
A short course rewards two things above all: a flawless short game and a quiet mind. So we found the best we could at each.
A deliberately small staff, so your coach knows your game — and so does everyone they hand you to.
A former touring professional and Class-A PGA member, Meg Ridgeway built her teaching reputation coaching amateurs to their first sub-par rounds. She oversees the course, the caddie program, and the Performance Center, sets the curriculum every coach here teaches from, and still plays The Dam better than anyone on staff. She believes the center exists to make the game smaller: fewer variables, clearer plans, better misses.
Caroline Okafor is an LPGA Class A professional who came to teaching after a collegiate playing career and a decade running junior and women’s programs across the Midwest. She is known for an unhurried, fundamentals-first manner that puts new and returning golfers instantly at ease, and she leads our women’s clinics and beginner pathways. Her gift is making a first lesson feel like the start of something rather than an audit.
Trained in the Scandinavian coaching tradition and certified to the top tier on TrackMan and GEARS three-dimensional motion capture, Henrik Sjöberg is the center’s data conscience. He translates numbers into feel rather than the other way around, and runs the biomechanics lab where ground forces, club delivery, and body motion are measured to the degree. He is happiest when a tour-grade insight makes a weekend golfer’s swing simpler, not busier.
Yuki Tanaka leads the putting studio, pairing SAM PuttLab data and AimPoint green-reading with an artist’s eye for stroke and start line. She came to Strawgrass intrigued by a singular challenge — greens measured in square feet, where a misread is punished at once and a holed putt is never luck. She has quietly become the professional every low-handicapper books the week before a competition.
Renée Castellano holds nearly every credential the field offers — Titleist Performance Institute Level 3 in both the medical and fitness tracks, a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist through the NSCA, NASM personal training, and Functional Movement Screen Level 2 — and she uses them to answer one question: what is your body keeping your swing from doing? Her screens map the gap between the motion you want and the motion you can currently make; her programs close it. A swing change the body cannot hold, she will tell you, is just a good intention.
Walt Brubaker has built and bent clubs for forty years, the last several devoted to a puzzle most fitters never face: optimizing equipment for the sub-seventy-yard game this course actually demands. In his workshop he fits wedges, putters, and the short irons that do the real work here — matching loft, lie, bounce, and shaft to your delivery on the launch monitor, then building them by hand on the bench beside the fitting bay. He will tell you the truth about your gamer, gently.
A half-day immersion in the scoring zone with our Director of Short Game — pitching, chipping, bunkers, and the “Twelve Yards” distance method.
Focus, routine, and competitive nerves with Dr. Marcus Vane — the six inches between your ears, coached like any other part of the game.
A full movement screen and written plan — the body assessed, the limitations mapped, the program built to close the gap.
Welcoming group instruction and a clear beginner pathway, led by an LPGA Class A professional.
Fundamentals, short game, and on-course play in equal measure — serious instruction that still feels like a good afternoon.
One- and two-day immersions across every discipline — swing, short game, putting, fitting, fitness, and the mind — with a plan to take home.
Every form of instruction at Strawgrass lives here, at the Performance Center.
Tell us what you’re working on and who you’d like to see. The golf shop will confirm your coach and time, usually within a day.
Thank you — the golf shop will confirm your coach and time personally within a day. See you at the center.
