Golfer Gabriel Ormachea won the 2012 IMG Leadbetter Match play event, held May 4-7, after defeating Rodrigo Muñoz in the final round of the tournament. The IMG Leadbetter Match Play tournament pits opposing golfers against each other in a bracket style set-up. Similar to the PGA Tour, IMG golf program students compete in year-round tournaments and [...]
Gabriel Ormachea wins 2012 IMG Leadbetter Match Play tournament
No Comments
Posted: Monday, May 14th, 2012
IMG golf student Daniel Jaramillo advances to sectional U.S. Open qualifying
No Comments
Posted: Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
IMG Academies golf student Daniel Jaramillo has advanced to sectional U.S. Open qualifying. Now 15-years old, Jaramillo has been with IMG for the past four years and works with golf coach Jay Denton. Jaramillo finished local qualifying round on May 7 at the Cypress Run Golf Club in Tarpon Springs, Fla., T-3rd (71) Jaramillo is competing to earn [...]
Read More
Rick Lamb, who trained at the IMG Leadbetter Golf Academy with Coach Jay Denton from 2006-2009 is now in his junior year at the University of Tennessee. Check out this video of him in the University of Tennessee ”On the T” series: Share with a friend:
Read More
IMG Academies alum, Paula Creamer, discusses her 2012 season
No Comments
Posted: Monday, April 30th, 2012
Paula Creamer’s immensely hectic life has been even crazier this year. Between implementing swing changes and dealing with the loss of a beloved family member, the nine-time LPGA Tour winner has had her hands full and mind occupied in more ways than one. Creamer is still in the process of implementing swing changes that began [...]
Read More
IMG Academies East/West Team Challenge a ‘hole-in-one’
No Comments
Posted: Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
The Ritz Carlton Golf Club in Sarasota played host this past week to the inaugural IMG Academies East/West Team Challenge. The event saw the top golfers at the IMG Leadbetter Golf Academy competing against each other in Greensomes and singles match-play format. Players were chosen based on their College Format Series stroke average and were [...]
Read More
IMG Leadbetter golfers Howard and Granada featured on LPGA.com
No Comments
Posted: Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
In an effort to increase the recognition of the tour and its faces, the LPGA is featuring a weekly, in-depth look into the life of some its players, both on and off the course. Last week the LPGA Symetra Tour website, as well as LPGA.com, both featured players from IMG Leadbetter Golf Academy. Full-time student [...]
Read More
IMG Leadbetter Academy Senior James Yoon took on Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club this past weekend. He emerged victorious from the TaylorMade-adidas Golf Junior at Innisbrook hosted by Sean O’Hair for his first AJGA victory of the year. Fellow IMG Leadbetter Academy student Hai Yuan “Steven” Lu finished T4 after rounds of 77-69-72-=218(+5). Yoon found [...]
Read More
Fernandes continues strong play, takes Player of the Week honors
No Comments
Posted: Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
IMG Leadbetter Golf Academy alum Rigel Fernandes took home his second title of the Future Collegians World Tour season this past weekend. Fernandes won the tournament at Feather Sound by three strokes shooting 70-75=145(+1). He also won his previous event on the FCWT at the Saddlebrook Resort on March 4th. After his performance at Feather Sound [...]
Read More
Golf Channel’s reality TV series Big Break is back for another season. The all-female cast was revealed recently and it was announced that IMG Leadbetter Golf Academy alum Gloriana Soto will be in the field. Soto was a full-time academy student for two years before playing collegiate golf for Texas Tech. She turned pro in 2010 [...]
Read More
IMG Leadbetter Golf academy alum Casey Wittenberg secured the first Nationwide Tour title of his career this past weekend at the Louisiana Open. Wittenberg played the final 48 hols of the tournament without a bogey on his way to a decisive eight-stroke victory. He shot scores of 66, 66, 63, and 65 to set a [...]
