IMG Leadbetter Golfer, Zi Jun “Lucia” Yin, traveled just north of Jacksonville this past weekend to compete in the HJGT Amelia Island Junior Open.
Zi Jun “Lucia”, of China, won the Girls 10-14 Division for the second time in as many starts and now has taken the lead in the HJGT Player of the Year [...]
George Gandranata moved over to the U.S on his own at age 15 to attend the David Leadbetter Golf Academy at IMG Academies. When he arrived he was new to the game -having only started to hit balls for the first time at the age of 13. He came to the academy knowing little English [...]
James Leadbetter went wire-to-wire to win the FCWT Saddlebrook Open (13-15 age group) this past weekend. James opened with a first round 69 on Saturday and followed it with a 1-over par 73 on Sunday. His two day 142 total put him 5 shots ahead of his nearest competitor, Emilio Mauer of Mexico. This is James’s [...]
As an academy many of our top student athletes have fortunately gone on to play for the University of Florida. Florida is a highly ranked golf team both on the men’s (currently ranked 5th in the country by Golfstat) and women’s (currently ranked 17th )side.
Some of our former graduates that went on to compete and play for UF [...]
Katerina Prorokova
Roznov pod Radhostem, Czech Republic
Grad year 2010
2 years at IMG Leadbetter Golf Academy
“Katerina is a very serious and dedicated person. She has a good plan and this has allowed her to achieve her process goals. She is a model student and is very coachable. She believes in the holistic approach: as she incorporates her [...]
IMG Leadbetter Alum, Cyna Rodriquez, recently won the Philippine Ladies Amateur Open in commanding fashion.
She shot a 6-under par 201 and won the 54-hole Amateur event by 7 shots.
Cyna spent two years at the academy and is now a freshman at the University of Southern California!
Check out this nice article about Cyna and her great [...]
Leonardo Kitahara
Rio de Janerio, Brazil
Graduation 2013
Leonardo is in his first semester at the academy. Not only is Leonardo a great golfer, he is a very caring and helpful person as well as a dedicated and passionate golfer. We are happy to have him here at IMG! While at IMG, he is being coached by Senior [...]
Golfweek has named FOUR of our students the “Player of the Week” 4 times in the last 5 weeks!
This week the boys at IMG take a turn with the honor with James Yoon being named the Player of the Week for March 1-7, 2010. James, originally from Paraguay, shot 1-over 145 (68-77) at the Plantation [...]
The IMG Leadbetter Golf Academy traveled a couple hours north this weekend to Crystal River to play in the FCWT Plantation Inn Open! The weather, once again this weekend, proved to be challenging with the chilly temperatures and strong winds.
IMG Golfer, James Yoon, of Paraguay, won the 36-hole event on Sunday. Now playing in [...]
We thought it would be fun to have a video Flashback Friday this week. Check out how Ginger and Robbi have grown!
Ginger and Robbi Howard are now in their 5th year as Full Timers at IMG Leadbetter Golf Academy.
Ginger is a 2012 Grad and is now ranked 36th by Golfweek!
Robbi is a 2013 Grad and [...]