Here is a tip from IMG Golf Academy’s’ Gary Parrett, Senior Certified Instructor:
Golfers who hit a weak slice have two basic problems:
They cut across the ball with an out-to-in swing path.
They have an open clubface at impact.
Knowing this, you can eliminate one of these problems — the open face– from the start, simply by turning [...]
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 [...]
IMG Leadbetter Golf Academy student Victoria Tanco was featured in this week’s edition of Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd.” The column is a weekly entry that features the nation’s top high school athletes who excel in their respective sports. Also mentioned was fellow IMG Academies student Laetitia Beck. Visit SI.com to see the full [...]
The IMG Leadbetter golfers headed an hour north this past weekend to compete in the HJGT JWU Series at Lake Jovita. Sammi Stevens and Rigel Fernandes continued their winning ways, while Zi Jun “Lucia” Yin won for the first time on the Hurricane Tour.
In the older girls division Leadbeter golfers, Sammi Stevens of Hereford, Texas [...]
Congratulations to Laetitia Beck of Israel for winning the 2010 Verizon Junior Heritage. Laetitia, who is now in her fourth year at IMG, won the girl’s title by two strokes with a four-over-par 147.
Starting the day on Sunday, Laetitia shared the girl’s division lead with defending champion and currently ranked #1 golfer in the country- [...]
First year IMG Leadbetter Golfer, Ai Miyazawa, of Japan, has been named the Golfweek Player of the Week (February 1st-7th). Ai shot a 9-over 153 (77-76) at Black Diamond Ranch’s Ranch and Quarry Courses in Lecanto, Fla. this past weekend, and won the FCWT’s Black Diamond Ranch Challenge in a playoff.
Ai, 17 years old and [...]
Ashlan and Taylor Ramsey are new Full-Time students this semester at IMG, but not new to the world of Junior golf here in the United States.
Ashlan, 14 years-old, won the 2009 AJGA Chateau Elan Junior All-Star. Taylor, just a year older, finished 2nd. They are currently both ranked in the POLO rankings in the top [...]
Second year IMG golfer, Jack Cen was featured in the Bradenton Herald on Tuesday. Jack, from Guangzhou China, is just twelve years old and has won 4 times this year.
Jack who is a 2015 graduate speaks three languages fluently and enjoys tennis, football, badminton and table tennis in his spare time.
Jack works with Senior Instructor [...]
Rachel Connor, from the UK, continues her training in the Post Graduate program at the IMG Leadbetter Golf Academy in Bradenton, FL.
Bradenton will remain her home base and we are glad to have her as part of the academy!
Check out her latest thoughts in her most recent blog here.
Liebelei Lawrence, from Luxembourg, first visited the Leadbetter Golf Academy at IMG during the summer of 2001. She made a return trip in 2002 and it was during that visit she returned home to tell her parents she wanted to be here full time. She was a full timer the 2002-2003 school year as well [...]
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