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The PGA WEST® Pete Dye Stadium Course is open for play after a phenomenal restoration.

Thanks to the power of technology at your fingertips, there are several golf apps available that offer a variety of features to support your game. From swing analysis to course navigation, scorekeeping, and everything in between, apps can be a valuable supplement to in-person instruction. Here we highlight three apps our expert PGA WEST® Golf Academy instructors swear by:

The outstanding instructors at PGA WEST® Golf Academy have been recognized on Golf Digest's "Best Teachers in Every State" list, further exemplifying why the Golf Academy is one of the top golf teaching facilities in the nation. The six PGA WEST® Golf Academy teaching professionals who have achieved a coveted spot for California on the list are

The Top 100 Experience Golf School made its debut at the PGA WEST® Golf Academy this past May 6-7. A diverse group of nine men and women golfers took full advantage of the unique opportunity to level up their games with three of the nation's top golf coaches:

The PGA WEST® Golf Academy in La Quinta, California is offering golfers an incredible opportunity to receive instruction from the best of the best during a Top 100 Experience Golf School to be held at the Golf Academy May 6-7, 2023.

If you're asking yourself why PGA and LPGA touring professionals Adam Scott, Justin Rose, Stacy Lewis, Lydia Ko and others hold out a finger (or two or three) on the green before putting, they're applying AimPoint, a putting technique where golfers read the slope of the green to determine the correct aim for their putts. AimPoint involves using a combination of visual and tactile cues – first using your feet to measure the amount of slope in the green, next using your fingers to signal the direction and degree of break in the putt, and then putting with precision at the ideal speed.

Have you shied away from trying golf because you've heard the game is hard to learn and difficult to play? The PGA WEST® Golf Academy is now busting those myths thanks to Operation 36, a golf development and coaching program designed to help beginners, and players at all levels, learn and improve their golf game. PGA WEST® Golf Academy Director of Instruction Bryan Lebedevitch introduced the program to PGA WEST, one of the few clubs in the Coachella Valley to offer it.