Our talented and highly-qualified instructors will tailor each individual program to meet the needs of the student. Your instructor will analyze each part of your game, including full swing (with computer/video analysis), putting, chipping, pitching and bunker play. In addition, you may receive an on-course analysis on one of our award-winning golf courses. Golf Schools are offered year round and can be designed around your needs.
Please Note: no outside alcohol is allowed.
Join Our Team!
PGA Jr. League is the game-changing way to learn and play golf.
We're bringing friends and family together for fun team golf experiences with expert PGA coaching!
Practice starts April 6, 2024
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ryan McGinnis, PGA
315.361.7509
Ryan.McGinnis@turningstonecasino.net
PGA HOPE: Helping Our Patriots Everywhere
We introduce golf to Veterans to enhance physical, mental, social and emotional well-being. In partnership with the PGA of America, our program offers Veterans weekly instruction from the pros.
Instructor - Ryan McGinnis | Location - Golf Dome
To register, call Ryan McGinnis at 315.361.7509 or sign up online.
Veterans can select one class for the entire session.
If a class has no registrations, that class will not be offered for this session.
Enhance your golf outing with a PGA Professional.
A PGA Professional will set up with the latest equipment, Trackman on the driving range or course to provide one-on-one or group instruction for your guests to enhance your day!
Fore more information, call us at 315.361.7509.
The AimPoint EXPRESS Green Reading Clinic focuses on two of the most important aspects of putting: Speed control and reading the green.
What You Will Learn
- How to accurately identify slope
- How slope direction and grade affect break
- How your position on the slope influences break and speed
- How to identify your position on the slope
- How to determine precise break amounts based on position
- How to handle changing or multiple slopes
- How position relates to speed control
- Speed Control
- How to determine optimum approach shot strategies
Customize your own golf school. Call Marty Nowicki at 315.361.7509.
You can now choose Golf School dates to fit your schedule. Programs can be tailored to meet your needs. Call 315.361.7509 to make arrangements.
One Day Impact School
All One Day Impact begin at 9:00am and end at 12:00pm. It is requested that you arrive at 8:45am. Schools will meet in the Shenendoah Golf Shop (Limit 8).
You can also customize your own program, choose the date that best works for you (minimum of 3 students).
Cost: $275.00 per student (limit of 3)
AimPoint® Green Reading School
AimPoint® golf has pioneered a revolutionary green-reading method based on the highly accurate, Emmy Award winning AimPoint® Technology seen on the Golf Channel. After going through the AimPoint® Green Reading education, you will never again have to guess at how much a putts breaks. Any putt. Learn that putting is predictable and discover the most effective and reliable ways to determine the direction and precise amount of break for any putt, all based on gravity (only works on earth).
Super School
Throughout the Super School you will learn:
- How to accurately identify slope
- How slope direction and grade affect break
- How your position on the slope influences break and speed
- How to identify your position on the slope
- How to determine precise break amounts based on position
- How to handle changing or multiple slopes
- How position relates to speed control
- How to determine optimum approach shot strategies
Three Day Golf School
Three hours of instruction each day with emphasis on the mechanics of the full swing and short game along with course management and strategies. On-course sessions improve decision making and the ability to perform under playing conditions.
Day One
- 1½ hours of full swing instruction
- Ball flight correction
- 1½ hours of short game instruction
Day Two
- 1½ hours of full swing instruction - iron play
- 1½ hours of full swing mechanics and club fitting
Day Three
- 3 hours of full swing instruction (wood play) and greenside bunker play
Custom date options are available.
Cost: $900.00
Lesson, Lunch & Golf with a Pro at Turning Stone Resort Casino
Start your morning with two hours on the lesson tee with our professional as they analyze and work on your swing. Afterwards, have an in depth discussion about your lesson and golf over lunch. Finish off the day by playing 18 holes with our professional. Program includes: 3 to 1 instructor to student ratio, lunch and gift package.
Cost: $525.00
For more information, call 315.361.7509.
Break the mold, think out of the box, come and enjoy a day of fun filled team building activities to enhance relationships within your organization and build morale. All of this under one roof at the Sportsplex at Turning Stone. For only $30 per person per hour choose up to three twenty minute activities. With an 8:1 student to instructor ratio your coworkers will enjoy a day of fun. All guests receive an e-mail after the event with tips on how to improve and a video of their golf swing.
Team Building Options
- Callaway Simulator Activities
- Bunker Shot Closest to the Pin: Hit shots from our indoor bunker to a flag, see who can get the closest.
- Skee Ball: Similar to the game you will find at any Amusement Park hit 8 golf shots to numbered targets. The highest total score wins.
- Hanging Ropes: Hit golf balls through our rope target zones, accuracy is key here and points will be rewarded for difficulty.
- Trackman Club Head Speed: Test your driver speed on the latest technology from Trackman. Using Doppler Technology we can find the right clubs and ball for you.
- Trackman Yardage Distances: Hit 5 shots each, the team with the highest total yardage wins.
- Chip, Pitch & Putt: Just like the Punt, Pass and Kick contests when you were a kid. Points will be accumulated by hitting specified targets for point values.
- Target Contests: Choose at any of our 9 targets, points will be rewarded for shot difficulty.
- Putting Contest: Play 9 or 18 holes of golf on our indoor putting greens that are maintained to real green grass speed.
- Alternate Shot Putting Contest: 2 person teams will compete against each other in a 9 or 18 hole contest, each player will hit alternate putts until the ball is holed out, this can take some strategy for victory.
- Golf Instruction: Using the latest golf software such as Trackman, our PGA Instructors will teach you the fundamentals of the golf swing.
PGA - Head Teaching Professional
Contact: golf@turningstone.com
Eric Lorenzetti is the Golf Academy Head Teaching Professional and Merchandise Manager at Turning Stone Resort Casino. Eric’s main responsibilities are managing all aspects of the Golf Instruction and Golf Merchandise offerings at the Resort. This includes providing Golf Instruction and Club Fitting, as well as focusing on the creation and administration of new player development programming including the First Tee Program, PGA Junior League, PGA Hope, Get Golf Ready, and Central Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired.
His teaching philosophy is to make the process fun, simple, and painless for everyone to enjoy the game. In the Fall of 2016, Eric won the Central New York Section PGA Player Development Award, which is designed to recognize a PGA Professional for extraordinary and exemplary contributions and achievements in the area of player development. This award considers the PGA Professional's growth of the game leadership commitment at the Section and National levels and impact made at the facility.
In addition, he is the PGA Jr. League Head Coach/Instructor as well as a 2017 U.S Kids Golf Certified Instructor.
Prior to being named the Golf Academy Head Teaching Professional, Eric started with Turning Stone Resort Casino as the Head Golf Professional in 2013. He is a native of nearby Seneca Falls, where he began playing golf more than 30 years ago. Prior to his arrival to Turning Stone in 2013, he spent 13 years at Geneva National Resort in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where he worked his last 11 years as the Head Professional at the Resort's Members' Club.
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PGA - Teaching Professional
Contact: golf@turningstone.com
A PGA member since 1996, Marty has been teaching at Turning Stone Resort Casino since December 2007. Nowicki is a four time recipient of the Central New York Section PGA Teacher of the Year award. In addition, he has been Nationally ranked by Golf Magazine and by Golf Digest.
Marty is a Syracuse native who began his golf career at the Onondaga Golf and Country Club in Syracuse. His career led him to several other golf operations, including The Doral Golf Resort in Miami, Royal Poinciana GC in Naples, Fl, Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey and Chelsea Piers Golf Academy in Manhattan.
Marty is a certified Aimpoint Green Reading instructor. Pioneered by Mark Sweeney, Aimpoint green-reading method based on the highly accurate, Emmy Award winning AimPoint Technology seen on the Golf Channel. After going through the AimPoint Green Reading education, you will never again have to guess at how much a putts breaks. Any putt. Learn that putting is predictable and discover the most effective and reliable ways to determine the direction and precise amount of break for any putt, all based on gravity (only works on earth).
Along the way Marty has spent time working for and with Jim McLean, Jim Hardy and Mike LaBauve. Marty has hosted Mike Bennett, Andy Plummer and Marius Filmalter at Turning Stone.
Nowicki is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University, where he was 2 time captain of the golf team.
PGA - Golf Club Fitting Professional
Contact: golf@turningstone.com
Alan has been a PGA member since 1996, becoming a PGA Certified Professional in Golf Operations in 2009. He has called Central New York home his whole life, having grown up in the Binghamton area and worked most of his career in Syracuse. Alan has worked in the private, public and retail categories of the golf industry. He joined Turning Stone Resort Casino this year and looks forward to the challenge of providing a great experience to the guests of the resort.
Alan played on his high school and college golf teams and greatly enjoys the thrill of competition. He has qualified for regional and national events within the PGA of America and has won the CNYPGA Assistants Championship, Head Professional Championship and the Emmitt Kelly Masters. During his career Alan has won the CNYPGA Assistants Championship, Head Professional Championship and the Emmitt Kelly Masters. He has been a member of the CNYPGA Mitchell Cup Team fifteen times. He has twice been voted Assistant Golf Professional of the Year by his peers in Central New York.
PGA - Teaching Professional
Contact: golf@turningstone.com
Ryan McGinnis is a Teaching Professional at Turning Stone Resort Casino. After becoming a PGA member in 2019, he furthered his education by becoming specialized in Teach & Coaching in 2020.
Awards:
2018 Assistant Golf Professional of the Year CNY PGA
2020 Player Development Award CNY PGA
2022 Patriot Award CNY PGA
Ryan provides golf instruction and club fitting opportunities to our guests. It is his goal to build you a golf swing around your physical and natural abilities.
Ryan also builds and creates player development programs at the resort such as PGA Junior League, PGA Hope, Get Golf Ready, Drive Chip and Putt Clinics and junior development clinics.
Ryan also enjoys the thrill of competing in local and national golf tournaments. He is a three time winner of the Assistants Section Championship.
PGA Associate Assistant Golf Professional
Contact: Chris.Schad@turningstone.com
Chris is an Assistant Golf Professional in charge of our group program during the golf season. His job entails running tournaments of all sizes and making sure golfers enjoy their time on our five wonderful courses. In the winter months, Chris provides fittings for guests looking for updated clubs for the next golf season.
A baseball player his whole life, Chris started golfi ng only five years ago when he started his fi rst job at Turning Stone Resort Casino in our golf pro shops. Currently, Chris is part of the PGM program to gain his full membership into the PGA of America and begin his journey to becoming a Head Professional.
Although he’s newer to the game, Chris brings a fresh perspective and analysis on your golf swing during club fi ttings and lessons.
PGA Golf Club Fitting Professional
Contact: patrick.rocco@turningstone.com
A Rochester native, Pat has been a PGA member since 2008 and joined the Turning Stone staff in September of 2022. He played high school and collegiate golf, and as a Senior Professional he won the WNY Classic (formerly known as the Rochester Classic) hosted by the Western New York section of the PGA.
Pat received a horticulture degree and is certified as a commercial pesticide applicator. He was the golf course superintendent at his family’s facility.
Pat teaches fundamentals and believes every individual has their own unique golf swing and personality. “I need to stay in those parameters,” Pat said. “Keep it as simple as possible while having fun and improving each student’s game.”
LEARN TO LOVE GOLF
Founded in 1989, Girls Golf is a community of more than 90,000 girls around the globe who are learning and loving the game!
We provide quality instruction to juniors led by LPGA and PGA teaching professionals or certified coaches – experts who specialize in showing girls just how much fun golf really is.
For more information, see a golf team member or call 315.361.7509
Turning Stone Resort Casino is proud to be the host of two National Junior Golf Programs.
Drive, Chip & Putt and PGA Jr. League Golf
Boys and girls ages 7 and up are invited to participate. For more information, please see a Golf Team Member or call 315.361.7509.
