Congrats to Philip on completeling the Air Force Academy’s Basic Training this past week. Now it is time to reintroduce yourself to those golf clubs! We are sure with all of the weight you lost your swing has to be much different! Good luck to all of our new Freshman Collegiate golfers this year. You know where to find us if you need help! Check out the pictures of Philip below.. Good to see him smiling 
Check out this great article on Nez! She has been to every Girls’s US Junior Championship for the last 31 years and resides here in Houston. Many of our Juniors have had the opprotunity to be part of Nez’s “Texas Girls”..
http://www.usga.org/ChampEventArticle.aspx?id=2147488583
This past weekend Adam Colwell finished 2nd at the AJGA in Fort Worth. Please click the link below for the full story on Adam’s great play! Congrats once again Adam!
AJGA’s Official Recap of the Tournament.
Okay let me just start off by saying.. THIS IS AWESOME! While I felt guilty for leaving all of you in Texas for the week, I have to say this is by far the most exciting week of my life. Well one of the most exciting weeks. Here is a little play by play of each day so far..
Sunday: Bobby and I were picked up by a Lincoln Navigator and driven from San Fransisco to our Hotel. Even though we were picked up by a fancy limo service we made sure to keep our tradition of finding an IN and Out Burger joint the moment we got in the car! It was amazing of course!
Monday: We were greeted at Valet by a “Good Morning Mr. Gates here is your courtesy car for the week!” Let’s just say we appreciate Lexus being a title sponsor of the event! Bobby and I had never seen all 18 of Pebble so we were pretty excited driving up 17 mile drive. We ended up playing a practice round with Lucas Glover, David Toms, and Charles Warren. All three were awesome guys and were more than happy to show Bobby the ropes!
Tuesday: We headed out early to play a full 18 with Stewart Cink and Heath Slocum. Bobby and Stewart are pretty much the same height! Bobby maybe had half an inch on him… As I am writing this Tom Watson just walked in the door.. yeah .. pretty much wow moment there..
Wednesday: Bobby wanted to play the back nine so we waited until late afternoon to go off.. We just happened to join up with Geoff Ogilvy, Aaron Baddeley, and Adam Scott. Yes ladies.. the Adam Scott! All three were great and really fun to watch. I played crowd controller though.. We were only supposed to have two people inside the ropes during the practice round.. We had 8 :/ .. On a side note Chad Hedrick and his wife Lynsey came out to follow Bobby..It was great to have some familar faces around!
Thursday and Friday: Rounds 1 and 2 were very scary/ a blast! We started out 4 over on the front side but cruised in with even on the back to shoot 75. Not bad considering it is the US OPEN and all. Then Friday came.. Let’s just say I lost my calm cool and collected motto on those final 5 holes. Bobby played great on the front nine.. Once the back came along things got a little interesting. The rumor was out that Y.E. Yang shot 49 on this nine.. and once Bobby made 4 bogeys in a row my heart started to go into panic mode. Thankfully though we came to 18 and he hit the longest drive of the Day! Had 190 left on his approach shot.. He it to about 30 feet.. just off the green. He made us even more on edge though when his chip settled down 8ft from the cup…Ugh I couldn’t even watch! We needed that putt to make the cut. As I watched him take the putter back and through it seemed like minutes before that ball disappeared! We all yelled BIRDIE and definelty didn’t hold back our excitment!. Bobby made birdie on his last hole to make his first cut in his first MAJOR!
Off for round 3 more to come..Hit’em Straight
The Massengale Golf Academy!
Hello All! Well first we would like to apologize for not keeping you up to date the last couple weeks! It seems we were haveing some techinical difficulties. LOTS of things have happened since we emailed you last. Our PING nFlight Center is now up and running! We are still hanging up several pictures etc., but the software is incredible and fittings have been extremely popular! Additionally, we have partnered with Total Golf Adventures for our summer camps to give our Massengale kids a fun and exciting summer! Below we have provided more information about our Junior Camps and Ladies Clinics. Please let us know if there is anything we can do for you! Call or click: (281)516-1002 or info@massengalegolf.com
Junior Summer Camp: Don’t forget about our summer camps this year! It is sure to be a blast. To make it even better we can provide equipment if you don’t have it! We are also offering a 20% discount if you sign up for a second camp or have multiple family members in a camp! Our partnership with TGA should create a great learning environment for your juniors! Click here for more information and to register! Click here to visit TGA’s site!
Ladies Clinics! Ladies Clinics will be held on Fridays and Saturdays. Both clinics will be the same during the week. We are just giving you two options! For a complete schedule of clinics and topics Click here. Contact Lauren Johnson to register at (281) 516-1002 or lauren@massengalegolf.com
CONGRATULATIONS to all of our graduating seniors. It is great to see each and every one of you continue on with a game you love! Best of luck at school. Practice hard and make sure to study every now and then . Remember we are always here for you when you need us! Thanks for all of the great years.. You will be missed…
Taylor Kilponen (The Woodlands HS): University of North Texas
Katie Paxton (Klein Oak HS): University of North Texas
Philip Colwell (The Woodlands HS): United States Air Force Academy
Marcos Martinez (The Woodlands HS): University of Dallas
Cash Wilkerson (Klein Oak HS): University of Texas at Arlington
Weston Johnson (Klein Oak HS): Abilene Christian University
J.T. Taylor (Conroe HS): Lamar University
Dennis Reiner (Kingwood HS): Sam Houston State University
Donnie with Marcos Martinez and Philip Colwell
Junior Camp: There is still time to sign up for one of our camps! Click here for more details and to register!
Ladies Clinics: Clinics have started! Please contact Lauren Johnson to sign up at (281) 516-002 or lauren@massengalegolf.com. For more information on the clinics click here.
It’s official! We have completely moved out of our offices in the west wing of Augusta Pines and now can be located on the far left side of the driving range! PING stopped by Tuesday and we were all briefed on nFlight and all of the great things it does. Let’s just say it is unbelievable! For those of you that have called looking to set up an appointment please be patient. While all of the software is loaded and set up, we are still working out the kinks to make sure your experience is unique! All of our furniture and graphics are due by the end of this week! Thanks again to everyone involved. Feel free to wonder around the academy if you are out at Augusta Pines. We are hoping everything is ready to go soon!
Sneak Peak!!…
Junior Summer Camp: Don’t forget about our summer camps this year! It is sure to be a blast. To make it even better we can provide equipment if you don’t have it! We are also offering a 20% discount if you sign up for a second camp or have multiple family members in a camp! Our partnership with TGA should create a great learning environment for your juniors! Click here for more information and to register! Click here to visit TGA’s site!
Ladies Clinics! Ladies Clinics will be held on Fridays and Saturdays. Both clinics will be the same during the week. We are just giving you two options! Clinics start May 21st and 22nd. For a complete schedule of clinics and topics Click here. Contact Lauren Johnson to register at (281) 516-1002 or lauren@massengalegolf.com
Summer Camps! This year we are excited to announce that The Massengale Golf Academy will be partnering with Total Golf Adventures during our summer camps. TGA is one of the fastest growing junior golf organizations and a leading initiative to grow junior golf in America. TGA has introduced golf to tens of thousands of students through after-school and camp programs at several thousand schools and golf courses. We have taken our two programs and merged them to give our students one fun series of golf camps this summer! Click here for our Summer Camp registration form and camp details!
Ladies Clinics! Due to the huge popularity of our Summer Camps, Ladies Clinics will now be held on Fridays and Saturdays. An updated date and activity schedule can now be found on our website. Click here. Contact Lauren Johnson to register at (281) 516-1002 or lauren@massengalegolf.com
nFlight Center! Moving day is next Monday May 3rd. While we are excited to move in and get started, we are not certain when our “official” opening day will be. If you have interest in being fit please give us a call so we can accommodate your needs once we are up and running. (281) 516-1002.
Lastly, all of us would like to thank PING and Augusta Pines for making this whole process happen. We feel that we now have every available tool to help us prepare our students for the highest level of golf! We also feel that our new Academy will bring more people to the world class Augusta Pines facility. Stay tuned for more announcements on Grand Openings etc. Have a great week!
The Massengale Golf Academy
