Gifts of Golf from the Palmetto Dunes Golf Academy

If you’re stumped thinking about what to get the golfer in your life this holiday season, keep reading. We've got eight gift ideas from the Palmetto Dunes Golf Academy that have the ability to provide your favorite golfer more joy, confidence, togetherness and personal gratification from the lifetime game of golf. (Oh, and did you know that the Palmetto Dunes Golf Academy team — which tees up 200+ years of experience and lessons — can now be booked online? Keep reading for more details.)

1. Kids Private golf lessons

Youngsters 3 years old and up can learn to be competent and confident on the golf course, and display proper etiquette. One of the well-attended local schools brings their students to the Palmetto Dunes Golf Academy for those reasons. We utilize songs and video, and they learn to imitate the best golfers.

2. Ladies’ Private lessons

Like a spa treatment for the links, ladies can learn to relax and be healthier and more effective on the course. Their confidence will blossom, and they will enjoy their friends more. Of course, while here, they can shop at our award-winning Robert Trent Jones Golf Shop and find all the latest fashions.

3. Men’s Private lessons

Confident and successful men often become the most frustrated by the game of golf. Their optimism turns to anxiety as their expectations do not meet reality. What do you hear them say as they return home after a game? Do they love or hate the game or themselves? The Palmetto Dunes Golf Academy can turn frustrated men into confident golfers.

4. Playing lessons

On-the-course time with a Professional can unlock a frustrated golfer. At the Palmetto Dunes Golf Academy, we take a wholistic approach to the game allowing the environment and simple fundamentals to revitalize the student’s golf game.

5. Video swing analysis

The Palmetto Dunes Golf Academy boasts the technology to show golfers the details of their game. Sure, there may be some things you do not want to see… but we can fix them.

6. Putting lesson

Jack Nicklaus said if you learn to putt correctly, your driver will improve, your wallet will become full, everyone will invite you to play… and then they will take you to dinner. We don’t know about all that, but we do know that Jack won 18 major championships, so we will take him at his word.

7. Mental golf workshop

Another pretty successful golfer, Tiger Woods, writes in his book that golf is a game of opposites. One example of that adage is that the harder you try the worse you do. When you swing down the ball goes up. Relaxed muscles move faster than tight muscles. What is the most important distance in golf? Come see us at the Palmetto Dunes Golf Academy and we will give you the answer to this very important question.

8. Short game lessons

100 yards and in to the green is where everyone can positively lower their score and increase their smile. The wedges are where the scoring happens. Give your golfer the ability to score lower and they will be happy all year.

(A version of this blog originally appeared in Island Events Magazine.)