Winter Golf Program
Starting January 22nd, 2025, The Spartan Golf Academy will be conducting its annual Winter Golf Program. With our heated and covered hitting stations, you can watch your entire ball flight, year-round, providing important feedback for true game improvement.
This program is designed to improve your golf game with individual weekly private golf instruction with our PGA professional golf staff. Each week you will get a personalized ½ hour lesson. We will teach you to hit more solid shots repetitively and better help you understand your golf game.
Dates: January 22nd, 2025 – March 23rd, 2025
Cost: $450.00 per person
- Nine (9) private half-hour lesson with a PGA Associate
- (1) Small Basket of warmup balls included before each lesson
$50.00 Upgrade option includes:
- $75 Range Card
Instructional Staff
Each member of our instructional staff is trained through the Professional Golfers’ Association of America (PGA).
Jayson Howell, PGA Associate – Jayson is a graduate of Ferris State University. He played college golf at Jackson College from 2014-2015. A native of Lansing, Mich., Jayson was a student assistant at Katke Golf Course from 2019-2021. Most recently he was an Assistant Golf Professional at Kalamazoo Country Club. During his time in Kalamazoo, he also was an Assistant Golf Coach for Kalamazoo College for 3 seasons.
Nick Lafontsee, PGA Associate – Nick is a graduate of Lansing Community College with a degree in Business Administration. Before college, he went to Laingsburg High School and graduated in 2018 where he won 4 conference championships and was selected first team all-conference for all 4 years along with being all academic. He has worked towards helping to improve the game of golf for all skill levels and loves what he does. Golf has been a part of his life since the age of 4 and plans to continue pursuing his dream of helping others succeed on the golf course.
How do you sign up for the program?
How do you sign up for your lessons?
You can sign up for all lessons starting Monday, January 6th. Each student may schedule one lesson per week. Lessons will be scheduled by signing up through our SignUp Genius link. The link will be sent to all participants at 10:00am on Monday, January 6th, 2025. If you miss a lesson, a makeup lesson may be scheduled at another available time slot if it is available. If a lesson/lessons are cancelled due to weather, the Forest Akers Staff will schedule additional times for these makeup lessons.
Program Hours:
Wednesday-Friday 11 am-5 pm
Saturday 11 am-3 pm
* Hours are subject to change by the instructional staff as needed *
*Registration limited to the first 40 participants*