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Pictured below: Golf
Instructor Tony
Ruggiero and student, University of Alabama star freshman
and
former #1 ranked junior, Bobby Wyatt of Mobile, Alabama, who
shot a world record 57 at the Alabama
Boys State Junior Championship on 7-28-2010, winning the championship
for the 3rd time.
While
most of the people that travel to Northwest Florida and its Emerald
Coast come for the beautiful sugar white beaches and spectacular
fishing, many golfers around the Southeastern states are taking
note and now making the trek for golf instruction programs at
Tony Ruggiero’s
Dewsweeper Golf School at Santa Rosa Golf and Beach Club
in Santa Rosa Florida. Golf
Teacher, Tony Ruggiero and his Dewsweeper Golf School have
gotten national recognition and a loyal following from those
that hear Tony and his simple brand of instruction on his all
golf instruction radio
program “The Dewsweepers” which is heard nationally
on the PGA Tour Network as well as on terrestrial radio stations
throughout the Southeast.
Hidden
among the white sand dunes of the Emerald Coast, the Dewsweeper
Golf School is a golf learning and training facility which is
esthetically beautiful and technologically second to none. “I
am still amazed” says Ruggiero, “at the generosity
of the membership here at Santa Rosa Golf & Beach Club. They
believed in me and my dream to make this a premier learning facility
for those wanting to get better at golf and raised the funds
for this golf school solely through private donation. It’s
incredible,” he went on to say, “I owe these club members
so much and I am very grateful.”
The
Dewsweeper Golf School facility has all the video and computer
analysis equipment you would expect to see at any top golf instructor’s
studio, but there is much more that makes this facility and Tony
Ruggiero’s instruction over-the-top. For one thing, the
facility is equipped with a Swing Catalyst Bio Mechanical feedback
system which measures each player’s rotational force and
where their center of gravity is during every aspect of their
swing. Combine this Swing Catalyst system with their Flight Scope
Doppler radar launch monitor and you have a studio designed to
help golfers of all skill levels get better, faster.
Tony
told Florida Golf Magazine, “The technology has certainly
made it easier for us to help students of all skill levels, see
and understand what aspects they need to improve, in order to
get better. I believe the biggest asset is that it helps me get
a student to associate a feel with what the correct swing is
for them. If they can capture that feel they’re more likely
to be able to practice it effectively and then repeat it with
some success on the golf course. It also allows us to quantify
with real data exactly how much students are improving.”
Now,
club members and local golfers aren’t the only ones coming
to visit Tony and his Dewsweeper Golf School. The reach of The
Dewsweeper Golf Radio Show has introduced millions to Tony’s
simple approach to teaching and his passion to make people better
golfers. Golfers from the Northeast, Midwest and all over the
Southeast United States, now make regular trips to Santa Rosa
for help with their game. “I’ve been very fortunate,”
said Ruggiero, “to have spent so much time (over 8 years)
being mentored by Hank Johnson, one of the great teachers of
the game. I’ve also learned a lot as well from talking with
all the great golf instructors while doing the Dewsweepers weekly
radio program. What I have learned is that it is about making
people play better not just swinging better, it is about coaching
the student.”
 World Record Holder, 18 year-old Bobby
Wyatt on the practice tee under the watchful eye of Golf
Instructor Tony Ruggiero
Perhaps
the area where Tony and the Dewsweeper Golf School have had the
biggest impact is on that of junior golfers. The Dewsweeper Golf
School teaches a majority of the top junior players from around
the Southeast. Tony’s star pupil is none other than University
of Alabama star freshman and the former number 1 ranked junior,
Bobby Wyatt of Mobile, Alabama, who shot a world record 57 at
the Alabama Boys State Junior Championship on July 28, 2010,
giving him the championship for the third time.
“Teaching
Bobby is one of the really great things I get to do in this job,”
says Ruggiero “It has been so much fun to watch him improve
as a player. The amazing thing is that over the past 4 years
I have learned as much from him as I am sure he has from me.
I’ve learned a great deal about how to coach and prepare
junior golfers to become their best through working with him.”
Bobby’s
rise to the top of the junior ranks and now one of the top collegiate
players has brought a flock of junior talent making the journey
from all over the Southeast to see Tony. This newfound success
has led Tony to partner with long time friend and two time Dixie
Section PGA Teacher of the Year, Wayne Flint on the Dewsweepers
Golf Schools. “The success of our junior programs made it
a natural fit to put instruction programs at various courses
throughout the South,” commented Wayne Flint, who is now
the lead instructor along with Tony Ruggiero at the Dewsweeper
Golf Schools. “This gives us the opportunity to reach more
talented junior players and help them reach their goals”
The two of them figure that over the past several years they
have helped over 140 juniors get golf scholarships to college,
as well as teach players who have played in every major professional
championship.
The Dewsweeper Golf
Schools have also now partnered with golf management giant
Honours Golf to provide instruction programs at several properties
in Alabama, at Highland Park in Birmingham and Craft Farms in
Gulf Shores, Alabama and Rock Creek in Daphne Alabama. “The
newest addition to the Dewsweepers School is that of the Marriott
Bay Point Resort in Panama City Beach, Florida,” said Dewsweepers
Host and lead instructor Tony Ruggiero. “We are looking
forward to implementing top instruction programs for all the
members and visitors at these wonderful Honours facilities. The
quality of the conditions and the service at their facilities
is second to none in the industry and I believe our instruction
programs will equally add to the total golf experience offered
at these locations.”
The
technology and teaching available in Santa Rosa makes it the
place to hone your game or to take your junior if they are looking
to be the next rising star. Fortunately, for those of us golfers
who can’t make it there, the Dewsweepers’ easy to understand
instruction and help for our game is now available at multiple
locations throughout the Southeast. And, if we can’t make
it there we can always listen every week to Tony Ruggiero on
the Dewsweepers Golf
Show on the PGA Tour Network.
For info about the Dewsweepers
Golf School call 800-203-4885 or see www.dewsweepersgolfschool.com |
800-203-4885