Pebble Beach Golf Academy teaches how to play like a pro

For all those golfers who wish they could play like the pros, or just learn some of the basics, there’s the Pebble Beach Golf Academy. NewsChannel 5 got a look at this state of the art facility that opened just last year and the new ways it’s teaching the game.

The name Pebble Beach may be synonymous with top class professional golf. But it also makes room for the beginner.

“This set up is the first time I’ve used that, so it looks very interesting. Kind of promising,” said Pebble Beach Golf Academy student Carl Meyer.

The promise being offered by the Pebble Beach Golf Academy is just one of learning although with some of the best tech out there. For example, if you want to swing like golf great and Pro-Am winner Ben Hogan, they’ve got that.

“When we built this place we looked at trying to use technology to be at the forefront from a learning standpoint,” said academy director Laird Small. “With multiple swing machines, high definition cameras, creates an avatar of your body. And computers that can analyze every aspect of your game-it’s hard to argue.”

“And we feel that we are, the collection or the sort of necklace of technology that we have you can’t find anywhere else,” Small said.

Of the 4,000 or so students that come through this academy each year they all get to learn on technology like this, making the process of learning more fun and hopefully transferring to the course. Students like Meyer, who has been coming to the academy for almost a year, is hoping to see progress.

“See when you slow the whole motion down you actually have a chance to do deep learning, which is really facilitates better performance,” Small said.

Small said that’s just part of what they’re able to do here.

“So we try to use the student themselves to say, here’s where you were and here’s where you are now can you see the difference? Oh my God, yes I can,” Small said.

“I hope so, it doesn’t take much to make me a better golfer,” Meyer said.