LANSDOWNE RESORT’S BRIAN ROGISH, PGA DIRECTOR OF INSTRUCTION, NAMED AMONG 2024 ELITE TEACHERS BY GOLF RANGE MAGAZINE
Leesburg, VA, (Jan. 23, 2025) – Brian Rogish, the PGA Director of Instruction at Lansdowne Resort, has been named a 2024 Golf Range Association of America Growth of the Game Teaching Professional Elite Member Status award winner.
“It is an honor to be recognized by the GRAA and to achieve Elite Member Status,” said Rogish. “As coaches and teachers, we always strive to be our very best and to encourage the same enthusiasm for the game from those we teach.”
Rogish has spent his entire career improving the game for golfers of all skill levels, from beginners to top amateur players. A passionate advocate for junior golf, Rogish’s teaching efforts have led to over 50 junior golfers receiving college scholarships and becoming college athletes. In addition, he has coached Loudon County’s Riverside High School golf team for seven years and won the state championship in 2022.
In 2024, Rogish and his instruction team focused on strengthening the foundation of the club’s junior golf program by refining pathways to ensure that juniors participate in programs best suited to their individual goals and interests. Lansdowne’s developmental program introduces juniors to golf as early as age three, guiding them through their journey with elements from Operation 36 and the PGA Coach ADM model.
According to Rogish, particular emphasis was placed ages 11 to 15, leading to the creation of a specialized “competitive” group. Consisting of 15 players, this group was selected based on their aspirations to play golf beyond high school and their commitment to becoming well-rounded tournament players. Structured like a college team, these young golfers engage in comprehensive practice and training both on and off the course, with learning sessions conducted on the course and in the classrooms of the resort.
Rogish has also been recognized by Golf Digest among the “Best Young Teachers in America” for since 2016. Last year, he gave 1100 individual lessons, including 600 junior golf lessons, in addition to 600 clinics.
Programs were also offered for beginning women golfers, on-course strategy and game day performance. Lansdowne Resort also participated in PGA HOPE, a grow-the-game initiative designed to make golf more accessible to veterans. Loudon County, where the resort is located, is home to a large concentration of retired and active military members.
Twenty-five miles from Washington, D.C., Lansdowne Resort boasts three of the region’s finest courses open to resort guests and members. The Robert Trent Jones Jr. course makes the most of the area’s rolling terrain, bringing elevation, water, and mental challenge into play, while the Greg Norman course is flatter, playing along the Potomac, through hardwood forest, and past rocky outcroppings, and includes a four-hole stretch at the end that the Shark himself labeled “the hardest mile in golf.” New or non-golfers, as well as juniors, families, and really anyone else, will have a blast on Norman’s “Sharkbite” course, nine entertaining holes with enough charm and challenge to guarantee a good time along with stunning river views.
Additionally, The Lansdowne Golf Academy offers one-to-one or group instruction, with a range of programs for juniors from age four through teens. The Academy is one of the few facilities in the region with advanced biomechanics systems to capture and analyze every component of the swing.
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