Big Announcement: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!!!!
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johnnymac2201
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Well deserved Brian!
Awesome. Does that mean i get to play at English Turn for my "instruction special" March 26th and 27th? If not the ol City Park will do. Either way i'm still excited about my upcoming lesson. I'm starting to have trouble sleeping at night. I feel like I'm 8 years old and Christmas is right around the corner.
puttmaster
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Yeah, the week following the Bay Area sessions!
Dang, I was hoping you NoCal guys weren't paying attention.
Congratulations Brian, that's awesome! I'm not trying to be a smart-ass...i'd just really like to understand how it works because we might be looking for a Director of Instruction soon - my question is how do they (a private club) allow you to travel, teach outside members, etc. ????? Sounds like a really sweet deal for you
Brian Manzella
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English Turn has a little over 200 members, and for $155, outside play as well.
Most of this play comes from the major hotels downtown, that they have arrangements with.
So, think of "The Turn" as a Country Club/Resort.
English Turn "hired" me to be their Director of Instruction, but also to house my Brian Manzella Golf Academy there.
I am an "amenity" so-to-speak. Like fast greens, a good restaurant, or new carts.
Plus, when I have a lesson with a non-member, these folks buy drinks, food, gloves, balls, and pay greens fees—or in the case of the "Manzella Special," I purchase their lunch and greens fees.
Revenue.
As far as the travel goes, it is a trade-off. A teacher at the top of this profession, or on the way up, will probably be someone who travels.
Like me.
If you have any specific questions about how to structure a deal for a Director of Instruction, or need any recommendations or consulting in that matter in any way, feel free to call me.
Brian Manzella
Administrator
I think he means that he's not sure what Director of Instruction exactly entails. I'm curious too. Do you get a base salary and then lesson money on top of it? Do you get any kind of kick-back for bringing people out to get lessons? Or is it all just your hourly rates and they just happily let you do your thing there?
dashfan87
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uh nosey....... (somewhat kidding, but still....kinda nosey)
Brian, I have to tell you, I know everyone here is doing the obligatory "Congrats" but seriously, you always talk about being a kid, and what it means to get to where you are now. What it must feel like to have that all come to fruition is just the pinnacle of life (no pun intended) and to think, you can keep getting better... Thats really great man, really great. You really do deserve it.
You don't know how much you have helped me, all of the information you put on here for us, 90 percent of which is completely free, I feel like I am stealing sometimes... Really I do... You have Improved my golf game so much, you have given me so much information, that I otherwise couldn't have gotten, because I couldn't have afforded it. I may never get a chance to see you, or meet you, and have a lesson with you, but what you have given me... essentially for free... I will never forget. You are a class act Brian Manzella, a good guy. You deserve this and everything else you will get in the future (because good does conquer evil... eventually hehe)
Thank you for being a good guy, and from the bottom of one little kids heart from the Florida swamps, to anothers in the swamps of Louisiana, Congratulations.
Brian Manzella
Administrator
There are all sorts of different arrangements out there in golf-land.
For example, I know of a guy who is a teacher of some repute, and his "deal" is he pays the mortgage on his building, say $2000-$3000 a month, the electricity to the building, and he doesn't pay for anything else. When the building is paid for, he pays nothing. If he leaves, he takes the contents of the building, and leaves it behind.
Lots of places just take a fee from the teacher, and that's that.
All I can say about my deal with English Turn is that it is a great deal at a great facility, and the facility has super nice people running it.
I always said this: "I'll never know how well I could do at a facility, until Nick Faldo could fly in on his jet, and take a limo to the place, and not be offended when he pulls up."
I am there now.
Brian Manzella
Administrator
Brian, I have to tell you, I know everyone here is doing the obligatory "Congrats" but seriously, you always talk about being a kid, and what it means to get to where you are now. What it must feel like to have that all come to fruition is just the pinnacle of life (no pun intended) and to think, you can keep getting better... Thats really great man, really great. You really do deserve it.
You don't know how much you have helped me, all of the information you put on here for us, 90 percent of which is completely free, I feel like I am stealing sometimes... Really I do... You have Improved my golf game so much, you have given me so much information, that I otherwise couldn't have gotten, because I couldn't have afforded it. I may never get a chance to see you, or meet you, and have a lesson with you, but what you have given me... essentially for free... I will never forget. You are a class act Brian Manzella, a good guy. You deserve this and everything else you will get in the future (because good does conquer evil... eventually hehe)
Thank you for being a good guy, and from the bottom of one little kids heart from the Florida swamps, to anothers in the swamps of Louisiana, Congratulations.
And thanks for all the very nice words, and for starting my day off in a great fashion.
softconsult
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Location, location, location. I can cite my experience at Grand Traverse Resort in Traverse City, Michigan. My customer is a member at this high end resort, three championship courses. They have a Jim McLean learning center. It is a nice building located on their practice range. Two heated bays for practice, 1 bay with all the technical equipment for instruction. This was in the middle of winter so the McLean guys , 2 I think, were not there. They have a a constant flow if potential lesson takers during the golf season and if they can afford to stay there, they can afford the lessons. I highly doubt Jim McLean shows his face very often.
johnpritch
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Hi Brian
As a relative newcomer to your videos but having spent 10 years of trying everything I could lay my hands on and disappearing up one blind alley after another, English Turn has just come into some luck!
Congratulations English Turn, I say!
John
As a relative newcomer to your videos but having spent 10 years of trying everything I could lay my hands on and disappearing up one blind alley after another, English Turn has just come into some luck!
Congratulations English Turn, I say!
John
Notorious B.E.N.
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Good job Brian. Well deserved.
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