Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 27, 2010
Matt Felsenfeld was born in Detroit, Michigan he is 18 years old. He has been at Pendleton and IMG for the past three years working on his game the golf academy. When asked if attending IMG has helped his game he said “it has helped my game a lot, I am happy that I attended [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 27, 2010
Jordan Jackson is seventeen and plays golf at the IMG Academies. He is in my psychology class , he is always quiet but can be funny. He loves to play golf it is his favourite sport. He loves to travel around Europe or to South America. He is very smart and nice to people. He is [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 27, 2010
Seiji Liu was born on September 23, 1992 in California. He resides in Beverly Hills, California. He arrived at the academy 3 years ago as a sophomore to improve his golf game and play for a college program. He is a very cheerful and optimistic person and it is rare to see him without a [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 27, 2010
Alex Osborne has attended IMG Academies for two years. Golf is his main passion but also enjoys boat racing, fishing, or anything else on the water. Alex, born on September 3rd, 1992, is from Bermuda and has played golf for ten years. Next year he will be attending the University of Hartford to play golf [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 27, 2010
Diogo Ferreira de Almeida was born in Porto, Portugal in April 27, 1992. He has an older brother called Nuno. He started playing golf when he was 13 years old because his uncle told him to try it and he started to play and loved it. He used to practice in a Golf Club near [...]
Posted by: lazygirjl on: May 26, 2010
Kenny Chong is from Boston, MA. He was born on April 26th, 1992 in Boston but he is of Korean descent and speaks fluent Korean. Kenny is a very nice and placid guy who likes to talk and have fun with friends. Kenny is a straight up G and loves to bro out in the [...]
Posted by: nataliebea on: May 24, 2010
Greg started Golf at the age of six years old. Ever since then he has played golf, so a total of 12 years. He was born on March 1st 1992 making him 18 years old right now. When he graduates Pendleton in just a couple of weeks, he is going to turn pro. Aside from [...]
Posted by: socalgolfer on: May 23, 2010
Will Wei was born on November 26, 1990 in Shanghai, China. He came to the Academy without having played golf before. His father had been encouraged to send him here by the father of another Pendleton student, Eddie Wang. Since coming here for 2 years, he has dramatically improved on the academic and athletic front. [...]
Posted by: socalgolfer on: May 12, 2010
A very large group of golfers from IMG/Pendleton are attending the prestigious Scott Robertson Memorial Tournament in Roanoke, Virginia. This event is perenially one of the top 10 strongest junior golf events in the country. It runs from May 14-16, 2010. It was founded in 1983 and has always been held at Roanoke Country Club. This event exists [...]
Posted by: socalgolfer on: February 11, 2010
Taking place this Presidents Day Weekend (2/13-2/15) are two of the highest profile junior golf tournaments in the country. On the men’s side is the long running AJGA HP Boys Championship at Carlton Woods in The Woodlands, Texas that is located just outside Houston. On the women’s side is the 2nd annual AJGA Annika Invitational [...]
Posted by: dosikseo on: December 3, 2009
Tanapol Vattanapisit from Thailand goes to IMG. Tanapol is 16 years old and he is number one in Thailand in junior ranking and is sponsored by Taylor Made. Tanapol struggled the first day, and he shot 78. Although he made a lot of mistakes the first round he still had a chance to win the tournament. [...]
Posted by: socalgolfer on: August 30, 2009
Former IMG/Pendleton/David Leadbetter Golf Academy Student Byeong-Hun “Ben” An capped off an exciting week by becoming the youngest person ever to win the United States Amateur Championship at the age of 17. He broke Tiger Woods’ and Danny Lees’ records in age at the time of victory. He defeated Ben Martin of Greenville, SC 7 [...]
Posted by: pendletonpanther on: August 24, 2009
With the starting of a new semester, all golfers from David Leadbetter Golf Academy are coming back from their wonderful, amazing summer vacation. It is fresh for every scholar to set feet into the new school year. However, it is also challenging for golfers to conquer the difficulties and to accomplish the higher goals. As we [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 30, 2009
Gerardo Alvarez was born and raised in El Salvador. As he grew up so did his passion for golf. He came to IMG at the age of 14 and attended Pendleton school regularly. Although English is his second language he speaks it pretty well. He attended the David Leadbetter Golf Academy for 4 years with aspirations of becoming a [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 30, 2009
Nam is a very happy person and his relaxed attitude helps him tremendously on the golf course. His favorite player is Tiger Woods because he has the ability to win whenever, whenever, and maintain a cool calm and collect golfing attitude. He is also a fan of basketball player Kobe Bryant because he “balls hard” [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 30, 2009
Jordan is an amazing golfer who takes life very seriously. He is smart, dedicated and loyal. He is inspired by Casey Wittenberg – a junior phenom who never took off like people thought he would. “He stuck it out through bad golf, low confidence, low money, and missed cuts, he kept working hard, he believed [...]
Posted by: janajohnson on: May 29, 2009
Joel Menda is 18 and a senior this year at Pendleton. He has attended IMG for 1 year and plays golf. The thing he enjoyed most about IMG was meeting all new people from around the world. He also said he liked the class schedule at Pendleton (having two classes a day). He was born [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 28, 2009
Walker’s name pretty much gets you all the information you need about him among the IMG campus. Known for being a kid that enjoys himself and says and does what he wants for the most part. Walker has been at IMG for two years now and will be moving on to play Division II golf [...]
Posted by: jnguonly on: May 28, 2009
Abdul Sihag is a senior here at the Pendleton School. Coming from Mombasa, Kenya he is one of the only representatives the David Leadbetter Golf Academy has from the continent of Africa. Finishing up his 5th year at the academy, Abdul has seen many changes to the golf academy. Moving around from three different coaches [...]
Posted by: jnguonly on: May 27, 2009
Tae Heung Lim will be completing his 5th and final year here at the Pendleton School. Tae has been here much longer than most students and has seen the Pendleton grow from a student body of 200 to a current student body of 430. “Day and night” are the words he uses to describe the [...]
Posted by: dirkr on: May 27, 2009
Michael Jorge was born on September 26th 1990. He is a golfer and he comes from the Dominican Republic. He has been in the David Leadbetter Golf Academy for 4 years now. He has been at The Pendleton School since he was in 9th grade and his grades are rather good. Michael has shown very big improvements in the golf area. [...]
Posted by: dirkr on: May 27, 2009
Ben Murray was born on November 13th of 1991. He was born in Canada. He has been at the David Leadbetter Golf Academy for the past 2 years. He has improved a lot during this time and he has won once this year at the FCWT in Mystic Dunes. He will also play some AJGA tournaments [...]
Posted by: dirkr on: May 27, 2009
Micheal Yang, a senior attending IMG Academies for the David Leadbetter Academy just won the matchplay event at El Conquistador. Its an event that The Leadbetter Academy just started this year and it turned out to be a pretty good event. The matchplay started out with the top 64 players on the money list from [...]
Posted by: dirkr on: May 27, 2009
Filippo Poma- Murialdo is a senior golfer attending The Pendleton School. In his second year at Pendleton and the David Leadbetter Golf Academy, Poma has made great strides. Poma was a high 80’s low 90’s golfer when he came here at first, and has now been able to shoot in the high to mid 70’s. [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 23, 2009
A partir del año que viene, muchas mejoras se haran en el sector de golf de IMG. Algunas cosas tambien fueron mejoradas este año como la sede del campo de practica y el nuevo mini “tour” que se esta jugando que se llama JJGA (Jay’s Junior Golf Association) que fue creado por uno de los [...]
Posted by: jnguonly on: May 13, 2009
As graduation nears, many wonder which colleges and universities each senior will be headed to. Here is a list of a few colleges and universities the 2009 graduates will be attending in the fall of 2009. Boys: Tommy Chung Hao Mou, University of Florida Zeyu He, UC Irvine Shang Zhi, University of Minnesota Yao-Chun Yang, [...]
Posted by: jnguonly on: May 4, 2009
Former David Leadbetter Golf Academy student Sean O’Hair shot a final round 69 to capture the Quail Hollow Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina. Playing against a star studded field that included Tiger Woods and many of the world’s top ten players, O’Hair was the only one to break 70 in the final round. Though he [...]
Posted by: laurengolino on: March 18, 2009
Everyone on this planet knows that golf is a freaking hard sport. Some say it is boring, some say it is awesome, Some say that they don’t understand it and others say that it’s hard. It is an incredibly interesting sport, because no matter how good you are playing, it doesn’t mean that you will [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: February 26, 2009
Recently in golf mental conditioning we learned about how important it is to visualize before executing a shot in golf. This was already well known by every single golfer in the mental conditioning meeting, but how it was explained this time proved to be very helpful. It has been proven that by mentally visualizing something that you [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: February 3, 2009
Last year, The David Leadbetter Golf Academy was sponsored by Titleist. All the students were given gifts such as, balls, hats, bags, etc. from our past sponsor. What students say happened is that the son of Titleist used to be a student at IMG, and he graduated last year. After he graduated, Titleist no longer [...]
