Description: Your learning experience will take place at Ferris State's championship Katke Golf Course and state-of-the-art practice facility, which includes nearly 100,000 square feet of teeing space, six target greens, and a 10,000 square foot practice putting, chipping, and pitching green. There is also a 3-hole practice course. Jeff O'Malley, Head Pro at Pilgrim's Run Golf Course will be our Head Clinician along with Teaching Pros from other clubs around the state.

There will be morning and evening programs featuring live music and professional speakers. Campers participate in daily huddle discussions. There is some free time each day to use the swimming pool and other recreational opportunities at the hotel.

All campers will stay at the Holiday Inn located on the Katke Golf Course.

Cost
The camp cost listed will cover all on-site expenses, room, meals, greens fees, range balls, instruction, FCA Athlete Bible, camp T-shirt, prizes, insurance, and nightly recreational activities.
 
Travel Plans
Transportation to and from camp is the responsibility of the camper. Contact the Golf Camp Director (listed to the left) for pickup and drop-off guidelines for the airport. Campers should plan to arrive at camp on the day camp begins and leave the day camp ends. Early arrivals will have an additional cost.
 
Scholarships
To make our camps available to as many junior golfers as possible, FCA may provide limited scholarship help to those who have a need. Inquiries about scholarship assistance can be made to the FCA Golf Ministry, (904) 273-9541, or your local FCA Office.
 
National FCA Policy
For more than 50 years, the FCA Camp experience has worked best when friends, classmates, and siblings are not housed together. Roommate requests cannot be honored. (Special situations will be reviewed.)

Focus
FCA Golf Camp is designed to create an environment where teenagers will learn about and experience the challenge and adventure of living in a relationship with Jesus Christ and improve their skills in the game of golf. Our teaching priorities include golf as a game of fun, lifelong enjoyment, and a teacher of life lessons. The camp will provide insights for players of all skill levels.

The curriculum features:

• Practice Rounds and Tournaments: Give a true picture of golf competition.

• Skills Competition: Test campers against themselves, others in their age group, and their skill level.

• Course Management: Learn how to make the best decisions on the course.

• Rules of Golf: Understand the rules and use them to give the best options.

• Golf Psychology: Play with confidence, handle themselves professionally, not letting the course control their actions.

• Chipping: Develop techniques to execute shots that give the best putting opportunities.

• Putting: Touch and distance.

• Sand Play: Make the sand a place of opportunity, not fear.

• Pitching: Learn to execute shots that provide opportunities for better scoring.

• Golf Swing: Develop techniques that provide best reproduction and best performance.

• Specialty Shots: Develop a menu of shots for unusual lies, circumstances, and trajectories.

• Golf Conditioning: Learn golf-specific exercises and stretching techniques.

• Golf Professionals: Top-notch instructors will give individual attention to each golfer for learning or increasing their knowledge of golf