IJGA LEGACY
The Old Carolina campus boasts an indoor state-of-the-art
Performance Training Center, The Barn, which houses the
Swing Catalyst 3D Motion Plate & Studio, indoor hitting bays and
short game area, simulators and cutting-edge technology. In addition
to the enlarged Pinecrest Golf Club range, now with 90,000 sq. ft. of tees
and multiple putting and chipping greens, we also have a Challenge
Course, Himalayas and putting green, all of which are unsurpassed by
any junior golf academy in the world.
Additional on-site amenities that support the modern-day golfer are
the Strength and Conditioning Gym, FUEL dining hall and Learning
Center. Although we have a number of homes in the Old Carolina
campus, our priority over the next year or two is to have all students
living on campus.
IJGA has produced many great junior golfers, with students going on
to Yale, Oklahoma State, Duke and other prestigious colleges with great
programs. But they also join the professional ranks, with three of sixty
women at the The Olympics Games, three women major champions and
men competing at The Masters. Founded over twenty years ago, IJGA is
the longest established independent junior golf academy.
Peer Group
• Our most valuable asset is our Peer Group of students who share
the common experience of sacrifice, in leaving home; courage
in that many come to a foreign country to study in a different
language, and ambition to become a professional golfer and have
a great college golf experience.
• The Peer Group has proven to make a significant impact on
high school students. Compared with students with friends who
showed little interest in learning, those with friends who cared
about learning have better educational outcomes.
• Today’s boarding school students succeed at significantly higher
rates than private day and public-school students, especially in
college and adult life, according to a 2017 study conducted for
The Association of Boarding Schools. The study also found that
students are more likely to earn an advanced degree and achieve
faster career advancement.
• Maintaining our student body at less than one hundred students
preserves the intimacy and familiarity of this peer group.
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