Premier Golf Academy Camps, Junior World Match Play Championship

Bret Knutson is a Class A Member of the PGA of America and Academy Director at PREMIER GOLF ACADEMY. Bret has the accreditation of Certified PGA Instructor with the PGA of America and was named Top 25 Junior Coach in USA and Top 10 Instructor in China by Golf Magazine since 2012. Having been an experienced player previously competing professionally on the Austrian, Challenge, and European Tours, Bret brings hands on knowledge and experience to his 20 plus years of teaching. His passion and dedication to junior golf show in the success of his students. Bret’s students include PGA Tour winners and top amateurs, with more than 80 students having received scholarships to play in college.

Greg Ehlert is a Class A Member of the PGA of America and Academy Director at PREMIER GOLF ACADEMY. Greg has received awards from Golf Channel and appeared in many golf publications for instruction. Greg has a passion for golf instruction and worked with some of the top junior players in the USA and Asia. Greg has a proven training and practice program that accelerates his student’s improvement. Many of Greg’s students have gone on to compete at the collegiate and professional levels. Greg has competed professionally in nearly a dozen countries throughout Asia, the USA, and Europe.

Before joining Premier Golf Academy, Kurt worked for both Titleist and TaylorMade. At Titleist, he worked with the tour reps, including renown wedge designer, Bob Vokey, honing his fitting and instructional skills. He also worked with TPI learning the body, swing connection and the importance of teaching a swing that your body can handle.

While working at TaylorMade, he won both the district and regional Clubfitter of the Year for the Southern California PGA.

As the Director of Instruction at Premier Golf Academy, Kurt shares his passion for the game with all our juniors students. Using Premier Golf Academy’s winning teaching methods, Kurt is an expert at developing game improvement programs for our juniors and working with students to ensure they achieve all their goals.

Dan Anselmo is an accomplished and dedicated instructor that has been teaching for the past 30 years. From 2009 to 2016 Dan worked for AGA Academy in Beijing, training instructors worldwide and sharing his passion and instruction expertise with juniors and adults. As Director of Golf for Premier Golf Academy, Dan shares Bret and Greg’s passion and philosophy on junior development. Dan has also been a major contributor to many major golf magazines in China.

For the better part of his life Ron was a tournament playing professional on the regular tour and senior tour. Ron has played tournament golf on every major tour in the world. For most of the 1980's and early 90's Ron played the PGA European Tour. Twice Ron won in Europe. Today Ron sill plays a few tournaments a year as a way of "staying young" and in touch with the game.

As a teacher/coach Ron learned his playing and teaching skills from many of the best and most famous names in golf. Ron's greatest teaching/coaching skill is making good golfers better golfers.

Marcus began his golf career as a caddie at East Lake Golf Club, home of the PGA Tour Championship and childhood course of the great Bobby Jones. An accomplished player Marcus played professionally for many years and competed in the Hawaiian Open while working as an instructor at the world famous Kapalua Village Golf Academy.

Through the years Marcus has received many honors and teaching accreditations from top instructors like Bill Madonna, Jerry King, and Mike Bender. Marcus is also a sought after club specialist working with TaylorMade to help player’s throughout Southern California. Marcus is a Senior Instructor at Premier Golf Academy and Head Coach of the Nike Junior Golf Camps.

Marcus’ love and passion for golf is evident as he looks forward to helping golfers excel every day.

In 2020 Wyatt moved to San Diego to work Full Time for Taylor Made as one of their Elite Club Fitters. While at Taylor Made Wyatt worked with many of the top collegiate, highly-ranked amateurs, and young professional players for TaylorMade.

As a Head Golf Coach at Premier Golf Academy, Wyatt shares his passion for the game with all junior that at Premier Golf Academy. Using Premier Golf Academy’s winning teaching methods, Wyatt has become an expert at developing game improvement programs for our juniors and working with students to ensure they achieve all their goals.

In 2013 Patrick received a degree in Kinesiology from San Diego State and opened his own training gym. Patrick quickly became a highly sought after coach to Elite Athletes from every sport.

Students at Premier train weekly with Patrick, working through customized programs to increase their athletic and mental skills. Patrick’s program integrates advanced training, with mindset formation, nutritional discipline, and enhanced recovery protocols to empower our athletes to truly maximize potential.

Dr. Paul Ashbrook is a Mental Skills Coach and Professor of Sport and Performance Psychology at National University. Throughout the past 10 years, Dr. Ashbrook has consulted with a wide range of elite performers, utilizing mental skills training to enhance their performance. Dr. Ashbrook has spent a considerable amount of time consulting with elite golfers, both at the collegiate and professional levels. His research on individualized mental skills training in Division I collegiate golf was published in The Sport Psychologist.

For almost thirty years Mrs. Hood has taught at every level of education, from preschool and kindergarten through college. She has graduated her own three children from home education and has taught English at Palomar College and Vista High School.

Additionally, she has a strong background in private teaching and tutoring, including helping students learn English as a second language.

In his amazing teaching career, he has personally taught over 10,000 students and has given more than 100,000 golf lessons. In 1986 Earl Woods entrusted Anselmo with his then 10- year-old son Tiger. For the next eight years Anselmo guided Tiger Woods through his historic amateur career including 3 Junior World Championships and 3 US Amateur Championship. Anselmo influence and instruction no doubt helped to shape his game to become one of the most successful golfers ever.