The recognition program for the world’s most outstanding youth instructors is dominated by golf staff professionals at U. S. club and resort properties, including 15 who achieved Master Kids Teacher status for now having made the Top 50 list three times. All of the winners will be recognized with a special presentation on January 24th at the PGA Show.

The Aurora, Colo., golf course’s Solich Caddie and Leadership Academy currently has 45 eighth- and ninth-graders as caddies, and has tutored more than 100 caddies since the program began in 2012. The academy, the only program of its kind in the area at a public course, is part of an effort by the Colorado Golf Association to keep caddies in the game.

A tennis pro at Denver Country Club for the past two decades, Lays passed away on December 31, following a career that included teaching at Pinehurst Country Club, Rolling Hills Country Club, and Cherry Hills Country Club. Lays’ love of tennis extended to charitable efforts, as he collected and donated rackets to a dozen developing countries, and conducted tennis clinics throughout Africa.

Today, where you used to find golf handicap computers in the former ladies’ locker room at Denver Country Club (DCC), an enclosed play area has been created for members’ children, complete with bean bags, a crafts space, storage and toys. What was once an empty corner is now an inviting lounge area, with new artwork…

While many clubs and resorts pride themselves on their mighty reserve wine lists, wines served by the glass often do the heavy lifting. A well-regimented by-the-glass wine list, like the one recently introduced at Denver Country Club (DCC), offers variety and value, positions the club for better, more innovative food pairings, interweaves wine education into…