Meet We-Ko-Pa Golf Club's On Site Instructors

Meet We-Ko-Pa’s PGA Instructors:
Josh Minksy, PGA – First Assistant Golf Professional
My Approach to teaching: Teaching for me is not just about understanding what needs to be changed. I not only look to identify the problem and provide a solution, but make sure my student understands why. Without understanding why, any swing change becomes much more difficult as the mental part of the game is just as important as the swing itself. Golf is complicated enough so I am there to provide the information that is needed without all the clutter.
Pricing:
$100/hour
$60/30mintes
Juniors receive 45 minutes at the 30 minute price
Group lessons, every additional student add $20 to the session
Nick Jevas, PGA – Assistant Golf Professional
My teaching philosophy starts with understanding what golf swing works for you. From there, we can find goals to achieve as we work to gain confidence in your golf swing. Gaining confidence comes from growing on the positive outcomes and learning from the negative outcomes. A golf swing is made through repetition and practice. I also teach having patience and having fun while learning your swing. Golf is meant to be challenging, so have fun and enjoy the journey.
Pricing:
$100/hour
$60/30mintes
Juniors receive 45 minutes at the 30 minute price
Group lessons, every additional student add $20 to the session

Video Transcript:
I’ve been in my position at We-Ko-Pa now for three years that was the outside service supervisor for six years here is actually the first PGA member that went through all the education at We-Ko-Pa Golf Club and the club is a big piece of my role on becoming a PGA member.
Well, my name is Nick Javis, once of the NMSU PGA Golf Management program did a handful of internships across the country graduated got my class in January of 2021
my grandpa took me when I was nine years old. Just fell in love with it always wanted to go from everyday in summer. Go play now with my grandpa he just absolutely loved it.
Grew up my dad played golf, my whole family kind of play golf. I love the game of golf. It doesn't love me back all the time. But I love the game of golf. You have your good days and your bad days, but there's definitely more good than bad days when you're out there.
So my philosophy is all about understanding what we're doing. If we don't trust it in our mind, the change is never going to happen. We're never gonna be successful as a team moving forward. Sometimes we’ll say hey, let's get away from this a little bit. I know why you're trying to do this. But this is what we want to do. And here's why.
With your guy that's just trying to go out, play better with his friends, and I would find that the thing that's prevalent in their swing that'll fix the most things at once high level player that's going out and playing a golf tournament. Typically it's more just like nitty gritty, little things like that. Maybe a little path here, maybe a little a little attack there. You just kind of want to try and like fine tune towards that line back and forth. I think mental imagery is massive when it comes to the game of golf, picturing exactly what you want to happen. Addressing the golf ball, looking down the line and still seeing that picture and making the swing appropriate to match that picture. You're going to have guys that show up wanting to know all of their spin rates, their angle of attack, their launch angles, their boss being their clubhead speed. We have the capability of doing so we have launch monitors that'll give us all of the numbers in nine point system to give you all the numbers that you need. If that's something that you truly desire. I think it's great to dial in your distances so that you it's information you can take back onto the golf course.
I got to make sure they laugh every time we're out here because it's a tough sport. You got to have a sense of humor when things go wrong because you're chasing perfection on imperfect surface. So
I mean, you'd be crazy. Not To Laugh at yourself.
I gave a lesson a couple of days ago to a gentleman that I've been giving lessons to for the last year and a half now. And he just texted me and said I'm back baby and explained to me exactly where the aha moment happened. But whether it takes one lesson to us and three lessons, you have to find a way to link it all together for the person that you're giving the lesson to find me For me it's nothing better. Nothing better than just my favorite moment a lesson I will stop everything I have I would drop every single way I'm holding on to and go, How'd that feel? And I just sit there and I just bask in how they felt in the students because I know we succeeded as a team and that moment is the best moment of the lesson. Which is love to see the face just brighten up and just know that they did it finally we're on and we're going it's awesome.