Welcome to The Junior Academy by Toni Planells
GNG JUNIOR ACADEMY
2024 - 2025
Our main objective is to be the best possible academy, not only in quantity but also in quality, by promoting the values and principles that generate golf through its practice and our “Golf Natural Guidance” method.
Team
We have a multidisciplinary team with a 360º vision that helps with everything the student needs, and that covers all aspects of the game: technical, physical, mental, emotional and strategic.
The GNG Team is made up of coaches from Spain’s national golf teams, professional players, certified instructors, as well as licensed professionals in physical preparation, psychology, physiotherapists, clubfitters and clubmasters.
JUNIOR ACADEMY
Our GNG Junior Academy has more than 30 years of experience and is currently the largest junior academy in the history of Balearic golf. A pool of future golf players who are satisfied and happy to practice this sport that unites us.
Our teaching method “Golf Natural Guidance” has trained players of all levels, from champions of Spain and the Balearic Islands to Tour Players.
GNG Junior Academy the academy where we offer fun, dynamic, and high-quality lessons, tailored to the group’s level, and, above all, with one ultimate goal: to keep them playing golf, whether they compete or not.
Our students begin to learn the basics of golf between the ages of 5 and 7, with the main goal being that they have fun. From the age of 11 through adolescence, they continue with more specific techniques, tailored to each individual’s level.
OUR METHODOLOGY
Professor Toni Planells, with over 30 years of experience, has created the Golf Natural Guidance method based on knowledge, observation, common sense, the study of the human body, physics, and pedagogy.
Golf Natural Guidance by Toni Planells is the teaching system implemented in our academy, based on the skills that students already possess, whether acquired through their daily life or practice of other sports.
Golf Natural Guidance by Toni Planells adapts to each student’s physical abilities to ensure their movement is effective and healthy, preventing injuries. This way, they will become a good golfer in the simplest way possible, with the goal of developing an effective, healthy, and repeatable swing over time.
The teachers at GNG Junior Academy will guide students at all times and become approachable mentors, ensuring they stay on the right path. They never give instructions without first explaining the reasoning behind them, as “only through understanding can effective practice be achieved.”
In our academy, students are divided into groups based on their skill level and developmental age, ensuring they stay motivated to keep learning and achieving new goals.
Junior Academy uses a zone-based training program system, which is designed to focus on specific areas of development, ensuring targeted improvement in each aspect of the game.
ADAPTABLE and FUN:
ADAPTABLE because it adapts to each moment of the season, to the level of each group and each player.
FUN because new exercises, new areas, training objectives are continually incorporated… always in a simple way.
GNG Junior Academy has designed hundreds of exercises for each facet of the game, level, age and moment of each player’s sporting life. These are effective exercises, from the first contacts with golf at an early age, to high performance and competition levels. The different areas are: putt, chip, pitch, bunker, long game, course, P&P, physical, psychology and rules.
For the youngest players, the play area is constant, and the difficulty of the exercises is adaptable.
In these areas, the activities that take place are diverse, depending on the time of the season and the player’s skills.
For older players, special emphasis is placed on technique, distance control, spin control, slanted lies, strategy, visualization and hitting routine. We also place importance on learning to compete and acquiring skills appropriate to age and physical development.
JUNIOR ACADEMY PROGRAMS
