Academy at Fairfield

Lessons Leveraging Trackman Technology

Take your game farther with lessons from experienced PGA Professionals utilizing TrackMan which provides the best club data in the industry.

Our professional staff will analyze your golf swing and provide expert instruction to optimize game improvement. Learn how to understand TrackMan data and maximize your practice efficiency.

Elevate Your Game With Our Team

We recommend discussing your goals with our certified professional team to determine the best path for improvement. We partner with TPI certified instructors to provide instruction AND fitness as a bundle to ensure our team is instructing based on your physical capabilities.

Golf Lessons Using Trackman

Take your game farther with lessons from experienced PGA Professionals utilizing TrackMan which provides the best club data in the industry.

Our professional staff will analyze your golf swing and provide expert instruction to optimize game improvement. Learn how to understand TrackMan data and maximize your practice efficiency

Junior Clinics and group instruction also available.

Private Lessons

$ 140 /hour

Fitness Assessment

Call for Options

Meet our instructors

dustin wrighter, PGA

Director of Golf

Dustin is an avid lifetime golfer and was elected into the PGA of America as a Class A professional in 2015. He attended Methodist University (BA & PGM), and has over 10 years experience in the industry across many facets of the business. He is also certified with over 20 different major club and shaft manufacturers. This level of expertise has led him to be one of the most trusted equipment experts in Westchester county. His past experience includes manage the Learning Center at Methodist University, Manager and golf pro of the MCG Golf Studio, coaching at GolfTec and Club Champion.

Lesson Rate: $140/hour

frank darby, PGA

Golf Instructor

Frank Darby. Fairfield, Connecticut. Member of The PGA of America for 39 years. Golf Professional at Nissequogue Golf Club for 13 year. Director of Golf at Colonial Springs Golf Club. Head Golf Coach at St.John’s University where Frank recruited and coached 2011 PGA Champion Keegan Bradley, along with PGA Tour player Andrew Svoboda and Ryan McCormick, Korn Ferry.

Tournament Operations Director for the Met PGA section, coordinating and implementing over 1700 golf tournaments. Host of ON COURSE at SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio. Host of CT Flagstick on www.ICRV radio.

Teaching Philosophy : “Swing The Clubhead” Ernest Jones.. Major Focus on PGA – Posture, Grip and Alignment fundamentals. “Swing your Swing”
Know your golf swing and how to stay on track. Learn how to practice properly!! Utilize our TRACKMAN program and how to understand your statistics.. Performance specialist and Junior Golf Development with emphasis on helping juniors play in High School and College Golf.

1 Hour Private Lesson - $140
30 Minutes Private Lesson - $75
1 Hour Group Lesson For 2 - $180
1 Hour Group Lesson For 3 - $200
Lesson Packages available at Promotional Rates

John Humphreys, PGA

Golf Instructor

I have 18 years of teaching and coaching experience and have been a PGA Member for the past 12 years. I have extensive tournament experience and also played collegiately for 4 years at the University of Connecticut. I embrace the challenge of coaching golfers of all abilities from pure beginner up to collegiate players. My mission with every student is to give them the knowledge and technique to achieve their performance goals and enjoy the game of golf to its fullest.

1 Hour Private Lesson: $140

Mike Fournier

Golf Instructor

I played college golf at West Texas. Have been training with George Gankas and Johnny Ruiz for over 3 years. My goal is to find the correct match up with all my students. Teaching them the parameters of the golf swing. I love working with players at every skill level (Junior Golfers to Collegiate Golfers). My goal is to teach you how to score and self correct. I want to teach you how to be your OWN golf coach. Mike and his wife Channing reside in Fairfield, Ct and are expecting a baby girl in May.

1 Hour Private Lesson: $140

AJ Berglund

Golf Instructor

AJ, was born and raised in Connecticut, he decided to make his career golf and went to the Professional Golfer’s Career College in Winter Garden, FL. He got his degree in Professional Golf Management and is an apprentice member of the PGA program. AJ spent three season at the Connecticut Golf Club in Easton, later two seasons at Hollow Brook Golf Club, in NY. Currently he’s been at Anglebrook Golf Club in Somers NY as the first assistant for the last five seasons. AJ over the past two years integrated Trackman technology into his teaching which continues to help make his students better and learn about the golf swing. 

AJ says his teaching philosophy is “I believe that no two people are the same, therefore no two golf lessons should be the same.  But with solid fundamentals (posture, grip, and alinement) success can be obtained.  No matter the individual, these three fundamentals are crucial to becoming successful at this game. 

Lesson Rate: $140/hour

Jake Rotherham

Golf Instructor

Jake Rotherham is a PGA Assistant Golf Professional at Brooklawn Country Club in Fairfield, where he has taught and coached players of all ages and abilities for the last 7 years.  Jake is a TPI (Titleist Performance Institute) Certified Coach (www.mytpi.com), and a U.S. Kids Golf Certified Coach (uskidsgolf.com).

Through TPI, an industry leader in golf fitness and biomechanics, Jake has focused his coaching around functional mobility in the golf swing. His believes that understanding how each individual student’s body moves and works is a critical step to building a successful and repeatable golf swing. This marriage of fitness and golf allows a player to maximize their physical ability, limit the potential for injury, and live a healthier life.

As a U.S. Kids Certified Coach, Jake has worked with Junior Golfers ranging from 4 year olds first picking up a club, to elite high school and college players. He believes team based coaching, golf fitness, and “gamification” of golf allow for junior golfers to build skills, gain knowledge, and develop a love for the game. Jake is “Making Champions in Golf & Life.”

Raleigh Taylor

Golf Fitness Instructor

Whether you’re trying to make your body move more fluidly or you’re trying to hit bombs, you’ve come to the right place. As a lifelong athlete, Raleigh has developed a ground up system that stresses fundamentals and maximizes power. Rooted in functional strength training, his clients learn how to squat, lunge, hinge, press, pull, rotate and carry first, then the focus turns to speed and power. Raleigh’s passion is to ensure every client leaves moving better while attaining their goals. His client list includes professional athletes to high handicappers and everywhere in between. Raleigh exemplifies a positive attitude that has no room for excuses or shortcuts.

Raleigh is certified in TPI, NASM CPT, NASM CES, NASM GOLF, and TRX