KemperSports Practice Facilities and Teaching Professionals Receive Awards from the Golf Range Association of America

The Golf Range Association of America (GRAA) recently revealed their 2025 award winners, and 14 KemperSports golf facilities and five KemperSports team members have been recognized with an award for their commitment to player development and passion for growing the game of golf.

KemperSports practice facilities and team members honored by the GRAA among the best in golf include:

Top 50 Public Ranges (see full list):

• Black Gold Golf Club (Yorba Linda, CA)
• Bolingbrook Golf Club (Bolingbrook, IL)
• Cantigny Golf (Wheaton, IL)
• Chambers Bay (University Place, WA)
• Colwood Golf Center (Portland, OR)
• Deerpath Golf Course (Lake Forest, IL)
• Desert Willow Golf Resort (Palm Desert, CA)
• Galloping Hill Golf Course (Kenilworth, NJ)
• Harborside International Golf Club (Chicago, IL)
• Lyman Orchards Golf Center (Middlefield, CT)
• Pruneridge Golf Club (Santa Clara, CA)
• The Glen Club (Glenview, IL)
• Thornberry Creek at Oneida (Oneida, WI)

Top 100 Growth of the Game Teaching Professionals (see full list)

• Jake Bader, Colwood Golf Center
• Matt Montecucco, Chambers Bay
• Alex Cavaliere, Lyman Orchards Golf Center

Growth of the Game Teaching Professionals Elite Member Status (see full list)

• Ryan Young, Chambers Bay
• John Dipollina, Lyman Orchards Golf Center

Every year, the GRAA honors the top 50 ranges and practice facilities that cater to the public golfer, the private facilities that serve an exclusive membership and those that offer a stand-alone experience.

Criteria for the top 50 looks at each facility’s amenities, programming, community outreach, customer engagement and retention, technology integration, revenue and more. A separate ranking list also recognizes the top 100 teachers who have proven themselves as leaders in inspiring a love for the game in their students, as well as an additional top 100 list of teaching professionals and coaches who have distinguished themselves as the “best of the best” by being named a GRAA Top 100 Growth of the Game Teaching Professional more than five times, earning them Elite Member Status.