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Jennifer Alexander Pam Bowers

LAS VEGAS
PHOTOS COURTESY JENNIFER ALEXANDER PHOTOS COURTESY PAM BOWERS

ennifer Alexander is a LPGA teaching pro who was awarded the prestigious 2016 LPGA Sandy
JLaBauve Spirit Award as having the best girls program out of 360 LPGA girls programs nation-
wide. The award for the former lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force was a culmina-
tion of many years of giving back and helping to grow the game. “We encourage the kids in understanding that
Alexander is a teaching professional at Las Vegas Golf Club and has given more than 16,000
lessons in her career. Her impact with the LPGA Girls Golf program is a highlight for her and her excellence, self-control, and “gentlemanliness”
pupils and the entire program has grown nationally and locally since she’s been a part of it.
“When I first started a Girls Golf program in San Francisco, there were only 2,000 girls in the encompasses the golf enigma.”
program nationally,” Alexander says. “Now there are more than 60,000. LPGA Tour commission-
er Michael Whan has set a goal of 100,000 by 2020. I think I won because of the wonderful letters am Bowers is synonymous with junior
from the parents. Our motto is changing lives one swing at a time. These girls are the future, and Pgolf in Southern Nevada, specifically in
females age seven to 17 are the fastest growing demographic in golf.” the Henderson and Green Valley area. She
and her husband Dale operate the Junior Golf
Academy at Desert Willow Golf Club. Bowers
also grew up in Henderson, playing junior
golf and for the Basic High School. She at-
tended San Diego State on a golf scholarship
and played on the Futures Golf Tour, as well
as in several LPGA Tour events. She received
her formal teaching training through the
PGA, Nike Golf, and US Kids Golf.
After receiving the US Kids Golf Top
50 Kids Teacher Award in 2006, 2007, and
2011, Bowers was honored at the 2012 PGA
Show in Orlando with the prestigious Top 50
Master Kids Teacher Award for her lifetime
contributions to Junior Golf. She has also
created the DVD “Got golf: teaching kids golf
swing fundamentals.”
“Our Academy slogan is ‘building swings
from the inside out,’ because we believe golf
is more than executing shots,” Bowers writes.
“We encourage the kids in understanding that
excellence, self-control, and “gentlemanliness”
encompasses the golf enigma. The impact
we are having in our students’ lives is life
changing. Yes, the kids are learning the skills
and fundamentals of the game, but more im-
portantly they are learning to be good people.
The respect they are learning for themselves
and others thrusts them into a part of the
world where honesty, integrity, responsibility,
and caring are highly valued. The kids are
thriving on their own personal growth and
accomplishments on and off the course.”

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