Golf Evolution
2026-27 Junior Elite Program
The Golf Evolution Junior Elite Program (JEP) prepares 12-18 year-old golfers for high school and college golf with intensive weekly coaching, competition, and practice from November through March.
The Junior Elite Program fills quickly, with past-year participants getting the first option to renew. The 2026-27 season wait list is already 15 names long (though I try to fit similar aged golfers together). If you’d like to get your golfer on the wait list for winter 2026-27, please contact Erik at 814-873-0811 to get on the waiting list. Do not wait until late summer or fall!
About the Junior Elite Program
Since 2014, Golf Evolution has produced/taught:
- 9 European and PGA Tour Players
- 20+ DI College Players
- 80+ DII and DIII College Players
- 10+ Mini-Tour Players
- 25+ District champions
- 8 Individual/Team State Champions
- 10+ EDGA Champions
- 20+ EDGA Junior Champions
- 6 US Kids Golf Players of the Year
- 15 Hurricane Junior Tour Champions
- 20+ Competitors in National USGA Events
The Golf Evolution Junior Elite Program (JEP) allows juniors to train with the same proven methods on a weekly basis throughout the winter to keep games sharp for the next season. Our 10,000 square foot indoor facility provides the perfect setting to reach every goal, whether it’s to make a high school or college team, compete on local and national junior tours, or simply to get better (and beat your parents!). We want you or your child to be the next addition to the bullet list above!
In 2026-27, I expect to accept 28-32 junior golfers. Interested junior golfers should be aged 12-18 and prepared for an intensive, small-group training program to run for five months from November through March. Groups of four golfers will receive 90 minutes of weekly training on weekend mornings to prepare for the 2027 golf season and beyond.
Dedicated Golf Evolution junior golfers get results: at the junior level, at the high school level, and at the collegiate level. Candidates for the GE Junior Elite Program must show a passion and desire to take their game to the next level. They must be willing to work a little — this isn’t just a weekend activity.
Classes are taught by Erik J. Barzeski, PGA, who is:
- Former head coach at Penn-State Behrend, NCAA National Championship and AMCC Champions four of the 9 years.
- Named to Golf Digest‘s “Best Young Teachers in America,” 2016-17.
- Named to Golf Digest‘s “Best in State (PA),” 2017-22.
- 2019 Western New York section PGA Teacher of the Year.
Contact Erik at erik@golfevolution.com or by texting 814-873-0811.
Space is extremely limited every year, so please do not wait to message me to get on the wait list.
2026-27 Program Details
For $1550*, accepted junior golfers will get:
- Eighteen 90-minute small group instruction sessions focusing on the full swing, short game, putting, gameplanning, mental strategies, practice routines, and tournament preparation from November through March.
- A 12-month membership to the Golf Evolution facility through October 31 of the next season so golfers can practice throughout the week (5 am to 11 pm, 7 days a week).
- Access to the latest technology we have to offer at Golf Evolution.
- A JEP-exclusive rate for ongoing lessons throughout the spring and summer
* Cost is $1600 with 5 monthly payments of $320 due the first session of the first five months (Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar), or a one-time payment of $1550 due at the first session. Cash or check only. Non-resident golfers (or golfers who already have a family membership) may participate for $1200 or payments of $250 without a membership.
Junior Development Philosophy
Improving at golf involves three phases: swing/stroke, skills, and scoring. In the first three months of the JEP, I focus on the swing/stroke phase. We improve the golfer’s mechanics and technique, as that sets the golfer’s performance floor. We’ll cover the swings and strokes of the game from tee to green — full swing, short game, and putting. Most of the last two months will be focused on improving the skills, which determine a golfer’s ceiling, and engage in increasingly big competitions to hone the scoring aspect of the game (though much of that work occurs in the spring and summer).
I take feedback during and after each session: what worked and what didn’t. What golfers enjoyed. What can make the JEP more effective. I match that against my experience having coached juniors for 16+ years and refining the JEP for a decade to create a tweaked and improved program each year.
Ultimately, the golfer will get out of it what they put into it. If you or your junior golfer are interested in getting as good at the game of golf as they can, with aspirations in high school, college, and beyond, the JEP can help get them where they want to go.
Summer Support
We Support our Junior Elite Golfers Throughout the Next Summer
Golfers who participate in our 2026-27 Junior Elite Program aren’t just sent out to compete in events when the calendar turns to April. I continue to support JEP golfers by offering ongoing lessons at a special rate, checking in with them or caddying for them in some events, working with them on their tournament schedule, preparing them to play in high school or college, and much, much more.
