Eastern Michigan Athletics
Men's Golf
Young, Jordan
Jordan Young
- Title:
- Asst. Golf Coach
A former student-athlete at Eastern Michigan University, Jordan Young continues to work as the assistant men's golf coach. Young, whose drive to coach and teach led him to become both a Section and national education contributor, was named the recipient of the 2013 PGA Player Development Award.
Young, also the PGA director of instruction at Fox Hills Learning Center in Plymouth, Mich., is an eight-year member of The PGA of America and is the first member of the Michigan PGA Section to be named recipient of the PGA Player Development Award, (formerly The President's Plaque), which was established in 1982, and in 2006 became a special award that supports Play Golf America initiatives.
Born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, Young was a downhill skier in his early teen years before he went through a wide range of injuries that convinced him that he would be better served devoting his time to golf. Young was introduced to the game at age nine by his maternal grandfather and became skilled to play collegiately at Eastern Michigan. Following graduation in 1994, Young competed on the Canada PGA Tour from 1995 through 1998. He returned from the Tour to work at private golf clubs in Michigan for the next 12 years.
Young, a Canadian citizen, applied for permanent U.S. residency in 1997, and is in his seventh season at Fox Hills Learning Center, a model in Play Golf America programming. Under Young's direction, Fox Hills developed a Junior Performance Center; launched a Junior Golf Camp in 2009 that now features more than 120 participants; hosted a winter golf school; coordinated women's programs; fitness programs; a high school coaches' "Open House;" secured a clubfitting and custom repair specialist; built community outreach with the local Plymouth (Mich.) Rotary chapter; and advanced its social media technology by promoting Global Golf Lessons.
He is in his second term on the Michigan PGA Board of Directors and in his second year at president of the Section's Eastern Chapter. He was the 2012 Michigan PGA Teacher of the Year, the 2011 Section Horton Smith Award recipient and the 2009 and '11 Section Player Development Award. He has been named to the U.S. Kids Golf Top 50 Instructor list in 2009, '11 and '12.
In 2009, Young founded the Michigan PGA Teaching & Coaching Summit, with his first feature speaker, the late Jim Flick, the legendary PGA Golf Professional Hall of Famer. Young was chair of the Summit Committee through 2010 and continues to serve on the committee that annually engages more than 300 Section professionals and contributes $10,000 annually for Section education programs.
In the winter of 2012, Young helped plan and coordinate the first Motor City Golf and Travel Show in Detroit. The event attracted nearly 10,000 attendees.
Young and his wife, Kristin, live in Flat Rock, Mich., and are parents of a son, Dylan.
Young, also the PGA director of instruction at Fox Hills Learning Center in Plymouth, Mich., is an eight-year member of The PGA of America and is the first member of the Michigan PGA Section to be named recipient of the PGA Player Development Award, (formerly The President's Plaque), which was established in 1982, and in 2006 became a special award that supports Play Golf America initiatives.
Born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, Young was a downhill skier in his early teen years before he went through a wide range of injuries that convinced him that he would be better served devoting his time to golf. Young was introduced to the game at age nine by his maternal grandfather and became skilled to play collegiately at Eastern Michigan. Following graduation in 1994, Young competed on the Canada PGA Tour from 1995 through 1998. He returned from the Tour to work at private golf clubs in Michigan for the next 12 years.
Young, a Canadian citizen, applied for permanent U.S. residency in 1997, and is in his seventh season at Fox Hills Learning Center, a model in Play Golf America programming. Under Young's direction, Fox Hills developed a Junior Performance Center; launched a Junior Golf Camp in 2009 that now features more than 120 participants; hosted a winter golf school; coordinated women's programs; fitness programs; a high school coaches' "Open House;" secured a clubfitting and custom repair specialist; built community outreach with the local Plymouth (Mich.) Rotary chapter; and advanced its social media technology by promoting Global Golf Lessons.
He is in his second term on the Michigan PGA Board of Directors and in his second year at president of the Section's Eastern Chapter. He was the 2012 Michigan PGA Teacher of the Year, the 2011 Section Horton Smith Award recipient and the 2009 and '11 Section Player Development Award. He has been named to the U.S. Kids Golf Top 50 Instructor list in 2009, '11 and '12.
In 2009, Young founded the Michigan PGA Teaching & Coaching Summit, with his first feature speaker, the late Jim Flick, the legendary PGA Golf Professional Hall of Famer. Young was chair of the Summit Committee through 2010 and continues to serve on the committee that annually engages more than 300 Section professionals and contributes $10,000 annually for Section education programs.
In the winter of 2012, Young helped plan and coordinate the first Motor City Golf and Travel Show in Detroit. The event attracted nearly 10,000 attendees.
Young and his wife, Kristin, live in Flat Rock, Mich., and are parents of a son, Dylan.
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