Employee Profiles

Brett Cleverdon turned professional at the age of 19 after qualifying for the 1996 Remax World Long Drive Championships where he finished 15th place, narrowly missing the top 8 by a matter of inches. Brett held the record for highest finish by a teenager until 2007 when current 2 Time World Long Drive Champion Jamie Sadlowski burst onto the scene.

Brett has competed in every Remax World Long Drive Championship since, making it to the finals in Mesquite, NV 10 times.

Brett has won 41 Professional Long Drive events including 5 State Championships and has a career best drive of 486 yards. Brett has also been a multi time member of the Canadian and World Long Drive Teams.

In addition to his competition career, Brett has performed his power golf trick shot show at over 700 golf events worldwide and has taught thousands of private and group lessons.

An accomplished player Brett currently holds two course records including a 66 at his home course Muskoka Bay Club.

This is Brett’s 15th season as a Golf Teaching Professional at Metro Golf Dome. Brett specializes in helping his students increase their distance off the tee and teach the effectiveness controlled speed has on their iron game and shots around the green. For more information on Brett please visit www.longdrivers.ca

The Stiebel Golf Academy provides you with effective learning tools to foster your evolution, understanding, and experience as a golfer. It is our mandate to introduce the most useful aspects of training both for competitive as well as for casual golfers. These can include everything from establishing goals to developing a proper coaching plan to reach them; from understanding how to practice properly to executing and achieving in competition; from nutrition and physical fitness to planning out tournament schedules.

We work with beginners through to professional golfers, women and men, and with juniors and adults.

Justin’s Coaching Philosophy and Style

Every golfer’s learning style can be different. As such we seek to find the golfer’s best method of learning so that the golfer learns in a way that helps him or her to excel at the new skills we explore.

The system I use is both customized and focused for the golfer. We also use one of the most effective forms of technology available to complement our sessions – V1 Video Analysis. This helps the golfer to develop greater body and visual awareness as well as control so that he or she develops, refines, and masters each swing and position in golf.

Justin Stiebel- Highlights

• Class “A” Member – PGA of Canada since 2007,
• PGA of Canada – Teaching & Coaching Certification Program Levels 1-4,
• Coaching Association of Canada – Certified by the National Coaching Certification Program – Level 1 and 2 – Coach New Competitor / Coach Development Competitor,
• A Golf Coach for over 7 years,
• Has instructed over 250 students,
• Graduated with Honours from Professional Golf Management – Georgian College (2002-2005),
• Competed both on the Canadian Junior Golf Association’s (CJGA) tour as well as the American Junior Golf Association’s (AJGA) tour (1998-2000),
• One of Justin’s most enjoyable coaching experiences is seeing his students discovering not just the competition of the game, but the fun as well.

Lucas is in his 12th season at the Metro Golf Dome and is taking on a new full time role as Facility Manager. He and the staff strive to continue to provide the excellent service that customers have come to expect and enjoy.

After spending the past 4 seasons at Remington Parkview Golf & Country Club as the Head teaching professional, Lucas has developed a teaching style that his students really enjoy. He focuses on the fundamentals that are vital for both beginners and more advanced golfers such as Grip, Stance Balance and Swing Plane. Lucas believes that every golfer should be able to thoroughly enjoy the game of golf, and can make improvements in their game to do so. Lucas has worked in the industry for over 12 years and has worked at some of the GTA’s premiere golf courses such as Scarboro Golf and Country Club and Thornhill Golf and Country Club. He has played the game for over 20 years.

Kevin returns to the Metro Golf Dome for his eleventh winter season as Golf Teaching Professional. His teaching philosophy involves using a variety of strategies appropriate to the individual student's learning style. Kevin has been in the golf industry since 1996 and spent ten years having worked as the Assistant Golf Professional at the Owen Sound Golf & Country Club, teaching many members, their guests and local residents.

Kevin is a fully certified Golf Teaching Professional with the Canadian Golf Teachers’ Federation and is a graduate of the Professional Golf Management Program at Humber College. He is also a graduate from York University completing his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Humanities and has recently completed his Masters Degree in Education at Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y.

Kevin has taught well over 3000 lessons and clinics within the past 11 years and strives to take every student’s abilities and different learning styles into consideration when developing their individual golf swing. He has many repeat clients as he connects with his students and uses various methods to convey the importance of good swing mechanics.

Kevin is inspired by the teachings of Ben Hogan and George Knudson. He believes that solid fundamentals including the grip and set-up position are keys to creating and maintaining a consistent, repeatable golf swing.

Jin is a certified golf teaching professional who studied Professional golf Management in Durham College. With many years of experience in the golf industry and professional competition, Jin possesses the necessary knowledge and experience to enhance the game of every golfer, from beginner to seasoned professional.

Jin is fluent in English and Korean. This is perfect for people who speak Korean this will allow a better experience and get that one on one more comfortably. Jin has a hunger for advance in the game of golf. He can teach people along that same path. What makes him an outstanding teacher is his ability to educate a knowledge or theory in more than one way.