Academy Instructors

Chima McLean Eddie Maunder Jeff Hay
     
Chima McLean, Director of Instruction

Chima was one of three finalists nominated for Ontario PGA Teacher of the year in 2006. He spent five years honing his playing skills as a member of the Canadian Professional Golf Tour playing with such high profile PGA Tour players as Ian Leggatt and Mike Weir. Chima continues to compete at a high level winning the 1999 Ontario PGA Summer Championship. His engaging and creative teaching style enables him to relate as easily with beginners as he does with Tour Professionals. A member of the CPGA since 1988, Chima has attained the association's highest level of teaching accreditation. He was an instructor at the CPGA Accreditation Teaching Program and continues to instruct top Toronto area teaching and touring professionals.

Eddie Maunder, Teaching Professional

 

Eddie Maunder has played the Canadian Tour for six seasons and has been a tournament professional member of the CPGA for the past eight years. He has been one of the top touring professionals in Canada since 2001 with several top 10 finishes on the Canadian Tour and numerous wins on mini tours such as Florida’s Moonlight Tour and the Ontario based Great Lakes Tour.

Since leaving the Canadian Tour in 2006, Eddie has developed his passion for teaching and coaching. He enjoys working with golfer’s that are serious about improving their golf games and takes a complete approach to his instruction. He combines his knowledge from his educational background and understanding of the body and develops a lesson program that is specific to each student’s golfing ability, fitness capacity, and flexibility levels. Eddie has been Head Instructor at the indoor golf academy at the prestigious Granite Club in Toronto where he developed and implemented all the lesson programs for men, women, and juniors.  He spent this last summer as the Head Teaching Professional at Deerfield Golf Club in Oakville.

 

Jeff Hay, Head Teaching Professional

 

Over the past 25 years of working in the golf industry, Jeff has worked with and for some of the most influential and highly regarded names in the golf industry, such as Ben Kern, Tom Jackson and Mark Evershed.

 

Highlights of his career include:

  • 18 years as a professional with a strong teaching background.

  • Former Director of Instruction for Virtually Perfect Golf.

  • Worked with Tom Jackson, the former Director of Instruction at the Clublink Academy.

  • Worked 4 years with elite instructor Mark Evershed.

  • Instructor for famed National G.C. Elite Junior Program.

  • Former Head Pro at the National G.C. under the tutelage of Ben Kern.