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Nicole Weller

Leland, NC

Nicole Weller
Compass Pointe Golf Club
912-695-5211

I love teaching through a Socratic teaching style that educates and entertains during my visits. Using visual, verbal or feel cues depending on the person's learning style, I try to help relay the Why and the How in fun ways to make it a super enjoyable experience for each student to learn based on their goals and skill level. My Master's Degree in sport psychology can also help with the best ways to practice to learn and apply the skill through block and transfer practice drills, more fun when it also works on the course!

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  • LPGA Class A

  • PGA of America Class A

  • Proponent Group Member

  • TPI Level 2

  • TPI Junior

  • US Kids Golf Master Teacher

  • GRAA Growth of the Game Teacher

  • 2002: Coyle & Cassidy High School Athlete Hall of Fame   Inductee

  • 2004: Isshinryu Karate Sho-Dan Black Belt

  • 2004: Tennessee PGA Knoxville Chapter 'Junior Leader of the Year'

  • 2005: GOLF Magazine 'Southeast Region Top Teacher' - February Issue

  • 2007 & 2009: Georgia PGA East Chapter 'Teacher of the Year'

  • 2010: Golf Digest Magazine Top 40 under 40 'Best Young Teacher'

  • 2010, 2011, 2012: U.S. Kids Golf 'Top 50 Kids Teacher'

  • 2011: LPGA T&CP Southeast 'Teacher of the Year'

  • 2012: Golf Digest 'America's Best 50 Women Teachers'

  • 2012, 2013: LPGA T&CP Southeast Junior Golf Achievement Winner

  • 2012: Georgia PGA Section Horton Smith Trophy Recipient

  • 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016: GRAA Top 50 Growth of the Game Teaching   Professional

  •  2013: PGA National Junior Golf Leader **

  • 2013: LPGA T&CP National Junior Golf Leader **

  • 2013: U.S. Kids Golf Master KidsTeacher

  • 2015: Golf Digest Best Teacher in State (13th on Georgia list)

  • 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023: LPGA Top 50 Teachers 

  • 2017 & 2018: GRAA December Golf Range Magazine Growth of the Game Elite   Status Member

  • 2021: Golf Digest Best Teacher in State (4th on NC list)

  • 2023: Golf Digest Best Teacher in State (3rd on NC list and only female   instructor listed)

  • 2024: Four nominations for the 2024 Carolinas PGA Teacher of the Year Award

Raised in Lakeville, Massachusetts and beginning golf near age 4 alongside her father as he took up the game, Nicole Weller rose through youth golf and women's amateur golf competition before playing on scholarship for Wake Forest University, where she earned her B.A. in Psychology ('94). Nicole followed with a master's degree in sport psychology at The University of Tennessee-Knoxville ('95) and proceeded to enter into both the LPGA and PGA of America certification programs while working as an assistant professional at Cherokee Country Club in Knoxville. Nicole progressed as a teaching professional at Fairways and Green Golf Center in Knoxville, where she grew the LPGA*USGA Girls Golf chapter there from 15 to nearly 80 girls ages 4-17 and served as president of Girls Golf Inc. as a 501c3 entity before moving to Savannah, Georgia, with her husband (PGA member and Head Golf Professional Ty Weller). Nicole enjoyably served members and their guests there at The Landings Club as Head Teaching Professional before shifting to Pinehurst where she taught with the prestigious Pinehurst Resort Golf Academy Team as a lead instructor. Nicole currently instructs members and guests at Compass Pointe Golf Club near Wilmington, NC while traveling back to the Pinehurst area to instruct the world-renown Golfari schools at Pine Needles Resort.

Nicole is a Class A member of the PGA of America, the LPGA Professionals and Proponent Group. She served on two PGA National Youth Player Development Committees, an LPGA Education Committee, a PGA Special National Awards Committee and currently serves on the LPGA HOF Committee and the LPGA Education Committee. She has been a part of mentor programs with both the LPGA and PGA. Nicole has also been a presenter at PGA National Youth & Family Summits and the LPGA National Teaching Summit, as well as PGA sections around the country. She will speak at both an LPGA Seminar at the 2025 PGA Merchandise Show and the inaugural 2025 We are the Women in Golf Summit.

Her products include Let's Play Golf sticker activity book for children ages 4-8+ (2011), Match Play Golf educational flashcard memory games for ages 2-6 (2014), Big Thoughts from Little Golfers for adults (2021) and a Golf Scavenger Hunt Puzzle for ages 4-8+ (2023).

Nicole is the only duo award recipient in the same year for both the PGA and LPGA Junior Golf leader Awards (2013) and has earned other honors to include GRAA Top 50 Growth of the Game Teacher, U.S. Kids Golf Master Kids Teacher, Georgia PGA Horton Smith Section Award, Golf Digest Best 50 Women Teachers, Golf Digest Best Young Teacher, Golf Digest Top Teacher in the State, LPGA T&CP Southeast Junior Golf Leader and Teacher of the Year, Georgia PGA East Chapter Teacher of the Year and multi-year LPGA Top 50 Teacher.

Nicole enjoys quiet downtime at home, traveling, baking, home improvement projects, bringing golf to children at the local children's hospital and family time with her husband near Wilmington, NC. Her background includes a European upbringing, with both parents having immigrated to the U.S. from Germany and Switzerland and a brother who now resides overseas. She has been hang gliding, skydiving and has attained a black belt in the Isshinryu martial arts form (weapons, forms, sparring).

For further information, videos and product, please visit www.nicoleweller.com.

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