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O.J. Amaya Junior Golf Academy offers professional golf instruction for juniors through a junior golf academy, weekly junior clinics, and a PGA Jr League Golf team. The program includes taking juniors out on the golf course and uses structured golf education that has also been brought to elementary schools. An integral part of the academy is taking juniors onto the course using PGA Family Tees, and the academy utilizes the US Kids Golf Player Pathway as a framework for its instruction.
• Ages: 6–12 years old
O.J. Amaya Junior Golf Academy is led by O.J. Amaya, a Class A PGA Professional golf instructor with a 30-year career as a professional golf instructor. O.J. began his PGA apprenticeship in 1992, became a Class A PGA Member in 1996, and has given thousands of lessons. His experience includes working as a teaching professional, serving as assistant golf coach at Francis Parker School from 2006–2014, and partnering with Golf Squad between 2014–2017 to bring structured golf education to elementary schools in the Chula Vista area. His teaching philosophy is to make golf fun for children by using game-based teaching methods that create an energized learning environment, kid-friendly competition, immediate feedback, and confidence-building early in the learning process.
O.J. Amaya is a US Kids Golf Top 50 Master Kids Coach, TPI Certified Level 1, Junior Level 2 and Golf Level 3, a Golfing Machine Authorized Instructor, and a Master Clubfitter for Henry-Griffitts, Inc. He was honored as the San Diego Chapter of the Southern California Section PGA of America Clubfitter of the Year in 2005, recognized by US Kids Golf as a Top 50 Kids Coach in 2020 and 2021, selected as a US Kids Golf Master Kids Coach in 2022, and honored as the PGA Southern California Section, San Diego Chapter Teacher & Coach of the Year in 2022. He is the only teaching professional in the South Bay to field a PGA Jr League Golf team and has done so since the program’s inception in 2012. Weekly junior clinics at the academy are regularly sold out, and O.J. is fluent in Spanish.
Last updated June 14, 2026.
• Ages: 6–12 years old
O.J. Amaya Junior Golf Academy is led by O.J. Amaya, a Class A PGA Professional golf instructor with a 30-year career as a professional golf instructor. O.J. began his PGA apprenticeship in 1992, became a Class A PGA Member in 1996, and has given thousands of lessons. His experience includes working as a teaching professional, serving as assistant golf coach at Francis Parker School from 2006–2014, and partnering with Golf Squad between 2014–2017 to bring structured golf education to elementary schools in the Chula Vista area. His teaching philosophy is to make golf fun for children by using game-based teaching methods that create an energized learning environment, kid-friendly competition, immediate feedback, and confidence-building early in the learning process.
O.J. Amaya is a US Kids Golf Top 50 Master Kids Coach, TPI Certified Level 1, Junior Level 2 and Golf Level 3, a Golfing Machine Authorized Instructor, and a Master Clubfitter for Henry-Griffitts, Inc. He was honored as the San Diego Chapter of the Southern California Section PGA of America Clubfitter of the Year in 2005, recognized by US Kids Golf as a Top 50 Kids Coach in 2020 and 2021, selected as a US Kids Golf Master Kids Coach in 2022, and honored as the PGA Southern California Section, San Diego Chapter Teacher & Coach of the Year in 2022. He is the only teaching professional in the South Bay to field a PGA Jr League Golf team and has done so since the program’s inception in 2012. Weekly junior clinics at the academy are regularly sold out, and O.J. is fluent in Spanish.
Last updated June 14, 2026.
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