L.A. Golf Academy
Heroes Golf Course, 11301 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90073
About
L.A. Golf Academy offers golf lessons, junior golf lessons, adult golf lessons, a junior golf camp, a golf development after-school program, a golf therapy program, and course play golf instruction. All equipment is provided, including clubs if needed, and lessons are private or with other students the participant already knows. Junior lessons are tailored to the student’s golf experience and cover grip, swing, stance, balance, teeing off, fairway play, pitching and chipping, putting out, club selection, course management, rules, and golf etiquette.
• Ages: 7–18 years old
• Schedule: Private lessons are available every day from 9:00am until sunset, with junior lessons lasting 60 minutes for ages 7–8 and 90 minutes for ages 9 and over, and adult lessons lasting 90 minutes; Junior Golf Camp runs Monday to Friday from 9:30am–1:00pm during Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter school breaks; the Golf Development After-School Program is a co-ed group class on Thursdays from 3:30pm–5:00pm.
• Price: $150/day (includes green fee) for Junior Golf Camp.
All students are taught by PGA Teaching Professional Carlos R. Rodriguez, a Class A PGA Certified and Trained Professional with over 30 years of experience and many years of study and passing golf playing qualifications. Carlos R. Rodriguez is a U.S. Marine, an Aikido practitioner who studied Aikido in Tokyo at the Hombu Dojo, and an instructor at First Tee of Los Angeles. He received the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge The George Washington Honor Medal for his service to disabled veterans in teaching them golf and Aikido and volunteers teaching Veterans in the Greater Los Angeles VA domiciliary Golf Therapy program and at his Four Corners Veterans Foundation. The academy’s leadership team includes PGA Teaching Professional Carlos R. Rodriguez and Manager Pamela Kratochvil.
Carlos’s teaching philosophy centers on harmony between the mental and physical aspects of the golf game, and his philosophy in teaching any subject is that a teacher should break down barriers and preconceptions that may have blocked students from learning skills and concepts. Junior students at L.A. Golf Academy have gone on to win city golf tournaments and join school golf teams. L.A. Golf Academy offers gift certificates.
One Yelp review from Adam S. states that “Carlos is a gifted coach and has been an absolute pleasure to learn from,” noting that Carlos approaches each lesson with confidence and positivity and has the patience to ensure swing fundamentals are trending in the right direction. Another Yelp review from Nicole describes Carlos as a “wonderful teacher and person,” stating that she had never golfed before and that he taught her to golf in one hour the day before a charity event, and she also notes that Pamela, who schedules lessons, is “lovely.”
Last updated March 24, 2026.
• Ages: 7–18 years old
• Schedule: Private lessons are available every day from 9:00am until sunset, with junior lessons lasting 60 minutes for ages 7–8 and 90 minutes for ages 9 and over, and adult lessons lasting 90 minutes; Junior Golf Camp runs Monday to Friday from 9:30am–1:00pm during Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter school breaks; the Golf Development After-School Program is a co-ed group class on Thursdays from 3:30pm–5:00pm.
• Price: $150/day (includes green fee) for Junior Golf Camp.
All students are taught by PGA Teaching Professional Carlos R. Rodriguez, a Class A PGA Certified and Trained Professional with over 30 years of experience and many years of study and passing golf playing qualifications. Carlos R. Rodriguez is a U.S. Marine, an Aikido practitioner who studied Aikido in Tokyo at the Hombu Dojo, and an instructor at First Tee of Los Angeles. He received the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge The George Washington Honor Medal for his service to disabled veterans in teaching them golf and Aikido and volunteers teaching Veterans in the Greater Los Angeles VA domiciliary Golf Therapy program and at his Four Corners Veterans Foundation. The academy’s leadership team includes PGA Teaching Professional Carlos R. Rodriguez and Manager Pamela Kratochvil.
Carlos’s teaching philosophy centers on harmony between the mental and physical aspects of the golf game, and his philosophy in teaching any subject is that a teacher should break down barriers and preconceptions that may have blocked students from learning skills and concepts. Junior students at L.A. Golf Academy have gone on to win city golf tournaments and join school golf teams. L.A. Golf Academy offers gift certificates.
One Yelp review from Adam S. states that “Carlos is a gifted coach and has been an absolute pleasure to learn from,” noting that Carlos approaches each lesson with confidence and positivity and has the patience to ensure swing fundamentals are trending in the right direction. Another Yelp review from Nicole describes Carlos as a “wonderful teacher and person,” stating that she had never golfed before and that he taught her to golf in one hour the day before a charity event, and she also notes that Pamela, who schedules lessons, is “lovely.”
Last updated March 24, 2026.
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