Dairy Creek Junior Golf Lessons & First Tee Programs
Dairy Creek Golf Course, 2990 Dairy Creek Rd, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
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Dairy Creek Junior Golf Lessons & First Tee Programs offers golf instruction for young players through individual golf lessons, group golf lessons, junior group coaching, and private junior lessons. The program includes on-course learning opportunities such as 9-hole on-course lessons, golf clinics, and small group golf instruction. Participants use the driving range, practice greens, chipping greens, bunker greens, and Swing Time powered by Toptracer, and some lessons use FlightScope/Trackman technology.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Price: Alicia Allison rates: Junior golfers: $50 for 45 minutes; package of 3 lessons: $135. Private: $80 for 60 minutes; package of 3 lessons: $225. 2 persons: $120 for 60 minutes; package of 3 lessons: $330. Groups: contact for pricing. Mike Brabenec rates: Private: $75; series of 3 lessons: $210. Couples: $100; series of 3 lessons: $280. Junior: $60; series of 3 lessons: $165. Scott Cartwright rates: Private lessons driving range: $70; short game: $50; 9-hole on-course: $75; FlightScope/Trackman: $90; group/clinics: call for pricing. Zack King rates: Private adult lessons: $60; youth lessons (age 5-21): $40; lesson packages available; group/clinics offered.
The instruction team includes several experienced golf professionals and coaches. Alicia Allison is an LPGA Golf Professional, Titleist Performance Institute Level 1 Certified, a First Tee Level III Coach, joined the LPGA teaching division in 2003, played on the Duke University women’s golf team, and toured for a year on the Symetra/Futures Tour. Darren Avrit is a Cal Poly professor who specializes in coaching and golf instruction and is a certified First Tee coach. Mike Brabenec is a PGA Golf Professional, PGA Member, Certified First Tee Coach, and a graduate of California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo with a B.S. in Recreation Administration, with over 26 years of golf instruction and coaching experience. Scott Cartwright is a PGA Golf Professional, a multisport athlete in college in baseball and golf, played both sports professionally, has been a PGA Member since 1981, is a former Junior Golf Director for the Southern California PGA, a former Head Golf Professional at Mountain View Country Club and San Luis Obispo Country Club, and is the current Head Golf Coach for Cal Poly’s Men’s Golf team. Zack King is a PGA Golf Professional with over 30 years of competitive experience and 15 years of teaching experience, is a Cal Poly graduate and former NCAA Division I golf athlete, has competed at the professional level, has been a PGA member since 2014, and is TPI and First Tee Certified. Wes McKee is a golf coach who grew up in San Luis playing competitive golf for San Luis Obispo High School and Fresno State, coaches the Boys and Girls Golf Teams at San Luis Obispo High School, and uses video and TopTracer technology in instruction.
Dairy Creek Junior Golf Lessons & First Tee Programs is part of a facility that includes the Tom Lehman Learning Center, which is used by the Cal Poly Golf Teams and is open to the public. Dairy Creek is a host site for The First Tee Central Coast on Friday afternoons, and multiple instructors are Certified First Tee Coaches. The course is described as the Central Coast’s premier nine-hole, par 36 golf experience and is a links-style golf course that works in harmony with nature, with chance encounters with wildlife on the course. Dairy Creek is one of SLO County Park's trio of golf courses. The Opening Day tournament in 1997 benefitted high school golf in San Luis Obispo County. The leadership team includes Josh Heptig as Golf Superintendent and Joe Oles as Pro Shop Manager. The program’s stated mission is to grow the game of golf by providing fun, affordable learning opportunities to players with various levels of ability, and it states that it believes golf to be a truly enjoyable recreational activity and aims to share its passion for the game in hopes that it will light a flame inside of the player. One instructor, Mike Brabenec, sends each student an email summary, pictures, and video after every golf lesson highlighting critical points, and Coach McKee uses video and TopTracer to teach physical fundamentals and mental skills. Construction of the course began in 1994, and its Opening Day tournament was held March 22, 1997, on land that was deeded to the County of San Luis Obispo in 1972 during President Nixon’s Legacy of Parks program, after Guiseppe Gilardi and Charles Walter purchased the land of Dairy Creek in 1904.
Last updated March 15, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Price: Alicia Allison rates: Junior golfers: $50 for 45 minutes; package of 3 lessons: $135. Private: $80 for 60 minutes; package of 3 lessons: $225. 2 persons: $120 for 60 minutes; package of 3 lessons: $330. Groups: contact for pricing. Mike Brabenec rates: Private: $75; series of 3 lessons: $210. Couples: $100; series of 3 lessons: $280. Junior: $60; series of 3 lessons: $165. Scott Cartwright rates: Private lessons driving range: $70; short game: $50; 9-hole on-course: $75; FlightScope/Trackman: $90; group/clinics: call for pricing. Zack King rates: Private adult lessons: $60; youth lessons (age 5-21): $40; lesson packages available; group/clinics offered.
The instruction team includes several experienced golf professionals and coaches. Alicia Allison is an LPGA Golf Professional, Titleist Performance Institute Level 1 Certified, a First Tee Level III Coach, joined the LPGA teaching division in 2003, played on the Duke University women’s golf team, and toured for a year on the Symetra/Futures Tour. Darren Avrit is a Cal Poly professor who specializes in coaching and golf instruction and is a certified First Tee coach. Mike Brabenec is a PGA Golf Professional, PGA Member, Certified First Tee Coach, and a graduate of California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo with a B.S. in Recreation Administration, with over 26 years of golf instruction and coaching experience. Scott Cartwright is a PGA Golf Professional, a multisport athlete in college in baseball and golf, played both sports professionally, has been a PGA Member since 1981, is a former Junior Golf Director for the Southern California PGA, a former Head Golf Professional at Mountain View Country Club and San Luis Obispo Country Club, and is the current Head Golf Coach for Cal Poly’s Men’s Golf team. Zack King is a PGA Golf Professional with over 30 years of competitive experience and 15 years of teaching experience, is a Cal Poly graduate and former NCAA Division I golf athlete, has competed at the professional level, has been a PGA member since 2014, and is TPI and First Tee Certified. Wes McKee is a golf coach who grew up in San Luis playing competitive golf for San Luis Obispo High School and Fresno State, coaches the Boys and Girls Golf Teams at San Luis Obispo High School, and uses video and TopTracer technology in instruction.
Dairy Creek Junior Golf Lessons & First Tee Programs is part of a facility that includes the Tom Lehman Learning Center, which is used by the Cal Poly Golf Teams and is open to the public. Dairy Creek is a host site for The First Tee Central Coast on Friday afternoons, and multiple instructors are Certified First Tee Coaches. The course is described as the Central Coast’s premier nine-hole, par 36 golf experience and is a links-style golf course that works in harmony with nature, with chance encounters with wildlife on the course. Dairy Creek is one of SLO County Park's trio of golf courses. The Opening Day tournament in 1997 benefitted high school golf in San Luis Obispo County. The leadership team includes Josh Heptig as Golf Superintendent and Joe Oles as Pro Shop Manager. The program’s stated mission is to grow the game of golf by providing fun, affordable learning opportunities to players with various levels of ability, and it states that it believes golf to be a truly enjoyable recreational activity and aims to share its passion for the game in hopes that it will light a flame inside of the player. One instructor, Mike Brabenec, sends each student an email summary, pictures, and video after every golf lesson highlighting critical points, and Coach McKee uses video and TopTracer to teach physical fundamentals and mental skills. Construction of the course began in 1994, and its Opening Day tournament was held March 22, 1997, on land that was deeded to the County of San Luis Obispo in 1972 during President Nixon’s Legacy of Parks program, after Guiseppe Gilardi and Charles Walter purchased the land of Dairy Creek in 1904.
Last updated March 15, 2026.
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