It’s a not-so-fleeting thought dedicated golfers have – at least this one does – when watching the world’s top pros.
If only I had those resources – a team that studied everything about my swing, my unique body, my mindset and my innate skills – I bet I could be pretty great. Or at least better.
But who among us has access to that kind of coaching? To not just good golf lessons, but to a program that builds up every part of your game from holistic to hard-core technique?
Here’s the twist: Thanks to a newly minted golf learning program on Cape Cod, we all do.
The new Blue Rock Academy of Golf (https://bluerockgolfcourse.com/golf-school-overview/) is up and running and in the hands of new Director of Instruction and Head Pro Nick Wiseman, looking to bring strong, solid and fun golf to all, from youth to newbie adults to long-time players hoping to find their way to that elusive next level.
Wiseman is joined by three other pros, a dedicated grounds crew and management who don’t just support but believe in his mission.
“From the time our family opened Blue Rock Golf Course (https://bluerockgolfcourse.com/) in 1962, we have strived to give golfers the best opportunities to improve their game through our instruction offerings,” said Dewitt Davenport, CEO of Blue Rock owners Davenport Companies. “Working off what was already a successful program, our team in the off-season created an entirely new menu of offerings for everyone from juniors to seasoned golfers.”
Wiseman has been formulating this type of program in his mind and in his notebooks for a long time. And his background makes perfect sense. A successful collegiate golfer, he was pre-med – with dreams of being an ophthalmologist – at Hartwick College when he realized his true career path: To combine anatomy and physiology with mechanics and technology to help every golfer find the true north of their game.
Already a well-known pro not just on the Cape but beyond (he was Cape Cod’s PGA Teacher of the Year in 2024), when Wiseman heard Blue Rock might be open to partnering with him to build the learning program he’d long planned, he jumped.
Now, with a top-of-the-line simulator set up, an open and well maintained learning and driving area, a menu of classes from a quick assessment lesson to a long-running multi-lesson program for kids, adults, men, women and a mix, and of course the 18-hole par 3 course that’s known for being not just fun but challenging, he’s got his home base.
I spent a day with Wiseman not just learning about the program but starting my own deep dive into the whats, whys and hows I need to understand and learn to work with (and on) in my own game.
It starts with the “whats,” the part of the equation that comes from Wiseman’s medical studies: how my body works.
After watching me swing for a while, Wiseman measured my wing span, elbow rotation, the length of certain bones, assessed how I bend and move in other ways, and then put it all together.
I am, he tells me, a “left posted side cover style golfer.” He pauses and I freak out. I mean: what the what does that even mean? And then he adds this: “So is Viktor Hovland. And Ben Hogan. And Lorena Ochoa.”
In other words, that assessment isn’t to shame me or even label me; it’s to help the learning team hone in on how to best improve my game with what I have.
As Wiseman sees it, every golfer out there is somewhat unique. Can we overlay the basics? Of course. But when we take those “what’s” and “whys” and think them through, we can get to the “hows” that lead us to the holy grail of better play.
Wiseman has taken time to get to know more about my life as well, not just to solidify the instructor/student bond. He uses what he learns – like my ability to ski well and my addiction to tennis – to find verbal and physical cues to help me.
All that is just the start; the foundation from which every Blue Rock Golf Academy student builds from.
You can grab a day lesson, a series of lessons, sign up with a group, choose one of the many youth programs for your child or treat yourself to a vacation escape multi-day clinic; Wiseman and his team just want to get you out there and feeling good about your game.
The course is ideally suited for learning. An 18-hole par 3, it sends you over some decent water spots four times, has a couple of holes that require a driver for some, and varies hole to hole in ways that makes it play bigger than your average par 3.
It’s also pristine.
For learning and improving like a true pro, I do believe we all now have a team to count on.
