About Pat Lenski, PGA

Pat’s teaching philosophy in a sentence— “Using technology and my experience to teach students to understand the cause and effect of their golf swing, creating self-reliant, athletic golfers.”

Born and raised in Geneva Illinois, Pat’s golf instruction education includes time at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and a bachelor’s degree from Lake Forest College. Mr. Lenski has been a Class ‘A’ Member of the PGA since 1995 and his work experience includes 3 seasons at the famous Lake Nona Club in Orlando where he honed his golf coaching skills observing the great David Leadbetter.

Following his time in Florida, he became Head Golf Professional at the historic Geneva Golf Club in Geneva where he spent 16 years. Pat is a Titleist Performance Institute Certified Golf Instructor and Titleist Certified Club fitter. In addition, he teaches with the Trackman Launch Monitor System and is a firm believer in the synergy of golf fitness and proper golf swing fundamentals.

Pat has been recognized for his work with junior golf in the tri-cities and has been a PGA Teaching Professional at Mill Creek Golf Club since 2014 where he runs junior programming and coaches PGA Junior League summer teams. In 2018 he was proud to have 2 state champions, Sarah Arnold & Catie Nekola from St. Charles North high school.

In April 2019, student Josh Pehl qualified for the Drive, Chip & Putt finals at Augusta National during Masters week! In June, student Sarah Arnold won the Illinois Women’s Amateur and also qualified for the USGA Junior Girls Championship. In October student Katherine Lemke was medalist at the IHSA regional (71) and sectional (76) qualifying and finished 12th in the IHSA Girls State tournament. Currently Pat has 5 students playing college golf, Emma Carpenter, University of Minnesota, Sarah Arnold, Western Kentucky University, Katherine Lemke, Creighton University, Taylor Martin, Trinity Christian & Sam Faulhaber College of DuPage. In Addition, Catie Nekola (St. Charles North) & Reese Clark (Geneva) both graduating high school in 2022 will be playing Division I golf next fall. Catie will be attending the University of South Dakota and Reese will be playing for High Point University in North Carolina.