All classes are conducted exclusively by Ed LeBeau. His approach to golf instruction employs a "club focused instruction" acquired from Ed's years of working with Manuel de la Torre.
For more than 20 years Ed has been a student of golf professional, Manuel de la Torre. Manuel is the PGA of America’s inaugural recipient of their National Teacher of the Year award. Subsequently, he is among the very few instructors inducted into both the PGA Hall of Fame as well as the World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame.
Manuel’s approach to golf instruction is straightforward to understand and employ:
- Golf is a game of sending the ball to a target.
- The club is solely responsible for controlling the ball.
- Teach the golfer how to use the club to control the ball.
Heartland's instruction is referred to as “club-focused” instruction. This is in contrast to the conventional and more confusing "body-focused" instruction.
First conceived by World Golf Hall of Fame instructor, Ernest Jones, it has stood the test of time for over 100 years. Manuel de la Torre has been the world’s most renowned expert on Jones’ golf instruction and has further enhanced that instruction based on his more than 50 years’ of experience. He has taught players on the PGA Tour, LPGA Tour, and Champions Tour. He has also helped thousands of amateurs, many of whom traveled from abroad, to learn from him.
Ed was attracted to Manuel de la Torre’s instruction, because it proved to accomplish two critical objectives better than any alternative available then or now:
- It de-mystifies the golf swing making it easy to understand
- It simplified the golf swing making it easy for players to experience improvement.
