golf lessons
Golf Lessons
Whether you're an experienced golfer or wanting to start learning the game, perfect your skills at our state-of-the-art practice facilities with our instructor, Lon Kinney! Lessons available for all skill levels and ages. See more info below about weekly lesson program for kids!
Gator Junior Golf Association
Gator Junior Golf hosts lessons year round for kids of all ages at Juliette Falls.
Private or Group Lessons
Lon can help new players of all ages get comfortable with the game or just help you tune in your skills. Lessons available year round on our state-of-the-art practice facilities!
meet the instructor
Meet Lon Kinney
My golf career started at Saddlebrook golf course in Wesley Chapel Florida, in 1974, where I met Donna my wife now of 44 yrs. We have a daughter Cara 33 yrs. old married and living in Chicago. Donna and I have worked together all through my career while I served apprenticeships at Evansville CC in Indiana, Congressional CC, Potomac, Md. and my final club, Harbour trees GC in Noblesville, Indiana, where I served as the Head Golf Professional for 25 yrs. In 2017 I retired to Dunnellon.
I have always enjoyed promoting the great game of golf. During my tenure at Harbour Trees, we hosted 4 LPGA events, over 50 Indiana section events and in 2014 the National Ladies Mid Am, one of the USGA's 4 National Championships. Harbour Trees, one of Pete Dyes earliest designs and favorite places to play is a private club that allowed me to build one of the best junior golf programs in Indiana. We were the home course for the Noblesville Boys and Girls Golf Teams, that have captured 4 state championships to date and are still going strong. It was not uncommon for the majority of the golf teams to be members of our club and had come through its Jr. Golf Program. I'm very proud that 8 of Harbour Trees junior golfers have become PGA Professionals. It was the efforts and performance of all those kids that helped me win two of Indiana's highest awards- Jr. Golf Leader and Golf Professional of the Year.
Juliette Falls, one of the finest courses in the state of Florida, is the perfect golf facility for me to teach, practice and play. When Caylyn approached me with the idea of starting a Gainesville Gator Golf Class for the local kids 2 years ago, I could not refuse. We have now grown from one class to two per week and have kids attending from Dunnellon, Lecanto, Spring Hill and Williston. I, the parents, and especially the kids, want to give a great big "THANK YOU!" to Juliette Falls.