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Iowa Camp
Bos Landen Golf Resort
Pella, IA
July 14–18, 2008
Boys online enrollment
Girls online enrollment
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Cost: $430 before July 1 ($445 after July 1)
Ages: 13–18
Contact: Ashley Clark
E-Mail: AshleyClark@fca.org
Phone: (515) 727-1868
Website: http://www.iowafca.org
Mail Your Enrollment Form with $100 Deposit To:
Central/Western Iowa Area FCA
2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 114
Des Moines, IA 50312
Balance is due before check-in at Camp.
Ken Johnson
Chaplain for the Indianapolis Colts
Ken Johnson will come to camp and talk about this year's camp theme "Get Focused".
He's been working for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes since 1989 and is nationally known speaker, evangelist, and recording artist.
A Typical Day at FCA Golf Camp:
• Rise & Shine
• Quiet Time
• Breakfast
• Competition
• Lunch
• Huddle Meetings
• Clinic & Practice Range
• Dinner
• Free Time
• Evening Assembly
• Huddle Meetings
• In Rooms
• Bed Check—Lights Out
FCA Golf Camp is designed to create an environment where teenagers will learn about and experience the challenge and adventure of living in a relationship with Jesus Christ and improve their skills in the game of golf. Our teaching priorities include golf as a game of fun, lifelong enjoyment, and a teacher of life lessons.The camp will provide insights for players of all skill levels.
The curriculum features:
• Practice Rounds and Tournaments: Give a true picture of golf competition.
• Skills Competition: Test campers against themselves, others in their age group, and their skill level.
• Course Management: Learn how to make the best decisions on the course.
• Rules of Golf: Understand the rules and use them to give the best options.
• Golf Psychology: Play with confidence, handle themselves professionally, not letting the course control their actions.
• Chipping: Develop techniques to execute shots that give the best putting opportunities.
• Putting: Touch and distance.
• Sand Play: Make the sand a place of opportunity, not fear.
• Pitching: Learn to execute shots that provide opportunities for better scoring.
• Golf Swing: Develop techniques that provide best reproduction and best performance.
• Specialty Shots: Develop a menu of shots for unusual lies, circumstances, and trajectories.
• Golf Conditioning: Learn golf-specific exercises and stretching techniques.
• Golf Professionals: Top-notch instructors will give individual attention to each golfer for learning or increasing their knowledge of golf. |
Description: Ranked #1 public golf course in Iowa, Bos Landen provides both beauty and challenge for players at all levels. Bos Landen, which means "Land of Woods" in Dutch, is a beautiful golf resort nestled in 350 acres of rolling hills. This golf community, which was started in 1994, features a scenic five-acre lake and 200 year-old oak and hickory trees, and it provides players with natural beauty and a challenging, yet enjoyable, golfing experience.
Our clinic staff will include several local golf teaching professionals along with Bos Landen Head Pro, Darin Fisher.
The camp is easily accessible from major highways/Des Moines or Cedar Rapids airports. The golf resort is approximately one hour east of Des Moines. Campers will be housed at Central College as part of the multi-sport camp.
The camp will focus on basic fundamentals as well as mental preparation, course management, and extensive short game preparation.This camp is recommended for all skill levels.
Camper Comments:
“This camp has showed me what being a Christian is all about.”
“It has helped me grow in my faith, and helped me put my faith in my athletics.”
Cost
The camp cost listed will cover all on-site expenses, room, meals, greens fees, range balls, instruction, FCA Athlete Bible, camp T-shirt, prizes, and insurance.
Travel Plans
Transportation to and from camp is the responsibility of the camper. Contact the Camp Registrar, Ashley Clark, for pickup and drop-off guidelines for the airport. Campers should plan to arrive at camp on the day camp begins and leave the day camp ends. Early arrivals will have an additional cost.
Scholarships
To make our camps available to as many junior golfers as possible, FCA may provide limited scholarship help to those who have a need. Inquiries about scholarship assistance can be made to the FCA Golf Ministry, (904) 273-9541, or your local FCA Office. Or, fill out the form below.
Scholarship Request Form
National FCA Policy
For more than 50 years, the FCA Camp experience has worked best when friends, classmates, and siblings are not housed together. Roommate requests cannot be honored. (Special situations will be reviewed.)
What is FCA Golf Camp all about? Click Here
Questions? Contact Camp Director Jim Esary
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