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Discover Golf Hits Hole in One
Clarence Bee / March 12, 2007
By Rikki Cason
Reporter
With the goal of creating “Life Athletes,” Bob Gosch, former bodybuilder and PGA member, joined forces with personal trainers and golf professionals to create a facility that can incorporate fitness, golf and greater personal accomplishments.
“It’s been a success,” said Gosch, who is the owner and PGA director of instruction for the new Discover Golf Performance Center. “You never know how it’s going to go, but we’ve been well received in Clarence.”
Gosch opened Discover Golf on Dec. 1 at 8500 Roll Road in Clarence Center. Since then, the business has brought in more than 250 people from throughout Western New York and Canada and now has 170 members.
Though many golf options are available, fitness is a huge part of the facility.
“Golf is the perfect medium for fitness,” Gosch said. “If you can feel and play better, oftentimes that's the motivation to get fit.”
Exercise equipment is available to get in shape or work on golf swings. There is also a golf simulator to show how a person is hitting the ball and swinging the club, a putting green, television and seating area, and golf club fitting and repairs.
Golf schools are also available to help people of all ages with their game.
Besides golf professionals and personal trainers, two nutritionists and two sports psychologists are available for members to use.
“If you are a better golfer it will help with different things in life,” Gosch said.
According to Discover Golf’s philosophy, “As we train and practice to become better players, we concurrently eliminate many of the same mental and physical weaknesses that have made us less effective and productive in our daily lives.”
Membership to the new facility costs $399 for a year, with quarter payments allowed. With membership, there is unlimited fitness use and reduced rates on the other services.
“We’re priced as low as the big exercise places, but it’s a different environment,” Gosch said. “It’s like coming into someone's house to work out.”
Gosch said Discover Golf has become the neighborhood fitness place.
“Most people that come are from a three-mile radius but we’re drawing on the Southtowns, Canada and Rochester,” he said.
Gosch and his wife, Janet, have been working toward the center for two years.
Gosch has been involved in fitness for 34 years, when he began at the age of 12. He has been a personal trainer and bodybuilder, winning the 1989 U.S. Bodybuilding Championships (Mr. USA.) Retiring in 1996, Gosch took up the sport of golf to fill the space body building had played for many years.
“Golf seemed like fun,” Gosch said. “It takes a lot of practice, and it’s a lot easier than bodybuilding.”
Since then, Gosch has been striving to be a good golfer and became a PGA member. With Discover Golf Performance Center, he was able to take both careers and put them together.
Gosch explained that people who can improve at golf and beat a brother-in-law or business partner will also want to get better at fitness in the process.
Though it has just opened, Discover Golf is scheduled to expand to add more fitness areas. |
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