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.

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 addition, student Sarah Arnold won the Illinois Women’s Amateur and also qualified for the USGA Junior Girls Championship. Other USGA qualifiers include; Catie Nekola, 2022 USGA Junior Girl’s Amateur, Sarah Arnold & Emma Carpenter 2023 USGA Women’s Amateur. Katherine Lemke, 2024 USGA Women’s Amateur. Students playing college golf include, Emma Carpenter, University of Minnesota; Sarah Arnold, Western Kentucky University; Katherine Lemke, Virginia Tech; Taylor Martin, Trinity Christian; Sam Faulhaber College of DuPage; Catie Nekola, University of South Dakota; Reese Clark, Loyola University; Josh Pehl, Illinois Wesleyan; Katharine Marshall, Creighton University; Taylor Witte, Coe College; Kelsey O’Connor, Augustana; Braelyn Davoust, Carthage College; Skylar Jollette, College of DuPage; Isabella Krosse, College of DuPage;