Our Instructors
Bellevue Golf Course promotes learning and skill building in golfers of all ages and abilities based on the philosophy that golf should be enjoyable, challenging, and possible for anyone to learn. Our PGA Professional, Steve Wozeniak, along with their wonderful staff of instructors will improve your game in a fun friendly environment.
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Steve Wozeniak - PGA Teaching Professional
Steve has taught over 150 Tour players and 300 PGA/LPGA Teaching Professionals. He has taught consulted and worked with the biggest names in the industry including Jim Colbert, Rocco Mediate, Emilee Klein, Mike Weir, Jim Dent, Marco Dawson, Scott Piercy, Butch Harmon, Jackie Burke Jr, Jimmy Ballard, Jim McLean and Dr Craig Farnsworth. He has taught winners on every major Tour the PGA, LPGA, Champions and the Korn Ferry. Only a handful of coaches have accomplished this amazing feat, putting Steve in the top one percent of Elite coaches in the world, working right here at your local golf course. Many high school and college coaches contact Steve every year to better understand how to help their players including the University of Washington and Baylor. Hundreds of juniors have secured partial or full scholarships under Steve’s tutelage. Online he works with hundreds of students per year at every level worldwide. Still his most rewarding lessons are with the complete beginner, with a little athletic ability, and turning them into respectable golfers in as little as a month. Or the decades long golfer stuck because of poor information unfortunately everyone is subjected to, and turning their golfing life around in one lesson. He shows you how simple the golf swing really is, and how to instill the proper information to last a lifetime. You learn how to be the master of your own swing and to quickly fix and analyze yourself so you’re not taking lesson after lesson after lesson forever. If you can‘t simplify it, you don’t know it well enough.
Military, firefighters, police, EMT’s, Nurses always pay the junior rate.
Phone/Text Steve at 425 533 4711
Click here for Steve Wozeniak's rates.
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Stella Kim – LPGA Professional
Stella is traveling for the winter. She will return in March 2025.
Stella Kim has been working in the golf industry since 2007. I graduated from Professional Golf Career College with a degree in Business, Professional Golf Management Degree in 2014 and hold LPGA license. I have been teaching since graduating from college in several regions including California, New York and Korea. I have recently moved to Seattle area from Korea in hopes of establishing a long-lasting teaching career base. I enjoy teaching a lot and sharing my knowledge for the improvement and advancement of the golf game. I focus on solid fundamentals while helping the individual to understand the mechanics of the swing.
Click here for Stella Kim's lesson rates.
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Joanne Foreman – LPGA Professional
Joanne Foreman is an LPGA Class A Professional, 2023 LPGA Teacher of the Year (Western Section), an LPGA Top 50 Instructor, former LPGA Tour Player and a 10-year member of the LPGA Global Education Team as a TEP Level 1 Program Instructor. She began her LPGA professional career in 1985 when she qualified, on her first attempt, for the LPGA Tour. After competing for 5 years on the LPGA Tour as well as the European Tour and Japan LPGA, she retired to the Redmond area to start her own family and begin her teaching and coaching career at Sahalee CC in 1991.
Joanne grew up in So. California and won several junior events including the Junior World Championship (Age 11-12) and the Western Junior Championship. She attended Stanford University on a full golf scholarship and studied Human Biology as a Pre -Med student and graduated in 1983. As a collegiate player she won the 1980 Stanford Invitational ,1983 WCAA Conference Championship and was awarded WCAA Conference Athlete of the Year in 1983. Highlights of her amateur golf career include becoming the US Amateur Champion in 1983, Western Amateur Champion in 1984, and a member of the 1984 US Curtis Cup Team.
Joanne has built her career as a Peak Performance Specialist in 3 distinct areas: Sports/Golf Performance (as a LPGA Class A Professional, Licensed Heartmath Coach and Mental Game Strategist), Nutrition and Wellness (as a Certified Functional Nutritional Therapist) and Leader Development (as a Certified Facilitator and Coach and Executive Fellow with WiLD Leaders).
Whether she is working with a “corporate athlete”, an enthusiastic beginner or long time golfer or an elite junior/collegiate athlete, she brings her experience and expertise as a player, coach, leader and mom, to champion her clients to become the best version of themselves as a player and person. “Playing golf” is so much more than building a ”golf swing” but is an endeavor that challenges and grows the whole person. Joanne utilizes a” root cause and foundational” approach to coaching in both golf and wellness. She enjoys spending time with her grown boys, Cole and Dylan, for a round of golf or holiday family Karaoke or even playing the occasional golf tournament with her kids caddying for her.
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Shawn Imamura - PGA Associate
Shawn has been involved in golf almost all his life. While growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, he played competitive junior tournaments throughout his childhood. Through this, he gained valuable experience in both the physical and mental sides of golf. After a brief break away from the game during his college years at the University of Washington, he has realized it is a lifelong passion that he loves to share with others as well.
Now a PGA Associate, Shawn understands that everybody's golf game is unique to them. Everyone swings the club differently and it is the Golf Professional's job to create a blueprint for every player to achieve the goal every person is chasing... to be a better player! Shawn is confident his knowledge and experience will help every golfer of any age or skill improve their game, from a complete beginner to a seasoned elite.
Shawn currently heads the Junior Camp Program at the Bellevue Golf Course.
shawn.imamura@premiergc.com.
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Will Gould - Director of Golf
Will started his golf journey when his Grandpa Brick cut down an old club for him when he was 7. That led to taking junior camps at Jackson Park in the 80’s, playing more casually until the early 2000’s then jumping into the golf world full time in 2016 with the Premier Golf family. His love for teaching golf stems from coaching several years of junior basketball and baseball and doing private hitting instruction. He feels the golf swing is personal to the individual and that starting with good fundamentals sets the tone for making your best swing. He also enjoys teaching all aspects of the game, from basics to course management & strategy, fitness, and how to maintain a positive mental approach. Will has coached at the Bellevue Golf Course junior camps & has worked with First Tee at Jackson Park, Crossroads and Bellevue Golf Course since 2019 and has been teaching at Bellevue Golf Course since 2024. He is currently training for his PGA Associate certification and waiting patiently for his grandson to be old enough to start playing.
wgould@premiergc.com
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Questions? Please call the Golf Pro Shop at (425) 452-7250.
Gift Certificates are available.
*No un-authorized instruction is allowed.
*Premier Golf offers equal opportunity for all golfers to participate in any of our programs.
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