T's Golf Academy

There is a great lack of available golf instruction programs in central Maine. T's Golf Academy was founded to fulfill the need for those programs. Golf is a difficult game to learn and even more difficult to master. For many, taking lessons a their home course or at a country club can be very intimidating. At T's Golf Academy we provide a comfortable, safe learning environment that is free from any judgment of where your game currently is. Whether you've never hit a golf ball before, or you're competitive at the highest level, T's Golf Academy will help you to improve your game.

We offer a wide variety of instructional programs to suit your needs. From private lessons, to lesson packages, to golf camps, to schools, T's Golf Academy has the program that will best suit your needs and get you results quickly.

All of our instructors are Hank Haney trained and certified. The golf instruction methodology our instructors follow focuses on the flight of the golf ball and the golfer's influence which causes that flight. Through this method, students see near instantaneous ball flight improvement and continuous gains in their confidence and control of their golf swings.

About Our Practice Facility At T's Golf Academy

What Is A Practice Facility?

A golf practice facility is any area designed to help golfers improve. Many top courses and golf resorts around the world include practice facilities as one of their many amenities. Top amateur and professional golfers work every day at practice facilities to improve their games and give them the competitive edge they're looking for.

What Makes T's Golf Practice Facility Special?

T's has made the commitment to provide a world class practice facility right here in central Maine. We strive every day to provide everything necessary for golfers to improve. From the quality of the range balls we provide for our customers, to our short game situational practice area, we want your experience to represent what you expect to help you improve every aspect of your game. For a more detailed description of what we offer, see below.

Driving Range

Our practice range is 150 yards wide and over 300 yards long so you have plenty of room to hit every club in the bag. There are several covered tees for use in inclement weather so you never have to put your practice or lessons on hold due to mother nature. There are ample targets in the range at varying distances so you can work on your distance control, which is so key to playing better golf. All of our targets are measured by laser and are available on GPS via SkyCaddie and each hitting bay has a placard with the laser-measured distances to each and every target. You'll never have to ask yourself, "how far is that flag?" If you're looking for a place that you can seriously work on your full swing to include every shot that you might face on the golf course, our range is that place.

Putting Green

T's Golf Academy is proud to offer a 1500 square foot, top of the line, synthetic putting green. Why synthetic? The material we used putts exactly like a real green, but because it's synthetic it's exactly the same every time you putt on it. This makes it very reliable when it comes to working on your technical putting stroke. There are 5 holes, some set with subtle breaks to challenge your green reading and there is ample room to work on your speed control and lag putting. Just about every hole of golf you play is going to end with a putt, so improving this aspect of your game is crucial to playing your best golf. Use of our putting green is complementary to any paying customer, so save some time to work on saving some strokes on the green.

Short Game Situational Area

Every instructor will tell you that the majority of your shots in golf will be played from 100 yards and in. Chipping, pitching, bunker shots, and all of those strokes around the green can literally make or break your round. The problem is, simply chipping around the putting green at your local club doesn't simulate all the situations you might find on the course. T's Golf Academy has the solution. Our short game situational area was designed to present the golfers with the opportunity to practice all those situations you will find on the course around the greens. There are five target greens with the opportunity to practice approach shots from as far away as 150 yards. Around the target greens you will find a variety of lies and grass lengths as well as sand so that you can practice all of those short shots that cost you strokes. Ask one of our Hank Haney trained and certified instructors and they will tell you that the greatest difference between amateur golf and great amateur golf is short game and putting. The greatest difference between top amateur golf and professional golf is short game and putting. The greatest difference between professional golf and major winners in professional golf is short game and putting. With that in mind, T's Golf Academy was determined to provide the best possible short game practice facility in the area.

Meet Our Instructors

Tom Torrington Thomas Torrington - Head Professional

Tom Torrington has been teaching at T's for 14 seasons. He has trained for 14 years under Hank Haney and is a graduate of the "Teaching the Teacher" program, and a Hank Haney Pro level 3 Certified Instructor. In August of 2007, Tom was hired as an instructor and golf coach at the Hank Haney International Junior Golf Academy on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. At the Hank Haney IJGA Tom has had the opportunity to work alongside some of the greatest instructors in the country, including Hank Haney and Top 100 instructor Peter Krause, and with some of the top junior golfers from around the world. He brings those experiences and the knowledge he has gained about junior golf development here to T's Golf for yet another season. Tom is also a certified Titleist and Cobra custom fitter and worked as a Cobra Demo Tech Specialist for Maine and New Hampshire. Through this he is qualified to fit students and customers to the equipment that fits their individual needs.

Rawn Torrington - Director of Golf

Rawn Torrington has been teaching at T's Golf for 14 seasons. For each of the past 14 years he has trained under Hank Haney, one of the Top Instructors in the world. Hank, the PGA teacher of the year in 1993, has worked with many of the greatest golf professionals on both the PGA and LPGA tours. As a graduate of Hank's "Teaching the Teacher" program, and a Hank Haney Pro level 3 Certified Instructor, Rawn can help with all aspects of any golfer's game. Rawn is also a certified Titleist and Cobra custom fitter and has worked as the Titleist Demo Tech Specialist for Maine and New Hampshire. This makes him uniquely qualified to fit students and customers to custom equipment that will not only compliment, but enhance their golf game.

T's Golf Academy - Our Mission
"We will provide both World-Class golf instruction to golfers of all levels,
and the opportunity for every golfer to improve with the expertise of a knowledgeable,
professional staff at a quality facility which is above the industry standard in every capacity."

T's Golf Academy - Our Vision
"To become the premiere golf academy in the Northeast and a
destination for all golfers looking to improve their golf skills and golf game."