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Heidi L. Wright-Tennyson, PGA

Life Member Active
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Costa Mesa, CA
Mesa Verde Country Club, Costa Mesa, CA

About Heidi

Heidi is a Class A Life Member Active of the PGA of America. She served as Head Professional for Mesa Verde Country Club in Costa Mesa, CA from January 2018 through July 2023. Prior to Mesa Verde, Heidi was the Director of Golf for 23+ years at Moss Creek Golf Club in Hilton Head Island, SC, a George & Tom Fazio 36-hole private, equity golf community.

Heidi is an Ohio native and completed the majority of her PGA Apprenticeship at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio where she spent five seasons under the tutelage of Master Professional, Don Perne'. Heidi attended Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio as a scholarship athlete playing four years of competitive golf on the women's golf team; she graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing. While working at Inverness Club she spent two winters in Orlando competing on the Central Florida Challenge, a women's professional golf tour.

Heidi fell in love with the game of golf at the age of 10 and has a passion for promoting the game to others. Her teaching philosophy encompasses each student's goals individually. Her goal is to help you strike the ball better, lower your scores, and have more fun on the course! Heidi is a certified Ping club-fitter, a certified Level II Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) Golf Fitness Instructor, and is Level II certified in Jim Hardy's Plane Truth Golf Instruction.

Heidi has been recognized with the following:

  • 2020 Inductee to Low Country Golf Hall of Fame
  • 2015 Carolinas PGA Section Golf Professional of the Year Award
  • 2013 Carolinas PGA Section Player Development Award
  • 2009 Patricia L. Kellogg Memorial Volunteer Award from the HHIJGA
  • 2008 & 2000 Golf Professional of the Year by the HHI Chapter of the Carolinas PGA
  • 2004-05 Region 8AAAA Coach of the Year for girl's high school golf
  • 2003 PING Regional Club Fitter of the Year

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Heidi's Experience

Helping players achieve their goals.


Getting Started

Get comfortable for business golf

Learn the basics


Having More Fun

Have more fun on the course


Improving Your Game

Break 100

Break 90

Break 80

Improve your Short Game

Students & Lessons

Coaching Services

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Youth

Adult

Male

Female

Senior

Teen

Playing with disabilities

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Heidi's Facilities

Mesa Verde Country Club

Costa Mesa CA

3000 Club House Rd, Costa Mesa, CA 92626-3504

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