GOLF ACADEMY TEAM
The pros at Rosendaelsche Golfclub form a close-knit team that has achieved great success together. With their own experience and state-of-the-art equipment, they help golfers of all handicap categories to learn to play better golf.
Menno Pelk was born in Amsterdam and grew up in Landsmeer. He has been inspired by golf since 1986 and started playing and working in golf. As a greenkeeper, shop manager, and Sales Manager at Titleist. Since 2008, he has been a PGA Professional and graduated as a PGA-A Professional in 2011. Since 2013, he has been affiliated with the Rosendaelsche Golf Club, where he has built up the youth training program with the Pro Team. Specializing as a putting coach, he teaches players from all over the country at all levels up to the DP World Tour. Although putting is his favorite part of the game and teaching, he provides lessons on all aspects of the game to members and guests at the club.
Paul Berkhout first came into contact with golf at the age of six. No coincidence, as his father Hans was a golf professional at Prise D'eau. After Prise D'eau won the national title in 2008, Paul started playing golf very fanatically and trained every day; in 2013 he moved to Toxandria.
As an amateur, Paul won many major junior competitions; in 2015 he also became the men's par 3 Dutch champion.
After playing a round of 65 (-7) in 2016, he played full time on the Pro Golf Tour in Europe and North Africa in 2017 and 2018. Paul studied Sport and Economics and combined that with training to become a teaching professional in order to teach. In 2019, he started as a golf pro at golf club Son in Son en Breugel and provided youth lessons at Toxandria. At the end of 2020 Paul joined the pro team at the Rosendaelsche.
