Yippy Skippy

Founded in October 1998, the Yippee Skippy Golf Club was the first golf club established in California for juniors. The Public Links Golf Association (PLGA) of Southern California helped the Urban Youth Golf Program establish the club for participants who have reached the Amateur Level of the program.

Chuck Hogan, golf guru, instructor to more than 100 PGA and LPGA Tour Pros, and all around good guy, is the originator of the Yippee Skippy Concept. Chuck not only wrote the Instructor's Manual for the Urban Youth Golf Program, but oversees the training each of our instructors goes through before they are able to teach for the program.

Chuck begins each of his seminars by asking his audience to stand up, wave their arms up and down, say "wapa wapa wapa," and then jump in the air and yell "Yippee Skippy!" Generally, half the crowd will do it and half won't. Chuck believes those who refuse to do the exercise do so because they are afraid of what others might think of them. He says the same is true in golf.

For instance, why do adults sweat over a two foot putt? "Because they are afraid of how they might look should they miss what is normally an easy shot," Chuck says. Most people wind up playing golf from a standpoint of fear, a fear of what others might think if they look silly. There?s an old saying on the golf course: "It?s not how you play, it?s how you look." Unfortunately, too many people take this literally! Yippee Skippy is all about keeping golf fun and playing without fear.

So next time you're on the green staring down that short putt, think Yippee Skippy and knock it in. No sweat.

Basic Instruction

Intro to Competition

Team Play