Ken Carpenter is the Director of Instruction for Wildfire Golf Club at JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa. Carpenter offers corporate clinics, team building clinics, and group and private instruction on the resort's two 18-hole championship courses, the par-71 Faldo Course and the par-72 Palmer Course.

Carpenter began his professional golf career in 1990 at Golf Digest Schools and Tamarron/Innisbrook Golf Institute. In 1994, he joined Rio Verde Country Club in Rio Verde, Arizona, as the head teaching professional, and conducted the Ken Carpenter Rio Verde Golf Schools. Prior to joining the Wildfire Golf Club team, he served as head teaching professional at Kierland Golf Club at the Westin Kierland Resort & Spa in Scottsdale. He has instructed such tour professionals as Doug LaBelle, a champion on the Nationwide Tour, Joel Kribel, Tom Kalinowski, Bobby Kalinowski, Boyd Summerhays, and on the LPGA Tour, Carin Koch, Jody Nieman-Dansie, and Jimen Kang. Ken has been Carin Koch's coach for the last four years and she is ranked one of the top LPGA Tour players in the world.

In addition to teaching, Carpenter has also competed on the national golf circuit. In 1997, he won the Provo Open and the Colorado Springs Open, and was runner-up in the Southern Arizona Open. During the 1998 season, he was a member of the Canadian PGA Tour and later participated in the 1999 Phoenix Open. He also played in the 2002 U.S. Open Qualifying Finals and took third place in the 2005 Navajo Trail Open. Most recently, he was crowned the 2006 PGA Match Play Champion for the Southwest Section PGA.

Ken Carpenter
Director of Instruction

• 1 Full-Day Golf School, includes 5 hours of Instruction, range balls, lunch and on-course instruction - $550 per person
• 2-Day Golf School, includes 10 hours of instruction, range balls, lunch and on-course instruction each day - $1,100 per person
• 3-Day Golf School, includes 15 hours of instruction, range balls, lunch and on-course instruction each day - $1,650 per person
• 1-Hour Lesson - $140 Resort Guest Rate
• 1-Hour Follow up & Member Rate - $125
• 45-Minute Video Lesson - $95
• 30-Minute Lesson - $70
• Playing Lesson 5 to 6 Holes - $205
• Any Additional Person (Limit 3) - $50 per person

PGA & LPGA Teaching Professional

• 1-Hour Lesson - $110
• 1-Hour Follow up & Member Rate - $95
• 45-Minute Lesson - $80
• 30-Minute Lesson - $55
• Playing Lesson 5 to 6 Holes - $165
• Any Additional Person (Limit 3) - $40 per person

Assistant PGA & LPGA Professionals

• 1-Hour Lesson - $85
• 45-Minute Lesson - $65
• 30-Minute Lesson - $45
• Any Additional Person (Limit 3) - $30 per person

Special "Game Improvement Packages" available. Please call golf shop for details.