Golf Camps

Next 18 utilizes 3 and 4 day golf camps that provide our participants with:

• PGA caliber lessons from local PGA pros
• Playing 9 or 18 holes of golf (camp dependent)
• Mental health resources provided by trained professionals to include: yoga, breath work, and education on resilience, moral injury, PTSD symptom management, and sleep
• A safe environment to help process difficult situations
• Camaraderie
• Peer supports from our alumni

*As a newer non-profit, we are able to offer golf, lessons, mental health, and lodging (overnight camps only) currently, free of charge to our participants.

Some of the courses we play require caddies.  When able, we will cover the cost of caddies.  Prior to acceptance into a camp, we will communicate with you if there is a need for you to cover these costs.  Eventually we expect to have enough funding to cover all aspects of a camp, but we are still growing!

The same goes for food.  While we provide snacks and drinks during the day, we do ask that our participants purchase their own food during the camps.  For day camps, this means eating breakfast before arriving, and purchasing lunch.  We work with the courses to get food at a discount, and when available, we will work with courses and sponsors to cover these costs.

We will not expect you to cover anything else beyond food and caddies, if needed.  Again, as we grow, we will be able to cover these as well.

3.5 day golf camps, offered free of charge to veterans and first responders.  Next 18 facilitates a golf camp mindset woven with mental health and holistic lifestyle resource modules.  We provide introductions to resources such as yoga, meditation, breathwork, mindfulness and body scans, small group interactive processing, reiki, journaling and others.

We strive to create a safe environment to bring 10-12 participants together at a time on some of the best golf courses in the country, as we share our traumas and defeat the stigmas of not asking for help, hiding from our emotions, and just “sucking it up.”

While we provide a myriad of resources, training, and support, Next 18 does not diagnose or treat any pre-diagnosed or undiagnosed mental health concerns. As part of our ongoing support and encouragement to our participants, we foster a peer community after camps and provide a multitude of resources.