
Cheryl Anderson, PGA
Director of InstructionCheryl brings a unique combination of teaching and playing skills to The Heathrow Legacy Club in Lake Mary, FL where she is Director of Instruction. She is currently the top rated woman coach on Golf Digest’s America’s Top 50 Teachers list. GOLF Magazine has recognized her as one of America’s Top 100 Teachers since 2013. She has been recognized twice by the LPGA as its National Teacher of the Year (2006 and 2023). In 2021, she finished T-17th in the U.S. Senior Womens Open Championship at Brooklawn Country Club in Fairfield, CT.
A native of Connecticut, Cheryl taught in the Metropolitan New York area from 1992-2007 before moving to Florida to become Director of Instruction at the Mike Bender Golf Academy. She was recognized by the Metropolitan PGA Section in 2007 as the Teacher of the Year. After moving to the Orlando area she has been recognized by the North Florida PGA as their Teacher of the Year in 2021, 2022 and 2025.
Cheryl has coached several top 100 juniors in the country including a junior girl who was ranked #1 whom she had coached for a decade. Two different students won the Florida Boys State High School Championship in 2023 and 2024. She also coached the Lake Mary Prep Girls Golf team to two Florida State High School championship victories including a national record 14-under-par performance in an 18-hole tournament.
Anderson also is one of the best woman club pro players ever. In 2004, she earned the Met PGA Section Women's Player of the Year award for a record fifth consecutive season.
Her play in 2002 was historic as she became the first women to win all three of the Metropolitan PGA women’s events in one season: The Metropolitan Women’s Open, the Met Women’s Stroke Play Championship and the Met Women’s Match Play Championship. She also was runner-up in the LPGA National Club Pro Championship and in the LPGA’s Northeast Section Championship. Another professional highlight for Anderson was being named The Journal-News Suburban Golfer Magazine’s “Golfer of the Year” in 2001. Her season that year included making the cut at the LPGA Tour’s Betsy King Classic in Pennsylvania (the only club pro to make a cut on the LPGA Tour that season) and winning her first Metropolitan Woman’s Open.
A graduate of Rutgers University, Anderson competed on the golf team for four years, including two as team captain. Before turning professional in 1992, she qualified for the U.S. Women’s Amateur and U.S. Women’s Public Links Championships.
Anderson is a Class A member of both the LPGA and PGA of America and has been on the National Education Committee for both organizations. Cheryl is currently a member of the USGA's Athlete Development Advisory Group. She has authored numerous instruction articles in Golf Digest Magazine, GOLF Magazine, Met Golfer Magazine and Golf for Woman Magazine. Her first book Teach Yourself Visually Golf was published in 2007.
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The Heathrow Legacy Club
Longwood FL
*Coaching available to public
1700 Alaqua Lakes Boulevard, Longwood, FL 32746