Hawaii Prince Golf Club is the site of the Brian Mogg Performance Center of Hawaii, which opened last week. It is the fifth Performance Center for Mogg, who gained fame, particularly in Asia, as the coach of Y.E. Yang, who beat Tiger Woods for the 2009 PGA Championship.

The academy is geared to golfers of all skill levels and ages. Abe Mariano, Prince’s director of golf operations, envisions Hawaii golfers making up half the students, with visitors, predominantly from Asia, making up the other half.

"My goal is to make it as much a local facility as it is international," said Mariano, who will teach along with Mogg and Hawaii’s Tommy Hines.

Mogg is based in Florida, where he has a "dual academy" in Orlando and Seoul. He is planning to be here once a month.

"That’s a brutal schedule," Mariano said, "but he’s committed to this facility and to Hawaii."

The center will offer everything from hourlong lessons to five-day programs and, ultimately, long-term training. Mogg said his dual academy is "90 percent Korean," with golfers training in Florida in the winter. He will open another center this year in Washington.

Mogg said the Hawaii center is "linked up to quite a few Asian travel groups" that bring visitors from Japan and Korea. The packages include specific golf instruction. His goal is to "raise the bar for the caliber of golf in Hawaii" and training pros here is "way down his priority list."

"I hope that happens, but we want normal people coming in," Mogg said. "Maybe somebody who is a 15 handicap and wants to be single digit, or somebody that wants to break 100."

Mogg describes his teaching as providing in-depth individualized instruction so students can "work on one thing, master it and go on to the next thing."

Mogg also is committed to junior golf, according to Mariano. His nonprofit Pure Golf Academy is being introduced at Hawaii Prince to "help the next generation of promising golfers develop their game without having to travel abroad."

"I want tournament kids to have access to Brian’s level of talent — the next level of instruction," Mariano says. "He’s got an academy in Korea and Florida called Mogg Elite, where he is working with very talented kids. We can have that in Hawaii. If a kid showed that talent and money was an issue, I don’t want it to be an issue. I want that kid to be able to work with Brian."

Hawaii tourism is also part of the plan, with former Hawaiian Air and Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau executive Paul Casey one of the partners.

Mogg joined the Leadbetter Academy in 1993 and was director of instruction for five years. He opened the Brian Mogg Performance Center in 2002 in Orlando. He has been a Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor since 2003.