Andre Gust teaches at the Golf Academy at Old Greenwood in Truckee, a Jack Nicklaus Signature course at the Old Greenwood resort set at 6,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada foothills between Reno and Lake Tahoe. The mountain elevation and the natural contours of the Nicklaus design create playing conditions that are genuinely different from anything students encounter at lower-elevation courses — the ball flies farther in the thin air, the fairways break in unexpected directions across granite outcroppings, and the greens are firm and fast in a way that punishes anything short of precise iron play. Gust's instruction at the academy gives players a focused learning environment within a resort setting that draws serious golfers from across the West.