Once you get back from your week of Seminars in Florida, it’s time get to work on your Work Experience Portfolio so you can submit it for review. Like the Portfolios from Levels 1 and 2, there’s nothing overly complicated about the Portfolio, it just takes time. This Level requires a five-lesson series with an […]
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It’s finally ready! After more than a few requests, this is the study guide I recently put together for the four-test PGA Level 3 Test Battery. Of the three PGA PGM Levels, this one is by far my longest guide: 36 pages (condensed from the 416 that make up Level 3). Remember, Career Enhancement is
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The PGA Championship at Bellerive Golf Course is less than two weeks away, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Dr. Robin Farran, one of the USGA’s top rules officials who also teaches Advanced Rules at the Golf Academy of America, is in St. Louis just to lend a hand. In this month’s Diary of a Rules
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Dr. Robin Farran teaches Advanced Rules at the Golf Academy of America and is widely regarded as one of the USGA’s top rules officials. He’s very well-connected in the Rules community. On an almost-weekly basis, Dr. Farran emails out various Rules scenarios, a segment I’ve reprised on my website in Diary of a USGA Rules
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On Saturday, a little more than a week after returning from the PGA Level 3 Seminar in Port St. Lucie, Florida, a letter arrived in our mailbox from the PGA of America. “That’s odd,” I thought to myself, “since I didn’t send them anything.” It came on official PGA of America letterhead. It read: Dear
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