I almost cost myself a chance to attend next month’s PGA Professional Golf Management (PGM) 2.0 Level 1 Seminar at the PGA Education Center in Port St. Lucie, Florida without my even realizing it. In my defense, in all my calls to the PGA Membership Information Services Center over the last couple of weeks, no […]
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A few weeks ago, out of the blue, I got an email from Linda Parker at Scottsdale Golf. Scottsdale Golf is one of the UK’s leading online golf retailers and offers “a massive choice of high quality golf clothing, golf clubs, and accessories at discount prices combined with top quality customer service.” Linda told me she’d
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Before you can register for the PGM 2.0 Level 1 Seminar, you have to pass the Qualifying Test covering three online courses: Introduction to the PGM and the Golf Profession, PGA History and Constitution, and Rules of Golf 1. It’s a combination of multiple choice and true/false questions. As far as studying is concerned, your
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Dr. Robin Farran is one of the top USGA Rules Officials in the country and currently teaches Advanced Rules at the Golf Academy of America in Phoenix. The man never seems to take a day off! In this week’s Diary of a USGA Rules Official, Dr. Farran shares some of the more interesting conversations between players
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The other day, one of my co-workers and I were discussing the greatest instructional golf books ever written, the must-reads. After we went back-and-forth naming several of the usual suspects such as Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book, Dr. Bob Rotella’s Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect, and Tiger Woods’ How I Play Golf, he
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