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Advanced Rules of Golf meets every Wednesday, and during each class, we complete a Rules Puzzle. Here is this week’s puzzle: Ok = Permitted by the Rules Not Ok = Not permitted by the Rules Q1: A player in a stroke play event event asks his fellow-competitor the distance from the teeing ground to clear […]

When you get to the Golf Academy, the sand in the hourglass starts flowing. You keep your head down for 16 months, and then it’s time to jettison out into the real world so you can start paying back some of those student loans. We’re always talking about ways to differentiate ourselves once we get that first

I love it when our instructors open up about their playing days because we have some real sticks working at the Phoenix campus – guys who have played in major championships. PGA Professional Gary Balliet played in the 1984 PGA Championship at Shoal Creek Club in Alabama, and PGA Professional Jay Friedman played in the

So after 19 years of walking the fairways, controversial golf analyst David Feherty and CBS have parted ways because they couldn’t reach an agreement on the sportscaster’s “role on the network’s golf coverage.” Multiple sources confirm the situation went south because Feherty wanted a booth job for his three-piece suit, a network role Nick Faldo already shares with

Even though we only had three classes, today was a lot crazier than yesterday. The day started with Denise Duarte’s Essentials of Food Service Management. This is an elective, but if you want to pursue a management career in the golf industry, you better know a thing or two about food and beverage. I decided a long time ago