I think it’s time we had a talk about the Rules of Golf. There are 34 of them… and they are really hard to understand. In class today, we attempted to dissect Rule 25: Abnormal Ground Conditions, Embedded Ball, and Wrong Putting Green. It took us over an hour to parse through the legalese. The …
In today’s Business Management class, we watched an A&E Biography on Walmart founder Sam Walton. Walton was a bulldog who wouldn’t take ‘no’ for an answer. He had a vision, he wouldn’t give up, and he wanted to make good great! Walton was an interesting man and one of the wealthiest men in the world …
On Tuesdays, Tim Wilkins normally leads our Attitude & Motivation class, but today, because one of the instructors was out sick, he filled-in for another class, and we had a guest speaker: Campus Director Tim Eberlein. A lot of students, me included, have asked about the process of becoming a Class A PGA Professional, and …
A: A tournament format in which six of the course’s 18 holes are secretly selected as special holes after the tournament round. Ideally, there should be a combination of par 3s, 4s, and 5s from both nines. The scores on each of these six special holes are then added up, limiting each player’s hole score to double-bogey. That …
Today, we played our first official tournament round at Oakwood Golf Club. I played the course on Friday in preparation for today’s round (see Course Review), but because it’s a 27-hole facility, I didn’t get to see all three nines. On Friday, I played Lakes/Palms, and today, we played Sonoran/Lakes. So a lot of good …
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