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Quote of the Semester

On the back of each semester’s name placard, the Golf Academy prints a different quote. This semester’s quote reads: “Excellence is harder to achieve than mediocrity. Don’t worry about being better than anyone else, just never cease to attempt to be the best that you can be.”

Day No. 3

Three more classes on the schedule today: Rules of Golf, Mechanics of the Short Game, and Microcomputer Applications. At Rules of Golf, PGA Instructor Ed Ekis handed out the Rules in the pocket-sized version you’re probably used to seeing as well as an illustrated guide. It’s a glorified picture book of the different rules. There are 34 …

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Day No. 2

Two classes on the docket on Day 2 – Fundamentals of Business Management and History of Golf. When I saw Fundamentals of Business Management coming up, I thought I was in for a real snoozefest. Boy was I wrong! Professor RJ Lancaster is hilarious! Dude was dropping jokes like they were going out of style. …

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First Day of School!

Since the first few days of the spring semester have been spent mostly out in the field (a.k.a the golf course), today marked the first official day of classroom work. In my opinion, the first day of any school year is always the worst because that’s the day when you get bombarded with syllabi from …

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