Class started bright and early this morning with a hearty helping of Business Management. We watched a motivational video called “Do Right” by former football coach turned ESPN commentator Lou Holtz. It was a little out-of-date but interesting nonetheless. The big takeways were do right, do your best, and treat others the way you would […]
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When we got to today’s Attitude & Motivation class, we got to take a personal, behind-the-scenes tour of the PGA TOUR Superstore located right next door. I told you the school was in an ideal spot. Turns out Dave, the GM of the Arizona Avenue store, graduated from the Golf Academy’s San Diego campus (the
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The first week of school is in the books, and what a week it was! I don’t have class on Fridays this semester, but because I signed up for my first lesson with PGA Master Teaching Professional Tim Eberlein, I found myself back on campus. For my first lesson, I decided to get fitted for
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.”
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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