Conference 7.286::golf

1345.0. ""Courses for the courses!"" by NEMAIL::GLASS () Tue Aug 20 1991 09:32

    This is an artical from a last weeks edition of USA TODAY and is being
    posted for everyones interest.
    
                     'COLLEGE' features golf courses
    
   " Picking a college?
    How about one in Southern California's wine country. Your "dorm" is a
    resort lodge. Classes end at noon, and you're supposed to play
    golf-greens fees and lessons are free.
    
    The Professional Golfers Career College opens Sept. 6 with a class of
    30 paying $3,000 a semester for a two-year program to prepare them to
    be club pros. Classes include turf management, accounting, club repair,
    merchandising and "golf shop management."
    
    College President Tim Somerville, a longtime college coach,
    acknowledges that some traditional college programs and at least two
    academies also prepare future pros-who can expect stsrting salaries of
    about $15,000. But Somerville says he has developed a "hands-on
    vocational program" in which students help build bunkers, train with
    weights, even venture into the real world:"There will be lab time in
    real pro shops," he says. "That's essential."
    
    Students include teenagers, a West Point-trained engineer and a local
    bank vice president. No specific golf handicap is required for
    admission, says Somerville, but graduates might not get diplomas
    without a handicap in single digits. But there's less leeway on the
    school's dress code. "They'll have to dress like a pro every day: golf
    slacks and shirts," says Somerville."No jeans or T-shirts."
      

Anybody got a phone number or address for this place ???

Sounds like it could be interesting..I'm sure playing 18 holes
everyday would get almost anybody to single digit handicaps.

Jim