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KELBEL, CONT. (cont. from page 1) This is our new ALUMNI event going forward as well. There will be many more details to follow soon on this. November – Guest Speaker John Hagen who is close friends with Jack Nicklaus and many other tour players. John also purchased the St. Andrews Old Course Starters box the day before 9/11/2001 and told us all about how that purchase came about. February- 7 UCCS PGM Alumni in the area were our guest speakers for the monthly PGMSS meeting. They shared their wisdom and acquired on the job knowledge with our students. It was a very informative and interesting session that alumni, students, and program team all enjoyed. March – our PGM along with the COB Ethics Initiative hosted the first ever Eaton Corp. - Ethics Lecture Series event attended by 40+ PGM students and 130 people overall. The guest speakers were the Director of Ethics at Eaton and a leading Golf Pride Grip sales manager who I met while attending the Jones Cup in Florida in
Walter Glover, Zach Brehm, Theo Gregory and Dan Ferg participating in the PGA Golf Management/Boys and Girls Club golf outing.
October. April – Career enhancement bus ride to Denver to visit Sport Haley and Imperial Headwear Companies where we were treated to a complete tour of their facilities and lunch at Imperial. Also, we had our semester team event at Walking Stick GC in Pueblo, CO. A great course on a nice day! May – Annual Family and Friends event at Kissing Camels/Garden of the Gods Club. We had another full field of golfers and over 150 for the awards luncheon. National PGA Junior Golf
Leader Ann Finke was our guest speaker who sent an inspiring message out to our students. $18,000 in student awards and scholarships were presented at the banquet! In closing, I wish all of you a very happy, healthy and successful 2011 golf season. I would like to stay in touch with you when your time permits and am very proud of how you represent our program! Sincerely,
Ed Kelbel, Director
MILLER, CONT. (Cont. from page 1) What’s going to be really different is that exams will be administered online immediately after the topic is studied in class, which should produce far higher pass rates and much less stress. The Qualifying Level exams cover the basics, including rules, PGA constitution, and professional development.
This series will be completed in the first two-thirds of the students’ first semester. The Level One exams will then be administered in the last part of the fall semester and throughout the spring. Thereafter, students will take exams for Level Two and Three in the succeeding two spring semesters.
We have responded by changing the PGMT classes, primarily by converting all of them to two hours, but we also added three new ones and dropped one. PGMT 1000 will become 1002, 1010 turns into 1012, 1020 will no longer be taught, and 2000 and 3000 will become 2002 and 3002. (Cont to page 5)
“I wish all of you a very happy, healthy and successful 2011 golf season. I would like to stay in touch with you when your time permits and am very proud of how you represent our program!”