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Golf can be crucial
to business success
By Jeanne Hoffa
On-line Forty-Niner
The first skill
someone who wants a career in business should acquire is a
good golf game. At least that's what the winners of the 1999
Ryder Cup think, a team that included 1980 Cal State Long
Beach graduate Mark O'Meara.
Golf has been very very good to him, and he has decided to
give back by sponsoring a course at CSULB, Golf: For Business
and Life. He and his teammates each donated $100,000 of their
winnings to a university to implement the program.
"I hear about more deals being made on the golf course
than in the office," said CSULB head Coach Bob Livingstone,
who has been the director of junior golf for the Southern
California Professional Golf Association, and the equivalent
of Tiger Woods' first agent. "A golfing background has
helped many of my former players get jobs."
Members of the PGA of America will teach the 13 week 1 1/4
hour course at El Dorado Park Country Club, which is 1 1/2
miles from campus. Clubs and equipment will be provided. Students
only have to pay $100.
Upper division business majors were the original targets for
the course, but others may apply.
Golf aficionados think golf should be taught "the right
way", Livingstone added. Thus the instructors will be
PGA members, taught specifically how to teach.
"The PGA feels people who are taught by PGA professionals
will stay with the game and use it, in business as well as
life," Livingstone said.
A round of golf at El Dorado Golf Course would normally run
$25 on a weekend for 18 holes. Private one-on-one golf lessons
cost a minimum of $45 for a 40-45 minute session. Group lessons
of 6 to 10 people with one-instructor run around $175. This
course will carry no credits.
Interested students can contact Rita Hayes, Director of Recreation
studies at 985-7351, or Coach Livingston at 985-4050. They
are looking for imput on choosing a schedule for the lessons.
Weekday afternoons are being considered, as well as Friday
and Saturday tee-off times. Livingstone can be e-mailed at
boblivy@csulb.edu.
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