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from the issue of March 30, 2006
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Golf management majors score a first
BY SANDI ALSWAGER KARSTENS, IANR NEWS SERVICE
UNL students majoring in professional golf management scored a national first over the weekend of March 11.
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| | | INDOOR SWING - Billy Bolin, a freshman professional golf management major from Albion, takes a swing in one of UNL's two golf simulators. Photo from Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
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For the first time at any university-based professional golf management program or at the Professional Golf Association testing center in Florida, the 19 professional golf management majors at UNL who took the PGA checkpoint test that weekend passed, the program's director said.
"This is unprecedented," said Terrance Riordan, director of the professional golf management program in UNL's College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources and Cyril Bish Professor of Horticulture in the agronomy and horticulture department. "We knew our students had the potential, but to accomplish this really shows how hard our students work."
Normally, 20 percent to 50 percent of students fail at least one or more of the series of eight tests and must retake the checkpoint at another time and place. In addition, "the PGA said that new programs should expect a 50 percent failure rate," Riordan said.
"Since all 19 Nebraska PGM students passed this checkpoint test, it is a great accomplishment. The PGA staff was very impressed with the performance and the professionalism of our students," he said.
While other students were on spring break, professional golf management majors started testing at 7:15 a.m. March 11. Students attended PGA seminars on East Campus through March 14.
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