The Professional Golfers Career College places a high premium on being conveniently located near world class golf courses, and it doesn’t get much more conveniently located than PGCC’s Orlando campus. The second of three campuses, PGCC Orlando was opened on the grounds of the Orange County National Golf Center & Lodge, a truly remarkable golf hotspot that remains one of the nation’s top...
When Andrew Thompson talks about golf, you don’t just hear him talking about it. You feel him talking about it. Perhaps it is his long history with the game or his obvious dedication to it, but one thing is for sure, Andrew Thompson is doing what he loves to do. Since he was in the single digits he was a regular fixture on the course, tagging along with his grandfather’s Sunday league. It was his...
Students at the Professional Golfers Career College take a wide variety of classes, but one class that generates a lot of excitement is Golf Course Development and Design. In this class students are required to delve deep and be creative while learning key concepts that range from course design to financing, planning, buying and marketing of a golf course. To the people who know golf, they...
On Wednesday, February 3rd, 30 students from the class hosted a clinic. The topic? Putting & Chipping. Two potentially game-winning skills. The students, led by PGCC faculty members Tom Tryhane and Bill Picca, also a member of the Argentine PGA (A.P.G.A.), taught 35 people, some of whom traveled over 20 miles to participate, the fundamentals of Putting & Chipping at the Castle Creek...
Tony Austin, instructor at the Professional Golfers Career College’s Orlando campus, is a well decorated golf veteran. A master of many facets of the game, Tony has been with PGCC since 2005, and since that time he has made a significant impact on students learning about the rules of golf, communication and principles of career success, under his experienced and watchful eye. Mr. Austin is...
Nothing stirs the competitive spirit quite like a friendly tournament. It is that spirit of friendly competition that prompted the creation of the International Match-Play Championship. Longtime friend of Dr. Tim Somerville, President & Founder of the Professional Golfers Career College, Dr. Jeong-Dug Sul, a professor of Sports Science, and golf instructor in Korea, recently toured PGCC’s...
Practice makes perfect, nowhere is the truth of this adage more evident than in the game of golf. And nowhere in the world does a student have as many opportunities, and places, to practice their game, than at the Professional Golfers Career College. PGCC students have been playing five days a week on some of the nation’s premier golf courses since it was founded in 1990 because, after all, the...
Of the many questions that we perennially ask ourselves, the most persistent one might be; what am I going to do with my life? If you are passionate about golf, you may find your answer here, at the Professional Golfers Career College. PGCC’s focus is distributed evenly on both quality and opportunity. The focus on quality ensures that every student receives an exceptional golf education...
Rizal Amin has been playing golf since he was 8 years old, and has always had an incredible love for the sport. When he was 18, while still in high school, Rizal’s dad discovered PGCC and encouraged him to attend. Taking his father’s encouragement to heart, Rizal enrolled at the college, and began taking his golf game to a new level. Although Rizal had been competing on the Amateur Tour...
Set foot through the door of any of PGCC’s three campuses and you will see the same thing; royal blue letters mounted on a wall informing you that Golf is History, Tradition & Character. At the Professional Golfer’s Career College this statement is more than a welcome mat, it is a principal philosophy. Three times a year this tenet is put to practical use during the Old Time Tournament. The...