AJGA

We’ve had some busy days in the office these last few weeks getting ready for tournaments to start.  I can’t wait!  The first tournament is a week from today at Honey Creek Golf Club and there are 100 juniors registered to play!  I am really looking forward to this summer and I know everyone else here in the office is as well.  Yesterday we had our first summer staff training day.&

We visited the First Tee of East Lake last evening to present our first Rules and Orientation Seminar of the year, a sure sign that golf is just around the corner. I was TRULY impressed with the Rules knowledge and enthusiasm that these players possessed. It was easy to tell that these players have some great coaches (Coach Nyre, Coach Bob and others) that care about their success and that each one of them had been working hard on their game and improving their Rules knowledge. I can’t wait to see these guys and gals on the course this summer!

If there is one thing that all amateur golfers, juniors included, can learn from professionals, it is most certainly that knowing the Rules of Golf can help or hurt in a big way. Unfortunately, more times than not, learning this lesson comes at the expense of the player. The PGA and European Tours were only a few weeks into the season before two of golf’s top players were leaving the tournament early. During the first round of the PGA Tour’s Hyundai Tournament of Champions, Camilo Villegas found himself in violation of Rule 23-1.

May was a very busy month for us here at Atlanta Junior Golf. We completed 16 orientation and rules seminars for our first and second year members, totally over 600 participants! What an amazing group of juniors, we really enjoyed every seminar this year and can’t wait to see everyone on the course this summer.