UCCS College of Business
Volume 5, Issue 5
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U C C S P G A G OLF M ANAGEMENT
U P DA T E
FROM THE
DIRECTOR
By Mollie Sutherland, PGA, LPGA Program Director
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Director’s Update
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Internship News
1
Where are they Now
3
Save the Dates
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Practice Tips
3
Edward P. Kelbel Memorial Scholarship Fund: According to the family's wishes, 100% of your gift will be directed to a scholarship fund to honor students in the UCCS PGA Golf Management program.
www.cufund.org/ KelbelMemorial
I hope this edition of the newsletter greets you with full tee sheets, busy lesson books and overflowing junior golf camps! This season will present challenges for your professional growth, new opportunities and I wish you the best as you progress. Your hard work, integrity and entrepreneurial spirit is appreciated by those you work for, those you represent and additional staff members. Keep leading the way and growing the game! The UCCS PGA Golf Management Program and the Daniels Ethics Fund Initiative partnered to host a luncheon for over 180 attendees in April. The event was a great highlight for the program students, alumni and community supporters. The special guest speaker was Donna Orender, the leader of the Connect With Her Growth of the Game Initiative that is part of Golf 2.0., presented on the
Donna Orender speaking at the UCCS Ethics Initiative Luncheon
importance of ethics on the course and in office. Partners and supporters of the program were present representing the campus, College of Business, CO Section PGA, First Tee of Pikes Peak, Boys & Girls Club, El Pomar Foundation, United State Olympic Committee, The Broadmoor, NMSU PGA Golf Management program and many other organizations. PGA Golf Management student, Ryan Adams published a great
article in PGA Magazine covering the special event, click here http://www.pgamagazinedigital .com/i/133152 for the entire article. I encourage you to stay in close contact with PGA resources (PGALinks, PGA Magazine, PGA Connect, etc.) to be implemented at your site. Continued on page 3
INTERNSHIP NEWS By Mark Bacheldor, PGA Internship Coordinator
3 Ways to Be a Successful Intern: Be a sponge: Just as a sponge innately soaks up everything it comes into contact with, so should an intern. Put yourself in a position to absorb information. The information may or may not be applicable to your immediate
task or role even, but eventually it will become useful. A supervisor is looking for reliable employees to complete the tasks assigned to them but if you can show that you don’t have to explicitly be told everything else, your stock as an employee goes up, way up.
that they just work at a facility will ultimately make decisions that reflect their personal connection to the operation. Customers will respect and honor you if you show that you own your performance and the performance of your site. This is vital to success as an intern.
Ownership: Just as important as absorbing information, it is equally as important to own it. A staff member that gives up the idea
Confidence, not Arrogance: There is no job in this world that is beneath anyone. If you keep that in mind, doing all sorts of tasks will be more
enjoyable and you will do a better job in the process! Be confident in your abilities; know them, isolate them and use them. But do not allow arrogance in those abilities to drag you down. Humbly submit to just getting the job done and you will ultimately be an asset to your facility and a shining star to your customers.