September 19, 2009

Here we go again...

Have noticed on the golf clubs web-site that they are planning a meeting for the juniors and their parents for next tuesday. The goal for the meeting is to figure out what "they" are doing and what the plan is for the future. I have to wonder, in my two seasons working there it was the same situation after each season, "what are we going to do..??" This is why my daughter has not been taking part in the clubs training, it's ridiculous that these people will use each and ever fall to try and figure it out... again. In my time in the club we had built up a junior group that went from almost 0 to 50 juniors that had participated in practice. Maybe the total of active juniors was between 25 to 30 but we were going in the right direction. So what happened? Let me tell you, I had to travel to the US the last season I worked there, I had family problems that I had to take care of which was unlucky but I did have an assistant pro there at each and every practice. Even though this was open for the clubto know it had no meaning in regards to being pushed out... You can read the earlier posts and see the pictures of the juniors I had been working with during my time as head pro and you can see the dates from the last pictures, sometime in late July. I am not trying to complain, I just think it's real sad to see my local club going in the wrong direction in regards to creating a club/junior plan that involves hiring people that are trying to monopolize the pro offerings in this area. It's my experence that clubs need their own pro, not one that is working at several different clubs at the same time. It reminds of a particular pro that worked here in Norway for a number of years ago, he, before he left the country, had three or four different clubs that he was in charge of and what happened to this person and the clubs he worked at?? Nothing, absolute 0, he ended up taking the money and running... Be careful here golf clubs, when you have these kinds of actors shedding their sheeps outfits and showing their wolves teeth for the first time. A pack of wolves. When you have actors trying to go around the rules and letting people teach that have not taken the schooling, is real dangerous. I for one will not sit by and watch it happen. The PGA of Norway has a job to do here, if playing profesionals are going to start teaching, I for one will be asking (well, maybe not asking) the PGA for a total refund of the 100,000+ kr I used for the education I recieved. What's the point of having the schooling when playing pro's can just go ahead and start teaching??? Anyway, just a little heads up to those who read my stuff, things are moving in the wrong direction here.......