Golf Industry Management - Georgian College

Thank you Mr. Paul Varian, president of Capitis Consulting for visiting our second-year Golf Industry Management students yesterday. Your presentation on Risk Management in sporting organizations was excellent. We all appreciate the long drive to be with us!

What a day at the Oakdale Golf and Country Club yesterday! Thank you GM - Molly Jagroop, Director of Golf - Ian Crebbin, Superintendent - Patrick Greenman, Teaching Professional (and Ontario Golf Hall of Fame member!) - Bob Beauchemin, Facilities and Operations Director - Wade Sit, Assistant Professional - Jeremy Wood… phew… what a list… for an outstanding tour! Our students gained a great deal from the sharing of your collective golf experiences and words of wisdom. And to Mr. Sean McEvoy of the CMAC and Ontario Racquet Club (and Georgian grad), thank you for organizing the day and being with us. It’s days like this that we truly appreciate the amazing people within the world of golf.

Tonight’s the night! Join us at 7:00 pm to learn about our October, 2024 golf trip to Scotland. This trip is open to Georgian College golf management students - and for the first time ever, grads, faculty, program supporters, and family members. If you fall into one of these categories and want to learn more, send me an email and I’ll get you the meeting link. [email protected] Thank you to all who have signed up, and I’ll see you tonight!

What an overwhelming response to my post last week. I hope our internet can handle the amount of people who will be attending this week’s Scotland golf trip information session! If you asked for meeting details and haven’t received them yet, check your “junk” folder. If it’s still not there, let me know and I’ll resend. If you are reading this wondering what the heck I’m talking about, well… do you want to come to Scotland with us on a golf trip this fall? I am hosting an information session this Thursday night to share the details. Open to Georgian golf management students, grads, faculty, and families. If you’d like an invite to the info session, send me an email. [email protected]

Do you want to join us in Scotland? Attention Georgian Golf Management grads (and families), program supporters, and Georgian faculty! We are looking to return to the home of golf, St.Andrews, Scotland, this October, 2024. For the first time ever, we are opening up the trip to grads, families, faculty and goIf management supporters! If you’d like to hear all about it, I’m hosting an online information session on the evening of Thursday, January 18th at 7:00pm. Email [email protected] and I will send you the meeting link!

Thank you Bob Paley, PGA of Canada Head Golf Professional at Kananaskis Country Golf Course, and all-round amazing human being, for joining us to speak with the students today. So many great words of wisdom and gems of advice for the gang. It was a treat sir!

Thank you Mike Johnston, Head Golf Professional of Cabot Cliffs, and Georgian College grad, for joining us on the big screen all the way from Nova Scotia this morning. You are an entertaining and inspiring speaker sir. What a great visit!

Thank you Brent Miller, VP of Business Development, for a great afternoon at the Clublink HQ at King Valley! It was a treat to learn of your personal background in the world of golf and to see how such a large player in the golf industry, Clublink, operates. It was really interesting to learn more about the Clublink model and of the potential career opportunities for our students and grads within the company. And lunch and the tour was awesome. Thanks Brent!

Thank you Carson Hau (Georgian grad of 2017) for an amazing visit to the Golf Lab yesterday morning! We enjoyed hearing about your experience in the world of golf instruction and your expertise with technology and data analysis is incredible. Easy to see why you were the 2022 PGA of Canada Teacher of the Year. Thanks Carson!

Open House today!!!

Thank you James Laidlaw for an amazing visit to the InHome Golf showroom. The learning opportunity afforded our students and the support you consistently show our program is truly remarkable. Thank you James!

A big thank you to Steven Young, Executive Professional and Director of Golf at the Banff Springs Golf Course in Alberta, for speaking with our Golf Industry Management students today. Your presentation was entertaining, enlightening, and informative. We all learned a great deal about what the golf operations are like at those iconic Canadian Rockies resort properties. And a second big thank you to our very own second-year GLFI student Matt Mackenzie for sharing your experiences about what it’s like to work there as a co-op student. What a great afternoon!

What a great day for the Golf Industry Management students! We travelled to the BPG buying show in downtown Toronto to see how golf shops view, analyze, and order the equipment for their shops. We also had a chance to visit with some leaders in the world of golf. A big thank you to Hendrick van der Geld, GM of The Club at North Halton, Todd Zado, Head Professional of the Wascana Country Club in Regina, and the BPG leadership team of Claude Gamache, Jody Levoy, and Karianne Lefebvre for sharing your respective knowledge and expertise!

Thank you Michael Fudge (Head Professional), Steve Saunders (Head Superintendent), Matthew Bilinksi (Executive Chef), and Brendan Macham (Assistant Professional) of the Port Carling Golf Club for an amazing visit today. The hospitality you demonstrated and expertise shared with our Golf Industry Management students was phenomenal!

Congratulations to the winning team of Carson Hau, Kyle Blohm, Jon Carson, and Irfaan Emamalie. The 2023 Golf Management Fall Classic is now in the books. Thank you to Bear Creek, Acushnet/Titleist Canada, and to everyone for an amazing day!!!

Thank you Sean Casey for such a great visit with our students this afternoon! It was exciting to learn of your impressive career as a PGA of Canada instructor and to see all that you have built at Burloak Indoor Golf. Thank you for inspiring our students and good luck with your upcoming expansion!

Thank you Meggan Gardner, Director of Heritage Services, for an amazing tour of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and Museum! And to the team of Golf Canada managers who stopped in to teach our students all about the cool things the Association does for golf in our country, you guys are amazing!

Go Grizzlies! A beautiful night for rugby.

What an exceptional visit we had to Redcrest Golf Club today! A huge thank you to Director of Operations Shayne Dysart and to the entire team at Cardinal Golf Group. Steve, Sean, Peter, Ian, and Kevin sure rolled out the red carpet and demonstrated to our students what a world class operation is all about. Thank you gentlemen for sharing your experience with the group and providing some sage words of wisdom and advice about working in the golf industry.

History made today. Congratulations Nick Taylor!!!

Last Friday at the Tangle Creek Golf and CC, the Georgian College Golf Industry Management program hosted our annual high school golf tournament. This 2-person team event attracted almost 100 golfers from across the province. A huge thank you to all athletes and their coaches (and to our amazing volunteers) for a tremendous day! Tangle Creek was a wonderful host and Titleist, an amazing sponsor!

Thank you James Laidlaw, Ted, and InHome Golf for replacing our Trackman simulator screen today!

Three more student golf bags set to hit the links. Enjoy Gents!

Student golf bags are starting to arrive. Thank you Titleist for your support. Come on spring!

A big thank you to our friends at Acushnet Canada and the Titleist Canada Fitting Centre. Such an amazing day and learning opportunity for our students!

Thank you Carson Hau and Jack Healey (both Georgian alumni) of The Golf Lab for hosting our class today. The amount of knowledge shared was incredible. What a cool facility!

Thank you Kyle Gordon and Jeff Ash from Golf Town, for sharing your tremendous club fitting knowledge with our students this morning. Two outstanding grads doing really well - we couldn’t be more proud. Thanks guys!

Thank you James Laidlaw, owner of InHome Golf for an awesome tour this afternoon. What a great visit!

Thank you Stewart Bannatyne and Jeff Swain for hosting us at Modern Golf this morning. Such a cool place and the club fitting and building knowledge between these two gentlemen is huge!

Thank you Cody Miller and Franco Pace for a great visit. We all learned a great deal more about Trackman today!