Demand is High for PGA Golf Management Graduates!

Recruitment Efforts for all PGA Golf Management Programs
Recruitment Efforts for all PGA Golf Management Programs

Telling our story and communicating to prospective students and their parents/guardians is an uphill struggle in today's news environment. Much of what is found in the mainstream media regarding the occupational outlook in the golf industry is limited to stories with inaccurate data.

From data collected in April of 2019, we found that there were currently 13,134 PGA members over the age of 50 or 53.6% of the total membership with job titles of head golf professional, general manager, director of golf, director of instruction, teaching professional, and assistant golf professional. Bottom line from these data...there are going to be a flood of openings in our golf industry in the very near future. The central question is, where are we going to find the women and men to fill these careers when our veteran PGA professionals retire?

As an industry, we need to do much more to put up-to-date information and occupational outlook data in the hands of prospective students, parents, coaches, and high school guidance offices and school staff who deal with career exploration and awareness of jobs in the golf industry.

The PGA of America created a series of recruitment videos for each PGA golf management program in the United States. We encourage you to share these videos with interested individuals who might be considering a career in the golf industry. Here is the website that houses all the recruitment videos of the 18 university programs that offer PGA golf management:

https://www.pga.org/membership/university-program/participating-universities

Each university program has their own unique recruitment video highlighting their individual degree program.

Folks...we need your help. Many of us work closely with young women and men including their parents in various facets of the golf industry. Whether it be junior events, golf lessons, junior golf tours, Get-Golf-Ready programs, camps, and many other events and activities, we need to do a better job of telling our stories and sharing our passions on the various careers in the golf industry.

The time is now to reach out and make that "ASK" to young women and men if they have thought about a career in the golf industry. You know who to ask and chances are you know exactly when to make that ask. So don't wait, make the ask now!

We need you to identify the next generation of PGA professionals. Mike Schuchart, PGA said it best when he was interviewed by the Nebraska Section of the PGA during their 2019 Legends and Young Guns Golf Tournament: we need to find our replacements and naturally, we want our replacements to be better than us so the PGA of America can become stronger and keep moving our profession forward and upward.

Let's do this! Please make that "ASK" today!

Go Big Red!

More details at: https://grassland.unl.edu/pga-golf-management