Professional golfer

A professional golfer, also known as a golf professional or just Pro, is a golfer who lives by the practice of this sport and the game of golf, or training runs this professionally. The female professional golfers are also used as female pros: called (singular Proette spoken per -ette ).

In golf, a strict division between professionals and amateurs is operated. An amateur golfer who takes even a single time prize money, loses a rule, immediately his amateur status and therefore may not participate in amateur tournaments in a row. Professional golfers are composed of two main groups, which may occasionally overlap.

• The golf instructor, and Club Professionals or referred to in English-speaking Teaching Pros, make up a good 95 % of the profession. Every golf club has for its members at least one golf instructor. Larger clubs have more than one, in which case it is referred to as a head pro golf instructor and a number of assistants, the assistant pros. Other common names are still golf instructor and golf coach, the latter being used mainly for the education and training of tournament players. The golf instructor play sporadically tournaments among themselves, but take part on an invitation or a successful qualification of larger events, especially when they take place in their home clubs or countries.

• Called The tournament player, also playing pros and touring professionals, are all those who. Their living solely by revenue from the tournament mode ( prize money, inaugural awards show at events) and any dispute through advertising contracts After completion of their competition careers, some are aiming for a career as a golf instructor, but many go to the quite lucrative tournament series for seniors, such as the European Seniors Tour in Europe or the Champions Tour in the United States.

Sometimes also active in the Gulf area managers, operators of golf shops, golf course architects, club maker, journalist, referee or organizer are counted from golf tournaments to professional golfers, provided that they have this as their main occupation. In some countries, training for "Golf Professional" includes a specialization in one of these disciplines.

Development

Historically, transcends the boundaries between amateurs and professionals about their different social positions reasons. In the 18th and 19th century played in the UK only the rich for their pleasure. The early professional players came from the working class and had to earn their income as a caddy, green keeper or the manufacture and repair of golf clubs. In addition, they challenged each other betting games for money. As the sport of golf spread the end of the 19th century in the U.S., he was also there at first an elitist pastime, and golf clubs dedicated professionals from the UK. Only in the late 1920s, Walter Hagen was able to create a basis for a tournament area, which gradually enabled professional golfers, with earned prize money to make a living after tireless pioneer activity.

Today, this exclusion is to be found practically anywhere. Golf has become affordable in industrialized countries for many, the professional golfers not differ in terms of their social background from the vast majority of amateur golfers. The leading professional tournament players have also become very wealthy and belong mainly in the USA for the upper class. Only in the developing countries, there is still the original class society and the professional golfer often come from poor backgrounds. Many golfers have high served as a caddy, such as Argentina's Angel Cabrera and the German Bernhard Langer.

The professional golfer of both groups are summarized in the various countries in associations, called the PGA ( Professional Golfers ' Association ), the ladies in the LPGA (Ladies Professional Golfers' Associations). In addition, the GGTF understood about in the U.S. and in Germany USGTF as an organization of professional golfers working as a golf teacher and offer golf instructor training.

Jobs in the Gulf

Senior Golf Manager

The Senior Golf Manager ( FH) is working at management level in golf operations and has both business knowledge and industry knowledge. The Fachhochschule study was developed in collaboration by ISS Institute for Sports Management and Sports Medicine at the University of Applied Sciences Koblenz and the IS - study institution.

Golf course management

The part-time distance learning on golf course management (IST) qualified for activities in golf clubs, private golf operators and publicly owned golf equipment. Be the training was the IS - study Institute and the Golf Management Association of Germany designed ( GMVD ), consists of 16 study booklets, 5 Deadline Working, 3 two-day seminars and a final exam lasts 18 months and is aimed at all those who are in golf already active or want. Compared to the golf business administration training to tourism, green keeping and hospitality is extended.

Golf Business Administration

The German Golf Association (DGV ) offers a series of seminars of 6 times 5 days that train to the golf business administration ( DGV ) and convey business knowledge in the golf industry.