How Do You Become A Golf Professional? | Careers in Golf (Episode 1)

Have you ever wanted to work in golf? ⛳️ Today we’re starting a new series where we go over the many jobs and careers you can have at a golf course, starting with being a Golf Professional.

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Barry Ehlert is a serial entrepreneur. His love & passion for business started young. His first venture of shovelling snow was done for tips. As a business graduate of Brigham Young University, Barry wrote an award winning business plan while attending his last year of university. He was named one of Forbes Magazine’s “Future Capitalists.” He grew a start-up in Dallas, TX to 8 retail locations, and over 100 wholesale accounts before selling the business, and returning home where he grew up in Calgary, AB. Barry followed his grandfather, and father’s footsteps with his passion for golf and business. He has grown Windmill Golf at one point to over 10 golf courses through building new, acquiring, and management of golf courses. He has since redeveloped some courses, and has been focused on some of his new acquisitions while preparing to open Mickelson National in 2020. Barry recently decided to start a Vlog to provide insight into his life plus passion he shares for his family and business.

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Thank you for this video! I am 18 with a strong passion in golf and my dream is to become a golf pro at a country club. I am currently working at the #1 rated private club in Nevada and building my networking for the future. I was looking into the PGM program and after your words I think that would be a good step for me. Have a great night!

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decided to get a job at a golf course/Country Club in outside service and this was simply to understand the business model and ultimately how you work your way up, but the Simplicity of all the jobs, even when it came to the so-called business management skills of the golf professional is astounding. I was told the very first day that it's all about making a nice image for the customer to feed on, while concealing the back end operations.. I honestly think that they make it seem a lot more glamorous than what it really is, because within 4 days of me being at the golf course/ Country Club that I was at, I had already learned everything pertaining to cardboard operations, outside service, and Golf Course opening and closed down procedures. So much to the point, that I was getting mistaken for working there at least 3 months. And it wasn't until, I accidentally started to intimidate the assistant golf professionals, with my skills of customer service and High presentation standards and detail-orientedness that my attention to detail and professionalism from all the customer service jobs in my past, we're gaining gaining attention from the golf club gm. It was so much to the point that the golf professional assistants were being reprimanded for their low standards.

This made absolutely no sense to me, when these assistant golf professionals had been in their field for 10 years only to get to where a polo t-shirt that was unique from all the others and stay inside and basically do nothing for the majority of the day. Yeah sure, you might be managing a very simple business model on the more technical side, but that's as simple as working at a rental car agency or a U-Haul Storage facility. Why in the hell would anyone want to wait 10 years getting paid minimum wage in 37 degrees Celsius or 102 degrees Fahrenheit weather were you not allowed any breaks or lunch, ultimately to work in 8 hours shift and fall into heat stroke? I really just don't get it why people work in a field for 10 years and they never gain any new standard? I guess it really just depends on the person, but this video pisses the living hell out of me. It just seemed like the guy who was interviewing the gulf professional, just wanted to Pat the guy on the back. And for what? Seriously