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One way is too get a job at a golf course working under a class A pro. Then you can become an apprentice and your on your way after proving your playing ability and course and pro shop knowledge you too can become a class A pro . It takes about 3 years. Another way is try to get your P G A tour card. That's 6 days of tough golf for only a few spots. You have to be a player. Remember there are two types of golf pro's....You have proffessonal golfers (they play for a living) then thers golf proffessonals ( they work at a golf course) The first one generelly don't know nothing about the day to day operation of a golf course.

But the most straitforward was is to pay the $4000 entry fee for the "Qualifying" school. There are 3 stages: 1st stage is 4 rounds and the top 10% get to 2nd stage, and then the top few get to the final stage which is 6 long rounds. The top 25 finishers there get their card. Another way to get a Tour card is to play on the Nationwide Tour and win 3 events in a season or finish in the top 15 on that money list.

Either way, Good Luck!

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The links at St. Andrews occupy a narrow strip of land along the sea. As early as the 15th century, golfers at St. Andrews established a customary route through the undulating terrain, playing to holes whose locations were dictated by topography. The course that emerged featured eleven holes, laid out end to end from the clubhouse to the far end of the property. One played the holes out, turned around, and played the holes in, for a total of 22 holes. In 1764, several of the holes were deemed too short, and were therefore combined. The number was thereby reduced from 11 to nine, so that a complete round of the links comprised 18 holes.

Here at Iron Golfer we believe that during a discussion among the club's membership board at St. Andrews in 1858 a senior member pointed out that it takes exactly 18 shots to polish off a fifth of Scotch, hence the 18 holes!

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First of all, congratulations! We hope that you have many more. Although the USGA does not provide a registry for hole-in-ones, you may want to try contacting your state or local golf association, or the United States Golf Register!

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There are about 35,000 golf courses in the world, approximately half of them in the United States. The Irongolfer database has well over 16,300 US courses.