January 2010

The Next Basic Training –How Golf is Serving Our Veterans

Golf is used as a therapeutic treatment modality, to help patients restore, remediate and rehabilitate to improve functioning and independence in life activities, as well as to help the patients integrate back into society.

By Bob Denney

According to an independent study conducted in 2008 by the Rand Corporation, one in five service members, or at least 300,000, suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or major depression.

Such imposing numbers reflect a generational issue facing both professionals and dependents of the men and women who have served this country.

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2010 PGA Merchandise Show Begins With A Bang

The 57th PGA Merchandise Show began with pomp and ceremony, an appearance by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, announcement of a golf-industry initiative to represent the economic, environmental and human impact of the sport to legislative bodies at the local, state and federal level, and a major announcement by The PGA of America Thursday at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.

Orlando, Fla. – The 57th PGA Merchandise Show began with pomp and ceremony, an appearance by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, announcement of a golf-industry initiative to represent the economic, environmental and human impact of the sport to legislative bodies at the local, state and federal level, and a major announcement by The PGA of America Thursday at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.

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