A Reason To Go Back To School

Fordham University in Westchester is tempting me to go back to school with "CONQUERING THE COURSE: Maximize Your Business and Golf Performance," a course offered through their Executive Education Program during the fall semester. Patrick Montana, Ph.D., a certified master golf teaching professional and author of 27 books in the fields of management and marketing, is the instructor.

The course includes two sessions covering Time Management and Managing for Results as well as two nine-hole golf instructional segments at Hollow Brook Golf Club in Cortlandt Manor, New York.

Montana has served as a visiting professor of management at Fordham's Graduate School of Business Administration. His books include Conquering the Course: Nine Steps to Manage Your Business and Golf Expectations (John Wiley) and Management (Barron's).

"There are many similarities in management and golf, as well as in teaching management and golf," said Montana. "Both require strategic thinking, planning, execution, control, evaluation and feedback. Given golf's popularity and global reach as well as its multibillion dollar market, we are constantly seeking ways to nurture this vibrant sport and make it and our business more efficient and effective."

Now, if he could just manage my putting stroke....

Dave Donelson, author of Heart of Diamonds a romantic thriller about blood diamonds in the Congo