{"id":144345,"date":"2018-02-07T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T03:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/?p=144345"},"modified":"2018-02-07T03:23:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T03:23:25","slug":"about-the-pga-of-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/about-the-pga-of-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"About the PGA of Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until 1988, there were almost exclusively English golf teachers in Iceland. The exception was <strong>Thorvald \u00c1sgeirsson<\/strong> who had been involved in\u00a0golf for years.<br \/>\nThe golf teachers who came to Iceland to teach had common ground in great competition and they were interested in competing under the banner of Iceland. It was the catalyst that brought <strong>John Drummond<\/strong>, Reyjav\u00edk Golf Club (1984 \u2013 1991), <strong>David Barnwell<\/strong>, Akureyri Golf Club (1986 \u2013 still in operation in Iceland) and <strong>Phill Hunter<\/strong>, Regional Golf Club (1986-1996), together and they began to discuss the establishment of PGA Iceland. They formed the\u00a0PGA of Iceland in the winter of 1988.<br \/>\nThe PGA Golf Teachers\u2019 College and GSI was introduced in spring 2006 and follows all of the requirements of the PGAs of Europe. 30 experts have taught at the school.<br \/>\nThe program is divided into two main parts, Sport and Golf Components. Students must have a minimum handicap \u2013 men and women by 5.4 and\u00a07.4 respectively \u2013 in order to start learning. Also, students must submit rounds\u00a0played in approved tournaments where low scores are\u00a0shown.<br \/>\nThe first Golf Teachers College students graduated May 10, 2008, and added 11 new PGA golf instructors in Iceland, in which there are\u00a0now\u00a055\u00a0full PGA golf instructors.<br \/>\nIcelanders who are members of the 62 Golf Clubs in Iceland are now 16602.<br \/>\nThe PGA of Iceland has its own homepage which you can see by <a href=\"http:\/\/pga.is\"><strong>CLICKING HERE:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The above written article is taken from the following website: http:\/\/www.pgae.com\/members\/pga-of-iceland\/<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until 1988, there were almost exclusively English golf teachers in Iceland. The exception was Thorvald \u00c1sgeirsson who had been involved in\u00a0golf for years. The golf teachers who came to Iceland to teach had common ground in great competition and they were interested in competing under the banner of Iceland. It was the catalyst that brought John Drummond, Reyjav\u00edk Golf Club (1984 \u2013 1991), David Barnwell, Akureyri Golf Club (1986 \u2013 still in operation in Iceland) and Phill Hunter, Regional Golf Club (1986-1996), together and they began to discuss the establishment of PGA Iceland. They formed the\u00a0PGA of Iceland in the winter of 1988. The PGA Golf Teachers\u2019 College and GSI  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/about-the-pga-of-iceland\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":144346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","cat-7-id"],"acf":[],"views":2669,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}