Global Mission

[Kilroy]

The PGA of America traveled to Beijing and met with The Peoples Republic of China to assist the Chinese in growing the game of golf by training a first generation of Chinese golf professionals and accelerating a broad youth golf program.

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Report: Chinese university requiring golf for business, law majors

BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese university is requiring law and business students to take golf lessons to prepare them for a business world where deals are made on the golf course, news reports said Tuesday.
Xiamen University in the southeastern city of Xiamen joins a growing number of Chinese schools offering golf lessons, but is unusual in making them a required class. Golf classes start in two months and also will be required for economics and computer software majors, the official Xinhua News Agency said, citing university president Zhu Chongshi.

"The aim is to help the students find good jobs," a sports professor at the school, Chen Xiao, was quoted as saying. "Many Chinese business deals are clinched on golf courses."

Elite Peking University set off a debate over whether golf is appropriate for China, where most people still live in poverty, when it announced in August that it was building a practice green.

Some students complained the sport was too elitist but supporters defended it as a healthy social activity.