Education

Our Education Board provides advice on how best to prepare for a career in golf course architecture as well as details of our Professional Diploma in Golf Course Design.

An important role of the EIGCA is to promote and maintain high standards of Golf Course Design and professional expertise. By offering a qualification in golf course architecture the EIGCA is responding to a real demand from people wanting to enter the industry whilst helping to ensure that potential new Golf Course Architects are properly trained with a good working knowledge of current industry standards.

The diploma course is run as a distance learning course over a period of two years with ten weeks of intensive tuition, lectures, field studies and design workshops held at five teaching centres throughout Europe. The course benefits from the experience and expertise of the EIGCA membership to introduce students to specific areas of sustainable golf course architecture, construction and maintenance.

Update

The EIGCA is very proud of the education programme and are continually looking at ways to further enhance the quality and consistency of the learning experience. As part of this process the EIGCA Council and Education Board have taken the decision to defer the Professional Diploma in Golf Course Design until August/September 2011 at the earliest. The application process for this next course will likely begin around the summer of 2010. We will be posting regular updates so please continue to check the website for further details.