Education

Our Education Board provides advice on how best to prepare for a career in golf course architecture.

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 trying to ensure that potential new Golf Course Architects are properly trained with a good working knowledge of current industry standards.

Previously the EIGCA ran the diploma course, a two-year distance learning programme with ten weeks of intensive tuition, lectures, field studies and design workshops, using 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 its education programme but due to the current market conditions the EIGCA Council, Education Board and Members felt it necessary to review the format. The EIGCA is still committed to providing a formal education for aspiring designers but wants the programme to operate on a supply and demand basis to ensure we are not educating more people than there are jobs for.

The EIGCA has, therefore, decided to restructure the programme to create a vocational, learn-while-you-work, scheme. It will only be open to prospective designers who are just getting into the industry and have already found employment in an EIGCA member’s practice.

The aim of the programme is to aid their development with a mixture of online learning and bi-annual workshops, whilst also receiving on the job training from their employer. We are still refining the format and will post regular updates so please continue to check the website for further details.
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