Go to School on the A Positionís Top Journalists; A Salute to Graduation and Golf

June “A List” Allows Readers to

Go to School on The A Position’s Top Journalists

With all incumbent pomp and circumstance, the writers of The A Position

test their faculties with memories of college golf.

Portland, Oregon (June 23, 2010) - As new graduates depart the cloistered halls of ivy for the cold hard world, the writers at The A Position.com reflect on one of the great institutions of higher learning: collegiate golf. Judging by their swings today, you couldn’t have guessed that so many of the game’s top journalists were actually good enough to play in school. Prevalent are tales of sneaking onto courses, filling in for better players in lousy weather, acquiring emotional scars that remain to this day—and wishing that golf and life could be so simple again. The A Position’s writers also offer summa-cum-laude shout outs to long-standing scholarship programs, ultra-modern practice facilities, and even the quaint ways that Britain’s universities retain long-standing tee-toting traditions.

For with heads held high, a tear in their eyes, and mortarboards replaced by logoed caps, the A Position’s writers are proud to march out through the gates of learning and in through the gates of golf clubs worldwide, chanting “Cogolfo ergo sum.” Whatever that means. Now if they could only figure out how to get their golf scores graded on a curve.

Here are excerpts from the June “A List”-- a salute to graduation and golf. To read more, visit theaposition.com or the individual writer’s sites listed below.

As a philosophy major, my absorption in the cosmology ought to have produced a unified theory of golf, or at least some decent play . . . www.tomharack.com.

There are certain benefits to going to a college with fewer than a thousand students.. . . www.davidhbarrett.com.

As one of the first women to play men’s golf in college after the passage of Title IX in 1972, there was a lot to prove when I went to Wayne State University in Michigan . . . www.janinajacobs.com.

For all the trans-Atlantic DNA we share with our British golfing brethren, it’s easy and, I suppose, somewhat natural to assume that college golf here is pretty much the same as it is over there . . . www.halphillips.net.

I did not go to Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, so what follows isn’t alumni boosterism but amazement at what big-time schools will do for their athletic programs . . . www.jimgolfrank.com.

When I was at Vassar College from 1978-1982, students could play the

nine-hole campus golf course for fifty cents for as many holes as you could manage in a day . . . www.jeffwallach.com.

Making the high school golf team in the 1970s is often merely a question of going out for the team. Not so in Ohio, the hot bed that gave rise to Jack Nicklaus, Tom Weiskopf, and Ed Sneed . . . www.caseyalexandergolf.com.

When America’s educational system took its modern shape in the middle of the 19th century, more than 50% of Americans were farmers . . . www.johnstrawn.com.

Anyone capable of breaking 80 made the golf team at Marquette University in the early 1970s . . . www.brianmccallen.com.

As I left campus for the last time as a student at the University of San Diego, it wasn’t without noting that I might have made a colossal mistake by graduating in four years . . . www.jasonkerkmans.com.

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