Another route to becoming a PGA Professional is by the three-year PGA training course which involves distance learning whilst working in golf and now incorporates a Foundation Degree in Professional Golf in conjunction with the University of Birmingham.
Almost 50 percent of head injuries sustained in sports or recreational activities occur during bicycling, skateboarding, or skating incidents. More than 775,000 children, ages 14 and younger, are treated in hospital emergency rooms for sports-related injuries each year. Most of the injuries occurred as a result of falls, being struck by an object, collisions, and overexertion during unorganized or informal sports activities.
very year, nearly 13 million individuals over 65 years of age expe-. rience a fall, and almost 10% of those falls result in serious. injuries ranging from hip fractures to head trauma 1. A 2003 study. found that nearly 1.8 million individuals were treated in emer-. gency rooms for fall-related injuries and more than 421,000 were. hospitalized for these injuries1.