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Business university to teach golf as a management skill

Bogeys and tees will become homework at the Singapore Management University where officials have decided teaching golf is a way to build networking and other social skills.

Some 200 students will go through the university's basic golf program starting next month, which was initiated and established by the school's director for student life, Stanley Lee.

Eventually all of the school's 2,200 students will study either golf or sailing, Lee told reporters yesterday.

Lee picked the two sports because men and women of all ages can participate, he said.

Learning to play the game will help students "learn social etiquette, integrity, and other social values," Lee, himself a golfer, said.

Knowing how to play golf will also give students an advantage when it comes to networking since business deals are so frequently clinched on the links, Lee said.

"If the school can make the classes affordable for us, I wouldn't mind taking a few lessons," said Lynn Koh, a third-year business student at the university.
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