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January 18, 2008

A Good Golf Professional Always Knows a Good Joke

If you ever get the opportunity to work as a golf professional, you’ll find that it opens your life up to a number of benefits. The most important of these is the chance to meet a lot of different people through your golf job. Many of those people could be able to help you further your career through their own business connections. Because of this, it’s important to be able to talk easily with all types of different people. The best way to do this is to be able to tell everyone a good joke.

People come to the golf course to relax. Sure, they do business there but they don’t want to be burdened with heavy conversation. A joke can lighten anyone’s day. And a good joke can make an impression that will last a lot longer than the time it takes to play the back nine. Of course, you don’t want to be that guy who always tells the same joke so you want to make sure that you learn new jokes weekly to share with the people you come into contact with.

Make sure to stay away from any jokes that could be offensive. Racial jokes and jokes with overtly sexual connotations aren’t appropriate in the workplace so they aren’t appropriate on the green. If you’d tell the joke to the head of a resort’s golf management department, it’s safe to tell it on the golf course. Make people laugh and they’ll be happy to remember you in the future.

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