Golf enterprise management student receives national award

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Cody Pitz

MENOMONIE, WIS. (10/29/2013)(readMedia)-- College of Management student Cody Pitz from University of Wisconsin-Stout has received a national award. 

He was named a winner of the Don Rossi Scholarship from the National Golf Course Owners' Scholarship Fund and received $1,000.

Pitz, of Valders, is majoring in golf enterprise management and business administration.

The scholarship was established in 1992 to provide support to promising juniors and seniors majoring in sports administration and golf enterprise management degrees and who plan to pursue careers in a golf-related field.

Rossi was president of the National Golf Foundation from 1970 to 1983 and then was executive director of the National Association of Public Golf Courses, now the National Golf Course Owners Association, until 1990.

The organization founded the award to honor Rossi and "individuals who have made significant contributions to the game of golf and its growth, and who have inspired others."

For more information about the scholarship, go to www.ngcoa.org/pageview.asp?doc=2541.

For more information about the university's golf enterprise management degree available on campus and as an online option, refer to www.uwstout.edu/programs/bsgem/.

Bob Davies is program director for the campus program; call 715-232-1480 or email daviesb@uwstout.edu. Kris Schoonover is director of the online program; call 715-232-2364 or email schoonoverk@uwstout.edu.