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Old 02-07-2008, 08:15 PM
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PAT - Players Ability Test

Anybody here take their PAT?

What's the deal with it? 36 holes, shoot 76ish both rounds, and you pass?

I'm sort of curious to attempt it sometime this upcoming summer, but I'm really not positive if I have to attend a school to take it. Anybody know if I can just pay the money and get on the list to play in it?
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Old 02-07-2008, 08:18 PM
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I got a friend getting ready to take it, i think he said you have to shoot within 15 strokes of the course rating and it can be local at your home course, and then he has to go to florida to take some kind of a written test. I am not positive what you have to do but i think that is what he told me.
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Old 02-07-2008, 08:21 PM
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Keith, im pretty sure there are certain courses taht host the tourney, not just play it on ur home course.

but tmag has i know for sure, not sure of others here that have? Some of them will be along sometime.
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One of my friends who took it said the pins were in the center of every green, and you play from the men's tees. It sounds easy for a really good golfer, but for some reason what I've heard is that some people have a really tough time with it. I guess it's just the mental aspect of it where some soon to be instructors feel pressured to pass?
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Back home they had one (the equivalent for canadian pros) at a course we had a jr tourney the same week.

they set the pins in rediculous places, greens were running at minimum 13 on the stimp, and rough was grown out.

i can guarantee they didnt do this for our jr tourney. This was on a mountainside course so all the greens have huge undulations, and one of the holes with a back to front green, almost anyone who hit the front 3/4 of the green with any spin watsoever, the ball would go all the way off and about 30ft below the green as it would start rolling and just keep picking up more and more speed.

Granted, this was a shorter course (but nonetheless one of the hardest in BC I would rate) at 6200 yards, but the yardage definately doesnt play into it when your hitting up a hole that resembles a ski hill and is 420yards.

but this was the canadian version of it, and we all know canadians are better.
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anyone know how much it cost..cuz i wanna try to do it
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And here's another: http://pdf.pgalinks.com/pgalinks/pro...ls/form252.pdf
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Keith, im pretty sure there are certain courses taht host the tourney, not just play it on ur home course.

but tmag has i know for sure, not sure of others here that have? Some of them will be along sometime.
There are some courses that are in the program and i meant you might get lucky and your home course might be a member, the course we play alot and he works at is where he is doing his at
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