Success Academy students get one-on-one golf lessons

LELAND, NC (WWAY) — Some local students got the opportunity to hit the links and get a golf lesson Saturday, all thanks to the 100 Black Men of Coastal North Carolina.

It was part of the organization’s Saturday Success Academy, which guides the students toward academic and life goals.

The students each got a one-on-one golf lesson from an experienced golfer at Compass Pointe Golf Club in Leland.

One of the students, Emily Berrios-Munguia says she got a deeper meaning from the lesson than just birdies and bogeys.

“It’s helping us have a basis of etiquette,” Berrios-Munguia said. “If we’re doing something with business and our business partner says, ‘Hey, we should go golfing with another company.’ It’s giving us how to socialize, how to talk, basically helping us for the foundation of how we run our lives.”

The students in the Success Academy recently took a trip to North Carolina A&T in Greensboro to get a taste of what life will be like in college.