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Running a successful small business has become par for the course for 26-year-old Josh Cooper.
Cooper opened Par Golf Camps four years ago with the ambition of teaching young people the finer arts of whacking a ball into a tiny hole in the grass.
No stranger to the game, Cooper's parents have been in the management end of golf courses for more than 20 years.
"I always had an interest in the game, even as a kid," says Cooper. "But I usually preferred to go away to summer camp."
Cooper attended Camp Timberlane in Muskoka both as a boy and then later as a camp counsellor.
"My love of the camp atmosphere was the main reason I wanted to open a golf camp, rather than just open a traditional golf school."
Cooper says that a school would -be-golfer gets a half an hour lesson and spends the rest of the week practicing on his own until the next lesson - days later.
"We provide guidance every day for each of the young golfers," he says. "It's more of a camp atmosphere, where you learn and improve over the whole day for a two week period."
Before opening his golf camp, Cooper had attended university and came away with a degree in geography. After that he took a securities course followed by an international business degree from Seneca College. {exerpt}