DeSales University Athletics

Jim Booros returns for his 16th season as the head golf coach at DeSales University.  Booros inherited a team that finished in ninth place in his first year as the head coach in 2008-09 and has guided them to third place finishes in 2011 and 2012 and back-to-back program-best second place finishes in 2013 and 2014.
 
Booros has been a Class “A” member and now a life member of the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) of American since 1983.  He played full-time on the PGA Tour for nine years between 1977 and 1991. During that time he participated in 252 events making 117 cuts, recording 11 top 10 finishes, played in five major championships (four US Opens, one PGA), made the all exempt top 125 money list five times and won the 1989 Deposity Guaranty Golf Classic in a four hole playoff against his good friend Mike Donald.
 
As a member of the Philadelphia PGA, Booros was named a Playing Legend in the Fall of 2015.  Booros also won the 2004 Philadelphia PGA Skee Riegel Senior Players Classic, the 1996 Philadelphia Open, the 1995 Philadelphia Section PGA Match Play, the 1990 Philadelphia Section PGA Championship, and the 1986 Pennsylvania PGA.  He is a seven-time PGA of America club pro qualifier three times on the regular tour and four times on the senior tour, has seven PPGS stroke play championships, five senior stroke play championships, and over 100 PPGS Pro Am wins.
 
Booros golfing career includes eight course records including a 59 at Twin Lakes and a 62 at the old Allentown Municipal Golf Course, second only to Arnold Palmer’s 61.  He has recorded 15 holes in one and two double eagles.  He is a member of the PGA Tour double eagle club.
 
Locally, Booros served as the head golf professional at the Allentown Municipal Golf Course, Whitetail Golf Club, and Fox Hollow Golf Club. He was also the Senior Golf instructor at Southmore GC, a golf instructor at Green Pond CC, and the Director of Instruction at Growcraft Golf Center.
 
As an amateur Booros won the 1973 Pennsylvania Public Links Championship and in 1991 was inducted into the Dieruff High School Hall of Fame.  He was also inducted into the Lehigh Valley Golf Hall of Fame’s first class in 2004.
 
A lifelong resident of Allentown, PA, Booros continues to reside there with his wife Debbie, who is Dean of Lifelong Learning at DeSales.