2017 YEARBOOK & MEDIA GUIDE MInnesota Golf Editor Association W.P. Ryan 6550 York Ave. So., Ste. 211 Contributing Edina, Minnesota 55435 Photographers 952-927-4643 Mark Brettingen, 800-642-4405 Paul Markert, W.P. Ryan Fax: 952-927-9642 and Peter Wong Media Services Contributing [email protected] Writers [email protected] Mike Fermoyle, 952-345-3966 Nick Hunter Publisher and W.P. Ryan Published by the Minnesota Designer Golf Association, Inc. Copyright 2017 Karen Spruth Lynn Anderson, Keller GC, from the fairway bunker to the 18th green during the 2016 MWPGA State Senior Public Links Championship at Inver Wood Golf Course. Anderson finished second. 2017 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide mngolf.org 1 INSIDE THE 2017 MGA YEARBOOK & MEDIA GUIDE ABOUT THE MGA • 4-26 Message from the President 4 The MGA Story 8 MGA Officers 5 Allied Associations 9-11 TABLE OF CONTENTS OF TABLE MGA Executive Committee and Past Presidents 6 MGA Services 12-19 MGA Staff 7 MGA Awards 20-26 THE PLAYERS • 27-43 2016 MGA Players of the Year 28-30 MGA Male Player Profiles 34-38 MGA Player Point Distrbution 31-33 MGA Female Player Profiles 39-43 MINNESOTA CHAMPIONSHIPS • 44-245 (Event pages in 2017 chronological order throughout this chapter. Table of contest listings shown in association order) MINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION MGA/PGA Cup Matches 58-61 MGA Junior Team Championship 166-168 MGA Women’s Senior Amateur Four-Ball Championship 64-65 MGA Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship/ 171-174 *Previously MWGA Senior Four-Ball Tournament MGA Women’s Net Individual Tournament MGA Mid-Players’ Champioinship 88-90 MGA Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship 175-177 MGA Senior Players’ Championship 91-93 *Previously MWPGA Four-Ball Tournament & Minnesota Women’s State Amateur Four-Ball Championship MGA Players’ Championship 98-101 MGA Amateur Four-Ball Championship 185-187 MGA Women’s Amateur Match Play & 102-108 Women's Senior Amateur Match Play Championships MGA Amateur Net Team Championship 200-201 *Previously MWPGA Match Play & MGA Mid-Amateur Championship 209-212 Minnesota Women’s State Match Play Championships MGA Senior Amateur Championship 215-219 MGA Mixed Amateur Team Championship 115-117 MGA Women’s Senior Amateur Championship 220-223 Minnesota State Junior Boys’ Championship 126-130 *Previously MWPGA State Senior Public Links & Minnesota State Junior Girls’ Championship 131-135 Minnesota Senior Women’s State Amateur Championships MGA Amateur Championship 143-148 MGA Senior Amateur Four-Ball Championship 226-230 MGA Women’s Amateur Championship 158-163 *Effective with the merger of the MWGA, MWPGA and MGA, *Previously MWPGA State Public Links & December 31, 2016, the 13 women’s amateur championships were Minnesota Women’s State Amateur Championships consolidated into the MGA amateur championships schedule. MINNESOTA PUBLIC GOLF ASSOCIATION MPGA Four-Ball Championship 53-55 MPGA Junior Public Links Championship 149-150 MPGA Mid Public Links Championship 94-95 MPGA Public Links Championship 181-184 MPGA Net Public Links Championship 96-97 MPGA Combination Championship 213-214 MPGA Senior Public Links Championship 140-142 MPGA Match Play & Senior Match Play Championships 246-249 2 mngolf.org 2017 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide MINNESOTA SECTION PGA OF AMERICA CONTENTS OF TABLE Minnesota Golf Champions 50-52 Minnesota Senior PGA Professional Championship 188-189 Minnesota Senior Open 66-69 Minnesota PGA Professional Championship 190-191 Minnesota Section Junior PGA Championship 136-139 Minnesota PGA Match Play Championship 224-225 Minnesota State Open 151-155 Minnesota Senior PGA Match Play Championship 243-245 Minnesota Women’s State Open 178-180 MINNESOTA STATE HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE Minnesota State High School Tournaments 74-87 OTHER MINNESOTA CHAMPIONSHIPS Tapemark Charity Pro-Amateur/Women’s Pro-Amateur 70-73 Gopher Invitational & Gopher Individual 202-205 Twin Cities Junior Championship 109 Minnesota Invitational 206-208 Twin Cities Men’s Championship 112-114 MIAC Men’s Championship 234-235 Twin Cities Senior Championship 164-165 MIAC Women’s Championship 241-242 USGA QUALIFIERS AND EVENTS U.S. Open Local Qualifying 46-49 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Sectional Qualifying 169-170 U.S. Senior Open Sectional Qualifying 56-57 U.S. Mid-Amateur Sectional Qualifying 192-195 U.S. Women’s Open Sectional Qualifiying 62-63 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Sectional Qualifying 196-199 U.S. Junior Amateur & Girls’ Junior Sectional Qualifying 110-111 USGA Men's & Women’s State Team Championship 231-233 U.S. Amateur Sectional Qualifying 118-122 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball & Women’s Amateur Four-Ball 236-240 U.S. Women’s Amateur Sectional Qualifying 123-125 Sectional Qualifying U.S. Senior Amateur Sectional Qualifying 156-157 SPECIAL EVENTS & PROGRAMS IN MINNESOTA • 250-262 MGA Member Events 252 MGA Family & Junior Events 258 MGA Women's Member Events 253-254 Drive, Chip & Putt Local Qualifying 259-261 MGA Senior Tour 255-257 Chick Evans Memorial Seven-Club Fundraiser 262 MGA MEMBER CLUB CHAMPIONS • 263-268 2016 MGA Club Champions 264-268 MINNESOTA HISTORY & FACTS • 263-274 Ryder Cup 270-272 USGA Championships in Minnesota 278 Junior Ryder Cup 273-274 Discontinued MGA Championships 279 National Championships in Minnesota 275 Minnesota Golf Statistics 280 National Champions from Minnesota 276-277 2017 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide mngolf.org 3 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT For more than a century, the Minnesota Golf Association has been a steward of the amateur game in our state. What began in 1901, with seven member clubs and a goal to identify the best amateur player, today encompasses nearly 35 state PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE PRESIDENT’S championships, national qualifiers and numer- ous regional and club competitions. Minnesota consistently ranks at or near the top in golfer participation and represents an industry that means $2.4 billion to the state’s economy. Clearly, we are passionate about playing the game and take seriously our role as its steward. This year marks a major step forward for golf with the merging of the Minnesota Women’s Golf Association, the Minnesota Women’s Public Golf Association, and the MGA. It’s been nearly a three-year process to arrive at consensus and a plan that will not only be seamless in its integration, but also limitless in the opportunities provided for all of us. For me, the most compelling reason to unite was the realization that one organization is stronger than three and that by joining forces we Barb Hanson, could simplify the calendar while also creating MGA President new opportunities to grow women’s participation. In association with 12 allied organizations representing those who make a living from the game to those who see the game as a way to improve the lives of others, the new MGA is a year-round non- profit organization that serves the game for all golfers in Minnesota. The MGA actively supports, financially and otherwise, a diverse number of organizations like the Western Golf Association’s Evans Scholars program and a number of other organizations that promote the game to disabled golfers, disadvantaged youth and groups that have traditionally found challenges in their paths when it comes to the game of golf. The reason the MGA is able to give back to the game is first and foremost because of the 65,000 as- sociate members and the more than 400 member golf clubs who choose to join in and support the MGA. Our exceptional staff, board members, ambassadors and volunteers turn this support into programs and services on behalf of the game in our state. Thanks, everyone. Your support is so greatly appreciated. Together let’s make 2017 a great year for the game that we all love so much! 4 mngolf.org 2017 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide MGA OFFICERS MGA OFFICERSMGA Barb Hanson, Tom Smith, MGA President Vice President As president, Hanson As vice president, Smith leads the executive com- presides over meetings of mittee and board of the management com- directors in developing mittee and fulfills the policies and programs of duties of the president the MGA and appoints when the latter is absent chairs to the organiza- or unavailable to per- tion’s committees. Hanson has been actively form the office. Smith has been actively involved involved in amateur golf administration, hav- in amateur golf administration having served on ing served as a past president of the Minnesota the MGA’s board of directors since 2004. Smith Women’s Golf Association, and as a regional vice chairs the Warren J. Rebholz Distinguished Ser- president of the MGA. Hanson has attended vice Award in addition to sitting on the MGA’s USGA Rules School and regularly volunteers finance, and the strategic planning committees. as a tournament rules official. She is president Smith is also an accomplished tournament golfer, of Corporate Golf Services, based in Crosslake, having twice won the MGA Senior Amateur which links women to golf through education, Four-Ball championship, the 2005 MGA Senior instruction and on-course coaching. Hanson is Players’ Match Play and the Senior Player of the an accomplished, lifelong golfer, having qualified Year, and qualified for the MGA Senior Tour fi- twice for the USGA Senior Women’s Amateur nals eight consecutive years. After a career in real Championship, as well as being a club champion estate and insurance, Smith and his wife, Peggy, numerous times, at the local level. She was select- purchased the Brackett’s Crossing Country Club ed to captain Minnesota Women’s USGA State in 1993, and have transformed the Lakeville Team in 2009, is a member of Whitefish Golf operation into a successful family-oriented golf Club, in Pequot Lakes, and lives in Crosslake. club and banquet facility. Mike Malone, Kip Colwell, Secretary/Treasurer Past President As secretary/treasurer, As past-president, Colwell Malone is responsible for remains actively involved supervising the financial in the MGA as a member affairs of the MGA.