2019 YEARBOOK & MEDIA GUIDE MInnesota Golf Association 6550 York Ave. So. Suite. 211 Edina, Minnesota 55435 952-927-4643 800-642-4405 Fax: 952-927-9642 Editor W.P. Ryan Contributing Photographers Mark Brettingen Jeff Lawler Paul Markert W.P. Ryan Matt Seefeldt Peter Wong Contributing Writers Mike Fermoyle Nick Hunter W.P. Ryan Designer Karen Spruth Media Services [email protected] [email protected] 952-345-3966 Publisher Published by the Minnesota Golf Association, Inc. Copyright 2019 A young competitor tees off during the 2018 MPGA Junior Public Links Championship at Heritage Links Golf Club. 2019 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide mngolf.org 1 INSIDE THE 2019 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 2018 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 • 44-291 (Event pages in 2019 chronological order throughout this chapter. Table of contest listings shown in association order) MINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION MGA/PGA Cup Matches 62-65 MGA Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship 192-195 MGA Women’s Senior Amateur Four-Ball Championship 68-69 MGA Junior Team Championship 200-205 MGA Mid-Players’ Champioinship 96-99 MGA Women’s Senior Amateur Championship 214-219 MGA Senior Players’ Championship 100-103 MGA Amateur Four-Ball Championship 220-223 MGA Players’ Championship 114-117 MGA Net Amateur Championship 224-225 MGA Women’s Amateur Match Play & 118-123 MGA Women’s Net Amateur Championship 226-227 Women's Senior Amateur Match Play Championships MGA Amateur Net Team Championship 232-233 MGA Mixed Amateur Team Championship 128-131 MGA Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship 242-243 Minnesota State Junior Boys’ Championship 132-135 MGA Mid-Amateur Championship 244-247 Minnesota State Junior Girls’ Championship 142-145 MGA Women's Team/Club Tournament 248-249 MGA Amateur Championship 148-153 MGA Senior Amateur Championship 252-257 MGA Women’s Amateur Championship 164-169 MGA Senior Amateur Four-Ball Championship 262-267 MINNESOTA PUBLIC GOLF ASSOCIATION MPGA Four-Ball Championship 58-61 MPGA Senior Public Links Championship 158-161 MPGA Mid Public Links Championship 92-93 MPGA Public Links Championship 210-213 MPGA Net Public Links Championship 94-95 MPGA Combination Championship 258-261 MPGA Junior Public Links Championship 124-125 MINNESOTA STATE HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE Minnesota State High School Tournaments 78-91 2 mngolf.org 2019 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide MINNESOTA SECTION PGA OF AMERICA CONTENTS OF TABLE Minnesota Senior Open 70-73 Minnesota PGA Junior Golf ' Sota Series 196-199 Tapemark Charity Pro-Amateur/Women’s Pro-Amateur 74-77 Players Tour Tournament of Champions Minnesota Girls' Junior PGA Championship 110-113 Minnesota Senior PGA Professional Championship 206-209 Minnesota Boys' Junior PGA Championship 146-147 Minnesota PGA Professional Championship 228-231 Minnesota State Open 154-157 Minnesota Golf Champions 268-271 Minnesota Women’s State Open 178-181 Minnesota PGA Match Play Championship 282-285 Minnesota PGA Junior Golf 'Sota Series 182-185 Minnesota Senior PGA Match Play Championship 286-287 Players Tour Match Play Championship OTHER MINNESOTA CHAMPIONSHIPS NSIC Men's Golf Championship 46-47 Minnesota Invitational 238-241 NSIC Women's Golf Championship 48-49 Annika Intercollegiate 250-251 Twin Cities Championship 126-127 MIAC Women’s Golf Championship 272-275 Twin Cities Junior Championship 162-163 UMAC Men's & Women's Golf Championships 288-289 Twin Cities Senior Championship 186-187 MIAC Men’s Golf Championship 290-291 Gopher Invitational & Pioneer Creek Collegiate 234-237 USGA QUALIFIERS AND EVENTS U.S. Senior Women's Open Sectional Qualifying 50-51 U.S. Amateur Sectional Qualifying 138-141 U.S. Open Local Qualifying 52-55 U.S. Senior Amateur Sectional Qualifying 170-173 U.S. Women’s Open Sectional Qualifiying 56-57 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Sectional Qualifying 174-177 U.S. Senior Open Sectional Qualifying 66-67 U.S. Mid-Amateur Sectional Qualifying 188-189 U.S. Junior Amateur Sectional Qualifying 104-105 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Sectional Qualifying 190-191 U.S. Girls’ Junior Sectional Qualifying 106-109 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball & Women’s Amateur Four-Ball 276-281 U.S. Women’s Amateur Sectional Qualifying 136-137 Sectional Qualifying SPECIAL EVENTS & PROGRAMS IN MINNESOTA • 292-304 MGA Member Events 294 MGA Family & Junior Events 302 MGA Women's Member Events 295 Drive, Chip & Putt Local Qualifying/Championship 303 MGA Senior Tour 296-299 Chick Evans Memorial Seven-Club Fundraiser 304 Ms. & Mr. Minnesota Golf 300-301 MGA MEMBER CLUB CHAMPIONS • 305-310 2018 MGA Club Champions 306-310 MINNESOTA HISTORY & FACTS • 311-318 National Championships in Minnesota 312 National Champions from Minnesota 314-315 USGA Championships in Minnesota 313 Discontinued Championships 316-318 2019 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 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE PRESIDENT’S 35 state championships, national qualifiers and numerous regional and club competitions. Min- nesota consistently ranks at or near the top in golfer participation and represents an industry that means $2.3 billion annually to the state’s economy. Clearly, we are passionate about playing the game and take seriously our role as its steward. I am looking forward to an exciting 2019 season as we embrace an entirely new set of rules with the 2019 edition of the Rules of Golf (effective Jan. 1) and we continue to engage more female golfers through programming and competitions. And, now that the Youth on Course program is enter- ing its second full year, we expect to see a surge Tom Smith, in youth golf participation at our public facilities. MGA President In association with 15 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 66,000 associate members and the more than 400 member golf courses 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 2019 a great year for the game that we all love so much! 4 mngolf.org 2019 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide MGA OFFICERS MGA OFFICERSMGA Tom Smith, Mike Malone, MGA President Vice President As president, Smith leads As vice president, the executive committee Malone fulfills the and board of directors in duties of the president developing policies and when the latter is absent programs of the MGA or unavailable to per- and appoints chairs to form the office. Malone the organization’s com- has been involved in the mittees. Smith has been actively involved in golf industry for nearly four decades, including amateur golf administration having served on the serving as the head golf professional at Waseca MGA’s board of directors since 2004. Smith is Lakeside Golf Club, the Dahlgren Golf Club, also an accomplished tournament golfer, having and is the owner and director of golf, at the twice won the MGA Senior Amateur Four-Ball Ridges of Sand Creek, in Jordan. Malone is also championship, the 2005 MGA Senior Players’ the co-owner of Versatile Vehicles, an outdoor Match Play and the Senior Player of the Year, and power equipment company serving the golf qualified for the MGA Senior Tour finals eight business. He serves on the board of the Midwest consecutive years. After a career in real estate and Golf Course Owner’s Association, was a past insurance, Smith and his wife, Peggy, purchased president, and is also a former board member of the Brackett’s Crossing Country Club in 1993, the MN PGA Section. Malone, who played col- and have transformed the Lakeville operation lege golf at Broward College, in Fort Lauderdale, into a successful family-oriented golf club and Fla., was named the MN Section Golf Profes- banquet facility. sional of the Year in 2007. He lives in Edina. Ede Rice, Barb Hanson, Secretary/Treasurer Past President As secretary/treasurer, As past-president, Hanson Ede Rice is responsible remains actively involved for the financial affairs of in the MGA as chair of the the MGA. She has been nominating committee and actively involved in ama- as a tournament volunteer. teur golf administration Hanson has been actively since becoming the first involved in amateur golf woman elected to the MGA Board of Directors administration, having served as a past president of in 1994. Rice is a passionate advocate for caddie the Minnesota Women’s Golf Association, and as scholars at the University of Minnesota Chapter a regional vice president of the MGA.