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2013 YEARBOOK & MEDIA GUIDE MInnesota Golf Publisher Photos Association Published by the Photographic images 6550 York Ave. So., Ste. 211 Minnesota Golf Association, Inc. used in this Yearbook Edina, Minnesota 55435 Copyright 2013 and Media Guide 952-927-4643 taken and provided by: Editor 800-642-4405 Mark Brettingen, Fax: 952-927-9642 W.P. Ryan Claire Deering, Media Services Designer Kari Haug, [email protected] Karen Spruth Adam Loch, [email protected] Paul Markert 952-345-3966 and W.P. Ryan. Olivia Lansing and Natalie Samb celebrate a birdie putt by Samb on the 16th green as they go on to win the 18th MWPGA Four-Ball Championship at Emerald Greens Golf Club. 2013 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide mngolf.org 1 INSIDE THE 2013 MGA YEARBOOK & MEDIA GUIDE ABOUT THE MGA • 4-22 Message from the President 4 Allied Associations 8-10 MGA Officers 5 MGA Services 11-17 TABLE OF CONTENTS OF TABLE MGA Staff 6 MGA Awards 17-22 The MGA Story 7 THE PLAYERS • 23-38 2010 MGA Players of the Year 24-26 MGA Female Player Point Distrbution 33-34 MGA Male Player Point Distrbution 27-28 MGA Female Player Profiles 34-38 MGA Male Player Profiles 29-32 MINNESOTA CHAMPIONSHIPS & TOURNAMENTS • 39-152 (Event pages in 2012 chronological order throughout this chapter. Table of contest listings shown in association order) MINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION MGA/PGA Cup Matches 47-48 MGA Amateur Four-Ball Championship 121-122 MGA Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship 52-53 MGA Senior Amateur Championship 126-129 MGA Mid-Players’ Champioinship 58-59 MGA Amateur Net Team Championship 132-133 MGA Senior Players’ Championship 60-61 MGA Affiliate Club Challenge 135 MGA Players’ Championship 70-72 MGA Senior Amateur Four-Ball Championship 136-139 MGA Mixed Amateur Team Championship 77-79 MGA Senior Tour Finals 142-143 Minnesota State Junior Boys’ Championship 85-88 MGA Mid-Amateur Championship 144-146 MGA Amateur Championship 94-98 MGA Team Championship 149 MGA Junior Team Championship 114-115 Minnesota/Manitoba Junior Cup Matches 150 MINNESOTA PUBLIC GOLF ASSOCIATION MPGA Mid-Amateur Championship 44 MPGA Match Play Championship 111 MPGA Individual Low Net Championship 45-46 MPGA Senior Match Play Championship 111 MPGA Four-Ball Championship 68-69 MPGA Public Links Championship 119-120 MPGA Senior Public Links Championship 101-102 MPGA Combination Championship 141 MPGA Junior Public Links Championship 103 MINNESOTA SECTION PGA OF AMERICA Minnesota Golf Champions 41-42 Minnesota State Open 99-100 Minnesota Senior Open 50-51 Minnesota Women’s State Open 112 Tapemark Charity Pro-Amateur 55-57 Minnesota PGA Professional Championship 124-125 Tapemark Women’s Charity Pro-Amateur 55-57 Minnesota Senior PGA Professional Championship 140 Minnesota PGA Junior Championship 82-83 MINNESOTA STATE HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE Minnesota State High School Championships 62-66 2 mngolf.org 2013 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide MINNESOTA WOMEN’S GOLF ASSOCIATION TABLE OF CONTENTS OF TABLE MGA Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship 52-53 Minnesota Women’s State Match Play Championship 106-108 Minnesota Women’s State Amateur Four-Ball Championship 80-81 Minnesota Women’s State Amateur Championship 117-118 Minnesota Junior Girls’ State Championship 89-91 Minnesota Senior Women’s State Amateur Championship 130-131 MWGA Senior Four-Ball Tournament 104 MINNESOTA WOMEN’S PUBLIC GOLF ASSOCIATION MWPGA Four-Ball Championship 43 MWPGA State Public Links Championship 92-93 MGA Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship 52-53 MWPGA State Senior Public Links Championship 113 MWPGA Match Play Championship 54 MWPGA Team/Club Championship 134 TWIN CITIES CHAMPIONSHIPS Twin Cities Men’s Championship 75-76 Twin Cities Junior Championship 110 Twin Cities Senior Championship 109 USGA QUALIFIERS AND EVENTS US Open Local Qualifying 40 US Women’s Amateur Sectional Qualifying 84 US Women’s Open Local Qualfiying 49 US Amateur Sectional Qualifying 105 US Women’s Amateur Public Links Sectional Qualifying 49 US Women’s Mid-Amateur Sectional Qualifying 116 US Senior Open Sectional Qualfying 67 US Mid-Amateur Sectional Qualifying 116 US Junior Amateur Sectional Qualifying 73 USGA Senior Women’s Amateur Sectional Qualifying 123 US Girls’ Junior Sectional Qualifying 73 USGA Senior Amateur Sectional Qualifying 123 US Amateur Public Links Sectional Qualifying 74 USGA State Team Championship 147-148 PAST USGA/NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS IN MINNESOTA Past & Future USGA Championships in Minnesota 151 Past & Future National Championships in Minnesota 152 MGA MEMBER PROGRAMS & SPECIAL EVENTS • 153-156 MGA Member Days 154 Junior Girls’ Clinic 156 Chick Evans Memorial Seven-Club Fundraiser 155 Bring Your Family to the Golf Course Week 156 Play Golf Minnesota Week 156 MINNESOTA GOLF CALENDAR • 157-162 MGA GOLF COURSE DIRECTORY & CLUB CHAMPIONS • 163-224 2013 MGA Golf Course Directory 163-218 2012 MGA Member Club Champions 220-224 2013 MGA Affiliate Clubs 219 2013 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide mngolf.org 3 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT On behalf of the 75,000 members and more than 400 member golf courses of the Minnesota Golf Association I would like to welcome you to the 2013 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide – a tool intended to inform and educate everyone con- PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE PRESIDENT’S nected with the game of golf in Minnesota about the many opportunities available for all golfers and golf enthusiasts. For more than a century, the MGA has been leading the steward for amateur golf in our state. What started out in 1901, with seven member clubs and a goal to identify the best amateur player, has grown to encompass more than 24 state championships and national qualifiers. Competitions aside, MGA serves all golfers in a state that consistently ranks at or near the top in golfer participation. In fact, golf means approxi- mately $2.4 billion to the state’s economy (read more at page 11). In association with 16 allied organizations representing those who make a living from the game to those who see the game as a way to improve other peoples’ lives, the not- Ken Gerzsenyi, for-profit MGA is a year-round organization that MGA President 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 path when it comes to the game of golf. In addition, our award-winning magazine, Minnesota Golfer, provides entertaining and informative coverage on the local golf scene, and our website, mngolf.org, is a primary resource for all informa- tion and events related to the MGA and golf in Minnesota. The MGA is able to give back to the game because first and foremost our member clubs and associate members choose to join in and support the MGA. Our exceptional staff, board members, ambas- sadors and volunteers turn this support into an out-and-out wave of activity on behalf of the game in our state. Thanks, everyone, your support is so greatly appreciated. Together let’s make 2013 a great year for the game that we all love so much! 4 mngolf.org 2013 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide MGA OFFICERS MGA OFFICERSMGA Ken Gerzsenyi, Kip Colwell MGA President Vice President As president, Gerzsenyi As vice president, leads the executive com- Colwell presides over mittee and board of meetings of the Manage- directors in developing ment committee and policies and programs of fulfills the duties of the the MGA and appoints president when the latter chairs to the organiza- is absent or unavailable tion’s committees. Gerzsenyi has been actively to perform the office. Colwell has been actively involved in the MGA since 2004 when he was involved in the leadership at his home club, appointed as a director by virtue of his posi- The Minikahda Club, where he has served as tion as president of the Minnesota Public Golf club president, chair of the grounds committee, Association. Gerzsenyi has been a long-time and chaired an extensive restoration effort of golf volunteer dating back to the 1991 U.S. the historic Minneapolis golf course. Colwell, Open at Hazeltine. He is currently the chair of a long-time director of the Trans-Mississippi the MGA Governmental Relations committee, Golf Association, also chaired the 2007 Trans- the Finance and Investment committee, and Mississippi Championship when the prestigious is a former member of the MGA Rules and event visited Minikahda. Colwell was recently Tournament committee. Gerzsenyi is an accom- appointed a director of the Western Golf As- plished golfer, with four holes-in-one, and sociation, which administers the Evans Scholars several club championship titles at his home Caddie Scholarship program. He played Divi- course, Eastwood Golf Club. Gerzsenyi is an sion III golf at the Rochester (N.Y.) Institute of executive with the IBM company in Rochester, Technology. Colwell is CEO of Advanced Web where he lives with his wife, Peggy, a registered Co., a Minneapolis label and packaging printing nurse at the Mayo Clinic, and two children. company and lives in Edina. Barb Hanson, James M. Lehman, Secretary/Treasurer Past President As secretary/treasurer, As past-president, Hanson is responsible for Lehman remains actively supervising the financial involved in MGA af- state of the MGA. She fairs including strategic has been actively involved planning, regional affairs in amateur golf adminis- and tournament and tration, having served as rules. Lehman has been a past president of the Minnesota Women’s Golf actively involved in the MGA since 1993 when Association, and as a regional vice president of he was elected to the board of directors. He has the MGA.