New Board Members Trans-Miss Mourns Loss of Announced Past President

Trans-Miss Senior Trans-Miss Golf Association Championship Returns to Awards Eight Scholarships Brook Hollow GC

The Trans-Miss

TranscriptServing Golf for More than 100 Years Dear Fellow Golfers:

As a new golf season is upon us, I am excited about the upcoming championship season and the opportunity to serve as the Trans-Miss President. This year the Trans will take our championships to three wonderful venues. Brook Hollow Golf Club in Dallas is the site of the Senior Championship on May 18-21; the Trans-Miss Championship will be played July 6-9 at Flint Hills National in Andover, Kan.; and the Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tenn., will play host to our Four-Ball Championship on Sept. 14-17. All of these clubs have wonderful histories supporting amateur golf and will do a great job in hosting these championships. This past year the Trans-Miss Turf Scholarship Fund embarked on a new program which serves to continue and enhance our support of young men and women working towards a career as golf course superintendents. The Club Internship Program provided Trans-Miss member clubs with financial support to hire an additional intern to work on the clubs maintenance crew. These internships have proven to be invaluable both to the clubs in providing additional staff and to the interns as well. They provide hands-on experience from some of the best superintendents at prestigious clubs around the country. Your support through your clubs’ membership and your participation in Trans-Miss events supports this worthy cause. I hope that you will encourage your club to join the Trans, apply for the internship program and come join us this year for some wonderful golf. Hope to see you on the links.

Truly,

Billy McBee President Trans-Miss Golf Association meet

New Board Members Announced

MEET THE 10 NEW TRANS-MISS BOARD OF DIRECTORS

In addition to incoming and early 1990s. He’s a six-time up to Robert Wrenn at Minikahda president Billy McBee, this year club champion at Southern Hills Club in Minneapolis. sees the addition of 10 Trans- and in 2014 won the senior club He’s a three-time Kansas Amateur Mississippi Board of Directors. championship there. Champion and was runner- Brad Anderson is a restaurateur Bob Peel lives in Willowbrook, up at both the 2003 U.S. Mid- in Denver and a member of Denver Kan., in a community of 72 Amateur and 2014 U.S. Senior Country Club, Prairie Dunes and people with its own nine-hole golf Amateur. Norton won a national Ballyneal. He’s played in several course. He’s worked with his father championship as a member of Trans-Miss events with Mike and brother for 40 years in the the winning Kansas team at the Vickers. Anderson has won club wholesale distribution business. 2010 USGA Men’s State Team championships at Denver CC and He played golf at Hutchinson Championship. Southern Highlands GC in Las Community College for two Brent Brockermeyer is a Vegas. years, then played at Kansas State sports agent and attorney in Fred Daniel III grew up on the University for two years. He’s been Los Angeles. He attended USC fairways of Southern Hills Country a member of Prairie Dunes for 41 as an undergraduate before he Club and played in numerous years and is a recent new member graduated from Pepperdine junior events, including the Junior at Flint Hills National. School of Law. He’s a member World Golf Championship at Bryan Norton is a graduate of of Lakeside Golf Club, where Torrey Pines in 1977. He qualified Oral Roberts University who lives he recently won his fourth club for the U.S. Junior Amateur that in Mission Hills, Kan. He works in championship. Brockermeyer same year and played in the the insurance business for Lockton has played competitively for U.S. Amateur in 1979. Daniel Companies in Kansas City. Norton 20 years, playing in numerous graduated from the University of has several club memberships, USGA, SCGA and CGA events, Oklahoma in 1982. In 1983, he including Salina Country Club, including multiple California State was elected President of the Tulsa Flint Hills National Golf Club, Amateur Championships and Golf Association and served for Mission Hills Country Club Trans-Miss Championships, SCGA 10 years. He also served on the and Seminole Golf Club in Juno Amateurs and George C. Thomas Oklahoma Golf Association board Beach, Fla. At the 1981 Trans-Miss Invitationals. for many years in the late 1980s Championship, Norton was runner- Andy Johnson is a corporate and transactional attorney in Tulsa. He is a member of Southern Hills, Company in Oklahoma City graduated from Oklahoma State Big Horn and Shooting Star. He with his youngest son as partner. and received his Law Degree from has played in four Trans-Miss Previously, he was the CEO and the University of Oklahoma. He’s a Amateurs and one Trans-Miss controlling shareholder of Johnson member of Southern Hills Country Four-Ball. Engineering in Houston, which Club and currently serves on the John McClure lives in Los Angeles was a prime contractor to NASA. Club’s Board of Governors and and works in real estate investment Jackson has played in Trans-Miss Executive Committee. Johnson for Hillwood Development events and 10 USGA events, four won the Southern Hills club Company. He graduated in 1982 British Senior Amateurs and championship in 2010 and 2011 from the University of Oklahoma, five Canadian Senior Amateurs. and played in the 2014 Trans-Miss where played golf on scholarship. He and his family split time Championship at Southern Hills. He is a member at The Los Angeles between Paradise Valley, Ariz., He’s a six-time finalist at the World Country Club, Plantation Golf and Oklahoma City. Jackson is a Long Drive Championship with his Club, Palms Golf Club, Vaquero member of Whisper Rock Golf best finish being fifth place in 1999. Club, The Hills of Lakeway, Club, Paradise Valley CC, Oak Tree Lawrence Field is the Founder Burning Tree Golf Club and El National Golf Club, Oklahoma City and Managing Director of Cypress Dorado Beach Club. He made his Golf & Country Club. Energy Holdings, LLC, a service Trans-Miss championship debut in Jim Lehman is an attorney in business that supplies oil and gas 1977 and has played in many more Minneapolis and president of a producers and pipelines in the throughout the years, including sports management business that U.S. and Canada. He graduated in 2014. represents professional golfers. He 1982 from The University of Texas McClure has also played in has been on the Board of Directors and was captain of the varsity golf several national championships, of the Minnesota Golf Association team from 1980-82. Field won the including the U.S. Amateur five for almost 20 years and served as 1976 Junior PGA Championship. times, the U.S. Mid-Amateur 10 president in 2011-12. Lehman also He has won club championships times and the British Amateur five has served on the board of directors at Tulsa Country Club, The Golf times. for the Minneapolis Golf Club and Club of Oklahoma, Southern Hills Bill Jackson graduated from Windsong Farm Golf Club. CC and Shooting Star Country Oklahoma State in 1973 and Club in Wyoming. Currently he currently owns Woody Candy

2015 Championships

Trans-Miss Senior 112th Trans-Miss Trans-Miss Four-Ball Championship Championship Championship Brook Hollow Golf Club Flint Hills National Golf Club The Honors Course Dallas, Texas Andover, Kansas Ooltewah, TN May 18-21 July 6-9 September 14-17 tribute

Trans-Miss GA Mourns the Loss of a Past President

MIKE S. CAVANAUGH 1935 - 2014

Former Trans-Mississippi Golf Association president He became the president of La Jolla CC and held Mike Cavanaugh passed away April 26, 2014, after a the same position twice with the Century Club of San brief hospitalization. He was 79. Diego, which is the host group for the PGA Tour’s A longtime board member, Cavanaugh was Farmers Insurance Open. instrumental in helping the Trans-Miss acquire many Known as the life of the party wherever he went, coveted host sites, including scenic La Jolla Country Cavanaugh had a contagious zest for life. He is Club just north of San Diego. Cavanaugh was a survived by his wife Alice, son Michael and daughter- member at La Jolla CC, which has played host to four in-law Brooke, son Richard, grandchildren Katherine, Trans-Miss Championships since 1989. Cavanaugh Ryan and Henry, two brothers, Joseph and Patrick, also landed La Jolla CC as a host of many Trans-Miss and sisters Mary Alice Higby, Sister Sarah of Adrian Board meetings over the years. Dominicans and Susanne Cavanaugh. Born in Detroit, Cavanaugh went to high school Board member and Ex Officio Steve Hatchett there and completed his education at the University of remembers Cavanaugh as the life of the party and the Detroit. After he served in the U.S. Marine Corps from best emcee the association has ever known. 1954-56, he became an assistant golf professional at “He was our emcee extraordinaire,” Hatchett said. Milwaukee Country Club and Phoenix Country Club. “He was a great, great joke teller and we always had Later, Cavanaugh became the head pro at West Bend him at any banquet or dinner we had or any event Country Club outside of Milwaukee. he attended. He was always the featured speaker. He It was there where Cavanaugh met his wife, Alice was as good as anyone on TV. It will be pretty hard to Deimling, in 1967. Two years later, they moved to replace someone like that who brought so much joy to La Jolla, where he got into real estate and eventually everyone.” started his own firm. He achieved great success as a developer and businessman. -- TheLa Jolla Light newspaper contributed to this His true passion, however, was golf. story. event

TRANS-MISS SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP TRANS-MISS SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP RETURNS TO BROOK HOLLOW GC n the 114-year history of the Trans- major amateur event. Last June, the club played host to Mississippi Golf Association, no club the 105th Texas Amateur. has been more supportive of its mission “Brook Hollow has a rich tradition of supporting than Brook Hollow Golf Club in Dallas. amateur golf,” Buckle said. “The club’s membership I This spring, when the Trans-Miss Senior consists of several former USGA Executive Commit- Championship returns May 18-21 to the historic A.W. tee members, Texas Golf Hall of Fame inductees and Tillinghast-designed parkland course, it will mark champions of several major amateur events, including the 11th time Brook Hollow GC has played host to a the 2004 USGA Senior Women’s Amateur Champion- Trans-Miss event. ship and 2011 Men’s Crump Cup Invitational.” The individual stroke play event is scheduled for May The Trans-Miss last came to Brook Hollow in 2011. 18-21. Seniors (aged 55-64) and Super Seniors (65-69) The Trans-Miss Senior Championship at that time will play 54 holes. The Legends (70+) play 36 holes. was played as match play, and Portland’s Chris Maletis Each division will play from separate tees with three defeated Robert Polk from Parker, Colo., 2 and 1, in individual champions crowned. The Seniors will play the finals. Brook Hollow from about 6,700 yards; the Super Se- Brook Hollow has produced a number of popular niors from about 6,500 yards and the Legends will play champions, such as PGA Tour major champion Bob from about 6,200 yards. Tway, who won the 1976 Trans-Miss Championship, Longtime head professional Simon Buckle said he and Ben Crenshaw, a two-time Masters champion and and his membership are excited to once again host a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame. Crenshaw won the 1972 Trans-Miss Championship at Brook Hol- tournament. low. Texas Golf Hall of Fame member Don Addington, Shemano is a six-time gold medal winner at the Mac- a member at Brook Hollow and father of Trans-Miss cabiahh Games in Israel. He most recently won gold in GA Executive Director Rob Addington, finished sec- 2013 at the quadrennial Maccabiahh Games, which are ond to L.M. Crannel Jr. at the 1951 Trans-Miss Cham- also known as the Jewish Olympics. He said winning pionship, also played at Brook Hollow. the Trans-Miss Super Senior in 2014 was a pleasant “Amateur golf provides a competitive stage at the surprise. He beat Sam Boyd from Kemah, Texas, on the premier level to many of our current members,” Buckle first hole of a sudden-death playoff. said. “Hosting events such as the Senior Trans-Missis- “I played in the tournament without any thoughts of sippi Championship this May provides us the opportu- winning,” said Shemano, a published author who turns nity to give back to the Amateur golf stage; the purest 70 in early May. “I’m not as ‘tournament tough’ as I was form of the game.” when I was younger. Once I had the honor of getting to Trans-Miss GA president and Brook Hollow mem- play the Trans-Miss, it stirred up those old competitive ber Billy McBee will be in this year’s field, and he’ll juices. Playing those three rounds made me feel much be joined by defending champion Jeff Burda from younger.” Modesto, Calif. Burda last year won the Trans-Miss at Brook Hollow promises to challenge Shemano, beautiful La Quinta CC in Palm Springs, Calif., by two Burda and the rest of the 144-player field. Designed by shots over Dave Mooty of Eden Prairie, Minn. Tillinghast in 1920 just six miles from downtown Dal- Burda held a five-shot lead as he stood on the tee box las, the classic track features tree-lined fairways with of the final hole. He said he “tried to play it safe” with numerous doglegs and subtle movements that place a a water hazard up the left side of the fairway. Instead premium on driver accuracy. Burda got himself in trouble Tripp Davis and Associates with an errant 3-wood that “Brook Hollow has a rich in the fall of 2012 completed stayed dry but finished inside a full restoration of Tilling- the hazard line. In the end, he tradition of supporting hast’s design. The job includ- made a triple-bogey but still amateur golf.” ed re-establishing 18 bunkers won by two shots. that had been more or less “I don’t dwell on that stuff,” said Burda, now 61 years “lost” over the span of the course’s lifetime. Davis also old. “People remember who won, not the score.” moved 16 bunkers to restore Tillinghast’s original Burda came into last year’s Trans-Miss Senior on a angles into greens. hot streak. He won the Sacramento County Amateur “Members and guests alike are extremely compli- the week prior, and previous to that he lapped the mentary of the strategic focal points that Tripp re- field by 10 strokes in taking the Southern California stored to the A.W. Tillinghast routing,” Buckle said. Golf Association’s Senior Amateur. He followed the “From tee to green, the restoration has amplified Mr. Trans-Miss Senior title with second place finishes at Tillinghast’s strategic elements within the routing that the California Senior Amateur and George C. Thomas modern day equipment had removed from the course Invitational. He also advanced to the second round of over the years.” the U.S. Senior Amateur. During the restoration, the course was lengthened to He said he plans to play a similar schedule this year. 6,752 yards. The players who score the lowest will be “I have a few titles to defend this year, which is nice,” the ones who succeed in thinking their way around the said Burda, a three-time California Amateur cham- tactic course. pion. “The course will play ‘sneaky long’ compared to Gary Shemano, the 2014 Trans-Miss Super Senior previous years,” Buckle said. “The restoration forces winner, also plans to defend at Brook Hollow. The players to play the doglegs as designed and not having San Francisco native is a Jewish Sports Hall of Fame the ability to challenge carry distances that additional member who caddied for Ken Venturi, the 1964 U.S. bunkers and tee placements have provided. Our Direc- Open champ who enjoyed a long second career as a tor of Grounds, Ken Small, is excited to be hosting commentator and analysts for CBS Sports. Shemano another major amateur championship. I have no doubt once beat another famous Northern Californian and Ken will have the course in a championship condition major champion – Johnny Miller – in an amateur that rivals any championship around the country.” scholar

W.D. McBee, Jr. Scholarship TRANS-MISS GOLF winner Michael Kennings ASSOCIATION AWARDS EIGHT SCHOLARSHIPS

enn State senior Sean started in Turf School. I just wanted Kelly was selected as the to be on the golf course all the time.” Francis Whittaker Scholarship 2014 Vickers Scholarship When Kelly graduates in the winner Michael Medley winner, highlighting the spring, he hopes to land an assistant- class of eight collegians in-training position at a prestigious whoP comprised the most recent club. Trans-Mississippi Golf Association Four additional students were se- Turf Scholarship Winners. lected to receive $5,000 scholarships. Kelly received the highest honor – They include Michael Kennings, a a $7,500 scholarship – as he com- Michigan State junior from Fenton, pletes his Associate’s Degree in Golf Mich.; Michael Medley, a University Course Turfgrass Management. He of Tennessee senior from LaFollette, also receives an engraved medal and Tenn.; Morgan Robins, a Penn State other gifts. senior from Owen Sounds, Ontario, “It’s a great honor to be selected Canada; and Jordan Carbone, a as the Vickers Scholar,” Kelly said. Georgian College junior from Erin, “With the large number of qualified Ontario, Canada. Ron Moore Scholarship applicants, it’s amazing that I was Kennings received the W.D. winner Morgan Robbins selected as the winner.” McBee, Jr. Scholarship. He carries a Kelly holds a 3.91 GPA in Golf 3.56 GPA in Crop and Soil Science Course Turfgrass Management, a and is a student member of the Golf progression that has been bolstered Course Superintendents Associa- by internships at two of the country’s tion of America (GCSAA). Kennings iconic clubs: Whistling Straits and balances school with work at Spring Shinnecock Hills. He didn’t start Meadows Country Club in Linden, playing golf until the 11th grade. Mich. There he has gained an array Once he started, however, he was of experience in maintenance and hooked. agronomy. “I played on my high school team Medley won the Francis Whittaker and recreationally all through col- Scholarship. He has a 3.95 GPA in lege,” Kelly said. “That’s how I got Turfgrass Science and Management. Jackie Lee Scholarship winner Jordan Carbone 2014 Vickers Scholarship winner Sean Kelly

Medley has worked at numerous golf courses across Ten- State (Jack Nicklaus Scholarship) and Matthew Herrmann nessee and currently holds an internship at Quaker Ridge from Penn State (Curtis Ford Scholarship). Golf Club in Scarsdale, N.Y., and volunteers at LaBar Golf In 2014 the Trans-Miss Turf Scholarship Fund initiated Renovations, which is across the street from Winged Foot. a new method of supporting students pursuing a career in Robins received the Ron Moore Scholarship. He holds a turf management with the creation of the Trans Club In- 3.77 GPA in Golf Course Turfgrass Management and is a ternship Program. Grants were provided to member clubs GCSAA student member and a member of the Georgian for the hiring of students as interns at the respective facili- Bay Superintendents As- ties. The experience provided for sociation. Robins currently the students creates hands on handles all the fertilizer “I just wanted to be experiences and under the watch- and chemical applications ful eye of some of golf top super- at Capilano Golf and on the golf course all intendents across the country. Country Club in West This year the Trans provided Vancouver, B.C. thirteen Club Internship Grants Carbone received the the time,” Kelly, 2014 totally $49,000. Those clubs Jackie Lee Scholarship. include: Des Moines Golf & He has a 3.10 GPA in Golf Vickers Scholarship Country Club, Bel-Air Country Management Business, is a Club, Crooked Stick Golf Club, GCSAA student member, Southern Hills Country Club, the serves on the Pennsylva- winner. Minikahda Club, the Honors Golf nia Turfgrass Council and is a member of The Penn State Club, Mission Hills Country Club, Cedar Ridge Country Turf Club. Carbone has worked at several prestigious clubs, Club, Cherry Hills Country Club, Wichita Country Club, including Baltusrol, Loch Lomand and Osprey Valley. Brook Hollow Golf Club, Flint Hills National and La Jolla Three other students received $3,000 scholarships, includ- Country Club. ing Christopher Notestine from Michigan State (Tom Crow Scholarship), Luellen Swayzer from California Polytechnic who

TRANS-MISSISSIPPI BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Executive Committee Directors

President - Billy McBee III, Dallas, TX Denny Alexander, Fort Worth, TX Chairman Emeritus – Jim Vickers, Indian Wells, CA Brad Anderson, Denver CO Vice-President – Phil Patterson, Edmond, OK Tim Andersen, Chaska, MN Secretary – Hunter Nelson, Houston, TX Steve Bell, Denver, CO Treasurer – Leo Corrigan IV, Dallas, TX Brent Brockermeyer, Los Angeles, CA Legal Counsel - Phil Patterson, Edmond, OK Pat Brooks, Mission Hills, KS Scholarship Chairman – John Goode, Killeen, TX Jimmy Burke, Houston, TX Championship Chairman - Mike McCoy, Des Moines, IA Jack Clevenger, Castle Rock, CO Senior Co- Chairman - Chris Maletis, Portland, OR & Rick Coe, Oklahoma City, OK Eddie Lyons, Shreveport, LA John (Kip) Colwell, Jr., Edina, MN Four-Ball Chairman - Robert McDonald, Austin, TX Richard Coon, Jr., Amarillo, TX Ex Officio - Steve Hatchett, Wichita, KS Steve Creekmore, Jr., Fort Smith, AR Executive Director – Rob Addington, Dallas, TX Steve Creekmore III, Fort Smith, AR D. Patrick Curran, Mission Hills, KS Honorary Directors Fred Daniel III, Tulsa, OK Thomas Devlin, Wichita, KS Jay Morrish, Highland Village, TX Jerry Ellis, Oklahoma City, OK Ralph Turtinen, Plymouth, MN Lawrence Field, Tulsa, OK Austin Hill, Dallas, TX Robert Ireland, Kentfield, CA Life Directors Bill Jackson, Oklahoma City, OK Gary Jarmon, Tulsa, OK Robert Berry, Tulsa, OK Andy Johnson, Tulsa, OK Asa Candler V, Atlanta, GA Kevin Kobalter, San Rafael, CA Tom Crow, Jackson, WY Jim Lehman, Plymouth, MN Jack Diesing, Jr., Omaha, NE Dorsey Lynch, Paradise Valley, AZ Ted Fergeson, Midland, TX Greg Maday, Mission Hills, KS John Jennings, Jr., Houston, TX Mark Mance, CA William Kline, Mission Hills, KS Rich McClintock, Englewood, CO Jack Lee, Houston, TX John McClure, Austin, TX Payne Palmer, Paradise Valley, AZ Robert McDonald, Austin, TX Gary Potter, Denver, CO H. Smith McGehee, St Louis, MO S.I. Russell, Jr., Belleair, FL David Mooty, MN Wilson Schoellkopf, Jr., Dallas, TX Bryan Norton, Mission Hills, KS Timothy Sexson, Phoenix, AZ Bob Peel, Hutchinson, KS Jack Vickers, Castle Rock, CO John Pigg, Austin, TX William Whittaker, La Jolla, CA Bryon Shumate, Fort Smith, AR Stan Smazal, Denver, CO Steve Spines, Wichita, KS Stephen Summers, Dallas, TX Chuck Weil, Pebble Beach, CA Phil White, Dallas, TX Steve White, Jackson, WY Contact Hank Wilkinson, St. Louis Park, MN Trans-Mississippi Golf Association & Turf Scholarship Fund 2909 Cole, Ste 305 Dallas, TX 75204 Phone: (214) 468-8942 Fax: (214) 468-8032