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19 Michigan Golf Hall of Fame Welcomes Janke These Guys are Good?! Michigan Golf Hall of Fame By Jeff Bairley Welcomes ast Sunday I went to the 90th PGA Championship at Oakland Hills. It had been Janke, Leeke, Morgan and awhile since I’d attended a profes - Lsional golf tournament. It’s hard to say whether I was more excited to be Salutes the Buick Open a spectator at the PGA or a concert By Michigan Golf Foundation goer at the heavy metal festival I full spectrum of golf in Michigan a varsity sport. Leeke was inducted attended the night before. In many was honored May 18 at into the Northwestern Athletic Hall ways, the anticipation was exactly Indianwood Golf & Country Club of Fame in 1992 although the the same, aside from the obvious in Lake Orion when Ken Janke, Meriam school didn’t hand out varsity let - n o aesthetic and sonic differences. i Bailey Leeke and John Morgan will be t ters to all the past women athletes a A d n inducted into the Michigan Golf Hall of u until a special ceremony at half - o F f 19 Despite the lack of the tradition - Fame and the Buick Open was given a spe - l time of a football game in 2002. 18 o G al big “rock star” names in the cial award as it celebrates its 50th anniver - n a g i field and the less-than-ideal weath - h c Leeke’s father, who played foot - sary as the state’s long-running PGA Tour i M er at Oakland Hills, people showed e ball at Illinois with Red Grange, event. h t f up in huge numbers to watch the o introduced her to golf and she broke y s e y t t r action. Crowds mobbed nearly r 80 by the time she was 12. She u e anke and Leeke have had multi-faceted f f o a c every tee box and green to get a C careers and the self-taught Morgan began playing national events at 13, o c t o M h glimpse of their favorite golfers. t r compiled a strong playing record which P A When Ernie Els flips his ball to a y b led to his being named Golf Association of o t fan on the way to the 13th tee, the o Ken Janke h Michigan’s Player of the Decade for the P J lucky catch makes the recipient 1980s, a period in which he won the goes absolutely ballistic. A lot like Michigan Amateur, won three GAM Morgan thought he was headed for catching a Ringo Starr drumstick. Phil Mickelson with Rick Smith at the Arnold Palmer Turning Point Championships and two of his three a Division II school in Invitational, Country Club of Detroit, 2004 Michigan Mid-Amateur Championships. Pennsylvania after two years at And who wouldn’t love it? Morgan qualified and played in three United Oakland Community College on a When I found myself just a few greenside bunker. While I was But in that moment, I realized that States Amateur Championships and four team that went to the national feet away from Phil Mickelson’s picking my jaw up off the ground, I could do the same thing Phil just Mid-Amateurs. Playing first as a member of finals but five hours at the ball on the sixth, I felt like I had Phil cleaned up the mess and did. I too could have chunked it in Michigan Amateur changed that. n the Michigan Publinx Golf Association and o i t moved on to the next hole. the bunker just like he did. I do it a won the lottery. I would soon be “I was on the range and hitting d making its Honor Roll in 1981 and 1982, n u witnessing a signature shot from all the time. o next to Jim Lipe who was the F Morgan made the GAM Honor Roll 11 f l o one of my favorite golfers – the This is exactly why I love golf G times in a span of 1983-95 during which he Assistant Coach at the University n a g Phil Mickelson flop shot. He had so much. Even the best golfers in On any given swing, even the of Michigan. I’d lost to Bud i was an Oakland Hills member and now at h c i put it in the left rough about 10 the world screw up once in awhile. most mediocre golfer can hit a M Detroit Golf Club. Stevens in 19 holes and Lipe said, e h t Sometimes they even make com - great shot. Likewise, the greatest yards from the green, and was ‘We want you at Michigan.’” f o y looking at a short pitch over a plete fools of themselves. Sure, golfer can miss hit. But greatness s e “I joke that I got my competi - t r u bunker to treacherous pin. He the shot Lefty had just messed up can happen to anyone at anytime, o Meriam Bailey Leeke also is a c tive nature from my Dad but not o walked up, checked the lie, paced was very difficult. His ball was just ask Padraig Harrington. t his golf swing,” said the 6-foot-1 Big Ten product but when she o h it off, grabbed a wedge, took a few also sitting down in the deepest Unfortunately, so can mediocrity. Morgan whose golf swing has the played at Northwestern University, P practice swings, opened the face rough I had ever seen. It was also Just ask Sergio Garcia. And that is MG easy grace of Tom Weiskopf. women’s golf wasn’t recognized as Meriam Bailey Leeke up and……..chunked it into the Sunday at a major championship. the beauty of golf. 18 F A L L 2 0 0 8 • M I C H I G A N G O L F E R M A G A Z I N E M I C H I G A N G O L F E R M A G A Z I N E • F A L L 2 0 0 8 19 Dearborn High School team for two years of unbeaten match play events and won the 1957 U.S. Army Military n Championship in Chantilly, France — o i t a d Janke is better known for his contribu - n u o F tions to the game. f l o G n a g i Establishing the Michigan Golf h c i M Hall of Fame was Janke’s idea in e h t f 1982. Janke also was the father of o y s e major charity golf events begin - t r u o c ning in 1967 when he and former s o o t i o Detroit Lions All-Pro Ron Kramer d h u t P S founded the Walter Hagen e c n i Invitational to benefit the r P John Morgan g o American Cancer Society. That led r F / to similar tournaments around the e n i l r played high school golf in Evanston e country and Janke was awarded the h S and in 1956 won the Chicago r e t Cancer Society’s Founder’s Award. r a District Golf Association Match and C y b Stroke Play titles and the Illinois 21 o 20 Janke also has organized the t o Women’s Amateur. In 1957 she won h Babe Zaharias Invitational, March P the National Intercollegiate and the of Dimes, Tournament, St. Jude Women’s Western Amateur and in Invitational tournaments and B’nai 1958 was named to the U.S. Curtis Brith Championship. In 1979 he Fan Favorite John Daly Cup team. was instrumental in founding the at the 2007 Buick Open. Detroit Lions Alumni Golf Outing Although she played in a num - to benefit the NFL Alumni Dire ber of women’s professional tour - Need Fund and the format has Warwick Hills Golf & Country naments, the purses averaged only spread to 28 cities. Janke also Club in Grand Blanc, its members $2,000 and Leeke decided against found time to build a comprehen - and the thousands of volunteers turning pro. She and her husband, sive collection of golf memorabilia have made “Buick Open Week” Lyle, took over the family course, and to write four books on the one of summer’s major events in Old Channel Trail in Montague game’s quirks, laughs and facts. Michigan and the tournament has (MI) in 1966. It was a nine hole raised $8.8 million dollars for course by Robert Bruce Harris on ince its inception in 1958 southeast Michigan charities. 90 acres and in the years since nine with the then-unheard of holes designed by W. Bruce purse of $52,000 with $9,000 When Buick introduced the tour - Matthews and nine more by his of it going to the winner, Billy nament it was the first major corpo - son, Jerry were added. Meriam has SCasper, the Buick Open has rate sponsor of the PGA Tour and been on boards of banks, charities, brought big-time golf to Michigan. while sponsors have come and gone two colleges and currently is direc - The game’s greatest players have in other tournaments, Buick and tor and treasurer of the National played in the Buick Open includ - Michigan golf have enjoyed a long, Golf Course Owners Association. ing Casper, Arnold Palmer, Gary fruitful relationship. In recognition Player, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, of the Buick Open’s great influence en Janke got an early start in Julius Boros, Ben Crenshaw, Hale on the game in Michigan, the golf, caddying at Plum Irwin, Tom Weiskopf, Fred Michigan Golf Foundation will Hollow Golf Club when he Couples, Vijay Singh, Jim Furyk, honor the tournament during the was nine years old.
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