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20152015 YEARBOOK YEARBOOK & & MEDIA MEDIA GUIDE GUIDE MInnesota Golf Publisher Association Published by the 6550 York Ave. So., Ste. 211 Minnesota Golf Association, Inc. Edina, Minnesota 55435 Copyright 2015 952-927-4643 800-642-4405 Editor Designer Fax: 952-927-9642 W.P. Ryan Karen Spruth Media Services Photos [email protected] Photographic images taken [email protected] and provided by: Mark Brettingen, 952-345-3966 Paul Markert, W.P. Ryan and Peter Wong. Trent Peterson tees off at the 2014 Minnesota State Open, on his way to winning the championship and eventually the 2014 MGA Men’s Player of the Year. 2015 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide mngolf.org 1 INSIDE THE 2015 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 • 27-44 2014 MGA Players of the Year 27-30 MGA Male Player Profiles 34-39 MGA Player Point Distrbution 31-33 MGA Female Player Profiles 40-44 MINNESOTA CHAMPIONSHIPS & TOURNAMENTS • 45-170 (Event pages in 2014 chronological order throughout this chapter. Table of contest listings shown in association order) MINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION MGA/PGA Cup Matches 49-50 MGA Junior Team Championship 126-127 MGA Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship 56-57 MGA Amateur Four-Ball Championship 133-135 MGA Mid-Players’ Champioinship 72-73 MGA Senior Amateur Four-Ball Championship 144-147 MGA Senior Players’ Championship 74-75 MGA Amateur Net Team Championship 148-149 MGA Players’ Championship 85-87 MGA Senior Amateur Championship 151-154 MGA Mixed Amateur Team Championship 90-92 MGA Senior Tour Finals 156-157 Minnesota State Junior Boys’ Championship 94-97 MGA Mid-Amateur Championship 162-164 MGA Amateur Championship 109-113 Discontinued MGA Tournaments 168 MINNESOTA PUBLIC GOLF ASSOCIATION MPGA Four-Ball Championship 51-52 MPGA Senior Match Play Championship 119 MPGA Mid Public Links Championship 80 MPGA Junior Public Links Championship 130 MPGA Net Public Links Championship 81-82 MPGA Public Links Championship 131-132 MPGA Senior Public Links Championship 107-108 MPGA Combination Championship 158 MPGA Match Play Championship 118 MINNESOTA SECTION PGA OF AMERICA Minnesota Golf Champions 47-48 Minnesota Women’s State Open 128 Minnesota Senior Open 59-60 Minnesota PGA Professional Championship 142-143 Tapemark Women’s Charity Pro-Amateur 61-62 Minnesota Senior PGA Professional Championship 155 Tapemark Charity Pro-Amateur 61-63 Minnesota PGA Match Play Championship 160 Minnesota Section Junior PGA Championship 102-104 Minnesota Senior PGA Match Play Championship 167 Minnesota State Open 116-117 2 mngolf.org 2015 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide MINNESOTA STATE HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE CONTENTS OF TABLE Minnesota State High School Championships 65-69 MINNESOTA WOMEN’S GOLF ASSOCIATION MGA Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship 56-57 Minnesota Women’s State Match Play Championship 120-122 MWGA Senior Four-Ball Tournament 64 Minnesota Women’s State Amateur Championship 133-138 Minnesota Women’s State Amateur Four-Ball Championship 83-84 Minnesota Senior Women’s State Amateur Championship 140-141 Minnesota Junior Girls’ State Championship 98-100 MINNESOTA WOMEN’S PUBLIC GOLF ASSOCIATION MWPGA Four-Ball Championship 53-54 MWPGA State Public Links Championship 105-106 MGA Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship 56-57 MWPGA State Senior Public Links Championship 129 MWPGA Match Play Championship 78-79 MWPGA Team/Club Championship 150 TWIN CITIES CHAMPIONSHIPS Twin Cities Men’s Championship 88-89 Twin Cities Senior Championship 124 Twin Cities Junior Championship 114-115 USGA QUALIFIERS AND EVENTS U.S. Open Local Qualifying 46 U.S. Women’s Amateur Sectional Qualifying 101 U.S. Women’s Open Sectional Qualfiying 55 U.S. Mid-Amateur Sectional Qualifying 123 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Sectional Qualifying 58 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Sectional Qualifying 125 U.S. Senior Open Sectional Qualfying 70 U.S. Senior Amateur Sectional Qualifying 139 U.S. Amateur Public Links Sectional Qualifying 71 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Sectional Qualifying 139 U.S. Junior Amateur Sectional Qualifying 76 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Sectional Qualifying 159 U.S. Girls’ Junior Sectional Qualifying 77 U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Sectional Qualifying 161 U.S. Amateur Sectional Qualifying 93 USGA State Team Championship 165-166 USGA/NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS IN MINNESOTA USGA Championships in Minnesota 169 National Championships in Minnesota 170 MGA MEMBER PROGRAMS & SPECIAL EVENTS • 171-174 MGA Member Days 172 Play Golf Minnesota Week 174 Chick Evans Memorial Seven-Club Fundraiser 173 Bring Your Family to the Golf Course Week 174 MINNESOTA GOLF CALENDAR • 175-178 MGA GOLF COURSE DIRECTORY & CLUB CHAMPIONS • 179-239 2015 MGA Golf Course Directory 179-233 2014 MGA Club Champions 235-238 2015 MGA Affiliate Clubs 234 Minnesota Golf Statistics 239 2015 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide mngolf.org 3 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT On behalf of the 66,000 members and 400 member golf courses of the Minnesota Golf Association I would like to welcome you to the 2015 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide – a tool intended to inform and educate everyone connected with PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE PRESIDENT’S 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 approximately $2.4 billion to the state’s economy (read more at page 12). 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 Kip Colwell, not-for-profit MGA is a year-round organization MGA President 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 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 information 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, ambassadors 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 2015 a great year for the game that we all love so much! 4 mngolf.org 2015 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide MGA OFFICERS MGA OFFICERSMGA Kip Colwell, Barb Hanson, MGA President Vice President As president, Colwell As vice president, leads the executive com- Hanson 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. Colwell has been actively to perform the office. Hanson has been actively involved in the leadership at his home club, involved in amateur golf administration, hav- The Minikahda Club, where he has served as ing served as a past president of the Minnesota club president, chair of the grounds commit- Women’s Golf Association, and as a regional vice tee, and chaired an extensive restoration effort president of the MGA. Hanson has attended of the historic Minneapolis golf course. Colwell, USGA Rules School and regularly volunteers a long-time director of the Trans-Mississippi as a tournament rules official. She is president Golf Association, also chaired the 2007 Trans- of Corporate Golf Services, based in Crosslake, Mississippi Championship when the presti- which links women to golf through education, gious event visited Minikahda. Colwell was instruction and on-course coaching. Hanson is recently appointed a director of the Western an accomplished, lifelong golfer, having qualified Golf Association, which administers the Evans twice for the USGA Senior Women’s Amateur Scholars Caddie Scholarship program. He Championship, as well as being a club champion played Division III golf at the Rochester (N.Y.) numerous times, at the local level. She was select- Institute of Technology. Colwell is CEO of ed to captain Minnesota Women’s USGA State Advanced Web Co., a Minneapolis label and Team in 2009, is a member of Whitefish Golf packaging printing company and lives in Edina. Club, in Pequot Lakes, and lives in Crosslake. Tom Smith, Ken Gerzsenyi, Secretary/Treasurer Past President As secretary/treasurer, As past-president, Smith is responsible for Gerzsenyi remains supervising the financial actively involved in affairs of the MGA. He the MGA as a member has been actively involved of the management in amateur golf adminis- committee, chair of the tration having served on nominating committee the MGA’s board of directors since 2004. Smith and as a tournament volunteer. He has been chairs the Warren J. Rebholz Distinguished Ser- involved with the MGA since 2004 when he vice Award in addition to sitting on the MGA’s was appointed as a director by virtue of his finance, and the strategic planning committees.

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