2018 YEARBOOK & MEDIA GUIDE MInnesota Golf Association 6550 York Ave. So., Ste. 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 and Peter Wong Contributing Writers Mike Fermoyle, Nick Hunter, and W.P. Ryan Designer Karen Spruth Media Services [email protected] [email protected] 952-345-3966 Publisher Published by the Minnesota Golf Association, Inc. Copyright 2018 Kate Smith hitting her approach shot to the 13th green during the final round of the 2017 MGA Women's Amateur Championship at Northland Country Club. Smith went on to win the championship. 2018 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide mngolf.org 1 INSIDE THE 2018 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 2017 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 • 44-265 (Event pages in 2018 chronological order throughout this chapter. Table of contest listings shown in association order) MINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION MGA/PGA Cup Matches 62-64 MGA Junior Team Championship 182-185 MGA Women’s Senior Amateur Four-Ball Championship 65-67 MGA Women’s Senior Amateur Championship 196-199 MGA Mid-Players’ Champioinship 92-94 MGA Amateur Four-Ball Championship 203-206 MGA Senior Players’ Championship 95-97 NEW! MGA Amateur Net Championship 207 MGA Players’ Championship 113-116 MGA Women’s Amateur Net Championship 208 MGA Women’s Amateur Match Play & 117-123 *Previously known as the MGA Women's Net Individual Tournament Women's Senior Amateur Match Play Championships MGA Amateur Net Team Championship 213-214 MGA Mixed Amateur Team Championship 126-129 MGA Women's Club/Team Tournament 215-216 Minnesota State Junior Boys’ Championship 138-142 MGA Senior Amateur Four-Ball Championship 221-225 Minnesota State Junior Girls’ Championship 143-146 MGA Mid-Amateur Championship 243-247 MGA Amateur Championship 152-157 MGA Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship 248-250 MGA Women’s Amateur Championship 166-171 MGA Senior Amateur Championship 231-235 MGA Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship 183-185 MINNESOTA PUBLIC GOLF ASSOCIATION MPGA Four-Ball Championship 56-58 MPGA Senior Public Links Championship 162-165 MPGA Mid Public Links Championship 98-99 MPGA Public Links Championship 192-194 MPGA Net Public Links Championship 100-101 MPGA Combination Championship 226-228 MPGA Junior Public Links Championship 147-148 MINNESOTA STATE HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE Minnesota State High School Tournaments 78-91 2 mngolf.org 2018 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide MINNESOTA SECTION PGA OF AMERICA CONTENTS OF TABLE Minnesota PGA Match Play Championship 53-55 Minnesota PGAJunior Golf Players' Tour 186-187 Minnesota Senior Open 68-70 Tournament of Champions Minnesota Girls' Junior PGA Championship 102-104 Minnesota Women’s State Open 189-191 Minnesota Boys' Junior PGA Championship 149-151 Minnesota Senior PGA Professional Championship 200-202 Minnesota State Open 158-161 Minnesota PGA Professional Championship 209-210 Minnesota PGA Junior Golf Players' Tour 174-176 Minnesota Golf Champions 238-240 Match Play Championship Minnesota Senior PGA Match Play Championship 251-253 OTHER MINNESOTA CHAMPIONSHIPS Tapemark Charity Pro-Amateur/Women’s Pro-Amateur 71-75 Minnesota Invitational 219-220 Twin Cities Men’s Championship 110-112 Annika Intercollegiate 229-230 Twin Cities Junior Championship 124-125 MIAC Women’s Golf Championship 241-242 Twin Cities Senior Championship 177-178 UMAC Men's & Women's Golf Championships 254-255 Gopher Invitational & Gopher Individual 217-218 MIAC Men’s Golf Championship 261-262 USGA QUALIFIERS AND EVENTS U.S. Open Local Qualifying 46-49 U.S. Senior Amateur Sectional Qualifying 172-173 U.S. Women’s Open Sectional Qualifiying 50-52 U.S. Mid-Amateur Sectional Qualifying 188 U.S. Senior Open Sectional Qualifying 59-61 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Sectional Qualifying 211-212 U.S. Senior Women's Open Sectional Qualifying 76-77 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Sectional Qualifying 236-237 U.S. Junior Amateur Sectional Qualifying 105-107 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball & Women’s Amateur Four-Ball 256-260 U.S. Girls’ Junior Sectional Qualifying 108-109 Sectional Qualifying U.S. Women’s Amateur Sectional Qualifying 130-133 USGA Men's & Women’s State Team Championship 263-265 U.S. Amateur Sectional Qualifying 134-137 SPECIAL EVENTS & PROGRAMS IN MINNESOTA • 266-276 MGA Member Events 268 MGA Family & Junior Events 274 MGA Women's Member Events 269 Drive, Chip & Putt Local Qualifying 275 MGA Senior Tour 270-273 Chick Evans Memorial Seven-Club Fundraiser 276 MGA MEMBER CLUB CHAMPIONS • 277-282 2017 MGA Club Champions 278-282 MINNESOTA HISTORY & FACTS • 283-294 2017 U.S. Senior Amateur Championship 284-287 National Champions from Minnesota 290-291 National Championships in Minnesota 288 Discontinued MGA Championships 292-293 USGA Championships in Minnesota 289 Minnesota Golf Statistics 294 2018 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 35 state PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE PRESIDENT’S championships, national qualifiers and numer- ous regional and club competitions. Minnesota consistently ranks at or near the top in golfer participation and represents an industry that means $2.4 billion 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 2018 season. We will step into the future utilizing a new tour- nament management software developed by Golf Genius for the USGA. By all accounts it is a very robust and user-friendly program. We will con- tinue to monitor and improve upon our women’s programs and competitions. We will become even more intentional about supporting junior golfers with a program called Youth on Course. And we are eagerly awaiting the new modernized Rules Barb Hanson, of Golf to be published by the USGA and R&A MGA President later this year. 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 2018 a great year for the game that we all love so much! 4 mngolf.org 2018 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide MGA OFFICERS MGA OFFICERSMGA Barb Hanson, Tom Smith, MGA President Vice President As president, Hanson As vice president, Smith leads the executive com- presides over meetings of mittee and board of the management com- directors in developing mittee and fulfills the policies and programs of duties of the president the MGA and appoints when the latter is absent chairs to the organiza- or unavailable to per- tion’s committees. Hanson has been actively form the office. Smith has been actively involved involved in amateur golf administration, hav- in amateur golf administration having served on ing served as a past president of the Minnesota the MGA’s board of directors since 2004. Smith Women’s Golf Association, and as a regional vice chairs the Warren J. Rebholz Distinguished Ser- president of the MGA. Hanson has attended vice Award in addition to sitting on the MGA’s USGA Rules School and regularly volunteers finance, and the strategic planning committees. as a tournament rules official. She is president Smith is also an accomplished tournament golfer, of Corporate Golf Services, based in Crosslake, having twice won the MGA Senior Amateur which links women to golf through education, Four-Ball championship, the 2005 MGA Senior instruction and on-course coaching. Hanson is Players’ Match Play and the Senior Player of the an accomplished, lifelong golfer, having qualified Year, and qualified for the MGA Senior Tour fi- twice for the USGA Senior Women’s Amateur nals eight consecutive years. After a career in real Championship, as well as being a club champion estate and insurance, Smith and his wife, Peggy, numerous times, at the local level. She was select- purchased the Brackett’s Crossing Country Club ed to captain Minnesota Women’s USGA State in 1993, and have transformed the Lakeville Team in 2009, is a member of Whitefish Golf operation into a successful family-oriented golf Club, in Pequot Lakes, and lives in Crosslake. club and banquet facility. Mike Malone, Kip Colwell, Secretary/Treasurer Past President As secretary/treasurer, As past-president, Colwell Malone is responsible for remains actively involved supervising the financial in the MGA as a member affairs of the MGA.