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.