2021 YEARBOOK & MEDIA GUIDE MInnesota Golf Association 6550 York Ave. So. Suite. 211 Edina, Minnesota 55435 952-927-4643 800-642-4405 Fax: 952-927-9642 Designer Karen Spruth Editor W.P. Ryan Contributing Photographers Mark Brettingen Jeff Lawler Paul Markert W.P. Ryan Matt Seefeldt Peter Wong Contributing Writers Mike Fermoyle Nick Hunter W.P. Ryan Media Services W.P. Ryan [email protected] 952-345-3966 Published by the Minnesota Golf Association, Inc. Copyright 2021 Competitors tee off on the 10th tee during the final round of the 117th MGA Amateur Championship at Edina Country Club, Edina, Minnesota on July 15, 2020. 2021 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide mngolf.org 1 INSIDE THE 2021 MGA YEARBOOK & MEDIA GUIDE ABOUT THE MGA • 4-30 Message from the President 4 MGA Member Club of the Year Award 21-22 MGA Officers 5 MGA Volunteer of the Year Award 23 TABLE OF CONTENTS OF TABLE MGA Executive Committee and Past Presidents 6 MGA Giles Kobilka Award 24 MGA Staff 7 Warren J. Rebholz Distinguished Service Award 24 The MGA Story 8 MGA Fritz Corrigan Evans Scholar of the Year Award 25-26 Allied Associations 9-11 MGA-PGA Minnesota Golf Hall of Fame 27-29 MGA Services 12-20 Ms. & Mr. Minnesota Golf 30 THE PLAYERS • 31-59 2020 MGA Players of the Year 32-35 MGA Male Player Profiles 40-50 MGA Player Point Distrbution 36-39 MGA Female Player Profiles 51-59 MINNESOTA CHAMPIONSHIPS & QUALIFIERS • 60-295 (Event pages in 2021 chronological order throughout this chapter. Table of contest listings shown in association order) MINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION MGA/PGA Cup Matches 77 MGA Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship 200-204 MGA Women’s Senior Amateur Four-Ball Championship 82-86 MGA Junior Team Championship 210-211 MGA Mid-Players’ Champioinship 94-97 MGA Amateur Four-Ball Championship 222-225 MGA Senior Players’ Championship 98-101 MGA Women’s Senior Amateur Championship 226-231 MGA Players’ Championship 115-118 MGA Senior Amateur Championship 238-243 MGA Women’s Amateur Match Play Championship 119-124 MGA Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship 248-251 MGA Women's Senior Amateur Match Play Championship 129-133 MGA Mid-Amateur Championship 252-257 MGA Mixed Amateur Team Championship 142-145 MGA Net Team, Net Amateur & 258-261 Minnesota State Junior Girls’ Championship 150-155 Women's Net Amateur Championships MGA Amateur Championship 168-175 MGA Senior Amateur Four-Ball Championship 270-275 Minnesota State Junior Boys’ Championship 184-189 MGA Women's Team/Club Tournament 276-277 MGA Women’s Amateur Championship 190-195 MINNESOTA PUBLIC GOLF ASSOCIATION MPGA Four-Ball Championship 72-75 MPGA Junior Public Links Championship 166-167 MPGA Mid Public Links Championship 89-91 MPGA State Public Links Championship 232-237 MPGA Net Public Links Championship 92-93 MPGA Combination Championship 266-269 MPGA Senior Public Links Championship 162-165 MINNESOTA STATE HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE Minnesota State High School Tournaments 102-108 2 mngolf.org 2021 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide MINNESOTA SECTION PGA OF AMERICA CONTENTS OF TABLE Twin Cities Open 71 Minnesota Senior PGA Professional Championship 205-208 Minnesota Senior Open 78-81 Minnesota PGA Junior ' Sota Series 212-215 Tapemark Charity Pro-Amateur 87-88 Players Tour Tournament of Champions Minnesota High School Senior Showcase 109-113 Minnesota Women’s State Open 218-221 Minnesota Boys' Junior PGA Championship 139-141 Minnesota PGA Professional Championship 244-247 Minnesota Girls' Junior PGA Championship 146-149 Minnesota PGA Match Play Championship 278-281 Minnesota State Open 156-161 Minnesota Golf Champions 282-285 Minnesota PGA Junior 'Sota Series 176-179 Minnesota Senior PGA Match Play Championship 294-295 Match Play Championship OTHER MINNESOTA CHAMPIONSHIPS NSIC Men's & Women's Golf Championships 62-64 Twin Cities Senior Championship 196-199 UMAC Men's & Women's Golf Championships 65-66 Land O'Lakes Legends Classic 209 MIAC Men's & Women’s Golf Championships 67-69 Gopher Invitational & Pioneer Creek Collegiate 262-263 Twin Cities Junior Championship 125-128 Annika Intercollegiate 264 Twin Cities Championship 134-136 Minnesota Invitational 265 3M Open 180-183 USGA QUALIFIERS AND EVENTS U.S. Open & U.S. Women’s Open Qualifiying 70 U.S. Senior Amateur & 216 U.S. Senior Open & U.S. Senior Women's Open Qualifying 76 U.S. Senior Women's Amateur Qualifying U.S. Mid-Amateur & U.S. Junior Amateur & U.S. Girls' Junior Qualifying 114 217 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Qualifying U.S. AmateurQualifying 137 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Qualifying 286-289 U.S. Women’s Amateur Qualifying 138 U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Qualifying 290-293 MEMBER /JUNIOR EVENTS & PROGRAMS • 296-304 MGA Member Events 298 Chick Evans Memorial Seven-Club Fundraiser 303 MGA Women's Member Events 299 Drive, Chip & Putt Local Qualifying/Championship 303 MGA Senior Tour 300-302 MGA Junior Programs & Events 304 MGA MEMBER CLUB CHAMPIONS • 305-310 2020 MGA Club Champions 306-310 MINNESOTA SPECIAL EVENTS, HISTORY & FACTS • 311-320 National Championships in Minnesota 312 Discontinued Championships 316-319 USGA Championships in Minnesota 313 Minnesota Golf Statistics 320 National Champions from Minnesota 314-315 2021 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 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE PRESIDENT’S 35 state championships, national qualifiers and numerous regional and club competitions. Minnesota consistently ranks at or near the top in golfer participation and represents an industry that means $2.3 billion annually to the state’s economy. Clearly, we are passionate about playing the game and take seriously our role as its steward. 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 Mike Malone, diverse number of organizations like the Western MGA President 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 nearly 75,000 associate members and the more than 400 member golf clubs who choose to join in and sup- port 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 2021 a great year for the game that we all love so much! 4 mngolf.org 2021 MGA Yearbook and Media Guide MGA OFFICERS MGA OFFICERSMGA Mike Malone, Ede Rice, MGA President Vice President As president, Malone As vice president, Rice leads the executive com- fulfills the duties of mittee and board of the president when directors in developing the latter is absent or policies and programs of unavailable to perform the MGA and appoints the office. She has been chairs to the organiza- actively involved in ama- tion’s committees. Malone has been involved teur golf administration since becoming the first in the golf industry for nearly four decades, woman elected to the MGA Board of Directors including serving as the head golf professional in 1994. Rice is a passionate advocate for caddie at Waseca Lakeside Golf Club, the Dahlgreen scholars at the University of Minnesota Chapter Golf Club, and he is the owner and director House of the Western Golf Association’s Evans of golf at the Ridges of Sand Creek in Jordan. Scholars Program. She has been a WGA director He serves on the board of the Midwest Golf since 1995 and was the first woman elected to Course Owners Association, was a past presi- the WGA Board of Governors in 2010. Rice is dent, and is also a former board member of the an accomplished competitive golfer having won Minnesota Section of the PGA. Malone, who the Minnesota Women’s (and Senior Women’s) played college golf at Broward College, in Fort Amateur Four-Ball championships in 2006, and Lauderdale, Fla., was named the Minnesota earning the distinction of MGA Senior Women’s Section of the PGA Golf Professional of the Year Player of the Year. She was recognized with the in 2007. He lives in Edina. MGA Warren J. Rebholz Distinguished Service Award in 2012 and continues to devote her time as a tournament volunteer and rules official. Rice and her husband Jack live in Edina and belong to Edina Country Club and Woodhill Country Club. Paul Meierant, Tom Smith, Secretary/Treasurer Past President As secretary/treasurer, As past-president, Smith Paul Meierant is respon- remains actively involved sible for the financial af- in the MGA as chair of fairs of the MGA. He has the nominating commit- been actively involved in tee and as a tournament amateur golf administra- volunteer. Smith has been tion since his election to actively involved in ama- the MGA Board of Directors in 2009. Meier- teur golf administration having served on the ant has served as chairperson of the MGA’s MGA’s board of directors since 2004. Smith is Marketing and Communications Committee also an accomplished tournament golfer, having and as a member on the MGA’s Handicap and twice won the MGA Senior Amateur Four-Ball Course Rating and Regional Affairs committees.