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Originally formed as a rulesmaking body, the WGA was born because U.S. western golf clubs (the current Midwest was "the west" in the 1890s) felt that they weren't being properly represented in the United States Golf Association, based then in New York. But after 20 stormy years followed by negotiations, the WGA officially recognized the USGA's ...
Jan. 23—Joe Desch grew up a short bike ride away from Dayton Country Club, got his start in golf as a caddy there and remains in the game decades later. Desch, a 1980 Alter graduate who now ...
"I happened to be on the list for such an event - and working through Marshall Dann (the executive director of the Western Golf Association) and the right parties here in the Quad-Cities - we landed last year's [1971] tourney." This was probably the best of the 16 satellite stops on the tour in 1971. [4]
To help grow the program as Blunt raised additional funds for scholarship, the Western Golf Association hired Roland F. “Mac” McGuigan, Dean of Men at Northwestern and Faculty Advisor to the Northwestern Chapter of Evans Scholars, in 1949 to serve as its Educational Director. Following World War II, the program grew dramatically. [5]
In 1987, he was named the Illinois PGA Golf Professional of the year, and received the Western Golf Association Gold Medal of Appreciation. In 1988, Jemsek was the first public golfer and PGA professional to be nominated a member of the USGA Executive Committee. [8]
Washington State Golf Association: Former caddie at Everett Country Club near Seattle, Washington, WGA Director and past president of the Washington State Golf Association. Mike Kiely [31] 2013: Caddie/Manager: Canterbury Golf Club in Cleveland, Ohio: Caddy Master and teaching member of the Professional Golfers Association for over 50 years ...
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During 1952, Lesser won the Washington State Women's Golf Association Championship and Oregon Amateur Championship. [13] [14] With the Pacific Northwest Golf Association, she was the Women's Amateur winner during 1952 and 1953. [15] At Western Golf Association events, Lesser won the 1950 Women's Western Junior. [16]