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Drive, Chip and Putt
Free local and regional qualifiers
for the 2017 National Drive,
Chip and Putt Championship
are underway in Minnesota and
the Dakotas. Junior boys and girls compete in
separate divisions in four youth categories: ages
7-9, 10-11, 12-13 and 14-15. Participants must
be at least 7 years of age and no older than 15 by
the championship final on Sunday, April 2, 2017.
The regional champions in each of the boys' and
girls' divisions from the four age categories advance
to the finals, held at Augusta National the
Sunday before the 2017 Masters Tournament.
Each participant gets three chances at putts,
chips and drives to earn as many points as possible.
Awards are given out to the overall champions
as well as each individual skill champion.
The Minnesota Section of the PGA began local qualifiers June 9
See dates and locations below.
2016 Local Qualifiers
The Meadows Golf Course Moorhead, Minn.
Pebble Creek Golf Course
Elmwood Golf Club
June 9
Northern Hills Golf Club
Cragun's Legacy Courses
Eagle Lake Golf Center
Pokegama Golf Course
Chaska Town Course
Black Bear Golf Club
TPC Twin Cities
Regionals
Hazeltine National Golf Club
Bismarck, N.D.
Sioux Falls, S.D.
Rochester, Minn.
Emerald Greens Golf Course Hastings, Minn.
Brainerd, Minn.
Plymouth, Minn.
Carlton, Minn.
Sub-Regionals
Village Green Golf Course Moorhead, Minn.
Blaine, Minn.
Chaska, Minn.
June 15
June 17
June 25
June 28
June 30
July 8
Grand Rapids, Minn. July 20
Chaska, Minn.
Aug. 8
Aug. 12
Sept. 10
July 28
July 30
Coaches Association
Announces Hall of Fame
Inductees
The Minnesota High School Golf
Coaches Association announced its Hall
of Fame class of 2016 recently: former
Little Falls boys' golf coach Rich Weigel,
former Wadena-Deer Creek boys' and
girls' golf coach Terry Olafson, and former
Virginia-Mt. Iron boys' golf coach
Kerry Bidle. The three were inducted
June 13 at their respective Class A and
AA state tournament banquets.
MGA-PGA Minnesota Golf
Hall of Fame
The MGA-PGA Minnesota Hall of Fame
was established in 1987 to recognize
Minnesotans for their outstanding contributions
to the game of golf. A selection
committee meets annually to review
nominations and select inductees.
William D. " Bill " Clark, Lisa (Kluver)
Grimes, Frank Taylor and Anne Zahn
were recently announced to the 2016
Hall of Fame.
William D. " Bill " Clark
Clark was one of the first golf professionals
at both the Minneapolis Golf
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Club (see story on p. 26) and
Oak Ridge Country Club, and
also served at Superior Golf
Course (later Brookview).
His greatest contribution to
Minnesota golf is his golf course design
work. He contributed to or completely
designed Minneapolis, Oak Ridge,
Brookview, Gross National, Theodore
Wirth, Columbia and Meadowbrook
golf courses, while also redesigning the
University of Minnesota golf course prior
to its expansion to 18 holes.
Lisa (Kluver) Grimes
Grimes, of Alexandria, Minn.,
established the 36-hole tournament
record as the 1978
State Girls' High
School
champion, a score which stood for 26
years. Grimes won the 1980 Minnesota
Women's Match Play and the 1982 Minnesota
Women's State Amateur. She is
a four-time Minnesota Women's State
Open champ (2004, 2006, 2012 and
2014).
Frank Taylor
Taylor served on the PGA Minnesota
Section Board of Directors from 1974 to
1982, including as president
from 1979 to 1980. He was
instrumental in forming the
Minnesota Section's Junior
Golf Academy and Junior
Golf Tour, and conceived the idea of a
Senior State Open and Women's Open
championships. He participated in the
hiring of the section's first executive director,
and the establishment of a section
reserve fund. After retiring from Rochester's
Eastwood Golf Course, he was
named director of public golf courses for
the city of Rochester.
Anne Zahn
Zahn,
of Nevis, Minn.,
coached the University of
Minnesota women's golf
team from 1982 to 1987, contending for
the Big Ten championship during her
tenure and eventually reaching a national
ranking of 18th. As a competitive
player, Zahn won six individual Minnesota
state titles, including two Women's
State Amateurs (stroke play) in 1976 and
1981; three Women's State Match Plays
in 1976, 1979 and 1986; and a Senior
Women's State Amateur in 2006.
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