Very cool thing happening off the 18th green today as Butch Whaley, a Marine and a member at Boone’s Trace National, is tending to the 18th flag for players while they putt out. A nice touch for the holiday. 🇺🇸
The end of an era beckons for GHK. Bill Coomer, our long time Director of Amateur-Professional Competitions will be retiring in the spring. Bill began his role in January 1995 and will call it a career in April. Please join us in congratulating him on his pending retirement! 🐐
Since we were at Country Club of Paducah earlier this week, we’re throwing it back to when the late, great Cullan Brown hit an unreal flop shot on the closing hole there to preserve a win in the 2017 Region 1 Championship. A shot so good it has to be seen to be believed.
#TBT
We were delighted to receive the news earlier today that golf courses are EXCLUDED from Governor Beshear's executive order outlining the closure of public-facing businesses. With that said, golf should be considered even more of a sanctuary during these times than usual.
20 years ago, Old Silo was "the" public golf course in Kentucky. Today, it sits vacant 6 years after closing clouded by sadness over what it once was and questions about what happened.
(Photo 1 via
@1beardedgolfer
in 2014)
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"This one's for Cullan." We are proud to honor a very deserving champion of the 106th Clark's Pump-N-Shop Kentucky Amateur. Alex Goff wins at Lexington Country Club just over a month following the passing of his teammate and friend Cullan Brown.
Recap:
No player had ever won the Kentucky Open three consecutive times. UNTIL TODAY.
J.B. Williams completes the three-peat and wins the 102nd Kentucky Open!
Adam Gary's round at Audubon today was something else. The Women's Golf Coach at WKU doesn't seem to abide by the saying "If you can't play, coach" and we are here for it.
People of the world, welcome to Boone's Trace National Golf Club in Richmond, Kentucky. This is the host of today's Monday Qualifier for the
@BarbasolChamp
. Alongside
@acaseofthegolf1
, we're excited to tell the story of how today's golf goes.
Leaderboard:
Y'all... do NOT be the reason why Kentucky becomes red on this map. Golf courses are being shutdown in states nationwide and without being cautious or maintaining social distancing, Kentucky could be one of the next. Stay healthy and safe out there! (h/t GolfDigest)
Congratulations to Justin Tereshko for his incredible win at the 104th Kentucky Open! He joins Kentucky golf history as only the 4th player to win the Kentucky State Amateur and the Kentucky Open in the same year.
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BIG NEWS! Thanks to
@JJKII
of
@ISCOIndustries
, the KGF has received its largest donation EVER in the form of a $1,000,000 pledged gift. This incredibly kind gesture will be massive heading into the 2022 season.
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Special scenes from... THE CULLAN at Mineral Mound today! Massive turnout with Governor Beshear among those in attendance. Cullan’s sister Cathryn hit the ceremonial first tee shot of the course under its new name.
We recently received the terrible news that Tom Giacchini, a longtime friend of the Kentucky golf community, passed away today. Tom had most recently been a member of the
@BullGolfCourse
team. Please join us in offering your thoughts and prayers to Tom's family and friends.
All scores are official. No playoff will be necessary as our 4 players are set.
Congratulations to Bobby Bai, Scott Gutschewski, David Gazzolo, and Trey Shirley! See y’all at the
@BarbasolChamp
.
The KGA is proud to share the news that Jimmy Kirchdorfer was recently chosen as the recipient for the J.W. Janes Award, which recognizes one's contributions and work for amateur golf in Kentucky. Congratulations, Jimmy!
Press release:
John Augenstein is going to Augusta! With his 3&2 semifinals win today, the Owensboro product is exempt for the 2020 Masters and can win the
#USAmateur
tomorrow! So cool! Congratulations John! 1 more!!!
Absolutely clinical. Louisville’s Justin Thomas has won The Players. He’s the second Kentuckian to win the tournament; the first since Jodie Mudd won in 1990. 🐐
Jared Wolfe has won his second tournament of 2020 on the Korn Ferry Tour! The Louisville native/Murray State product won in Kansas to get another step closer to the big leagues. Congratulations, Jared!
We have our new low individual stroke play round of the tournament season. Canon Claycomb shot SIXTY-ONE (YES 61) today! That helped him get medalist honors from today's U.S. Amateur qualifier in Bowling Green.
Austin Squires of Union with the HUGE upset and knocks off
#1
seed Brandon Wu!
John Augenstein of Owensboro crushed his opponent earlier today and gets world
#5
Akshay Bhatia tomorrow, so he’ll be looking for a big upset of his own.
2 Kentuckians in the Round of 32!
#USAmateur
Roll Kerns! Eastern Kentucky University Head Men's Golf Coach, Justin Tereshko, is your 2023 Clark's Pump-N-Shop Kentucky Amateur CHAMPION. Tereshko fired a three-day total of 204 to etch his name in history for our coveted event. 👏👏
We are devastated to hear about Cullan’s passing. Golfers were hard-pressed to find a more enjoyable person on or off the golf course. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.
This was Elizabeth Eberle's first USGA National Championship and she held her own. Not only was it a home game in Kentucky for the Richmond native, but she had her brother Cooper on the bag to add the memorability of the week. ❤️
#USGirlsJunior
It's hard to imagine the inaugural Kentucky Women's Stroke Play Championship ending any better than it did. Ke'Asha Phillips takes the top prize after a dramatic finish (check out the video of her birdie putt on the 18th if you haven't done so already.
.
@jteater12
stopped by Valhalla today to participate in today's event with us before he heads out west for the Barracuda Championship later this week. He fired a tidy little 67 (-5) which is the low professional score thus far today.
Please help us congratulate Bobby Baldwin, PGA, Walter Cisco, Marty Donlon, Margaret Jones, and Jimmy Kirchdorfer. They have been selected as the class of 2021 inductees for the Kentucky Golf Hall of Fame!
News release:
For the 100th time, we have crowned a Kentucky Open champion! Congratulations J.B. Williams! He has joined Kentucky golf immortality as a champion after his win at Kearney Hill Links.
#100KYOpen
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🚨 ACE ALERT 🚨
ON HIS FIRST SWING OF THE DAY, Carson Long records a hole-in-one on the par-three 15th at The Standard Club! What a way to start the Pro-Junior presented by
@Titleist
! (And he did it with a ProV1!)
As you probably know, next spring Bill Coomer will retire after a quarter-century of service with GHK. Today’s round is his LAST tournament day. 😭 A bittersweet day, but please join us in thanking Bill for making days like this possible for Kentucky golfers.
#ThankYouBill
Bill has spent about one-third of his birthdays as an employee of GHK. He’s got many more birthdays ahead of him, but this is the last one he’ll celebrate here before hanging up his paint gun and scoring pen in the spring! Happy birthday, Billy C! 🎂
Huge day tomorrow for people dreaming of making it in a PGA TOUR event and for guys trying to solidfy their place on golf's biggest stage. The Barbasol Championship's Monday Q from Boone's Trace National Golf Club will be the hub.
Tournament preview:
J.B. Williams has made history at Triple Crown! He goes wire-to-wire to join a short club of players to win consecutive Kentucky Opens. It's a two-stroke victory for the Danville product over 2018 champion Trey Shirley and low amateur Jacob Cook.
🔗
Our sincerest congratulations to the following ten individuals who were named Kentucky's Best Teachers for 2022-2023 by Golf Digest. We thank them for making golfers better every day and encourage those of you needing lessons this winter to seek out their services!
Our defending champion did what?
J.B. Williams made eight birdies in eleven holes? It's true. That helped him shoot 30 (-6) (!!!) on the back nine and he is now our leader at Triple Crown.
Good golf? Good golf.
Justice has been served! Grover Justice joins Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Tom Watson as players to stand on Valhalla's 18th green as champions. Blake Watts and Mitchell Moore will join Grover in next year's PGA Professional Championship.
Recap:
Congrats to Kentucky Golf Hall of Famer Steve Flesch! With a victory in the Mitsubishi Electric Classic, the NKY native picks up his second victory on the PGA TOUR Champions and his first since 2018.
As the morning wave reaches its conclusion, our early leader here at Kearney Hill is Zach Smith. His 65 (-7) puts him up one stroke over Brendon Doyle.
#100KYOpen
What an evening! Congratulations once more to Pat, Tennye, Buddy, Betty, Kevin, and Dick on being inducted into the Kentucky Golf Hall of Fame. Lastly, thank you to all who joined us at Griffin Gate to honor their great careers. Unforgettable night!
Happy first day on the job to our new leader, Jeff Adkerson! Things to know about the captain of our ship:
⛳️ Horton Smith Award winner in 2017
🏌️♂️ PGA Master Professional in Golf Operations
👨🎓 Mississippi State University
🏈 Steelers
⚾️ Yankees
Welcome, Jeff!
On Monday, Mineral Mound Golf Course will be renamed The Cullan at Mineral Mound in honor of Cullan Brown.
@KyTAHC
will be live-streaming the ceremony on Monday afternoon from their Facebook page. We hope you'll join us in watching this wonderful gesture.
For the first time, the
#USWomensOpen
heads to historic Olympic Club in San Francisco and it starts today. Kentucky is represented in the field by
@talley_emma
, so join us in cheering on one of our golden talents in the Golden City!
Full coverage:
KPGA Experts of the Game is back and with a new name... KPGA Journeys. Leading off these 2021 editions is John "Mully" Mullendore, PGA Head Professional
@indianhillsbgky
. Check out a little background about one of the friendliest PGA Members in Kentucky!
We’re happy to have four new
@pga
Members at our Meeting along with three quarter-century Members.
Congrats to newcomers Josh Luster, Quinn Ourada, Colin Smith, and Phillip Webb!
And a thunderous congrats to Suzanne Bannan, Bruce Oldendick and Chuck Breitenbach on 25 years!
Big thumps up and VERY rightfully so for
@Big_Cookie5
! 🍪 He is our new leader after firing 66 (-6) which looks very promising right now for moving on.
We're very excited to share the news that Grace Clark and Davis Money have been selected as this year's recipients of the Justin Thomas Grant. Grace and Davis will each receive $3,000 to bolster their journey towards playing college golf. Full story:
Fred Wirth is 93 years old. He’s bombing drives and having a grand ole time amidst a field where some players hadn’t even been born when he turned 70.
Golf is the best.
States and countries represented in the
#USAmateur
quarterfinals:
Kentucky (2)
Mississippi (2)
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Texas
Australia
Austin Squires and John Augenstein continue the possibility of an all-Kentucky final!
A huge congrats is deserved for Cooper Musselman. On Thursday, the Kentuckian won The Invitational at Auburn University Club on the PGA Tour’s LOCALiQ Series. Salute, Coop! A sign of good things to come. 👏
We're excited to announce the introduction of the Barbasol Junior Championship, which will be played June 29-July 2, 2020 - the champion will earn an exemption to the 2020
@PGATOUR
@BarbasolChamp
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"GOLF IN KENTUCKY IS SO GOOD. PEOPLE DON'T GET IT. THERE ARE COURSE RECORDS BEING BROKEN IN HIGH SCHOOL TOURNAMENTS, THE STATE OPEN AND STATE AM'S SCORING RECORDS HAVE BOTH BEEN SHATTERED IN THE LAST COUPLE YEARS, IT'S GOT SOME OF THE OLDEST CLUBS IN THE COUNTRY TOO."
It was a march to victory from the onset at Big Spring for Grover Justice, Evan Davis, Justin Tereshko, and Alex Martin. They take the Pro-Am Championship while Justice completes the double-dip to win the low pro title as well!
Final results:
We were bummed to see
@jteater12
come up a shot short at the Puerto Rico Open, but is it a coincidence he gets his new best finish on Tour right after giving a shoutout to
@KWPGA
for PGA Secretary? All while repping
@yocgolf
on his sleeve like he has been recently? We think not.
🚨 ACE ALERT! 🚨
Ryan Bender needed only one swing to win her hole on the par-three 3rd
@UofLGolfClub
. Put down a 1 on the scorecard and move onto the 4th! Congrats, Ryan!
Huge congrats to Lizzie Loy & Molly Bebelaar, who teamed up for a round of 66 (-4) at Kenwood CC to qualify for the 2020 U.S. Women's Four-Ball Championship!
#KentuckyProud
The Kentucky Golf Hall of Fame’s selection committee is pleased to announce the induction of Phil Armbruster, Cullan Brown, Jeff McGill, PGA, and Susan Stewart as the 2023 induction class. Visit this link to read more about each inductee:
2 years ago, Brent Paladino joined our team as our Executive Director. The amount of contribution Brent has made since then cannot be summed up in a tweet. Today is his final day here as he will soon transition to a new position with the USGA. Thank you for everything, Brent!
We wanted to shoutout a couple of our vendors within Kentucky who got some big recognition with their respective companies.
@perdue_john
of
@Titleist
and Andrew Lamie, PGA of
@ImperialHats
are both the National Sales Reps of the Year! Congrats to both of them! 👏
A huge congrats to Louisville native and Murray State alum Jared Wolfe, who won the Korn Ferry Tour’s Bahamas Great Abaco Classic today for his first win on the Korn Ferry Tour. Huge step in his quest to make it on the PGA Tour!
Experts of the Game is back! Our first spotlight of 2020 is on the Women's Golf Coach at Western Kentucky University, Adam Gary, PGA. Check out his keys to success here:
The 101st Kentucky Open is open for business. Matthew McAdoo struck the first tee shot of the competition and we are off at Triple Crown.
Live scoring:
State Am champion AND new owner of low total score in tournament history. No one had ever had a 54-hole score in this competition lower than 200 before this week. J.M. Butler got around in 198.
Press release on a historic day:
Okay seriously, how cool is this? Pretty incredible how technology allows for our wounded Veterans to continue enjoying golf and hit long, straight drives like this one.
We’re very excited to see this news regarding the
@BarbasolChamp
. After increases in ticket sales and TV viewership this year, things should only continue to get bigger next year when the tournament takes golf’s center stage!
We're done at Valhalla for day one in the Kentucky PGA Professional Championship. Your leader is Grover Justice, courtesy of a 68 (-4). He's up by three strokes over two-time champ Keith Ohr heading into the final round.
Recap:
Congratulations to Danny Baron, PGA Director of Golf and Club Operations
@HurstbourneCC
. Danny was elected the 30th President of the KPGA during today's Conference. Chad Martin, PGA assumes the role of Vice President while Charles Whalen, PGA was elected Secretary.
From Manchester, Kentucky to Pebble Beach! Chip McDaniel can book a trip to Monterrey Peninsula after getting co-medalist honors today. Congratulations Chip!
Well folks, this is it. It's Bill Coomer's final day as a GHK employee after 26 years. To salute the 🐐, this week's episode of Golf Pod Kentucky presented by TaylorMade features Bill, as does a Deep Dive presented by Golf Pro Payments.
Grab a tissue: