Thursday, July 18, 2013

The United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced Tulsa (Okla.) Country Club as the host of the 2015 U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship. The championship will be conducted July 20-25.
 
“The USGA is looking forward to returning to Tulsa Country Club with the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship,” said Thomas J. O’Toole Jr., USGA vice president and chairman of the Championship Committee. “The Tulsa membership and the USGA share a long and proven dedication to sustaining and promoting the game of golf, especially among juniors, and their devotion is further emphasized by hosting this championship.”
 

This will be the third USGA championship conducted at Tulsa Country Club, and the 22nd championship held in the state of Oklahoma. The club previously hosted the 1960 U.S. Women’s Amateur, won by JoAnne Gunderson Carner, and the 2008 USGA Senior Women’s Amateur, won by Diane Lang.

Monday, July 1, 2013

The PGA of America will establish a New York office

GOLF BREAKING NEWS: Returning to its roots, The PGA of America will establish a New York office that will serve as a footprint in the region that gave what is now the world’s largest sports organization its birth in 1916. The office will be established within the “Golf Central” site of the headquarters of both the Metropolitan PGA Section and the Metropolitan Golf Association, in Elmsford, N.Y.

The PGA New York Office will be led by The PGA of America’s Chief Marketing Officer Kevin Ring, who will relocate to the area, for a planned Fall opening. The space will be used by The PGA’s Officers, Leadership Team and Staff, as The PGA prepares for its Centennial Celebration in 2016; the 98th PGA Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club in nearby Springfield, N.J., in 2016; and to foster deeper marketing, broadcasting, public relations and communications relationships in the world’s largest media capital.