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WGA PAR CLUB “Our championship’s only charitable beneficiary always has been the Evans Scholars, and that will continue throughout our current six-year partnership with BMW and the PGA TOUR.’’ John Kaczkowski Vice President Tournaments Camilo Villegas crouches low to line up a putt. 12 WGA Championships Tiger Woods conquers Cog Hill. At right, Ernie Els tees off at the 2007 BMW Championship. www.westerngolfassociation.com Tiger Reigns at BMW Championship The BMW Championship brought a new look and feel to Cog Hill Golf & Country Club in September 2007, but not much changed competitively as Tiger Woods won his fourth title in the last 11 years at Cog Hill. A record-tying 63 on Sunday, September 9, netted Woods a record-setting victory. His 22-under-par 262 total shattered the previous scoring total by five strokes. More importantly for the Western Golf Association and Evans Scholars Foundation, Woods’ win punctuated a successful weekend that put to rest any doubts that the championship could survive changes in name, dates and format. “At the end of the day, by all measurements, the 2007 BMW Championship was a huge success,” said Vice President of Tournaments John Kaczkowski. “With BMW’s support, we upgraded the event in all areas – for spectators and the players. Chicago area golf fans responded by filling the fairways and stands on Saturday and Sunday, the players gave the event top reviews and our sponsor, BMW, and the PGA TOUR both were pleased with our inaugural effort as a PGA TOUR Playoff championship in the TOUR’s first FedExCup competition.” Woods followed his win at the BMW Champi- onship with a victory the next week in the TOUR Championship in Atlanta to claim the FedExCup title and its $10 million, first-place payout. For the Evans Scholars, the championship also proved to be a winner. WGA officials estimate that the final contribution to the Evans Scholars Foundation exceeded $2.4 million, an increase over funds raised in 2006. “Our championship’s only charitable beneficiary always has been the Evans Scholars, and that will continue throughout our current six-year partnership with BMW and the PGA TOUR,” Kaczkowski said. “BMW and the TOUR are both very supportive of the Evans Scholarships.” In 2007, BMW introduced several initiatives to help promote the scholarship program. Three Evans Scholars were given the opportunity to intern with BMW, and BMW featured the Evans Scholars Program in its history walk display in the Heart of the Tournament. Also, BMW promoted a hole-in-one incentive on the 14th hole, offering to fund a named scholarship for any player making an ace on the hole during the championship’s Media Day, the Chick Evans Pro-Am or the four tournament rounds. No player holed out, but the offer generated added publicity for the Evans Scholars. Evans Scholars and Alumni also continued to play a role in the tournament’s success. Scholars caddied in the Monday MasterCard Pro-Am and Alumni caddied in the Chick Evans Memorial Pro-Am, a volunteer fund-raising effort that began in 2005.
WGA Championships Western Amateur Moving to Chicago Area in 2009 The 106th Western Amateur will be played July 28-August 3 at Point O’Woods Golf & Country Club in Benton Harbor, Michigan, site of the Western Amateur since 1971. Following 2008, however, the Western Golf Association will rotate the nationally-renowned championship among a select group of Chicago-area clubs, WGA officials announced in January. The WGA’s current five-year contract with Point O’Woods expires after the 2008 tournament. “We’ve enjoyed an excellent relationship with Point O’Woods, and we expect that relationship will continue even though the Point will no longer host the Western Amateur on an annual basis,” noted John Kaczkowski, WGA vice president of tournaments. “We’re looking forward to bringing the Western Amateur championship to the Chicago area for the first time since 1952, when the tournament was hosted by Exmoor Country Club in Highland Park.” “Our goal is to move the Western Amateur around to a select group of clubs that support the Western Golf Association and the Evans Scholarship Program and also feature quality, championship venues capable of challenging the world’s top amateur golfers,” Kaczkowski explained. Point O’Woods first hosted the Western Ama- teur in 1963. The championship returned to Point O’Woods in 1965 and has been anchored at the club since 1971. The defending champion is 17-year-old Jhared Hack of Sanford, Fla., who also won the Western Junior championship in 2006. Hack claimed the 2007 title in a rare Monday finish after heavy rain on Sunday forced a delay of the final match. Hack edged Alex Prugh, 1 up, to follow in the footsteps of 2007 NCAA champion Jamie Lovemark and become only the second player to win the Western Junior (2004) and Western Amateur (2005) in back-toback years since the WGA started the national junior championship in 1914. Sea Island to Host 2008 Western Junior Cody Gribble, 2007 Western Junior champion, with former WGA Chairman Rich Peterson (left) and WGA Director and Western Junior Chairman Michael Morrissey. Jhared Hack, 2007 Western Amateur champion, with WGA Vice President of Tournaments John Kaczkowski (left) and Associate Tournament Director Gabe Ottolini (Ind. ‘01). The 91st Western Junior Championship will be held June 16-20 at the Sea Island Club in Sea Island, Georgia. The championship, the oldest national junior tournament in the United States, draws the top junior players from more than 40 states and internationally each year. The field is limited to 156 entrants. Exemptions into the Western Amateur are awarded to the champion and runnerup. The tournament has been a testing ground for stars of the future, such as Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Fred Couples, Scott Hoch, Tom Lehman, Craig Stadler and Corey Pavin. In the 2007 Western Junior, Cody Gribble, 16, of Dallas, Texas, held off a late challenge from LSU-bound Clayton Rotz to claim victory June 22 at Wakonda Club in Des Moines, Iowa. WGA Par Club 13
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