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GRAND BLANC, Mich.  – Tournament Officials announced today the details regarding the final field for the seventh playing of The Ally Challenge presented by McLaren at Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club in Grand Blanc, Mich.  This elite roster of 78* players collectively represent 207 PGA TOUR Champions victories, including 40 senior major championship titles. The field also contains seven of the top-10 players in the Charles Schwab Cup standings, including top-ranked Ernie Els, and eight-time PGA TOUR Champions winner Padraig Harrington.

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Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club was established in 1957 and completely rebuilt by renowned architect Joe Lee in 1968. Warwick Hills has enjoyed a strong history of hosting professional golf since its inception. The Club hosted Michigan’s only PGA TOUR Event, the Buick Open, from 1958 to 1969 and again from 1977 to 2009. The greens at Warwick Hills were consistently ranked among the best on the PGA TOUR by the players. Hole #17, the signature Par 3, also ranked among the rowdiest holes on the TOUR schedule year after year. The list of tournament winners for the Buick Open includes: Tiger Woods, Jim Furyk, Ben Crenshaw, Fred Couples, Vijay Singh and Billy Casper.

In 2018, professional golf returned to Warwick Hills with the inaugural playing of The Ally Challenge presented by McLaren, an official PGA TOUR Champions event. Paul Broadhurst emerged from one of the best fields of the year to capture the tournament’s first trophy. The Ally Challenge presented by McLaren was a tremendous success by all accounts, including its impact on the community, raising more than $801,000 for charitable organizations in southeastern Michigan

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84th KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship Announces Field Competing at Harbor Shores May 23-26

April 24, 2024.

The 2024 field includes defending champion Steve Stricker and five former Masters Champions

Benton Harbor, Michigan (April 24, 2024) – The 2024 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship announced today the field that will be competing to hoist the Alfred S. Bourne Trophy at Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor, Michigan, May 23-26.

This year’s stacked field features 11 former KitchenAid Senior PGA Champions including defending 2023 Champion Steve Stricker, Michael Allen (2009), Paul Broadhurst (2018), Alex Cejka (2021), Roger Chapman (2012), Jay Haas (2006, 2008), Bernhard Langer (2017), Tom Lehman (2010), Rocco Mediate (2016), Colin Montgomerie (2014, 2015) and Ken Tanigawa (2019). 

The field also includes 26 Major Champions, 11 former Ryder Cup Captains (seven from Europe, four from the United States) and seven World Golf Hall of Fame members. 

This year’s Championship will mark an exciting rematch between Stricker and Ireland’s Padraig Harrington. Last year, in a thrilling end to the 2023 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship, Stricker prevailed in a playoff over Harrington. Harrington had controlled the Championship from Thursday through late Sunday, but Stricker held him off on the last day, first in regulation and then in the playoff where a par was good enough for the win. This will be Stricker’s first time playing at Harbor Shores.

The 2024 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship will also feature several other first-timers to Harbor Shores including Stewart Cink, an eight-time PGA Tour winner.

The field for the 2024 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship is as follows:

Allen, Michael - Paradise Valley, AZ

Ames, Stephen - CANADA

Andrade, Billy - Atlanta, GA

Archer, Phillip - ENGLAND

Baker, Peter - ENGLAND

Beem, Rich - Austin, TX

Berry, Don (CFT) - Rogers, MN

Bertsch, Shane - Parker, CO

Bisconti, Greg (CFT) - South Salem, NY

Bjorn, Thomas - DENMARK

Bland, Richard - ENGLAND

Bogar, Eric (CFT) - Houston, TX

Bowden, Craig (CFT) - Bloomington, IN

Brehaut, Jeff (CFT) - Park City, UT

Broadhurst, Paul - ENGLAND

Burns, Brad - AUSTRALIA

Cabrera, Angel - ARGENTINA

Calcavecchia, Mark - Jupiter, FL

Campbell, Michael - NEW ZEALAND

Canonica, Emanuele - ITALY

Caron, Jason (CFT) - Greenlawn, NY

Carter, Jim (CFT) - Scottsdale, AZ

Cejka, Alex - GERMANY

Chapman, Roger - ENGLAND

Choi, KJ - REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Choi, Ho-Sung - REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Cink, Stewart - Atlanta, GA

Clarke, Darren - NORTHERN IRELAND

Claxton, Paul (CFT) - Claxton, GA

Da Silva, Adilson - BRAZIL

Daly, John - Dardanelle, AR

Dawson, Marco - Melbourne, FL

Day, Glen - Little Rock, AR

Dennis, Clark - Fort Worth, TX

DiMarco, Chris - St. Augustine, FL

Dodd, Stephen - WALES

Dredge, Bradley - WALES

Duke, Ken - Stuart, FL

Dunlap, Scott - Sarasota, FL

Durant, Joe - Pensacola Beach, FL

Duval, David - Cherry Hills, CO

Els, Ernie - SOUTH AFRICA

Esposito, Frank (CFT) - Florham Park, NJ

Estes, Bob - Austin, TX

Flesch, Steve - Union, KY

Franz, Ray (CFT) - Mount Pleasant, SC

Frazar, Harrison - Dallas, TX

Fujita, Hiroyuki - JAPAN

Furyk, Jim - Jacksonville, FL

Gay, Brian - Windermere, FL

Gonzalez, Ricardo - ARGENTINA

Goosen, Retief - SOUTH AFRICA

Goydos, Paul - Coto de Caza, CA

Green, Richard - AUSTRALIA

Gregory, Greg (CFT) - Joshua, TX

Haas, Jay - Greer, SC

Haas, Jerry (CFT) - Winston Salem, NC

Haeggman, Joakim - SWEDEN

Hamilton, Todd - Westlake, TX

Harrington, Pádraig - IRELAND

Hart, Jeff (CFT) - Solana Beach, CA

Hend, Scott - AUSTRALIA

Hebert, Scott (CFT) - Traverse City, MI

Hensby, Mark - AUSTRALIA

Hiller, Gregory (CFT) - San Antonio, TX

Horne, Keith - SOUTH AFRICA

Hutcheon, Greig - SCOTLAND

Hutsell, David (CFT) - Lutherville, MD

Jaidee, Thongchai - THAILAND

Janzen, Lee - Orlando, FL

Jimenez, Miguel Angel - SPAIN

Jones, Steve - Tempe, AZ

Jonzon, Michael - SWEDEN

Karlsson, Robert - SWEDEN

Kelly, Jerry - Madison, WI

Khan, Simon - ENGLAND

Kingston, James - SOUTH AFRICA

Kurmel, Chad (CFT) - Okemos, MI

Labritz, Rob - Pound Ridge, NY

Ladd, David (CFT) - West Palm Beach, FL

Langer, Bernhard - GERMANY

Lehman, Tom - Scottsdale, AZ

Leonard, Justin - Tequesta, FL

Long, Michael - NEW ZEALAND

Maggert, Jeff - The Woodlands, TX

Malby, Ryan (CFT) - Kalispell, MT

Masuda, Nobuhiro - JAPAN

McCarron, Scott - Mooresville, NC

McCarty, Sean (CFT) - Solon, IA

McGinley, Paul - IRELAND

McIntosh, Euan - SCOTLAND

McNabb, Dave (CFT) -Newark, DE

Mediate, Rocco - Greensburg, PA

Micheel, Shaun - Collierville, TN

Mize, Larry - Columbus, GA

Miyamoto, Katsumasa - JAPAN

Montgomerie, Colin - SCOTLAND

Morin, Alan (CFT) - Royal Palm Beach, FL

Morton, Rick (CFT) - Jacksonville, FL

O’Neal, Tim - Savannah, GA

Olazabal, Jose Maria - SPAIN

Owen, Greg - Windermere, FL

Pampling, Rod - AUSTRALIA

Pate, Steve - Delray Beach, FL

Pavin, Corey - Dallas, TX

Perry, Kenny - Franklin, KY

Perry, Rod (CFT) - Port Orange, FL

Petrovic, Tim - Austin, TX

Phillips, Tracy (CFT) - Tulsa, OK

Price, Phillip - WALES

Pride, Dicky - Orlando, FL

Proehl, Chad (CFT) - Urbandale, IA

Quigley, Brett - Barrington, RI

Reeves, Jake (CFT) - Knoxville, TN

Schmid, Jeffrey (CFT) - Iowa City, IA

Schneiter, Steve (CFT) - Sandy, UT

Sedorcek, Rob (CFT) - Springfield, MO

Singh, Jeev Milkha - INDIA

Singh, Vijay - FIJI

Sjoland, Patrik - SWEDEN

Sluman, Jeff - Delray Beach, FL

Small, Mike (CFT) - Champaign, IL

Smith, Mick (CFT) - AUSTRALIA

Smock, Brian (CFT) - Coronado, CA

Sowards, Bob (CFT) - Dublin, OH

Stankowski, Paul - Flower Mound, TX

Steinmetz, Rich (CFT) - Gilbertsville, PA

Stricker, Steve - Madison, WI

Sutherland, Kevin - Sacramento, CA

Tanigawa, Ken - Scottsdale, AZ

Tiziani, Mario - Shorewood, MN

Toms, David - Shreveport, LA

Verplank, Scott - Edmond, OK

Weekly, Boo - Milton, FL

Weinhart, Tim (CFT) - Alpharetta, GA

Weir, Mike - CANADA

Westwood, Lee - ENGLAND

Wetterich, Brett - Northridge, CA

Wi, Charlie - REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Yang, Y.E. - REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Tickets are still available for the 2024 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship held at Harbor Shores May 23-26. For more information and to purchase your tickets, visit srpga.com . 

ABOUT THE KITCHENAID SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

The KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship was born in 1937 on the grounds of Augusta National Golf Club. Since then, famed champions such as Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Lee Trevino, Raymond Floyd and Colin Montgomerie have hoisted the Alfred S. Bourne Trophy. This Championship is the oldest of the five major championships in men's senior golf, is administered by the PGA of America and is recognized as a major championship by both PGA Tour Champions and the European Senior Tour. The lower age limit is 50, which is the standard limit for men's senior professional golf tournaments. Winners gain entry into the next PGA Championship. KitchenAid has been the lead tournament sponsor since 2011, bringing the Championship to Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor, Michigan every other year. To learn more, follow the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship on Instagram , X or Facebook , or visit https://www.srpga.com . 

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Els and Chalmers lead Bland and DiMarco by a stroke heading into final round of Senior PGA

Round 3 leaderboard: Senior PGA championship at Harbor Shores Golf Club in Benton Harbor

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. — South Africa’s Ernie Els is still hunting for his first senior major golf championship after winning two U.S. Opens and two Open Championships during a World Hall of Fame golf career.

Australia’s Greg Chalmers and England’s Richard Bland are just trying to find success as senior golfers, period.

Sunday morning at 9:38, the three golfers will make up the final pairing of the final 84 th  KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship to be played at Jack Nicklaus’ par-71, 6,706-yard Golf Club of Harbor Shores, all of them seeking a career-defining senior victory. 

Day 2: Bland leads Dunlap by one at Senior PGA with Els and Stricker both lurking

Day 1: On day to go low, Green and Bland shoot 7-under 64s to lead Senior PGA at Harbor Shores

But if Mother Nature cooperates, they are certain to have plenty of competition for the year’s second senior major victory.

 On a sunny, cool and blustery Saturday just off the shores of Lake Michigan, the 51-year-old Bland, the LIV Tour member playing on a special exemption from the PGA of America who had shared or owned the lead after the first two rounds, gave it up to the 50-year-old Chalmers, a left-hander, and the popular 54-year-old Els, a 6-foot-3 golfer known around the world as “The Big Easy.”

Bland fell out of the lead after he struggled to a three-over 74 for a three-round total of nine-under 204, one stroke behind Chalmers, who zoomed up 12 spots on the leaderboard with his five-under 66, and Els, who shot a two-under 69 to earn his share of the lead at 10-under 203.

“I’ve been looking forward to this opportunity,” said Chalmers, who turned 50 last October but doesn’t have full status on the PGA Champions Tour though he has played in four events and earned $169,888 thanks to a pair of Top 10 finishes. “I need this challenge. I’m looking forward to seeing how I do tomorrow and how I play … see if I can embrace it with both hands and play some good golf.”

Saturday, the 6-foot Chalmers, who hails from Sydney, Australia, but lives in Colleyville, Texas, showed plenty of moxie at Harbor Shores with seven birdies — five in a row beginning at hole No. 6 — and just two bogeys. 

“Probably the highlight … was the seventh hole,” Chalmers said of his birdie 3 on the hole that overlooks Lake Michigan. “I hit a 5-iron from about 180 yards into the wind to about four feet. So that gives me a lot of confidence when I start to see that kind of ball control.”

Chalmers and the 84 others who made the cut at three-over may need that kind of confidence Sunday. Because of a stormy afternoon forecast, tee times were moved up to 7:15 in the morning off both the first and 10 th  tees with hopes of finishing play before 2 p.m. when the bad stuff was scheduled to arrive.

“I thought conditions were tougher today than yesterday (when play was halted by a Friday afternoon storm),” Els said Saturday after finishing his two-under-par round of 69 with a birdie at the 417-yard 18 th  hole where he hit a pitching-wedge approach from 136 yards to six feet. It was one of six birdies on the day for Els, who survived four bogeys.

 “Yeah, I’m fortunate enough to be up there,” Els continued. “You’ve got to just grind. It’s that type of week. It’s a difficult course — it can be if you get out of position. You got to take your medicine. You’ve got to play conservatively here and there. I’m a shot-maker, so I feel it (the course) suits me. I can hit fades and draws into the greens. Then you’ve just got to make the putts.”

Bland, who for the three days has hit the ball mostly well from tee to green, made just two birdies but had five bogeys in his three-over 74.

“I just didn’t have it today,” Bland said. “I’ve been around enough to know that you’re going to have some poor days. Hopefully try and play better tomorrow.”

Bland finds himself tied at nine-under with 55-year-old Chris DiMarco, who has good vibes about playing in southwestern Michigan. Back in 1988 as a University of Florida golfer, DiMarco won the Western Amateur at nearby Point O’Woods. 

Saturday, DiMarco, with wife Amy toting the bag, shot an even-par 71 that included two birdies and two bogeys. One of the latter came at the 552-yard, par-5 10 th  where DiMarco drove into the dense left rough, eventually reached the green with his fifth shot and then made a seven-footer to save bogey 6.

“I kind of stole a shot there, to tell you the truth,” DiMarco said. “Amy is the best caddie I’ve had because she’s so positive.” Her advice on 10? “Let’s get it in the fairway; stop hitting in the rough,” DiMarco cracked.

DiMarco will be paired with Australian left-hander Green, who shot a one-under 70 and was eight-under 205, a stroke ahead of PGA club professional Jason Caron from Mill River Club on Long Island, N.Y. Caron shot a four-under 67 Saturday in a round that included five birdies and an eagle 2 at the 422-yard seventh, holing out a 5-hybrid from 173 yards. That came a day after Caron double-bogeyed the hole.

 Joining Caron at seven-under 206 were three other golfers — Australia’s Scott Hend (70); 51-year-old Stewart Cink (71) of Atlanta, winner of the 2009 Open Championship; and defending Senior PGA champion Steve Stricker of Madison, Wis., who is seeking an eighth senior major title. 

Stricker, who shot 71, and his caddy/daughter Bobbi went right to the driving range to work out his struggles from a round which included an eagle, three birdies and five bogeys, including a bogey at the 426-yard 16 th  which he has played in four-over for three days.

The best round of the day belonged to 66-year-old Bernhard Langer of Germany, who is using a golf cart after undergoing surgery for a torn Achilles tendon suffered playing pickleball 3½ months ago. Langer didn’t know until Saturday morning that he made the three-over cut until fellow players Fred Funk and Marco Dawson got word for him. Langer came out to shoot the day’s best round of six-under 65, moving up from T70 to T20 and was at three-under 210.

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'I'm so happy right now:' Richard Bland rallies to win final Senior PGA in Benton Harbor

Benton Harbor — Richard Bland took full advantage of the extra 18 holes.

Bland, who plays regularly on LIV Golf, shot the best round of the week, a final-round, 8-under 63, highlighted by an eagle at the par-5 15th, to beat the weather, whipping wind and a loaded field to win the final playing of the Senior PGA Championship at Harbor Shores on Sunday.

He finished 17 under, and won by three strokes, though it was dicey till late on the back nine.

Bland becomes the second member of the rival LIV Golf tour to win a major championship since the upstart and controversial league launched in 2022, after Brooks Koepka won the PGA Championship in 2023 . In fact, Bland, 51, only was in the field this week because LIV Golf had the week off. Bland missed taking his spot in last year's Senior PGA Championship because LIV Golf was playing that week, and members are required to play that full schedule, but he sent an email this past December to see if he could use a raincheck for 2024. The PGA of America said yes.

"I'm sure glad I wrote that email," Bland said. "I'm thankful to the PGA of America for that.

"I'm so happy right now."

Bland shot a 3-over 74 to slip one shot behind after Saturday's round, through 54 holes, the length of LIV Golf tournaments. He was so frustrated with his putting, he expected to use a new putter Sunday. But he arrived at the course early, spent an hour on the practice green, and stuck with old faithful — his work on the greens impressive during a fourth 18 holes he used to seize this trophy. He started out hot as blazes Sunday, at 7 under through his first 12 holes, while dueling with World Golf Hall of Famer Ernie Els and Australian left-hander Greg Chalmers.

Most of the back nine, the battle was between Bland and Chalmers.

Chalmers, tied with Els to start the day, moved into a tie with Bland at 15 under on the par-3 13th hole, when he got up and down from the right side, while Bland three-putted for 40 feet. On the next hole, the par-4 14th, Chalmers drained a 25-footer to take the solo lead at 16 under.

But in the span of just four holes, Bland would go from one down to three up, and a victory stroll up 18. He became the fifth man to win in his first senior major championship, and first since Michael Allen at the 2009 Senior PGA. The victory came as Bland's thoughts were elsewhere, back home with older brother James, who learned earlier this month he has lung cancer, after he had been in remission from bile-duct cancer.

"I'm so pleased I could do this for him," Bland said of brother Heath, whom he plans to see on Monday.

Bland, of England, bounced back from his second and final bogey of the day in a big, big way, the 514-yard, par-5 14th. Bland found the fairway off the tee and had 211 yards left. He pured a 4 iron to about 8 feet, and made the putt for eagle. Chalmers had to lay up short of the water, and his wedge approach from 120 was way right, so he settled for par as Bland took the one-shot lead back, at 17 under.

Chalmers called Bland's 4 iron "world class," and Bland couldn't disagree, calling it, "the best 4 iron of my life."

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Bland followed that with par at the par-4 16th, his approach to 8 feet, out of the rough, came before the 80-minute weather delay, the missed birdie putt after. His lead still grew, though, as Chalmers made bogey, after short-siding himself in the rough left of the green. He nearly missed the ball in a thick lie on his first chip, and slipped to 15 under, as Bland seized command of 2024's second of five Champions Tour majors.

Chalmers made another bogey at the par-3 17th, his hands seeming to slip on the club as he pulled it into the left greenside bunker, and failed to get up and down. That gave Bland a three-stroke lead heading to 18.

"He won this golf tournament," said Chalmers, who also was playing in his first 50-and-older major, and needed a win to earn Champions Tour status. He will attempt to Tuesday qualify for this week's tournament in Des Moines. "He played beautiful golf today.

"It's a great week. I take a lot of positives about it. I'm hopeful I can get another opportunity down the line."

Chalmers acknowledged he didn't handle the delay well, while Bland said he joked around with buddies in the clubhouse to stay loose. It showed when play resumed at 3:40 p.m., after being halted around 2:20.

This marks the biggest win for Bland, who won the British Masters in 2021 at the age of 48. It was his first victory after years of playing the DP World Tour, and he parlayed that into a lucrative contract with LIV Golf. But Bland hasn't won in 27 LIV Golf tournaments. His best finish this season is eighth.

Richard Green, like Chalmers a lefty, shot a 65 highlighted by two eagles on the back nine, and slipped into second place alone at 14 under, after Chalmers made bogey on his last three holes to shoot 68 and finish third, at 13 under.

Club professional Jason Caron made a spirited run, carding a final-round 66 to finish tied for fourth, at 12 under, with Scott Hend (66). Caron was the top-finishing club pro out of 41 that entered and 12 who made the cut. He seemed less amazed by his performance, and more by Bland's.

"I didn't know," said Caron, "someone could shoot 17 under around this place."

Els (70), who won four majors on the PGA Tour but still is searching for his first on the Champions Tour, and Chris DiMarco (69) tied for sixth, at 11 under. Defending champion Steve Stricker (68) was eighth at 10 under, and two major champions, Retief Goosen (67) and Stewart Cink (69), tied for ninth at 10 under.

Bland joins Roger Chapman (2012), Colin Montgomerie (2014), Rocco Mediate (2016), Paul Broadhurst (2018) and Steven Alker (2022) as Senior PGA champions at Harbor Shores. Alker missed this week's tournament for his daughter's graduation.

Lake Orion's Tom Gillis, playing in just his second Champions Tour tournament of the year after losing full status, got into the Senior PGA Championship as an alternate and shot a final-round 69 to finish 3 over, tied for 49th. Michigan club pros Chad Kurmel (Okemos) and Scott Hebert (Traverse City) both missed the 36-hole cut by two strokes.

This was the sixth and final playing of the Senior PGA Championship at Harbor Shores, a Jack Nicklaus signature course off the coast of Lake Michigan. Bland becomes the sixth different winner at Harbor Shores, which first held the tournament in 2012, and then held it every other year except for 2020, when the tournament was canceled because of COVID-19. The PGA of America is expected to replace Harbor Shores as a regular host with the organization's new course at its new headquarters in Frisco, Texas.

Next year's Senior PGA is at famed Congressional outside of Washington, D.C., and Bland has never played it. Then again, he had never played Harbor Shores before Monday.

"What a great golf course. I loved it the first moment I saw it on Monday," Bland said, holding a glass of champagne after being presented the trophy by PGA of America president John Lindert of The Country Club of Lansing. He was still sipping the champagne a half-hour later, after he spoke with reporters.

"It's going to hold a very special place in my heart for the rest of my life."

Bland received the first-place prize of $630,000, as well as a kitchen suite from title sponsor KitchenAid.

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Ron Beurmann wins the Michigan Senior PGA Professional Championship

The top playing Michigan Senior PGA Professionals were back in Northern Michigan this week, as Hidden River Golf & Casting Club in Brutus ,MI played host to the Michigan Senior PGA Championship this week with 62 Michigan PGA Professionals teeing it up on Monday and Tuesday to compete for the Michigan Senior PGA Championship Title as well as 9 qualifying spots for the 33 rd   Senior PGA Professional National Championship on October 13-16 at Twin Warriors Golf Club in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico.

Heading into the final round of the tournament there were fourteen players within four shots of the lead, all chasing the first-round leader Scott Hebert from Traverse City Golf & Country Club. Scott shot a first round (-2) under par 70 and was looking to repeat at Hidden River as he won this event in 2020 the last time they hosted.

That final pairing on Tuesday was won that you might expect as those players chasing Hebert ,the Michigan Golf Hall of Famer included another Michigan Golf Hall of Fame member in Jeff Roth from the BOYNE Golf Academy and Michigan PGA Hall of Fame member Ron Beurmann from the Country Club of Jackson. Collectively these three players have five Michigan Senior PGA titles between them.

Ron got off to a hot start on Tuesday birdieing the first two holes and going out in 33 on the front nine to take a one-shot lead at the turn. Ron continued his great play on the back to finish with a round of (-5) under par 67 and (-6) under for the tournament , good enough for a two shot victory and his 3 rd Michigan Senior PGA title !

Finishing second, just two shots back was Scott Hebert with rounds of (-2) 70 both days. Scott his exempt for the Senior PGA National Championship this October after winning this event in 2019.

Joining Ron Beurmann and Scott Hebert  and representing the Michigan Section at the Senior PGA Professional National Championship will be Jim Deiters from Midland Country Club, Jeff Roth from the BOYNE Golf Academy, Kevin Muir from The Wyndgate, Frank McAuliffe from Meadowbrook Country Club, John Nowasatka from Saginaw Country Club ,Gary Lewandowski from Tullymore Golf Club, Brian Carins from Fox Hills Learning Center and Lee Houtteman from Leland Country Club.

In the super senior 70 and older division, it was PGA Life Member and Michigan Golf Hall of Fame member Randy Erskine that took home top honors with rounds of 67 on Monday and 74 on Tuesday.

We would really like to thank our host site this year Hidden River Golf & Casting Club. The golf course was in really good condition and is a beautiful Northern Michigan setting.

We would also like to thank Doug Dingwall for his generous support of this event and the Michigan PGA Senior organization. Thank you to our national sponsors Cadillac, the PGA Tour, and the Golf Channel.

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With the FedEx Cup playoffs ready to commence this week, the PGA Tour officially dropped the 2025 regular-season schedule and it looks a lot like the one that was just completed on Monday when Matt Kuchar finished up with a par on 18 at a single.

Once again, it will begin in Hawaii and conclude in Atlanta. There will be 36 regular season events plus three playoff events.

“The new schedule and competitive changes introduced in 2024 were significant steps toward creating the best version of the PGA Tour for our fans and players,” said Commissioner Jay Monahan. “Fields were significantly stronger across the board, while the Signature events provided fans more opportunities to see the Tour’s best competing head-to-head. As we enter the second year of this reimagined schedule, one thing remains a constant — winning on the Tour continues to rank among the most difficult and rewarding accomplishments in sport.”

The 2025 schedule is fully sponsored. Truist joins as a first-time sponsor of the Truist Championship taking over for Wells Fargo in a swap out of banking establishments. The Truist Championship will be held in Philadelphia this year at Philadelphia Cricket Club since the regular venue, Quail Hollow will be busy hosting the PGA Championship a week later. The U.S. Open will be held at Oakmont Country Club in Pittsburgh and the British Open at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland.

The Memorial and RBC Canadian Open have swapped dates for 2025 so that the Memorial will be held the last week of May and the Canadian as the lead in to the U.S. Open. The Canadian Open also has a new venue at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley (North Course). In all, there will be 10 TPC courses hosting Tour events in 2025.

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CHASKA, Minn. – The first time Noah Kent played Seminole Golf Club was with legendary golf pro Bob Ford. Kent was 16 years old, just old enough to earn a tee time on the venerable Donald Ross layout, and he made an immediate impression.

“He drives the first green,” said Kent’s stepfather, course designer Dana Fry, who was part of the foursome that day.

Ford later put his arm around Fry while walking down the 16th fairway and offered a simple piece of advice, “Don’t let anybody mess with this kid.”

Influenced and mentored by titans from all corners of the game, Kent transformed from a natural talent into one of the last two men standing at this 124th U.S. Amateur.

“You work so hard for things like this,” said Kent, who will face Spain’s Josele Ballester in Sunday’s final at Hazeltine National, “and for it to actually happen is crazy.”

Just seconds after Saturday afternoon’s semifinal victory, Kent was overcome by emotion. Tears flowing, he was then mobbed by a wave of support just off the 18th green – Fry; his mother, Trisha; his dad, David, and his wife, Ashley; and over a dozen more relatives and friends, many of them wearing Hawkeye-yellow Caitlin Clark shirts that had been flown in from Iowa City that morning.

“The overnight success and the breakthrough, it takes a lot of hours to make it,” David Kent said. “He has an unmatched circle of support to drive him to where he is right now. This is a remarkable achievement, but it’s not a surprise. He’s had it inside the whole time. It’s his time, and it’s been a blessing and a privilege to watch the entire family rally around him.”

Noah Kent celebrates with fans after winning his match during the semifinals of the 2024 U.S. Amateur at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn. on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. (Chris Keane/USGA)

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Fry started dating Trisha when Noah was 9 years old. They played a round together at Calusa Pines, a course Fry helped design in Kent’s hometown of Naples, Florida. Next thing young Noah knew, he was having a chipping contest with six-time PGA Tour winner Rocco Mediate.

At age 13, Noah met Rory McIlroy during the 2017 U.S. Open at Erin Hills. A few months later, they reconnected at a TaylorMade shoot at Shelter Harbor in Charleston, Rhode Island, and upon returning home, an inspired Kent told his parents he was quitting hockey.

“He tells his mom and I, ‘I’ve decided all I’m going to do is play golf, I’m going to play on the PGA Tour, and I’m going to win,’” Fry recalled. “And after that, every night for two or three years, you’d walk by his room, and he’d have his iPad out and all you would hear is the sound of a guy hitting a golf ball.”

It was McIlroy who taught Kent how to generate power with his small frame, pointing to his legs when asked how McIlroy became one of the Tour’s longest drivers. When Kent grew nearly a foot over three years of high school – he’s now 6-foot-5 – he hit it so far that he had to reign in his speed with help from renowned instructor Claude Harmon III, who was first on Fry’s list of swing coaches who wouldn’t mess up the promising teenager.

Kent switched to virtual school during the pandemic so he could spend more time at Naples National practicing and playing, often with the “Wolfpack,” a group where the average age sits in the mid-60s. He also counts a trio of U.S. Amateur champions as mentors: John Cook, who is on the Golf Channel broadcast this week; Jay Sigel, a nine-time Walker Cupper; and John Harris, still the last mid-amateur to win this championship when he did so in 1993 at age 41.

“He always jokes that his best friends are all in their 60s and 70s,” Fry said.

That village took Noah to the University of Iowa, where he’s entering his sophomore season. Hawkeyes coach Tyler Stith remembers when Kent arrived on campus as a freshman, just getting over a broken right wrist that shelved him for 11 weeks. The team’s big intrasquad tournament, which pits the upperclassmen versus the younger guys, was approaching, and Kent wanted Iowa’s best player, fifth-year senior and two-time Big Ten individual champion Mac McClear.

Kent beat McClear – twice.

On Tuesday night, Stith texted Kent, who had just qualified for match play at Hazeltine, and challenged him:

When you’re lying in bed tonight, create an image of someone you wouldn’t want to face. … I’m imagining someone who doesn’t beat themselves, plays their own game, and gets up and down all day long. How about you?

Tomorrow that person is you.

Kent responded: I am that person is right. I imagine that person who played McClear and waxed him.

That fearless freshman showed up again Saturday as Kent got the best of Buchanan, a rising Illinois senior and the reigning Big Ten Player of the Year. A day after carding six birdies and an eagle in his first 12 holes, Kent had to grind this one out. Clinging to a 1-up lead, Kent yanked his second shot into a nasty lie at the par-5 15th. After Buchanan drained a 25-footer for birdie, Kent canned a 15-footer on top of him to tie the hole.

“I don’t know what it is with me, I love whenever the pressure gets really high,” Kent said. “I’ve been feeling it the whole week. … It was just like another out-of-body experience to see it go in the hole, and the momentum stayed with me.”

On the next, the difficult par-4 16th, Buchanan, who hit just two fairways all match, hooked his drive toward the creek, watching his ball strike a spectator and ricochet into the water.

“What else is going to happen to me today?” Buchanan bemoaned as he approached his submerged ball. Minutes later, he was 2 down.

Jackson Buchanan reacts after hitting a shot into a water hazard during the semifinals of the 2024 U.S. Amateur at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn. on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. (Chris Keane/USGA)

Buchanan got in trouble again on No. 18, finding a left fairway bunker off the tee and then catching the lip with his approach. Kent then stuffed one from the fairway and was conceded the match before Buchanan even made it to the green.

“It’s easy to give up in this game, and I didn’t,” Buchanan said. “I’ll take that with me when I leave.”

Kent scooped up his ball, took off his hat and shook Buchanan’s hand – and then it all hit him at once. Kent has played all over the world and on some of the game’s most cherished cathedrals. But now, he had clinched the right to compete in next summer’s U.S. Open at Oakmont and could soon expect an invite to Augusta National for next spring’s Masters Tournament as well.

He used to struggle with confidence, but not anymore.

“It’s all up here in my heart,” said Kent, who just shrugs off that No. 560 ranking in the world amateur rankings, which will surely surge. “I have way more competitiveness. I feel like I have a lot more belief in myself, and I have a lot more drive to want to get where I want to go.”

Before Kent met Sigel, Fry asked his stepson, not yet in high school, what his goals in amateur golf were. Kent responded: “Win the U.S. Amateur and make the U.S. Walker Cup team.”

Though a win Sunday would not earn an automatic berth, Kent already has the attention of captain Nathan Smith, who will lead the Americans into Cypress Point next summer.

Harris has the 2025 Walker Cup circled on his calendar, too. Harris, a Minnesota native, couldn’t make it to Hazeltine as he’s currently undergoing treatment for leukemia. He said that while not in remission, he did receive some good news a couple weeks ago and that “recovery is coming.”

But for now, Harris will have to watch from afar.

“I’m sitting on the edge of my chair,” Harris said Saturday via phone. “Noah knows who he is, he understands what he’s doing, and if I’m a little motivation – I’ve said to him, ‘I’m so happy watching this golf. I’m so disappointed I’m not at Hazeltine cheering for you, but I am there.’ And he feels it.”

And sees it.

Kent has kept Harris on his mind this week by writing Harris’ initials on the golf glove. J.H. , it’s the last thing Kent sees before he hits a shot.

And it’s a reminder that he’s not alone.

Three’s company: Scott Gutschewski, two sons grouped together at Pinnacle Bank Championship

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Perhaps the person most excited about the Gutschewski trio this week at the Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Woodhouse is Scott Gutschewski’s wife, Amy.

Amy was the first person to send a screen capture of the Korn Ferry Tour tee-time notification that showed Scott would be playing alongside his two sons, Luke and Trevor, for the first two rounds at The Club at Indian Creek. A text that will live forever.

“Mom is pretty excited,” said Luke Gutschewski, with a smile.

Through recorded history, this is the second time that a father and multiple sons will play together in a PGA TOUR-sanctioned event, with Jack Nicklaus and three of his sons playing the Korn Ferry Tour’s BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by TD SYNNEX together in 2003.

Scott, 47, was far enough down the alternate list for this week’s Wyndham Championship that he committed to his first Korn Ferry Tour event of the season in his home state of Nebraska.

Luke and Trevor Gutschewski, meanwhile, both won qualifying events in Nebraska to earn sponsor exemptions for the tournament. Trevor comes into the week with perhaps the most Gutschewski momentum, having won this summer’s U.S. Junior Amateur at Oakland Hills.

“It was a big, long week,” Trevor said of his championship win in Michigan. “Everyone out there is good. Everyone out here is really good. This week is all about getting my mindset right, getting my confidence right. I’m not big on goals – I’m just going out there to have fun and play good golf.”

Luke, a rising junior at Iowa State who won the Nebraska Junior Amateur in 2020, was the first brother to earn his way into the field and said his excitement level changed multiple times – with each passing piece of news.

“When I got in, I was like, ‘This will be fun,’ but I was the only one there. And then Trevor got in and I was like, ‘That’ll be fun to play with my brother.’ And then (Scott) got in and I knew it would be really fun. Now that we’re playing together, that changed the excitement again,” Luke said. “It’ll be awesome.”

Scott knows his time in professional golf is getting limited. A couple of years ago he said he started thinking about the future and how long it would be until, potentially, his sons were able to make it too. With a laugh, he said he’s ready “to be Mike Thomas” (two-time major champion Justin Thomas’ father, who doubles as swing coach). He’s ready to walk around, tell his sons how good they are and help out on occasion. He’d be OK with that, he said.

“I thought it was a possibility (for he and his sons to play together at a pro event), but for it to happen this soon is definitely a little shocking. I thought there was a chance Luke and I could cross paths depending on how long I could still walk,” Scott said with a laugh. “Trevor was a huge surprise. Not based on ability, but timing. You don’t expect this.”

Scott describes Luke as a short hitter – mostly because he tore his labrum as a senior in high school, ironically, coaching Trevor’s basketball team – but who is tremendous with a hybrid and who possesses a great short game. Trevor, Scott said, doesn’t have any kind of distance problem. Even though he’s just 17, he is a “prototypical” young player who hits it further than both older brother and dad.

Of note, Scott and Amy also have a daughter, Isabelle, who attends the University of Nebraska and is part of the PGA Golf Management program, and another son, Isaiah, who is 8 – who also has started to play.

Scott said the basic philosophy that he tried to pass along to his kids about golf was to just have fun. He knew golf was going to be a big part of his kids’ lives one way or another, but the biggest thing was for them to have fun with it. Twenty-plus years ago, he never would have expected his career would still be going at this point. But it is, and now he gets to do something incredibly special.

It’s a family affair this week in Omaha for the Gutschewski group. It will most certainly be fun. But it’ll also be emotional.

“There are different emotions for all of us,” Scott said, with the slightest of break in his voice. “Different for me than them. It’s their first event. It’s pretty special.”

The trio tees off at 9:57 a.m. local time off the 10th tee at The Club at Indian Creek.