Archive for July 2024

It hasn’t taken long for Michael Nagy to leave his mark on the Wisconsin PGA tournament scene. After moving to the area earlier this year to take on an assistant and teaching professional role at TPC Wisconsin, the Manistique, Michigan native has shown that he has the game to compete with the best professionals in the section.

There’s a path – winding though it is – that connects this week’s Wisconsin Senior PGA Professional Championship and the Senior PGA Championship, one of senior golf’s majors. Mick Smith successfully traveled that path recently, and on Tuesday afternoon he looked primed to do it again.

The National Car Rental Wisconsin Assistant PGA Professional Championship is a little tournament with big repercussions, where one 36-hole day of golf determines the players who will represent Wisconsin in the National Assistant Championship.

Monday marked back-to-back weeks for the WPGA Pro-Am Four-Player Pro-Am Series. After the rescheduled Suter Ward Group at Morgan Stanley Pro-Am kicked off the month of July last week, the series made the trek to Stevens Point CC for the Wilson Golf Pro-Am. It was the first time the series had made a stop in Stevens Point since SentryWorld hosted in 2018.

After a soggy month of June, the Wisconsin PGA and all the golf courses in the state were ready for a fresh start with the calendar flipping over to July. One of the casualties of the inclement weather in June was the playing of the Suter Ward Group at Morgan Stanley Pro-Am at Bishops Bay CC. Originally scheduled for Monday, June 3, the day was derailed by afternoon storms.