Tournament Recaps

The 2025 Wisconsin PGA tournament season came to a close on Monday at Trappers Turn GC in Wisconsin Dells. A sold-out field of 56 twosomes came out to enjoy the Premier Golf & Utility Vehicles Fall Pro-Pro Scramble. The event marked the 48th event of the 2025 season.

As the calendar turned to October, the end of the Wisconsin PGA tournament season was in sight. Last Monday’s contest featured the first of back-to-back Fall Pro-Pros to close of the year. This year the Better Ball came first, as forty-eight two-player teams teed it up at Pleasant View GC on the woods and lake nines.

After a successful debut in 2024, the Fall Take-Two Pro-Am Challenge returned to the WPGA pro-am schedule last week. This year’s version took the multi-day pro-am to central Wisconsin for two great days of golf.

For the second straight season the Wisconsin PGA lucked out with an absolutely gorgeous day for the Oliphant Golf Management Pro-Am Championship. The 10th playing of the championship returned to its familiar host site on Monday, the Links Course of The GC’s of Lawsonia.

The Manuel de la Torre trophy has taken up residence at Blackwolf Run once again. Dan Hastreiter and Josh Grisa grabbed their third Reyes Retail Pro-Assistant victory on Monday.

Scoring was tight for the majority of this week’s Wisconsin PGA Professional Championship at stingy Ozaukee CC, but Tuesday afternoon the birdies began to land along Milwaukee’s North Shore.

The Cheese Open Pro-Am returned to the WPGA schedule for the first time since 2013 on Monday. Twenty-Eight foursomes made the trek to Monroe Golf Club for a great day of golf, camaraderie, and competition.

Michael Crowley, one of the top players in the Wisconsin PGA Section for the better part of a decade, hadn’t been playing to his usual lofty standards for much of 2025. His driver started playing hooky — the dreaded, hard-turning right-to-left shot that better players detest — and his wedge game lacked the precision that is the hallmark of elite golfers.

After about a three-month delay due to a weather postponement, the 18th Legend Challenge – Scratch Pro-Am was finally completed on Tuesday. The sold-out 56-team field took on The Legend at Bristlecone layout for the second straight season. The wait turned out to be well worth it, as sunshine and mild temperatures gave the players a great day for golf.

The five players who held or shared the lead at various points in the final round of the 105th Wisconsin State Open combined to make 17 bogeys, 16 birdies, two eagles and one triple-bogey Wednesday on the Meadow Valleys Course at Blackwolf Run.