Tournament Recaps

The 2021 WPGA Las Vegas Pro-Am came to a close last Thursday after four days of golf, camaraderie and entertainment. The event made its return to the WPGA schedule after a one year hiatus and the 49 teams that were in attendance welcomed it back with open arms. This year’s trip featured lodging at The Mirage Hotel & Casino with rounds at Cascata, Rio Secco GC and TPC Las Vegas. Teams represented 37 different facilities from throughout Wisconsin and the amateur attendees came from 12 different states.

For the second straight season the duo of Mick Smith and Craig Czerniejewski was able to run the table and win the WPGA Four-Ball Match Play. This year’s competition featured a little less work for the winning squad, as a delayed start and

It was quite the battle with Mother Nature on Monday as the 5th edition of the Oliphant Golf Management Pro-Am Championship visited the Links Course at The GC’s of Lawsonia. It was one of those days where the wide open landscape would rely on a familiar defense, with winds gusting up to 30 mph. 

The 2020 WPGA Match Play Championship came to a close on Wednesday. With the event undergoing a facelift just a few years back, this year’s edition ended up featuring a hybrid of that facelift. After attempting to continue the current makeup the WPGA was thrown a curveball by Mother Nature. The first two days of the championship were set for mid-May at North Shore CC but were rained out

The Wisconsin PGA continued its march through the final month of the 2020 tournament season on Monday. A field of 34 two-player teams traveled to Pleasant View GC in Middleton, to play the Woods and Lake nines at the 27-hole facility. The day marked the first of the two annual Fall Pro-Pros on the calendar.

The final regular season pro-am on the WPGA tournament schedule came to a close early Monday evening. A sold-out field of twenty-five teams make the trek to Janesville CC for the seventh four-player pro-am of the abbreviated season. 

It was a textbook example of how to come from behind to win a golf tournament. On a day where winds would gust up to 35 mph, Tuesday brought the storyline of a player going low early, posting a great score, and then letting the leaders come back to them.

The field at the Wisconsin State Senior Open had been soaked, wind-blown and chilled to the bone for two straight days when Michael Crowley stepped to the tee on the par-3 17th hole at Nakoma GC in Madison early Wednesday evening.

The annual Premier Golf & Utility Vehicles Pro-Assistant made its yearly appearance on Monday. The always fun and laid back day brought together 86 players to tee it up at the challenging Pine Hills CC in Sheboygan.

It was a hot and breezy day as a sold out field traveled to Hidden Glen GC in Cedarburg for the Summer Pro-Ladies on Monday. After a needed adjustment to the WPGA schedule due to Covid-19, the two Pro-Ladies sites for 2020 consolidated into just one. Twenty-four five player teams from throughout the Section would make up Monday’s field.