Tournament Recaps

With the Milwaukee area battling severe flooding, there were definitely doubts that the Summer-Pro Ladies – Five Player Event would take place as scheduled on Monday. Fortunately, the event was set to visit one of the best draining courses in the area, Washington County GC.

Young golf pro Davis Jensen has lived in Wisconsin for only a few years, but he surely knew of Mick Smith and Jim Schuman and their numerous tournament victories here when he arrived at Hidden Glen GC on Wednesday.

The Wisconsin PGA Four-Player Pro-Am Series was back in action on Monday after a four-week break. The resumption of the series was highlighted by trip to the Fox Valley and a stop at Green Bay Country Club for the first time since 2014.

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.

Michael Nagy’s win at the Wisconsin Assistant PGA Professional Championship Monday came with a few perks. One of them is a coveted spot in November’s National Assistant Championship in Florida, and the best part of that, Nagy said – sounding like the golf pro that he is – is the opportunity to extend the season and play even more golf.

Cody Strang found the winner’s circle for the second straight week on Monday. Last week he teamed up with three amateurs from This Legend at Bergamont at the Double Dip Pro-Am. This time he got the job done on his own at the WPGA Stableford Classic at Bullseye GC.

The Double Dip delivered once again on Monday. It was another exciting day, as the annual pro-am format provided plenty of contests to track. The dual team formats would include each foursome participating in a two net best ball event. Then the professional on the team would be paired up with each amateur in a one net of two game. There also was three skin games and low professional/low senior professional contests.

Fresh off his six-year run on the men’s golf team at the University of South Dakota, Max Schmidtke has kicked off his professional career with a bang. The newly registered PGA Associate made headlines on Monday at the third 18-hole WPGA Classic of the season.

The WPGA Four-Player Pro-Am Series was back on-course for its third event in the past five weeks on Monday. After starting the year at West Bend, Kohler and Eau Claire, it was fitting that the series would stop in Madison. Hosting the Madison area site was former yearly pro-am host, Blackhawk CC. As for event partners, The Suter Ward Group at Morgan Stanley and Tito’s Vodka teamed up to enhance the day.

A visa snafu forced Chloe Chan to enter the Sentry Wisconsin State Women’s Open this week as an amateur, but if the former University of Wisconsin golfer plays the kind of golf she did Wednesday she’ll be cashing checks as a professional golfer just as soon as that time comes.