Tournament Recaps

It was double duty for the WPGA pro-am circuit on Monday. For the first time the section presented two four-player pro-ams on the same day at different venues. In total forty-eight teams would tee it up between the two sites. Nineteen of which would make the trek to Bullseye Golf Club in Wisconsin Rapids. A yearly pro-am host site through the 1990s and 2000s, the club would be hosting for the first time since 2016.

A rainy Monday morning left many wondering if the two WPGA pro-ams on the calendar would be played. Lady luck turned out to be on the WPGA’s side as the majority of the weather moved out of the state before the afternoon start time. A pleasant day for golf would accompany the twenty-nine teams at the X Golf Strawberry Creek Pro-Am. It marked the second straight sold out four-player pro-am field of the year.

Before the Wisconsin PGA could shift gears into June, it would visit the Madison area for the first of the two Pro-Ladies events on the 2022 calendar. A field of 115 golfers on 23 teams would tee it up Nakoma Golf Club on Tuesday. It turned out to be a great day for golf as the forecasted storms stayed away and the cloud cover provided some relief from the humidity.

The Legend Challenge – Two Person Scratch Pro-Am made its annual appearance on the WPGA tournament schedule on Tuesday. It marked the fourteenth time that the event has taken place in its current format, and with The Legend Clubs hosting rotation.

After encountering a weather related postponement in early May, the WPGA four-player pro-am season finally got underway on Monday. The annual National Golf Graphics Pro-Am brought together a sold out field of 29 teams to enjoy a day at Bishops Bay CC in Middleton. It was a pleasant spring day that gave the teams the green light to go low.

It was another action-packed Monday as the WPGA’s first 18-hole stroke play event of the year took place on the Trevino Course at Geneva National Resort and Club. For the fifth straight year the day featured the same format and offerings, with the Assistant Professional Stroke Play and Memorial Classic taking place simultaneously during the morning. The annual stroke play events were graciously sponsored by the Wisconsin Golf Sales Association and Rolex.

The 56th playing of the WPGA Match Play Championship kicked off this past Monday, as the event ventured to the Washington County GC for the fourth time in its history. The field of WPGA members battled it out for four rounds of play as they started out with the seeding round and then followed it up with the first three rounds of matches on Monday and Tuesday.

The Wisconsin PGA continued its first week of competitive play by teaming up with the Wisconsin Golf Course Superintendents Association for the annual Premier Golf & Utility Vehicles Super-Pro on Wednesday. A field of sixty-eight players from various facilities ventured to The Legend at Bristlecone to enjoy the event. It was another chilly April day but the attendees made the best of the less than ideal conditions.

The WPGA Las Vegas Pro-Am wrapped up this past Thursday after four days of golf, camaraderie and entertainment. A sold-out field of 50 teams, made up of one professional and four amateurs, ventured to sin city to enjoy the week. Registration for the trip was so sought after that it sold out within an hour of opening up. This year’s trip featured lodging at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, with rounds at Cascata, the Paiute Golf Resort’s Wolf Course, and TPC Las Vegas.

Mother Nature delivered a great fall day as the Wisconsin PGA closed out the tournament season with the Fall Pro-Pro Bonus Better Ball on Monday. The late addition to the calendar brought together a field of 48 professionals to enjoy the Ponds and Woods course at Kettle Hills GC. The two-player team event would feature four-ball stroke play as the main contest. The bonus portion of the event had teams blind drawing a fellow twosome, and then taking the two four-ball scores to create the bonus game score.