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Back for the second straight season, the Assistant Professional Fall Classic would offer A-8 WPGA members and PGA associates one last individual playing opportunity against their peers in 2025. Friday’s event took place at Oshkosh Country Club. It marked the Wisconsin PGA’s first visit to the club since the Wisconsin PGA Assistant Professional Championship in 2012. 

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.

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.