PGA Cup
PGA Cup Experience through McCarty’s Eyes A Conversation with Sean and Mundi McCarty took place in March of 2020.
from the PGA of America versus the Great Britain & Ireland Club Professionals.
Where was the event held?
After getting on this team it is a new goal of mine to return to the making the team again in 2021 that will be held in England. I will need to stay healthy and make a few more putts at the National Championship that he has qualified for in 2021.
The 29th PGA Cup was held at the Omni Creek Resort & Spa in Austin, Texas on September 23-29. They played the Fazio Foothills Course.
How did you find out that you were selected for the 29th PGA Where does this rank on your list of accomplishments Cup? – Hall of Fame, PGA Championships, US Open Tour events? Or is it a different ranking? After the 2019 PGA Professional Championship (Belfair Golf Club, Bluffton, South Carolina on April 27-30, 2019) I knew I Playing on the National level for the United States there was on the bubble for the team but then I missed the cut. I was a little bit more or different kind of pressure. Playwas almost back to Iowa when the couple I was staying with ing for your country was more pressure than nerves as called to let me know I was in a play-off for the PGA Cup team. I didn’t want to fail for the team or for the US. Currently Fortunately, it did not matter as those that were also supthis is the highlight of my golfing career. Winning was a posed to be in the play-off also missed the cut and had already highlight, in record fashion, but the friendships with the headed home. Susan Martin emailed me to let me know that players, wives, Captain Sprague, the National PGA OffiI had made the team. I called “Egly” (Mark Egly from the Des cers, the National PGA Staff and the GB & I team will last Moines Driving Range, and his PGA Teaching Professional) forever. right away to let him know. I was ecstatic at making the team because I thought I had missed it by one point. The team is Mundi commented, watching your spouse and players chosen based on a two-year point system. My runner-up finish talk about their play at the PGA Cup is different than at in the 2018 PGA Professional Championship helped to secure a normal golf event. You were watching and talking to my spot on the team. Making the cut at the 2018 John Deere them as a team. Usually it is about how they played and Classic helped add significant points to my point total. how they competed against each other. The PGA Cup is was all about WE throughout the week. Pulling and How did you feel about making the team? cheering for each other. It was an awesome experience and was a neat goal to accomplish.
Mundi, how did you feel watching Sean compete. Did you see a difference on the first tee or last day?
McCarty is the first Iowa PGA Section Professional to qualify for Yes, he looked different because he had the weight of this international match between the ten Club Professionals playing for your country and team. He had a lot more 28 Iowa PGA Golf Magazine - Fall/Winter Issue
