Iowa PGA Awards
2021 Professional Development Award Bryan Haas, PGA Bryan Haas of Blue Top Ridge has been experience and have experiences that named the 2021 Professional Develop- they may not have the answer to. Haas ment Award winner. The Horton Smith truly enjoys the process of helping Award is based on a Professional’s them grow in our business. entire record and achievements over their career. The guidelines for this Contributions made to building the award include various types of educa- PGA image: Haas believes his contritional seminars brought to the section, butions to help build the PGA image contributions made to building the comes from his work within our comPGA image, leadership and networking munity. Helping our local High School ability, promotion of the game of golf teams when they need a place to play, within the community, techniques used a coach or just someone to offer ento encourage membership support of couragement. Building a High School the various seminars, articles written team at a school that did not have golf for publication in books or magazines on their radar. Many of the kids in the and any sectional or nationally recog- Highland High School program have nized coursed attended by the nominee not ever met a PGA Professional or which enhance the PGA Professional. have had any interactions with a PGA Professional. For many of the kids, this This past Spring, Haas, along with Lu- is the first time they have touched a cas Donah of the Cedar Rapids Country golf club. Teaching them the basic rules Club, held a class for our Iowa PGA As- of golf and helping them understand sociates in the Riverside Performance that our game is a game they can play Studio. They covered the subjects for life and enjoy well after high school of teaching and fitting. The class was is very important to him. well attended, and he enjoyed going through the processes with the group. There is no doubt the GIVE Foundation is one of his biggest passions in his A lot of questions have continued to be efforts to give back. Even though his asked throughout the year by many of work is more behind the scenes now, he the different attendees as they gain still likes to get out and see our
26 Iowa PGA Golf Magazine - Year in Review Issue
Veterans on the range enjoying all of the work we have done to help make that possible. This is Haas’s second time to be rewarded the Professional Development Award (2012). He has also been awarded for the Merchandiser of the Year (Resort) in the years of 2008, 2009, 2011, 2018, 2019 and 2020. Thank you for the honor and recognition of receiving the Professional Development Award. Golf was such a great experience for me at a very young age that I continually feel the need to give back to the game that has given my family and I so many opportunities. The ability to help Golf Professionals and Amateurs to succeed in this game and business is very fulling and certainly drives me as I watch them develop into great players, Golf Professionals and business people. Thank you again for the honor, I truly appreciate everyone in our PGA Section and all that you do to make our Iowa PGA the success that it is. The Iowa PGA Congratulates Bryan Haas as our 2021 Professional Development Award.
