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2022 Iowa PGA Scholarships Charlie Burkart & Career Advancement
from 2022 Year In Review
by Iowa PGA
The Iowa PGA Foundation annually awards a college scholarship in memory of Charlie Burkart, PGA member for 49 years and Head PGA Professional at the Elmcrest Country Club in Cedar Rapids for 42 years. The purpose of the scholarship is to assist students in furthering their education. At least one high school graduate will be the 2022 Scholarship recipient in the amount of $1,500 per year for four years. Other previously graduated applicants will be reviewed with additional scholarships awarded when possible.

2022 Charlie Burkart Scholarship Recipient

Congratulations to Keokuk, Iowa native, Jordan Sisk on being selected as the 2022 Charlie Burkart Scholarship honoree by the Iowa PGA Foundation Charlie Burkart Scholarship committee.
Jordan will be attending Eastern Iowa Community College-Muscatine Community College Campus. He thought of everything from Petroleum Engineering to joining the F.B.I. as a Behavioral Analyst at first. He eventually found something that filled his sports interest and gave him a career option, that being a Golf Course Manager. Being a Golf Course Manager would allow him to fulfill his sports addiction and also make a career out of something that he loves to do - golf.
Hopefully in two years he will receive his Associate Degree in Applied Science and start that dream of his to get a full-time job working at a golf course. His main goal from that journey will be to one day work at Augusta National Golf Course in Augusta, Georgia. He knows that is a big goal to set when he hasn’t even started the program. He was told to aim for the moon so if he falls short, he can land in the stars. In ten years, he wants to be the superintendent of a medium-sized golf course somewhere in the south, along with being able to live somewhere on the golf course. He wants to be able to give back to the game of golf since it has given him so much already.
Jordan was asked on what this award mean to him. “Being named the recipient for the Burkart Scholarship is such a tremendous honor. It goes to show that golf can make such an impact upon someone's life outside the game itself. Having the opportunity to play in the Iowa PGA Junior Tour events is something that I will forever be grateful for as it allowed me to grow myself as a person and let me do what I love most in golf. Additionally, it has also opened my eyes to the countless career possibilities that are associated with the game of golf. Getting this scholarship will now propel me towards my goal of becoming a golf course superintendent and will allow me to be able to give back to the game that gave so much to me. The Iowa PGA is such a tremendous organization and I plan on representing them in a positive way to hopefully grow the game of golf in the future.”
2022 Career Advancement Scholarship Recipient

Congratulations to Shayne Shepherd of Pinnacle Country Club has been named the 2022 Iowa PGA Career Advancement Scholarship winner by the Iowa PGA Scholarship Committee.
The Iowa PGA Section Foundation annually awards a career advancement scholarship to assist individuals in furthering their education toward career development. Applicants who are interested in pursuing a career in the golf industry or other career requiring educational training are welcome to apply for a one year $1,000 scholarship.
The main career goals I have are to become a Head Golf Professional or Director of Golf at a very respective golf course, and I want to be a Head Golf Coach for a good NCAA D1 College. These goals can be obtained if I can continue to work hard, push myself and finish my PGA Program in good standing over the next few years.
Those are my main career goals; however, I have other goals as well. I want to continue to grow the game of golf through PGA Junior League, Junior Clinics and Ladies events/leagues. Secondly, I want to start a scholarship at a college I am the Head Coach at that is given to underprivileged individuals that came from nothing, like myself. I know what it feels like, and I want to do anything I can to give golfers the opportunity to go to college and play the sport they love for little to no money.
Shepherd was quoted saying, “This solidifies my hard work that I’ve been putting in through the years knowing I’m in the right track. I will be donating the money I won to the golf team that I coach. Thank you to Erin Strieck and Mike Armes for assisting me while doing the PGM Program and for being great mentors to me.”
ACS Raised Money from the Iowa PGA Golf Pass

Pictured: Krista Walsh (ACS), Matt Sherlock, JR Millar and Erin Strieck presenting the check to the American Cancer Society on behalf of all the sales in the 2022 Golf Season. The Iowa PGA has partnerd with the American Cancer society for the past seven years. We want to thank each and everyone of you who've purchased 2022 Iowa PGA Golf Pass booklet/electronic pass this year. Together with your help we raised over $22,022 to go towards Cancer Research.
