July 2024
OFFICERS/BOARD
President Dawn Neujahr, PGA
Vice President Mike Schuchart, PGA
Secretary— Phil Palmer, PGA
Honorary President—Gil Russell, PGA
NEBRASKA PGA STAFF
Executive Director/CEO David Honnens, PGA
Assist. Executive Director Seth Scollard, PGA
Managing Director—Renee Tyson
Tournament Director—Derek Carlson, PGA
Board Member Nick Wanderscheid, PGA Junior Golf Director Kurt Karcher, PGA
Board Member Chris Cover, PGA
Board Member—Greg Neujahr, PGA
DISTRICT 8 DIRECTOR
Digital Media Director Brett Renner
Development Officer—Bob Danenhauer
Community Relations Coord.—Margie Smith
Administrative Assistant Tiffany White
Phil Anderson, PGA PGA Works Fellow Amber Bogle
The Nebraska Section PGA has announced Rodd Slater, PGA of Two Rivers Golf Club as their Wilson Sporting Goods Monthly Game Ball recipient for the month of July.
The mission statement of Wilson Sporting Goods Co. is to ignite the true potential in every athlete, and no one does it better than PGA Professionals when it comes to growing the game of golf. That mission has been carried out by Slater throughout the entirety of his career as a PGA Golf Professional.
For the past 27 years, Slater has been a member of the PGA of America and he’s worn many hats in his time, even outside of the golf industry. Slater made such a profound impact on his community in North Sioux City, that he was named the interim Mayor back in 2020.
In the golf business, Slater has seen every side of the industry. He’s been a Head PGA Golf Professional, Superintendent and now he’s the General Manager at Two Rivers Golf Club.
“The game offers PGA Professionals a lot of different roles and opportunities and I’ve had the opportunity to pursue all of them as my interests and experiences have changed over the years. I’m fortunate to have been at one club for so long”, said Slater.
After seeing so many different sides of the golf business, Slater was named the General Manager of Two Rivers Golf Club and has since continued to make an impressive impact on his membership. He gives his staff the credit. Continue Reading…..
By Brentley Romine Published
July 27, 2024 05:42 PM
In its 129 years of conducting championships, the USGA had never crowned a winner from Nebraska.
That changed Saturday at Oakland Hills Country Club’s South Course, where Trevor Gutschewski, a 17-year-old Omaha native and son of a PGA Tour pro, took down Tyler Watts, 4 and 3, in the scheduled 36-hole final of the 76th U.S. Junior Amateur.
“It was a dogfight out there,” Gutschewski said. “Tyler’s a great player; he kept me on my toes. Had to play some really good golf to come away with the win.”
Much was made about Gutschewski’s place in the World Amateur Golf Ranking as Gutschewski, ranked No. 3,517, navigated his way through match play. But that ranking was missing data, and another junior-only ranking slotted him No. 28, just 13 spots back of Watts, a 16-yearold from Huntsville, Alabama, who is a member of the inaugural U.S. National Junior Team.
Add in his verbal commitment to the University of Florida and Tour pedigree – Scott Gutschewski, 47, has won three times on the Korn Ferry Tour and currently plays on the PGA Tour – and the young Gutschewski had no reason not to believe he could pull off what would be his biggest victory to date, easily usurping his Nebraska Junior Match Play title from earlier this year.
“If I play well, I can hang with anybody,” he said earlier this week after upsetting Blades Brown in the Round of 32.
Scott Gutschewski, who missed the cut Friday at the 3M Open before flying to Detroit to catch the championship match, describes his middle son as a flusher, who can be tough to beat when his driving it well. Continue Reading….
Wanderscheid Picks Up First Professional Victory of the Season; Team Zywiec Wins Pro-Am
Presented by Chesterman Co. Coca-Cola and Miller & Sons Golf Cars (E-Z-GO), 33 teams of Nebraska PGA Professionals their amateur playing partners competed in a Pro-Am event at Landmand Golf Club. It was the first Nebraska Section PGA event hosted at the new King-Collins Golf designed golf course in Homer, Nebraska.
This was the first time many of the players in the field experienced the jaw-dropping golf course. The course expands over the hilltop of the Northeast Nebraska farmland and it features the largest greens in the United States. In total, the 18 greens span over a total of 6.3 acres which includes the 35,000 square foot green on hole 17, which is the biggest in North America. Excitement was in the air, there was little to zero winds and the event teed off at 8:30am with perfect scoring conditions that lasted all day.
PRESENTED BY
2024 Nebraska PGA Professional Champion
Judd Cornell, PGA
2024 PGA Professional Championship Qualifiers
Justin Herron, PGA
Jay Cottam, PGA
Steve Friesen, PGA
Judd Cornell, PGA
Ryan Vermeer, PGA
Jon Petersen, PGA
2024 Nebraska PGA Assistant Professional Champion—Jay Cottam, PGA
Happy Hollow Club hosted 18 players for the 2024 National Car Rental Nebraska Assistant PGA Professional Championships. The field was limited to Class A-8 PGA Members and all registered Class B-8 PGA Associates who have matriculated into Level 2. The format was a 36-hole individual stroke play championship.
SUPPORTED BY
2024 Nebraska PGA Senior Professional
Champion—Bryan Hughett, PGA
2024 PGA Senior Professional Championship Qualifiers
Tom Hearn, PGA
Jon Petersen, PGA
Jim White, MP PGA
Bryan Hughett, PGA
Greg Neujahr, PGA
Brad Neunaber, PGA
