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On behalf of the PGA REACH Nebraska Board of Directors, Ambassadors, and Staff, we want to thank you for your continued support as we positively impact people's lives through the game of golf. It's been a very busy month for PGA REACH Nebraska. Our programs and events are in full swing! Below are some recent highlights that we want to share with you in this month's email:

• PGA REACH Nebraska celebrates 10 years with a record number of participants in fundraising events

• Jim Ager GC receives 25 new sets of junior clubs from PGA REACH Nebraska

• Local PGA HOPE Veteran gets hole-in-one and is highlighted by the PGA of America

• 50 Veterans graduate from PGA HOPE spring programs

• Omaha Boys and Girls spend a day at Topgolf with PGA Professionals

Thank your support and for being a part of the PGA REACH Nebraska community! We will keep you updated on the Foundation's success as we continue to impact more people across the Nebraska PGA Section.

Seth Scollard, PGA Managing Director PGA REACH Nebraska

PGA REACH Nebraska hosted both their Kearney Impact Event & Omaha Pro-Am - Between the two events, 45 teams and more than 200 people from our golfing communities teed it up in an effort to raise funds for PGA REACH Nebraska's golf programs that continue to make a positive impact on people's lives.

Lincoln, NE – Jim Ager Golf Course produced more than 26,000 rounds in 2022 and the facility projects to beat that number in 2023. Many of those rounds come from junior golfers learning to love the game of golf and growing the game is part of Jim Ager’s identity. Many of the youngsters that come through the facility don’t have clubs of their own and Jim Ager had a need for new equipment, and that’s where PGA REACH Nebraska came in to help.

Every year, PGA REACH Nebraska opens a grant process that allows organizations and individuals that share a similar mission & vision to the Foundation to apply for a grant to make a difference through the game of golf. READ MORE HERE

2023 Nebraska PGA Jr. League Section Qualifier

Fremont GC on Tuesday, July 25th

**If there are too many teams for one qualifier, there will be two qualifiers. The second location is Jackrabbit Run GC in Grand Island on Wednesday, July 26th. Teams will be split as evenly as possible based on geographic location if this additional qualifier is needed.

2023 Nebraska PGA Jr. League Section Championship

The Club at Indian Creek (Red Feather Course) on Saturday, August 12th

IMPORTANT: The top two teams in both the 13U and 17U divisions at the Section Championship will qualify for the regional event, which will be held at The Ridge GC in Sioux Center, IA on Sept. 1-3, 2023.

The 2023 13U National Car Rental PGA Jr. League Championship will be held October 4th-8th, 2023 at Fields Ranch West at PGA Frisco.

The 17U post season goes all the way to a National Championship, as opposed to completing their season at the Regional Event in prior years. It is planned for Late November in Greater Dallas but exact details are yet to come.

If you haven't already, please fill out the SURVEY to allow the section staff to know if your league will be bringing an all-star team or teams to the PGA Jr. League post season. If you are planning on bringing one or more teams to the postseason, PLEASE create your championship season programs in your coaching dashboards ASAP. The link below explains how to do that.

Publish Your Championship Program

108 Junior Golfers across the Nebraska Section PGA teed it up at The Pines Country Club for the 2023 Nebraska Junior PGA Championships. Boys 1315, Girls 13-15, Boys 16-18 and Girls 16-18 made up the four divisions of juniors that competed in the Section’s biggest junior event of the season.

The annual event sends two boys and two girls from the 16 -18 divisions to the National Junior PGA Championships. The national event will be held August 1-4th at Hot Springs Country Club in Arkansas.

Beginning with the Girls 16-18 division, the defending champion Nicole Kolbas of Lincoln went wire-to-wire to win once again. She began her two-day tournament run with a round of 70 (two-under) that paced the rest of the field. Her final round of 73 (one-over) kept her as the only girl in the division to shoot in red figures for the championship. See

Finishing runner-up in the Girls 16-18 division and qualifying alongside Kolbas was Karsen Morrison of North Platte with her two-day total of 147 (three-over). As she ages out next year, Morrison is more than estatic to qualify in 2023.

We witnessed a field wide shootout in the Boys 16-18 division over the course of the two days and it was all led by Ashland’s Coltrane Mittag. Like Kolbas, Mittag went wireto-wire to capture his first title in this event and he ended up with a blistering total of 133 (11-under).

Though Mittag was the only one to reach double digits, eight other competitors in the Boys 16-18 division shot under par for the week with one of them being runner-up Connor Steichen of Omaha. Coming in as the defending champion, Steichen made a birdie on the 18th hole to force a playoff for the last qualifying spot alongside Omaha’s Jacob Cosimano. After the two of them tied at 5-under for the championship, Steichen went on to win on the third playoff hole (No. 18) with a birdie.

Rounding out our 2023 Nebraska Junior PGA Championship, Omaha’s Knox Pocras fired a two-day total of 151 (seven-over) to win the Boys 13-15 division while Lincoln’s Naryn Kim shot 153 (nineover) to win the Girls 13-15 division.