PARK, BERBERIAN TO DON THE RED, WHITE & BLUE IN PGA CUPS After two years of competing against the top PGA Professionals in the country, two New England PGA Pros have earned the privilege to don the Red, White & Blue this fall in the PGA Cup and Women’s PGA Cup. Rich Berberian, Jr., PGA (Vesper CC) played his way into the top-10 in the Team USA standings over 2018 and 2019 to secure his spot on the United States PGA Cup team. “To be one of the 10 guys on the team, 10 of the 29,000 PGA of America members, it’s pretty cool. It means a lot,” said Berberian, who is one of four PGA Cup veterans on Team USA after going 3-2-0 in 2017. “It’s a big goal to make it. To get back on the team, it’s so much fun. It’s a format where as a professional you don’t really get to play too often, if ever.”
“It’s nice to be able to go out there and PLAY FOR YOUR COUNTRY and not have any money on the line, just pride. It turns you into an AMATEUR for a week, just playing to win.”
Meanwhile, Seul-Ki Park, PGA (Winchester CC) clinched her spot in the inaugural Women’s PGA Cup with a clutch T2 finish at the LPGA Teaching & Club Professionals National Championship in late August. With that performance, Park finished third in the final qualifying standings.
of this inaugural tournament. It’s obviously something special.”
“The first hole that I played in the LPGA National tournament I was so nervous. So nervous my hands were shaking,” Park said of the final qualifying event. “Usually I don’t like to think about the position I’m in, but I certainly did because I really wanted to be a part
The PGA Cup is Sept. 27-29 at the Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa Fazio Foothills Course in Austin, Texas. Team USA will take on the 10 best PGA Professionals from Great Britain & Ireland in a three-day competition that has been contested since 1973, and
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Rich Berberian, Jr., PGA
