Who is that good-looking PGA Professional featured on the back cover of your November issue of the PGA Magazine? None other than Utah’s own Ken Weyand, Director of Golf at Glenwild Golf Club and Spa in Park City, Utah. Just like all PGA Members Ken “wears many hats” in his position at Glenwild, which is one of Utah’s premier golf facilities. However he has really excelled in the areas of merchandising and member services.
Chris Moody and Matt Baird defend their Four Ball Match Play title!
Moody and Baird came back to beat Jared Barnes and Allen Enochson with a birdie on the 20th hole in the final match. Barnes and Enochson were two up with three holes to play. After some solid play by Enochson and a forty putt by Barnes on fifteen, Moody and Baird looked like they might come up a little short in 2011. Moody and Baird came alive in the nick of time and made birdies at sixteen and seventeen to even the match going in to final hole. The eighteenth hole at the Salt Lake Country Club was halved and sent the match into extra holes.
The name Branca holds a certain acknowledged reverence at The Country Club located on Salt Lake City’s Eastside. Much of that name respect comes from the fifty-some years that Tee Branca served as the Golf Professional at that premier Salt Lake golf club. Now they have another generation of Branca achievement to add to the legacy. Ron Branca has been named The Utah Section PGA Professional of the Year for 2011!
The oft quoted refrain that “Neither rain, snow, sleet, nor the dark of night” can keep a postal worker from delivering the mail might also apply to Utah high school golfers this year. High school girls golf teams endured the worst-ever weather year this spring and the boys 3A and 5A high school golf championships played through some of the most challenging weather conditions possible without cancellation!
It has been a great August and September for PGA Golf Professional Dustin Volk. Volk just cemented his hold on the Utah Section PGA’s Player of the year title by winning the 2011 Utah Section PNC and Section Championship.
Repeating as the Utah Section’s Callaway PGA Assistants Champion is no easy task. Riverside CC Assistant Professional Chris Moody was quick to point this out as he bested Zach Johnson in a sudden death playoff. Moody lapped the field with a first round score of 66 and seemed to be on cruise
Sept. 8-9 – This years Utah Section PGA Senior Match Play Championship crowns a new Winner, Brad Stone. Set atop the mountains at The Jeremy Golf and Country Club in Park City,
Hidden amongst the flurry of the 2011 Siegfried & Jensen Utah Open and a bevy of club events are some the Utah Sections’ best community golf efforts! By the time our members host their club championships and invitational events, plus slip in a couple of playing opportunities,
FARMINGTON — Brian Larsen’s face could not contain his smile as he talked about his hole-in-one Monday afternoon. “It curved to the left, and it barely went in,” said Larsen, 37. “I just couldn’t believe it.”
Dustin Volk shot a first round 66 and followed it up with a final round 70
to holds off “white hot” Chris Moody (137) to win the $3000 first place
check. Rounding off the top ten…