The Georgia PGA returns to Gainesville’s Chattahoochee Golf Club for the seventh time since 2011 for the second Milton Martin Honda Classic, which will be played May 20-21. Before landing its own tournament, Chattahoochee GC hosted the Georgia PGA Match Play Championship in 2011, the Yamaha Atlanta Open in 2012 and the Yamaha Georgia Senior Open in 2013, ’16 and ’17. The … [Read more...]
Skinner, Claxton Lead 6 Georgians in National Club Pro Championship
Six Georgia PGA members will be among 312 of the country’s top club professionals who will compete in the 52nd PGA Professional Championship, which will be played April 28-May 1 at Belfair in Bluffton, S.C. The tournament is a relative home game for the Georgia PGA contingent, with recent national club pro championships played on the West Coast and the Northeast. The last … [Read more...]
Match Play Championship opens Georgia PGA 2019 schedule
The Georgia PGA 2019 schedule begins this month with one of four team events on the Section’s annual calendar, with the first individual points event also beginning in March, although it won’t conclude until late September. The Match Play Championship begins March 20, but players have two months to schedule their opening round matches at sites determined by the competitors. … [Read more...]
GPGA Qualifier for National Club Pro Championship to also Determine Player of the Year
Georgia PGA members will compete Oct. 15-16 at Barnsley Resort in Adairsville for spots in the national club professional championship, which will be played next spring in Bluffton, S.C., between Savannah and Hilton Head Island. The Georgia PGA will not know how many spots at nationals will be available from the tournament until after the final entry date shortly before the … [Read more...]
Jones, Martin Join Ex-Champs Potts, Skinner in Match Play Semifinals
The semifinals of the Georgia PGA Match Play Championship will pit a pair of former champions against two players who are competing in the event for just the second time. Sonny Skinner and David Potts are both past champions of the event, although neither has won during the current format. Both won the tournament when it was played over three days at one site, with Skinner … [Read more...]
Weinhart Looks to Three-Peat in Section Championship at Sea Island GC
Nine-time Georgia PGA Player of the Year Tim Weinhart will shoot for a third straight Georgia PGA Championship title and fourth overall when the tournament is played August 27-29 at Sea Island Golf Club’s Retreat course. Weinhart. The Director of Instruction at Heritage Golf Links, has compiled an impressive record in the championship over the past two decades, recording 17 … [Read more...]
Top 3 Seeds Ousted in GPGA Match Play; 4 Ex-Champs Still In
The 2018 Georgia PGA Match Play Championship has reached the quarterfinal round, with the top three seeds all knocked out of the tournament while the number 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 seeds all remain. Shawn Koch and David Potts, both instructors at Country Club of the South and former Match Play champions, defeated the tournament’s top two seeds in the third round, while the No. 3 … [Read more...]
Georgia Open Back at Ford Plantation For Third Straight Year
The Georgia Open returns to Savannah’s Ford Plantation for a third straight year, with defending champion Paul Claxton heading up a field that consists of tour players, Georgia PGA members and amateurs. The tournament is schedule for August 2-5. When Claxton won last year, he became the fiirst Georgia PGA-affiliated player to win the tournament in more than a decade. But … [Read more...]
Stachler Survives Shaky Start to Take Berkeley Hills Event in Playoff Over Dixon
University of South Carolina golfer Ryan Stachler began the final round Tuesday in the Championship at Berkeley Hills with back-to-back bogeys, and his day ended after consecutive bogeys on his final two holes. But some bogeys are better than others, and the first and last bogeys Stachler scored in the final round of the Georgia PGA tournament helped produce his first … [Read more...]