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Congratulations to Stuart’s Justin Pe-ters and Coral Springs’ Curtis Thompson for earning exemptions on to the Web.com Tour for the first portions of the 2015 sea-son, which starts later this month. Both have job security through the second reshuffling

of the players, which comes after the eighth tournament.

For those (and there are thousands) not able to join that caravan of players who will travel with the tour, the dream will remain elusive at least for another year. Those with financial backing will head to mini tours

around the country or seek exempt status in other countries, where the opportunity to compete and make money exists.

The key here for those seeking a job on tour is money.

Most have a game.Few have the cash.Take for example Miami’s Carlos Velez,

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thanks to two eagles and four birdies in a bogey-free round, posted a 64.

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By Larry Bush Atlantis

On their 10th try, J.R. and Colin List of Boynton Beach finally won the Leon “Pop” Sikes Father-Son Team Championship at Atlantis Country Club. A stroke behind af-ter the first round, the Lists matched par-72 on Dec. 28 for 147 and won by four shots.

By comparison, make it two wins in two starts for Kevin and Alexa Hammer, also of Boynton Beach, in the Sikes Parent-Child tournament, which followed Dec. 29. Play-ing the same alternate-shot format, the Hammers won this time with a score of 4-over 76, compared with par-72 in 2012.

“We just kept the ball in play better than we have in previous years,” said Colin List,

25, a former Villanova University golfer. “We were able to avoid the doubles (bogeys) and triples that we’d make in the past.”

It was their third Father-Son victory of the year, following the PNC pro-am in Orlando earlier this month and the Pater-Filius at Midlothian (Ill.) CC last summer.

J.R. and another son, Braden, were low net (147) in the pro division. Braden, a former mini-tour player, is in the process of regaining his amateur status and there could be two List teams in future Sikes amateur flights. J.R. List owns and operates List Industries, which manufactures lock-ers used by schools, clubs and sports facili-ties. Both sons work for the company.

The pro division, in which at least one

member is a professional golfer, was won by Mike and Brad Gray of Palm Beach Gardens. They beat the defending champions, Kirk and Josh Stauffer of Bradford, Pa., on the sec-ond playoff hole after they tied at 146. They halved the first playoff hole, No. 10, with par-3s and returned to the tee, then Brad won the playoff with a three foot putt for bogey-4 after Josh Stauffer missed a four footer for bogey. The Stauffers, the first-round leaders, began the final round with a nine on a lost ball, add-ing five birdies and four bogeys for 75.

“Winning is always a big deal,” said Kevin Hammer, who won the 1988 Junior Orange Bowl and four Palm Beach County Golf Association titles between 2006 and 2009 before beginning to escort his daugh-

ter, a senior at American Heritage School in Delray Beach, to junior tournaments.

In net division play for the 48-team field, Scott and Bobby Butler of North Palm Beach won with 65. Scott and his dad, Kev-in, won the net division Sunday.

Larry Bush writes for Atlantis Country Club.

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Chile’s Joaquin Niemann and South Korea’s Juwon Jeong secured their place in history as champions of the 51st edition of the Junior Orange Bowl International at Biltmore GC in Coral Gables.

Jeong took the title in a three-hole play-off with Sweden’s Linnea Strom. Both bird-ied the 18th on the first playoff hole but Jeong’s third consecutive birdie ended it.

Switzerland’s Albane Valenzuela powered into third with a closing 70, tied with over-night leader, Colombia’s Maria Hoyos, (77).

Niemann’s final 67 outlasted the over-night leader, Argentina’s Alejandro Tosti,

and the U.S.’s Carl Yuan. Yuan carded 68 for outright second at 5-under 279, with Tosti solo third with a clos-ing 70 for 280.

Highest credit to Niemann, (67-71-72-67–277), who with-stood the back-nine pressure of charges by Tosti and Yuan, with birdies at 16 and 18 completely closing all windows.

“I played very solidly all day, only one

bogey, five birdies, and was very pleased with my back nine because I made the shots I needed to make when I had to,” the 16-year old from Santiago said, with a wide smile of contentment.

Yuan began his round with an eagle-3

and although he caught Niemann, he never could pass him. He had a chance with bird-ie 2 at the 12th, but Niemann responded in

kind and when Yuan then power-lipped a short birdie try, his momentum was gone.

“After I made that birdie on 12, I thought I might be able to push,” Yuan said, “but my putter didn’t really cooperate on the closing holes. I played well but not well enough.”

“To come third in such a strong field is a great feat and I played well,” Tosti said.

Final round highlight scoring featured 66s by South Africa’s Tristen Strydom and Germany’s Maximilian Bodel.

Information compiled from news releases and websites.

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The South Florida PGA Foundation dedi-cated its third home Dec. 13 in Oakland Park. Partnering with Habitat for Humanity of Broward, the South Florida PGA Foundation dedicated the home to Rohema and Brian Cortijo-Witten and their three children, AJ (20), Matese (16) and Amari (11).

The build kicked off with a sign-unveiling ceremony May 16, which featured members of the South Florida PGA Foundation Board in addition to Rohema and Brian Cortijo-Witten. Since May, more than 50 PGA Pro-fessionals and members of the South Florida community have dedicated more than 700 hours of their time to build this home.

The Cortijo-Witten family has also dedi-cated more than 600 hours toward building their new home as required by Habitat for Humanity. Tasks completed by volunteers

ranged from painting the exterior of the house to installing windows.

Continuing its dedication to the commu-nity, the South Florida PGA Foundation will partner with Habitat for Humanity of Collier County to build their fourth home in five years. On May 2, the SFPGA Foundation will break ground on its next home.

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By Jack Shoenfelt PGA Professional-Oriole Golf Club

Oriole Golf Club hosted its 19th Annual Pro-am benefitting junior golf on Dec. 18.

Oriole is known in Broward County for its active junior programs. The focus of the Pro-am is to raise money for its summer junior camps. Todd Norman, one of Oriole’s PGA professionals, stated that the cost to attend one of the camps is as low as $40 for the week. Juniors receive instruction, a tournament, a banquet and many golf gifts that week.

The cost to the junior golfer’s parents is kept down thanks to the money the Pro-am generates. The Pro-am has a raffle, an auction and relies on tee sign sponsorship from local businesses. Please contact Oriole if you are interested in helping their programs.

The Pro-Am has also enabled Oriole to start a college scholarship fund for future and current college students. Scholarships are for juniors who have participated in the Oriole Junior Golf Programs. To date, Kyle Williams (Florida Atlantic) and Travis Fischer (Bro-ward College) have received scholarships.

The Pro-am was highlighted by the Ori-ole’s new greens. The greens were measured at 11.5 on the stimpmeter. Norman said the response by the 25 local PGA professionals who participated was fantastic.

“These are now some the best greens in all of South Florida,” said Jon Treglown, PGA professional from the Fountains Country Club in Lake Worth.

Oriole GC is in Margate. The course is an 18-hole, regulation par 72 golf course. Visit oriolegolfclub.com or call Todd, George or Debbie in the golf shop at (954) 972-8140.

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The South Florida PGA Foundation dedicated its third home Dec. 13 in Oakland Park. Partnering with Habitat for Humanity of Broward, the South Florida PGA Foundation dedicated the home to Rohema and Brian Cortijo-Witten and their three children, AJ (20), Matese (16) and Amari (11). Photo courtesy of the South Florida PGA

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Here on Florida’s Treasure Coast, we are always hunting for gold. Treasure if you will. A hidden gem perhaps. I think I may have just found one.

Heritage Ridge GC in Hobe Sound recently invited me out to spend a morning chasing a lit-tle white golf ball across splendid green fairways. Since it has been several years since I last traveled these links, I thought it a good idea to accept.

To my surprise, I found out that Heritage Ridge had not too long

ago undergone renovations to its greens. The club’s owners and management even tweaked the course a bit, adding some length and get-ting the greens up to today’s standards.

At one time, the club was an equity-owned facility. With more than 700 members, it was difficult, at best, for outsiders to find a tee time. As a result, this sweet course went rela-tively unnoticed for years.

Just over a decade ago, the club was pur-chased from the original owner, who had bought it back from the membership. It was decided that the club needed more outside play to afford renovations and upgrades. The idea worked splendidly and what you have now at Heritage Ridge is a course that has been polished with beautiful foliage, plush fairways and some fantastic greens.

When you look at the scorecard, you may ruffle your nose and think that a par-70 lay-out with five sets of tees, measuring 6,014 yards from the tips could never test your game. You had better think again.

The course starts you off gently with a straightforward uphill par-4. The second hole grabs your attention quite quickly. The 180-yard tee shot is downhill to a green tucked behind water and a timber wall. While you do not want to be short, long is no picnic ei-ther as there are numerous mounds to give you a scary pitch back toward the water.

The front nine features a drivable (for some) par-4 and a trio of tricky par-5s. Heri-tage Ridge requires you to use your brain, not just your muscles.

The signature hole here is the 535-yard par-5 eighth. With water coming in to play on every shot, there is little room for error.

Even if you manage to avoid the wet stuff, there is sand guarding the green and out-of-bounds just over the green.

My favorite hole is No. 10. After stopping to refuel with a cold drink and a snack at what one of my friends calls, “the best 19th hole I’ve ever visited,” you climb atop an elevated tee and smoke your drive down the fairway. The approach must clear the water, avoid the bunkers and settle nicely onto a tricky green.

The 13th is the lone par-5 on the par-34 back nine. It’s a reachable par 5 at 510 yards from the tips. But don’t let the length fool you; no one plunders birdies without risk.

What you lose in length on the par-4s, you make up for on the par-3s. Four of the par-3s are more than 200 yards from the back tees.

The greens are quick and roll smoothly ... and they are quite undulating. Better read those downhill or sidehill putts well, or you may find yourself three-putting, as I did on a couple occasions.

Visit www.heritageridgegolf.com for more information. Start 2015 off right

Finally, all the madness and mayhem of the holidays is over. Now all we have to look forward to is six-page credit card statements and those dreaded New Year’s resolutions. With that in mind, there is no moment like the present to spend a moment reflecting on the past and dreaming of a future with fewer shots and more enjoyment on the course.

I believe we need to find ways to protect the spirit of our game and its traditions. We should reward players who use skill over those who use technology, but we should embrace the technology that makes the game easier and more enjoyable for those who aren’t playing it for a living.

To make golf even better this New Year, we need to make a few promises to ourselves and to our beloved game. Now if you will please place your left hand on the Rules of Golf, raise your right hand and repeat after me, “In 2015, I promise to …

w Arrive early. Give yourself a chance to stretch, hit a few balls and try out the practice green. By stretching and warming up, you re-duce your risk of injury and your muscles are ready for action when you hit the first tee.

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The approach shot on No. 10 at Heritage Ridge. Photo by James Stammer

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foot curved Tour Simulator created by about-Golf and endorsed by the PGA. “AboutGolf is the same manufacturer that supplies for the Golf Channel. The Palm Beach Golf Center was very impressed with our facility and they donated demo clubs to us to use.”

Among the attractions are a full swing analysis and weight transfer analysis; the ability to play 120 world famous courses from TPC Sawgrass to Pebble Beach and St. Andrews. There is also an opportunity for distance analysis, record and playback video options and the opportunity to have profes-sional lessons with your own teaching pro.

“It is very beneficial,” Kennell said. “The benefit of the simulator is that when you hit the ball, and the ball goes up and you see all of the ball flight information hit the screen, now all of that information is immediately

done and is going to come up on the screen. You get instant feedback.”

Kennell said there are two camera angles of the swing and the weight transfer informa-tion and that can immediately be analyzed.

“I can move the recording back and forth so the feedback is pretty amazing because it is immediate,” said Kennell, a former resi-dential mortgage broker. “The first time they can come with their pro and then they can come back the second time and go back and show them the data and how they may have improved.”

Kennell said there are only 25 of these particular simulator models in the United States. Clifford Carroll is the owner of Nu-Golf, which is subsidiary of NuMed Enter-tainment.

“There are none in Florida that I am aware of with this particular model,” Kennell said of the simulator that was manufactured last February and shipped in March. The Boca Raton studio, which is in the third story of an office building, opened three months ago. “Of the 25, there are only five that have the weight transfer option which we are one.

That is a special feature.”In addition to attracting local golfers to

come play a round anywhere around the world, Kennell is also trying to entice golfers to have their pros bring them to the facility.

“We have a PGA Preferred program,” Kennell said. “We suggest very strongly that the first time you come and use the practice facility because of the amount of information that is there, in order to get the most benefit, that you come with your professional.”

If you come with your professional, they offer a discount to you for the simulator time. The simulator is $69 an hour. If someone wants to use the simulator and they come with their PGA Preferred professional, they reduce that time to $40 an hour. He said the facility also could be used for business meet-ings where people may want to play a round and then go over business.

“What we are trying to do is solidify the relationship with the professionals in the area to let them know that facility is there and to be able to offer this discounted benefit to their client,” Kennell said. “We have all of the tools for the instructor to make notations of the swing on the video and that information can be downloaded on a disc or sent as an email to the client.”

By the same token, if someone wants to bring a foursome and play Pebble Beach, it would probably take them two hours to play. Each player would pay $34.50 for the round. You can also customize a round and select

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Boca Raton’s Bill Kennell demonstrates the NuGolf Studios simulator. Photo by Gary Curreri

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Coral Springs’ T.J. Shuart takes great pride in being a lifelong amateur golfer.

Shuart, 31, recently joined some elite company as he won his third Broward

County Amateur Men’s tournament in six tries as he edged Margate’s Jake Francis, 20, by a single shot at Jacaranda Golf Club in Plantation.

Shuart, who won in 2005 and 2011, never has finished out of the top three at the 55-year-old event (twice runner-up plus

a third-place finish. Chris Couch (1987, ’88, ’90) and Doug Ritter (1997, 2001, ’04) also won the Championship Flight three times.

“This is a unique event for me because it is a little bit of a win-or-bust mentality,” Sh-uart said. “I have been fortunate to advance my game to the level that the expectations in a local event like this are pretty high.

“You can’t win every time, but I take sol-ace in the fact that my overall record speaks for itself,” said Shuart, who posted 70-71-71 for a 2-under par 212. “I am obviously right there in contention every time. I have played six times and won three and been darn close in the other ones. You don’t ever want to hang your head when you come up short because the reality of golf there is only one winner.”

Shuart, who owns and operates the South Florida Amateur Tour, said all of the wins were “fantastic,” however this might have been the sweetest win because it came down to the last few holes. His first two victories were by six and 11 shots.

“This one was probably the most excit-ing,” Shuart said. “I won by one shot and had a couple of close calls in recent years. I felt due for another triumph.” Francis on the other hand, hopes to turn

professional someday and tries to take some-thing from every tournament he enters. He shot 70-73-70–213. The 20-year-old from Margate is the Club Champion at TPC Ea-gle Trace and had a stellar career at Coral

Springs Christian Academy.“It means a lot because I have gotten let-

ters and congratulations from so many peo-ple supporting me,” Francis said. “I aspire to play professionally. You just never give up on what you want to accomplish.

“This was just another step.”Fort Lauderdale’s Steve Sim, 63, won the

Senior Division for the fourth time.He is the only player to win both the

Broward Amateur Championship (2000) and the Senior Broward Amateur Champi-onship (four times, including 2006, ’08 and ’12). Sim, who works for FPL, said the “lights were flickering” during his final round where he shot a 78 to finish with a three-day total of 223. Tom Kleppe was second at 229.

“It’s very gratifying, especially as I get older,” Sim said. “Everybody is starting over and I am getting older and some of the play-ers coming in are younger. I just want to go out and have fun, do my best and see what happens.”

Sim was away on business and didn’t play

last year. He enjoys the camaraderie.“We have seen and played each other a

number of years and we know each other,” Sim said.

Sim has won the Florida State Golf Asso-ciation Match Play event twice, in addition to winning the Miami-Dade Senior Cham-pionship six times. He also won the Senior Amateur Division of the South Florida PGA several times. Sim also qualified and played USGA Senior Championship in 2006 at Prairie Dunes in Kansas.

In the second round, Nova Southeastern University junior Hunter O’Mahony record-ed the event’s first double eagle on the fifth hole on the West Course.

“I was coming off a double bogey and I really didn’t have anything going for me,” O’Mahony said. “I hit a hybrid off the tee and pulled it. I got lucky and it hit the path once or twice and hit a 6-iron from 195 and two-hopped it into the hole. My dad (John) was

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T.J. Shuart also won the Broward Men’s Amateur in 2005 and ’11. Photo by Gary Curreri

Colony West: Toal gets first aceFort Lauderdale’s Judy Toal picked

up her first hole-in-one recently when she aced the 80-yard, fifth at the Colo-ny West Golf Club.

“It was kind of a lucky shot,” said Toal, who used an 8-iron. She was in the Colony West Golf Group and was

with playing partners, Penny Eppy, Shirley O’Neil, and Geri Thomas. “When I hit the shot, I thought, ‘This is a really beautiful shot.’”

Toal said her playing partners started celebrat-

ing, however because of the elevated green, she delayed the celebration until she arrived at the green.

“It was pretty exciting,” said Toal, who said she has been playing “mul-tiple decades.” “I didn’t know if it went in. We walked up and there it was. It was in the hole. I didn’t think it would ever happen.”

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Gabriel Lench entered the South Beach International Amateur golf tournament figuring he had nothing to lose.

After all, many of the world’s best ama-teurs had descended upon Miami Beach to play in this event and Lench pretty much considered himself a nobody among the elite field.

He pretty quickly turned himself into a somebody.

Lench, 17, came from two strokes be-hind on the final day to shoot an all-so-steady 67 (14 pars and four birdies, with the longest putt to avoid a bogey being 6 feet) and walk away as the champion. So, instead of being in Miami to soak in some sun and play a few rounds, he ended up notching the most important victory of his young career.

Not bad for a kid who has never had a lesson in his life, except from his Dad, who introduced him to a club when he was 2 years old.

“I walked off the 18th green and didn’t know whether I had won or not,” he said of the South Beach International, only in its fourth year but the 14th-ranked amateur tournament in the world based on the cali-ber of players competing.

Striding down the 18th fairway in the fi-nal round and final hole of the tournament, Lench’s Dad, Rafael – who is still his swing coach and often his caddie – told Gabriel if he parred the hole, he might finish second

or third.Gabriel turned to Dad and said, “I don’t

know, it might be a little better than that.”In fact, it was a whole lot better.Gabriel’s golfing career has been on a

tear since he won the Florida Amateur earlier this year, a confidence-boosting tri-

umph that let him know he had the abilities to play with just about anyone.

“It’s been a great, great year,” he said, “and that’s after a not-so-great 2013. I felt success had to come at some point, and it did. The Florida Amateur gave me confi-dence to play at a higher level.”

Next stop for Gabriel after graduating from high school will be Lynchburg, Va., where he will play for Liberty University, a Division I school in golf. “Liberty gave me the most,” he explained, “a full ride.”

That made the college decision easy.Sitting on the patio at Miami Beach

Golf Club after the South Beach awards ceremony, Lench kidded his Dad. Appar-ently, while in Miami Gabriel caught some glimpses of those huge, luxurious and en-ticing cruise ships leaving from the nearby Port of Miami.

“Remember, if I won we were going to go to the Bahamas,” Gabriel kidded.

Dad had a much cheaper, much more meaningful plan.

After tournaments, it has become a tradition for father and son to eat chicken wings and Fanta soda on the way back home to Lake Mary, a small, mid-Florida town.

“When are you leaving?” Gabriel was asked.

“Pretty much right now, in a couple of minutes,” Gabriel said, apparently giving up on that trip to the Bahamas.

“We’ll stop on the way and get the wings and soda,” his father said.

Obviously, the 4½-hour car ride would be a somewhat messy one, but make no doubt it would have been a happy one.

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South Beach International brings fame to a new name – Lench

Gabriel Lench, right, with his father, Rafael. Photo by Bill Van Smith

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By Gary Curreri Coral Springs

Brandon Matthews called his victory in the 84th annual Dixie Amateur Men’s tour-nament at the TPC Eagle Trace “his biggest.”

“I have done some great things the past couple of years, but the thing I lacked was a national win,” said Matthews, 20, a junior at Temple University, who carded a final round 2-under-par 70 to finish at 10-under 278.

“I played really well,” added Matthews, who finished with four birdies (on Nos. 8, 10, 15 and 18) and two bogeys (Nos. 1 and 7). “It was a tough day with the wind and I just hit some great shots. I stayed in the present and didn’t look ahead. This is a very big win.”

The first thee rounds were played at Her-on Bay Golf Club.

He entered the final round with a two-shot lead over Drew Czuchry of Alpharetta, Ga., and ended with a five-stroke victory and his first wire-to-wire finish over four rounds.

“I hadn’t really played a lot of golf, so it was a good solid performance,” he said. “I put together some good rounds. The first round I wasn’t sure what to expect, so I just kept the ball in front of me. I just rode that.”

Czuchry finished with a 1-over par, 73, to take second ahead of Georgia Tech Univer-sity teammate James Clark (Columbus, Ga.), a freshman, who was 1 under for the day and closed with a 284.

Clark, 18, said it was a positive experience.“Sure it’s good for the rankings, but it is a

confidence builder,” Clark said. “It was awe-some to be in the final group and playing for a chance to win. This was the first time all week that I didn’t pay attention to the leader-board. I had some friends in the tournament, but I was just out here playing golf.”

Cappeliez wins women’s titleFrench teenager Mathilda Cappeliez

needed to work overtime as she won the Women’s Dixie Amateur at TPC Eagle Trace in a three-hole playoff with fellow French national team member Justine Dreher.

Cappeliez, 16, of Publier, France, started the day at even par, six shots behind Dre-

her, but shot a 4-under-par 68 to force the playoff as Dreher, 22, a senior at the Uni-versity of South Carolina, struggled down the stretch and finished with a 74. The pair were tied at 4-under 284.

“I played pretty good,” Cappeliez said. “My putting was better and my irons were better.”

Dreher was in command until she bo-geyed Nos. 13 and 14 and double-bogeyed the par-3 17th to fall into the tie.

They both missed birdie putts on the first two playoff holes before Cappeliez hit her approach to 7 feet, while Dreher’s ap-proach landed in the fringe about 25 feet away. She missed that putt and Cappeliez drained hers for the win.

“This is my first win this year,” said Cap-peliez, who was fourth in the Dixie last year. “It’s great to finish the year like this. It was my best tournament this year.”

Elise Bradley, who plays for LSU, was tied for the lead the first day and had a three-shot lead on the second day, wound up third at 2 under. Seniors to Hanzel; Super Seniors to Rose

Doug Hanzel captured his second con-secutive Dixie Senior Men’s Amateur title as he carded a final day 70 at TPC Eagle Trace to pick up a three-shot win over Fort Lauderdale’s Rick Woulfe, who finished with a 75 for a 54-hole total of 214.

Hanzel, of Savannah, Ga., rallied from a two-shot deficit to finish at 69-72-70–211. Wolfe, who had won his previous two tour-naments, finished with rounds of 66-73-75.

The first two rounds were played at Heron Bay; the final round was contested at Eagle Trace.

New York City’s Stephen Rose won the Super Senior division in sudden death against Craig Scott of Marshalls Creek, Pa., after both finished the 54-hole tournament tied at 220.

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Matthews, Cappeliez captureDixie men’s, women’s titles

Brandon Matthews Photo by Gary Curreri Mathilda Cappeliez Photo by Bill Van Smith

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Rory McIlroy and the golf bag

One of professional golf ’s most promi-nent players with four majors and the cur-rent No. 1 world ranking, McIlroy, now 25, won his division in the Doral-Publix when he was under 8-years-old. McIlroy still proudly claims, “It was my first major.”

So, under McIlroy’s résumé list two PGAs, one U.S. Open, one British Open and one Doral-Publix Junior Classic.

However, McIlroy’s loyalty to the Doral-Publix goes beyond words.

Nearly a year ago, McIlroy stripped all the sponsorships off his bag and put the First Tee of Miami logo on it. Then he donated the bag to the First Tee to be auc-tioned off to raise money for its program. The bag was sold to Michael Wohl for $8,500, and it didn’t take Wohl long to pay it forward and show his loyalty.

He gave the bag back to The First Tee and it hangs in their offices at International Links-Melreese golf course.

“Now the bag’s value is that kids get to see it all the time – that’s real value,” said Charlie DeLucca III, part of the hierarchy for The First Tee program and the Doral-Publix tournament.

Megan Khang’s goodbye win

This year’s winner for girls’ 16-18 was Khang, who was making her final appear-ance in the tournament before heading off to college. Khang hasn’t selected her school yet, but a lot of colleges would like to select her.

That was all-too-apparent from the group of college coaches that followed her every swing. Those coaches weren’t disap-pointed in what they saw – Khang won by 14 strokes.

Khang, from Massachusetts, has played in the Doral-Publix for 10 years, starting when she was 7.

“It’s a great tournament with great com-petition,” she said. “Also, great people.”

Sorry, sir, not quite a recordThe tournament involves competitors

anywhere from 2 to 18 years old and at-tracts golfers from all over the world.

The event receives a lot of repeat busi-ness, and a while back a gentleman from London approached DeLucca III to tell him his kid had played in the tournament eight years in a row. The parent wondered if that might be a record.

DeLucca III could only smile.

“No,” he gently told the man, “there was a young lady who played for 16 straight years.”

Diana Davis first played in the Doral-Publix, which just completed its 33rd year, when she was 2. Her string ended when she reached the age limit of 18.

Easy supposition – that record might last a while.

‘Just having lots of fun’Ryan Bailey, just like Khang, is go-

ing off to college and played in his final Doral-Publix this year. Unlike Khang, he wasn’t going to win in the 16-18 division. He would finish in the middle of the pack of the championship division. Neverthe-less, Bailey, from Houston, was smiling throughout.

“This is just having lots of fun,” said Bailey, whose parents were following him shot by shot during his second appearance in the Doral-Publix. Bailey was happy to be on a course and also happy being in sunny South Florida.

As for the side benefits the tournament offers, Bailey said, “This tournament teach-es you a lot more than just golf. The orga-nizers take it more seriously than just golf. They teach other things.”

w w wWords like those help fortify what De-

Lucca and his father, Charlie DeLucca Jr., – tournament founder, general impresario and a whirlwind of getting things done – try to achieve staging this annual event.

“The golf is great,” DeLucca III said, “but the values we try to teach are so important.

“When we register kids for the tourna-ment, even the younger ones, they must register just like a PGA event. Parents are not allowed.

“At our banquet, players have to go on stage and introduce themselves.

“It’s little things like that. Those are things kids can learn and eventually will be valuable to them.”

The structure doesn’t mean the kids don’t have fun. Just the opposite. They do.

They love the surroundings of playing the various courses at Trump National Doral.

A year ago, in his initial year of owning the resort, Donald Trump showed up to see some of the goings-on during the Doral-Publix.

Naturally, he had the best parking space at the resort. No, it wasn’t a parking space

Great golf and so much more: the Doral-Publix Junior ClassicThe Doral-Publix Junior Classic is a tournament

founded on loyalty.Loyalty to the game of golf.Loyalty to the rules of golf.Loyalty to some basic core values for kids, specifically

integrity, sportsmanship, respect, perseverance, judgment, confidence, responsibility, honesty and courtesy.

Also, loyalty to being the best student that you can be.

Yes, the Doral-Publix is a golf event that features some of the best juniors in the world, but it goes beyond that.

And this tournament proves loyalty works both ways.The event, run by The First Tee of Miami, gives a lot

and asks a lot of its participants. In return, participants display long-lasting affection

and loyalty. Some examples:Miami-Dade Notes

Bill Van Smith

See Miami-Dade Notes, page 13

Ryan Bailey

Megan Khang

Rory McIlroy and Charlie DeLucca Jr. in 1998. McIlroy’s 54

remains the age-group record.

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Charlie DeLucca has been the face of The First Tee of Miami for years and it is his leadership which started and continues to run the Doral-Publix Junior Golf Classic, held each year in Miami. After the first day of action this year, there was a banquet for the kids and all of those players who participated received a stuffed animal. At the end of the evening, Charlie gathered all of the kids together for a group shot and I zoomed in on Charlie. Look at his expression of joy being with these kids. The tournament just finished its 33rd year at Doral, having gone through numerous changes at the resort including the tremendous upgrade of the place under Donald Trump. There are so many stories about this man’s huge heart, but it is his love of teaching the young kids which stands out the most. – Marty Perlmutter

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for his car; it was for his helicopter. His landing pad is right next to the ninth tee.

“The kids went nuts,” DeLucca III said of Trump and the helicopter. “He’s like a rock star. The kids followed him like crazy.”

One bottom line for DeLucca III and his father is what they get out of the tour-nament.

At the awards presentation, DeLucca Jr. addressed the crowd. “Parents, this was great and our big hope is that your kids will remember this and they will have their kids come play in this tournament.”

Charlie DeLucca III pointed out, “We had more than 600 entrants this year,” and many of those faces were familiar to him.

“It’s great to get to see the kids growing up year after year,” DeLucca III said. “You get to know so many families from around the world. We’ve made so many friends with this tournament.”

And that makes the final point.Yes, the Doral-Publix is a tournament,

but it is more – much, much more – than just golf.

Bill Van Smith directed South Florida sports coverage for four decades for the Miami Herald. If you have an item for the Miami-Dade note-book, write to him at bvansmith@gmail.com.

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doesn’t celebrate too much when I perform and when I got up there it was breathtaking.”

O’Mahony, 20, who is studying sports management, said the tournament was a tune-up after the fall college season.

“I really wanted to win this because my brother Greg won it before (2008),” O’Mahony said. “I just learned I have to take one shot at a time and not think of the final outcome.”

Paul Miranda finished with a 244 total for the three days in capturing the First Flight.

This was the 15th year that Jacaranda hosted the event.

Doherty on the docketCoral Ridge Country Club will again

serve as host site for the 83rd Ione D. Jones/Doherty Women’s Amateur Championship & 30th Ione D. Jones/Doherty Senior Wom-en’s Amateur Championship on Jan. 19-24.

Embraced by the club for the past 60 years, this match-play event pays tribute to the late Ione D. Jones, wife of CRCC archi-tect Robert Trent Jones, who was a large con-tributor of junior and women’s golf in South Florida for many years.

“The club is excited and proud to con-tinue its tradition in hosting this prestigious event,” said Coral Ridge Country Club Di-rector of Golf Scott Fox. “The course is in terrific condition. We had some of the best weather this winter when we over seeded the course in November. The course is plush green and the greens are rolling smooth and fast. I feel confident the players will agree.”

One of CRCC’s finest senior members, Connie Shorb, an eight-time CRCC Club Champion will be in the 48-player Senior Division.

Boca Raton’s Elle Nachmann, 11, second in the First Flight last year, is a new member of the club and is also entered in the tourney.

Other notables include: Tara-Joy Connel-ly, Women’s Golf Association of Massachu-setts Player of the Decade for 2000-09; Coral Springs’ Carly Ray Goldstein, a sophomore at LSU; and local favorite Samantha Smolen, a junior at Lynn University. Smolen, of Lake Worth, was named a Women’s Golf Coaches Association First Team All-American and WGCA Scholar All-American. She was also selected to the All-Sunshine State Confer-ence First Team and is the second-ranked golfer in the nation.

The event is one of the longest-running tournaments in the country. The USGA awards points for the Women’s Amateur Championship Division. The defending champions are England’s Annabel Dimmock (Women’s Amateur Championship) and Bal-timore’s Andrea Kraus (Senior Flight).

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First Tee Broward flourishingThe First Tee Broward is approaching its

one-year anniversary and it is alive and well.

“We have between 50 and 60, and in a year from now we expect to have more than 260,” said Director of Operations Jack Bloomfield. “We are working with several groups around the county.”

Bloomfield, whose program is based at Weston Hills, has six affiliate sites around Broward County: Heron Bay, Plantation Preserve, Palm-Aire, Grande Oaks and Weston Diplomat Resort.

The World Golf Championship-Cadillac Championship was the founding partner of The First Tee of Broward.

The First Tee program is a nine-week course that is taught by PGA and LPGA cer-tified instructors trained by The First Tee.

“It coincides with the nine holes and each week we build the lesson around one of the core values,” Bloomfield said. “We’ll always do a core value. They would go through the golfing and then we would ask about the core value at the end. We are always empha-sizing the core value and healthy habit – hy-dration and then the extended golf lesson.”

Bloomfield, who has been in golf indus-try for 35 years and been with First Tee since January, said 99 percent of their instructors know how to teach golf lessons, too.

“The golf is not just teaching golf it is teaching life skills,” Bloomfield said. “Most golfers think it is about teaching kids golf. You can have your kid and get them in a ju-nior golf camp, and they will learn golf from a golf pro, which is great, but here we are not making good golfers, we are making good citizens and that is really important.”

Among the organizations that First Tee Broward works with are H.A.N.D.Y. (Helping Abused Neglected Disadvan-taged Youth), Boys and Girls Club Deer-field Beach, Lou Chiera Foundation and Joe DiMaggio Hospital. They also hope to final-ize plans with Mission United (Veterans), Dan Marino College and Parkland Buddy Sports.

For more information on First Tee Bro-ward contact Bloomfield at (954) 384-4680.

Gary Curreri is a freelance writer based in South Florida. If you have an item for the Bro-ward notebook, write to him at SportsCom5@aol.com.

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Jones/Doherty this month at Coral RidgeSave the date: March 26

The third annual Women’s Invi-tational Golf Tournament to Benefit Women in Distress-Broward will be held March 26 with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start at The Colony West Golf Club’s Championship Course in Tamarac.

“It is an opportunity for women to help women by participating in this charity event,” said Jan Parke.

The format will be a four-ball Step-Aside scramble with prizes for Low Gross Team, Low Net Teams, Closest to the Pin and Closest to the Line. The Colony West Women’s Group will produce it. The participa-tion is limited to 32 teams.

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holes from various courses around the world.“You get everything here,” Kennell said.

“You can play a complete round where you can hit drivers, chip and putt. You have the color, and sound. If you hit it in the bushes, water, or in the rough you hear it. The same for when the ball goes in the cup. And weath-er is never a factor here. It can be raining out-side, but it is always cool in here.”

Two cameras shoot 120 color frames per second. When you record the swing, all of the information will come up simultaneously on the screen and it will all be synchronized. As you swing and you see your recording, the weight transfer information would be syn-chronized to that particular swing.

“I have been going out to all of the local clubs and making contact with all of the local professionals at the clubs,” Kennell said. “Nu-Golf does not offer any instruction and the benefit that we see with this particular facility is the instructor at a course can not go to the other stores and use their simulator. If you go in there, they want you to use their instructor. You can use your own instructor here.”

Professionals teach from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and we are open weekdays by appointment.

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Fraim new head pro at WanderersWest Palm Beach’s Jeff Fraim couldn’t be

more excited about becoming head profes-sional at the Wanderers Club in Wellington.

The 43-year-old joined the club in 2012 from a seasonal position at the Sunnybrook Golf Club in Plymouth Meeting, Pa.

Fraim said he has been working in South Florida seasonally for about 10 years and started at the Wanderers as assistant outside manager and went into the golf shop when an opening became available. With his new position, he is more involved in the financial

side and now respon-sible for the day-to-day golf operation.

Justin Thompson, who was previously the Director of Golf at the Club, took over as the General Manager of the Wanderers Club and needed a head profes-sional with experience.

“I just happened to be here at that time and I just fell into it perfectly,” said Fraim, who noted that Thompson still oversees the golf as part of his role as GM. “I’m ecstatic. This is a wonderful opportunity. It is at a great club. I have worked at 12 clubs now and this by far has the best membership that I have worked for and I am very happy about that.”

Fraim believes the attention to detail for the membership is a plus for the private club.

“Our golf staff is actually a valet service,” Fraim said. “We have radios with head sets, so when the golfer comes onto the property, we know exactly where you are. You head down to the locker room and our locker room guy would meet you there, greet you and find you

a locker if you are a guest. When you head out of the locker room you will head to the staging are where the golf carts are and even though I may not have ever met you, name recognition means a lot. If you are a guest, you will also get a nice metal bag tag and we have engravers on site that day. A lot of what the top clubs do, we provide.”

That service alone is well-received, ac-cording to Fraim.

“It’s fantastic, we hear comments about it all of the time, ‘How did you know my name?’ and that sort of thing. The members give us a lot of great feedback that their guests had a wonderful time. It makes you want to come to work.”

Fraim started playing golf at age 13 and has been hooked since. He served five years as the head golf professional at Primland Resort in Virginia, and has been employed at some of the country’s most prestigious private clubs, including Yeamans Hall Club, Charleston, S.C.; Edgartown Golf Club, Martha’s Vineyard; and Huntingdon Valley Country Club, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.

An accomplished player, he tried his hand at mini tour life in 1999 and 2000, before de-ciding to continue his club professional ca-reer. Now, as a Class A member of the PGA, Fraim’s strengths are providing first-class ser-vice to guests, as well as teaching, merchan-dising and tournament operations.

They hold about 50 events annually and they have approximately 250 members, said Fraim, who would like to increase the tour-nament program at the club in addition to attracting about 100 new members. Donna White honored

West Palm Beach’s Donna White is look-ing forward to her induction next fall into the 2014 class of the Ladies Professional Golf Association Teaching and Club Professionals Hall of Fame.

White, owner of Golf Professional Ser-vices, is the golf vendor at the Okeeheelee Golf Course, Park Ridge Golf Course and John Prince Park Golf Learning Center. She provides all merchandising, instruction, food and beverage, tournament operation assis-tance, club repair and handicap services for each facility.

“I was truly elated to learn of my selection into the LPGA T&CP Hall of Fame,” White said. “This recognition is simply a reflection of those past, present and future mentors who continue to touch peoples’ lives each and every day.”

White is also in the following Halls of Fame: University of Florida, Hall of Fame and Letterman’s Association; University of North Carolina-Greensboro; National Golf Coaches Association Players Hall of Fame; Palm Beach County Sports Hall of Fame.

In 1999 White was inducted into the Spe-cial Olympics-Palm Beach County Hall of Fame for her service on the Special Olympics International Golf Committee for more than a decade. White travels throughout the world training and educating golf professionals about methods of teaching the game of golf to people with disabilities.

Gary Curreri is a freelance writer based in South Florida. If you have an item for the Palm notebook, write to him at SportsCom5@aol.com.

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minors for years and years) or golf. “I think the number I would need to try

to make the tour is about $100,000 a year,” he said one afternoon after finishing a day as a rules official at the 33rd annual Doral-Publix junior tournament in December. “Entry fees, travel expenses; plus you need to pay your bills at home while you are out there playing.”

And it wouldn’t be a one-shot deal. “Probably it would take four years to get the card,” he said. That’s if everything goes right, and putts fall at the right time.

Some amateurs appear to be destined for making the big leagues. Look at Dan-iel Berger, who won the Dixie Amateur at Heron Bay just two years ago. He is a PGA Tour card-carrying member this year.

Curtis Thompson twice won the pres-tigious Dixie, spent a couple of years at LSU and now is packing his suitcases for a career on the road. Something about the genes in that family – older brother Nick has more than $5 million in career earn-ings thanks to years playing the PGA Tour, while younger sister Lexi is one of the stars on the LPGA Tour, having won her first major in the California desert last spring. Maybe the two of them are bankrolling Curtis in his rookie year on tour?

Velez had a stellar career in Miami first in high school and then at Barry where he was the 2010 Sunshine State Champion. He became a young general manager at Micco-

sukee Country Club after his college career and received a sponsor’s exemption into the last Web.com Tour event held there a couple of years back.

“I was running the facility on Wednes-day,” he said, recalling the week of the tour-nament, “and on Thursday I was playing with some of the guys you see on the big tour today.”

Too much going on, not enough range time and Carlos went back to his office after the cut was made Friday afternoon.

For the weekend player, it is hard to understand how a guy with Velez’s talent doesn’t make it on tour. In 2012, he played in nine events on the PGA Latin American tour, flying to Argentina, Peru, Columbia and Puerto Rico to name a few locales.

“I had saved up about $15,000 and knew that I if played well enough in that tour and finished high on the money list, I would

get a bye into Q-school qualifying for the web.com tour,” he said. However, after each event down south, it was a long and ex-pensive flight back to Miami because the events didn’t run on consecutive weekends and money was getting short.

The first four, Carlos missed the cut. Couldn’t figure it out. Went to see a psy-chologist to learn more about himself. His

game was there but it appeared that when he needed to make a shot, it didn’t happen.

Finally he made the cut in his fifth start and earned some cash for the year but not enough to keep his card.

At one event – and kids, don’t try this at home – Velez was running short on money and flew down to his last event in South America with a one-way ticket.

“I didn’t have enough money to buy a round-trip,” he said. “If I didn’t finish high enough in the event, I didn’t know how I

would have gotten home.”Talk about pressure.Well he made the cut, earned $625 de-

spite a final-round 80 and was able to return. In February, he found himself once again in Peru attempting to get his card back but poor play left him on the outside looking in.

“You have to play tournaments to stay sharp,” he said. “You need the competition” so he joined the Gunslinger Tour, which hosts professional events around South Florida. “And I won a couple of tourna-ments (three) along the way.” But a field of 28 playing during the week to an audience of a couple of greenskeepers and girlfriends is not like walking up 18 at PGA National in the Honda Classic with thousands of people lining the bleachers.

So don’t fret that Velez might not ever be a household name in the golfing world. He’s mature enough to be secure right where he is, teaching with The First Tee.

But his story illustrates that just because you can go low with your buddies on the weekend, it is still a long way to earning a position on any professional tour. It’s the ability to string together three or four good rounds that separates those you see on tele-vision from the ones you see at the cash register in the pro shop.

Marty Perlmutter is president of LTS Lead-erBoard of Miami/Ft. Lauderdale and lives in Miami. Send e-mail to LH@teetimesnews.com or call (954) 324-4523 to comment on this article.

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Carlos Velez made the cut in his fifth start and earned some cash for the year but not enough to keep his card. At one event – and kids, don’t try this at home – Velez was running short on money and flew down to his last event in South America with a one-way ticket. “I didn’t have enough money to buy a round-trip,” Velez said. “If I didn’t finish high enough in the event, I didn’t know how I would have gotten home.”

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w Always leave the course in better shape than I find it. It takes but a moment to re-pair that nasty mark that your ball left on the green. When you take a divot, use your foot to push in the sides and then fill the hole with the sand provided.

w Play ready golf. Save your socializing for when you’re riding in the cart between shots or holes. I realize proper etiquette calls for letting the person farthest from the hole play first, but most of my friends and I ignore this if that person isn’t ready to hit and someone else is. Let’s cut out those five-hour rounds.

w Learn the rules. How often have you hit into a hazard and been unsure where to drop?

w Play in a charity tournament. You can support an important cause and possibly play courses you otherwise might not be able to.

w Play from forward tees. When you’re struggling, on an unfamilar course or on dif-ferent tees than your partners, join them.

w Start an exercise regimen. This is the hardest one for me and probably for most recreational golfers. The better we learn to strengthen and properly stretch then, the bet-ter and longer our golf careers will be.

w Introduce someone new to golf. There are a lot of people who would love to try golf, but they either don’t have clubs or anyone to play with. Invite one of those people, maybe even your spouse, to join you one day even if it’s only to go to the range. You may find a new playing partner for life.

w Finally and most importantly, play with-out keeping score. Play just for the pure love, relaxation and enjoyment. Without the pres-sure and tension to make par or birdie to break 80, 90 or 100, you may be pleasantly surprised at how well you hit the ball.

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ATLANTISAtlantis CC190 Atlantis Blvd.

(561) 965-7700AVENTURASports Authority

18499 Biscayne Blvd. (305) 682-0717

BELLE GLADESugarcane Golf Club

12619 W. Canal St. N (561) 996-6605

BOCA RATONBirdie Golf Ball Co.

7166 Barracasa Way (561) 826-0254

Boca Dunes CC 1400 Country Club Dr. (561) 451-1600

Boca Greens CC 19642 Trophy Dr. (561) 852-8800

Boca Raton Municipal 8111 Golf Course Rd. (561) 367-7029

Boca Raton Resort & CC17751 Boca Club Blvd.(561) 447-3520

Don Law Imp. Center 12551 Glades Road (561) 451-1128

GolfSmith 20415 State Road 7 (561) 483-9226

GolfTec 20415 State Road 7 (561) 483-4180

Ocean Breeze Golf & CC 5800 N.W. 2nd Ave. (561) 994-0400

Osprey Point GC12551 Glades Road(561) 482-2868

Palm Beach Golf Center 3698 N. Federal Hwy. (561) 395-1305

Red Reef Park Executive1221 N. Ocean Blvd.(561) 391-5014

Southwinds Golf Course 19557 Lyons Rd. (561) 483-1305

Sports Authority 20851 State Rd. 7 (561) 488-5754

BOYNTON BEACHCypress Creek CC

9400 Military Trail (561) 732-4202

Indian Spring CC11501 El Clair Rnch Rd(561) 738-3047

Moore’s Golf Shoes3301 W. Boynton Bch. Blvd.(561) 369-8032

The Links at Boynton Beach 8020 Jog Rd. (561) 742-6500

Putter Around II 12250 Westchester Club Dr. (561) 752-0744

Westchester CC 12250 Westchester Club Dr. (561) 734-6300

COCONUT CREEKToski-Battersby Center

1000 Coconut Crk Blvd. (954) 975-2045

Putter Around Club Repair 1000 Coconut Crk Blvd. (954) 917-1011

COOPER CITYCooper Colony CC

5050 S.W. 90th Ave. (954) 434-2181

CORAL GABLESBiltmore GC

1200 Anastasia Ave.(305) 460-5364

Granada GC2001 Granada Blvd.(305) 460-5367

CORAL SPRINGSCC of Coral Springs

10800 W. Sample Rd. (954) 753-2930

Heron Bay GC 11801 Heron Bay Blvd. (954) 796-2000

DAVIEDavie GCC

8201 S.W. 24th St. (954) 797-4653

DEERFIELD BEACHBlakes Golf Shop

2745 W. Hillsboro Blvd.Suite 5(954) 421-0009

Crystal Lake CC 3800 Crystal Lake Dr. (954) 943-2902

Deer Creek GC 2801 Country Club Blvd. (954) 421-5550

Sports Authority 3810 W. Hillsboro Blvd. (954) 426-4360

DELRAY BEACHBirdie Golf Ball Co.

14806 Military Trail (561) 496-7666

Delray Beach GC 2200 Highland Ave. (561) 243-7380

Kings Point Par 36900A Tuscany Lane(561) 499-0140

Kings Point Executive6561 Flanders Way(561) 499-7840

Lakeview GC 1200 Dover Rd. (561) 498-3229

Marina Lakes GC 14800 Cumberland Dr. (561) 499-2424

PGA Tour Superstore 1040 Linton Blvd. (561) 214-7000

Polo Trace GC 13479 Polo Trace Dr. (561) 495-5300

Sherwood Park GC 170 Sherwood Forest Dr. (561) 499-3559

Villa Del Ray GC 6200 Via Delray (561) 498-1444

FORT LAUDERDALEEdwin Watts

5600 N. Federal Hwy. (954) 771-3256

Grande Oaks Academy 3201 W. Rolling Hills Cir. (954) 423-0897

Sports Authority 1901 N. US 1 (954) 568-6226

Woodlands CC4600 Woodlands Blvd.(954)731-2500

GREENACRESBirdie Golf Ball Co.

3947 S. Jog Road (561) 966-1717

HALLANDALE BEACHDiplomat GC

501 Diplomat Parkway (954) 883-4444

Aqua Golf 2250 S. Park Rd. (954) 893-7767

HIALEAHSports Authority

3895 W. 20th. Ave(305) 826-5599

HOBE SOUNDHeritage Ridge GC

6510 SE Heritage Blvd. (772) 546-2800

Lost Lake GC 8310 SE Fazio Drive (772) 220-6666

HOLLYWOODClub at Emerald Hills

4100 N. Hills Dr. (954) 961-4000

Eco Grande GC 1451 Taft St. (954) 922-8755

Golfsmith 3300 Oakwood Blvd. (954) 923-3418

GolfTec (inside Golfsmith) 3300 Oakwood Blvd. (954) 920-6811

Hillcrest GC 4600 Hillcrest Dr. (954) 983-3142

Hollywood Beach Resort 1650 Johnson St. (954) 927-1751

Orangebrook CC 400 Entrada Dr. (954) 967-4653

HOMESTEADRedland GCC

24451 S.W. 177th Ave. (305) 247-8503

JENSEN BEACHEagle Marsh GC

3869 NW Royal Oak Drive (772) 692-3322

Sports Authority3101 N.W. Federal Hwy.(772) 692-1771

JUPITERAbacoa GC

105 Barbados Dr. (561) 622-0036

GolfGym Academy 2885 Jupiter Park Dr., Ste. 300 (561) 741-3401

Jupiter Dunes GC 401 N. A1A (561) 746-6654

Jupiter Country Club300 Marsala Court (561) 746-3950

The Golf Club of Jupiter1800 S. Central Blvd.(561) 747-6262

The Old Club1557 Cypress DriveSte. 1(561) 401-9407

KEY BISCAYNECrandon Golf

6700 Crandon Blvd.(305) 361-9129

LAKE PARKGolf Around the World

1396 N. Killian Dr., Ste. B (561) 848-8896

LAKE WORTHAtlantic National GC

6400 Grand Lacuna Blvd. (561) 969-6600

Forest Oaks GC144 Lucerne Lks. Blvd. N.(561) 967-6810

John Prince Learning Ctr. 4754 S. Congress Ave. (561) 966-6666

Lake Worth Municipal One 7th Ave. N. (561) 582-9713

Park Ridge Golf Course 9191 Lantana Rd. (561) 966-7044

Palm Beach National CC 7500 St. Andrews Rd. (561) 965-3381

Poinciana Golf Club 3536 Via Poinciana Dr. (561) 439-4721

Winston Trails GC 6101 Winston Trails Blvd. (561) 439-3700

LAUDERHILLInverrary CC

3840 Inverrary Blvd. (954) 733-7550

Lauderhill GC 4141 NW. 16th St. (954) 730-2990

MARGATEA-Swing Golf Academy

3011 Rock Island Rd. (954) 873-3781

Birdie Golf Ball Co. 208 Margate Court (954) 973-2741

Carolina CC 3011 Rock Island Rd. (954) 753-4000

Margate Executive GC 7870 W. Margate Blvd. (954) 971-0807

Oriole GC 8000 W. Margate Blvd. (954) 972-8140

MIAMIAlf’s Golf n 2600 NW. 87th Ave. (305) 470-0032 n 15369 S. Dixie Hwy. (305) 378-6086

Costa Del Sol GC 100 Costa Del Sol Blvd. (305) 592-3300

Country Club of Miami 6801 Miami Gardens Dr. (305) 829-8456

Doral Golf Resort & Spa 4400 NW. 87th Ave. (305) 592-2000

Edwin Watts 8484 N.W. 36th St., Ste. 200 (305) 591-1220

Int’l Links of Miami 1802 N.W. 37th Ave. (305) 633-4583

Killian Greens GC 9980 S.W. 104th St. (305) 271-0917

Miami Golf w 5850 S. Dixie Highway (305) 667-6888 w 111 NE 1st St. (2nd floor) (305) 371-4554

Miccosukee Golf Club6401 Kendale Lakes Dr.(305) 382-3930

Palm Beach Golf Center147910 Biscayne Blvd.(305) 949-7030

Planet Golf7045 SW 87th Ave.(305) 275-9070

Sports Authority10688 NW. 12th St.(305) 591-0622

MIAMI BEACH Alf’s Golf

524 Arthur Godfrey Road

(305) 673-6568 Miami Beach GC

2301 Alton Road(305) 532-3350

Normandy Shores GC2401 Biarritz Dr.(305) 868-6502

MIAMI LAKESShula’s GC

7601 Miami Lakes Dr. (800) 247-4852

MIAMI SHORESMiami Shores CC

10000 Biscayne Blvd. (305) 795-2360

NORTH MIAMI BEACHEdwin Watts

15100 N. Biscayne Blvd. (305) 944-2925

Greynolds Park GC 17530 W. Dixie Hwy. (305) 949-1741

NORTH PALM BEACHClub Masters

1201 U.S. Hwy. 1, Ste. 1(561) 622-9445

North Palm Beach CC 951 U.S. Hwy. 1 (561) 691-3433

PALM BEACHPalm Beach Par 3 GC

2345 S. Ocean Blvd. (561) 547-0598

PALM BEACH GARDENSEdwin Watts

3889 Northlake Blvd. (561) 625-6430

Palm Beach Gardens GC 11401 Northlake Blvd. (561) 626-7888

Palm Beach Golf Center 7700 N Military Trail (561) 842-7100

PGA National 400 Ave. of the Champions (561) 627-1800

Rick’s Golf Shop 8091 N Military Trail(561) 627-0640

Sports Authority 3350 Northlake Blvd. (561) 622-7203

PALM CITYHammock Creek GC

2400 Golden Bear Way (772) 220-2599

Palm Cove GYC 2363 SW Carriage Hill Terr. (772) 287-5605

PEMBROKE PINESAll Golf

950 Flamingo Rd. (954) 441-1333

Flamingo Lakes Golf 701 S.W. Flamingo W. Dr. (954) 435-6110

Golf Galaxy 14530 SW. 2nd St. (954) 342-1000

Grand Palms Golf Resort 110 Grand Palms Dr. (954) 437-3334

Pembroke Lakes GC 10500 Taft St. (954) 431-4144

Sports Authority 11140 Pines Blvd. (954) 447-9666

PLANTATIONEdwin Watts

12001 W. Sunrise Blvd. (954) 916-6565

Jacaranda GC 9200 W. Broward Blvd. (954) 472-5836

Plantation Preserve Golf 7050 W. Broward Blvd. (954) 585-5020

POMPANO BEACHConte’s Palm-Aire Acad.

3701 Oaks Clubhouse Dr. (954) 971-7867Mallard Golf Shop2900 W. Sample Road(954) 971-5340

Palm-Aire GC 2600 Palm-Aire Dr. N. (954) 975-6244

Pompano Beach GC 1101 N. Federal Hwy. (954) 781-0426

PORT ST. LUCIEPGA Village

1916 Perfect Dr. (800) 800-4653

PGA Center for Learning and Performance 8565 Commerce Ctr. Dr. (772) 468-7686

Saints GC2601 S.E. MorningsideBlvd.(772) 398-2901

Sandpiper GC 4500 SE Pine Valley St. (772) 337-6638

Savanna Club GC3490 Crabapple Drive(772) 879-1316

Sports Authority10648 S.W. VillagePkwy.(772) 345-2600

St. James GC5613 N.W. St. James Dr.(772) 336-4653

ROYAL PALM BEACHThe Village Golf Club

122 Country Club Dr. (561) 793-1400

STUARTChampions Club

3400 SE Summerfield Way (772) 283-1500

Florida Club 1380 SW Kanner Hwy. (772) 287-3680

Golf Gear 1865 S Federal Hwy. (772) 288-1310

Golf USA 5086 SE Federal Hwy. (772) 287-9245

Golfers Outlet2767 NW Federal Hwy.(772) 692-4286

Grand Island Ath. Club 3216 SE Federal Hwy. (772) 287-0222

Martin County GCC 2000 SE St. Lucie Blvd. (772) 287-3747

Miles Grant CC 5105 SE Miles Grant Road (772) 286-2220

Pine Lakes GC1827 NW Pine Lakes Dr.(772) 692-0346

Play It Again Sports 3351 SE Federal Hwy. (772) 286-9552

Seventy-six Golf World 6801 S Kanner Hwy. (772) 220-7676

SUNRISESpringtree CC

8150 Springtree Dr.(954) 572-2270

Sunrise CC7400 NW 24th Place

(954) 742-4333TAMARACColony West

6800 N. Pine Island Rd. (954) 718-7061

Golf Trader 8085 W. McNab Rd. (954) 720-8290

Woodmont CC 7801 N.W. 80th Ave. (954) 722-4300

WELLINGTONBinks Forest GC

400 Binks Forest Dr. (561) 333-5731

Kevin Perkins Golf Academy 400 Binks Forest Drive (561) 301-3783

Polo West Golf2470 Greenview Cove Dr.(561) 309-0572

WESTONBonaventure CC

200 Bonaventure Blvd. (954) 389-2100

WEST PALM BEACHDick’s Sporting Goods

8821 Southern Blvd. (561) 204-4133

Golfsmith 785 W. Exec. Ctr. Dr. (561) 616-4150

GolfTec (inside Golfsmith) 785 W. Exec. Ctr. Dr. (561) 683-3667

Lone Pine Golf Club 6251 N. Military Trail (561) 842-0480

Okeeheelee Golf Course7715 Forest Hill Blvd.(561) 964-4653

Madison Green GC 2001 Crestwood Blvd. N (561) 784-5225

W. Palm Beach GC 7001 Parker Ave. (561) 822-1591

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The Allianz Championship is an official PGA Champions Tour golf tournament that is played at the Old Course at Broken Sound, in Boca Raton, from February 2 – 8. All proceeds from the tournament benefit the Boca Raton Regional Hospital. Whether you prefer being on the grounds of championship golf course or relaxing and entertaining clients in our hospitality tents, you are sure to have a great time. Get your tickets today!

For more information call 561.241.GOLF (4653) or visit AllianzChampionship.com Follow Us On

Good-Any-One Day Grounds Pass allows the ticket holder access to the tournament grounds any one day between Friday through Sunday.

Weekend Grounds Pass allows the ticket holder access to the tournament grounds every day from Friday through Sunday.

WIN A FREE CRUISESlush Lounge is good for day purchased Friday through Sunday. Enjoy “cool” beverage options, including Slush frozen drinks. Celebrity Cruises curated menu of flavor-rich and fresh frozen cocktails. Cocktails are perfectly balanced with ingredients ranging from fresh pressed lemon juice, raspberries, cucumbers and mint to Persian Lime, Florida Valencia and Hamlin orange juice with organic agave nectar.

Club 18 Presented by is an upgraded ticket with an VIP Parking Pass includes unlimited upscale food and beverage that will be served throughout the day with a full open bar.

Club 18 One Day Pass

Club 18 Weekend Pass

$20

$50$50

$450

$150

Grounds Pass

Weekend Grounds PassCelebrity Cruises Slush Lounge

PURCHASE FOR A CHANCE TO WIN!One grand prize winner will receive a World Golf Village Vacation Package from the World Golf Hall of Fame that includes a 3 day/2 night stay at the Renaissance Resort in World Golf Village, a round of golf for 2 and a half hour lesson for two at PGA Tour golf academy!

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