IAGA Quick Hits – 1.30.25
Ouimet Fund Hosts Inaugural Women’s Networking Event
A story from the Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund
The Ouimet Fund’s first Women’s Networking Event, held at Topgolf in Canton on November 14, was a great success. Attendees gathered to connect, share experiences, and celebrate the growing presence of women in golf.
The event featured an engaging panel discussion with Ouimet Fund Board members Marie Chalmers, Judy Frodigh, and Alison Walshe, who shared their experiences playing golf and discussed the many benefits the game offers.
1st Clubs for Kids Foundation Junior All-Star Invitational receives 2023 Game Changer Award
A story from the AJGA
The 1st Clubs for Kids Foundation Junior All-Star Invitational has been recognized by the American Junior Golf Association with the 2023 Game Changer Award.
Each year, the AJGA honors tournaments that excel in various categories, including hospitality, Junior-Am Fundraising Tournaments, charitable giving, and volunteer support. Additional awards are presented for events with exceptional media and social media engagement. The AJGA also recognizes the year’s most outstanding golf professional, superintendent, and golf course executive, as well as standout tournaments such as the most game-changing event, best new event, best AJGA Preview Series tournament, best Ninja Junior All-Star Series tournament, best Invitational, and overall Tournament of the Year. Tournament awards for the 2023 season will be presented on-site at their respective 2024 tournaments.
Bergin, ASGCA, to renovate The Golf Club at Crown Colony in Florida
A story from the ASGCA
Bergin’s master plan does not alter the course’s routing, but the architect says, “everything else will be changed”. The project includes upgrades to irrigation and drainage, rebunkering, regrassing and adding new or relocating tees to allow the course to play from 4,300 to nearly 7,000 yards.
“Crown Colony is under the radar especially as a place to play golf in a beautiful environment,” said Bergin. “I want to expose all that while creating a course where you’ll have to use your head. We realise people don’t always execute perfectly, but we’ll give them the room to play less than perfect golf and still have fun.”
The most visible changes will be to the grass-faced bunkers. “Typical Florida bunkers are flashed sand and that’s all you see,” said Bergin. “I feel there are three forms of art to a bunker – the crest line; the sand line; and the bunker face itself – and how those lines complement one another, their shapes and movement, where there’s grass. These bunkers will stand out.”