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ALLIED ASSOCIATIONS: A LIST OF MGA PA RTNERS
Midwest Golf Course Owners
Association, MGCOA
The Minnesota Section
of the PGA, MNPGA
The MGCOA represents privately owned
public and private golf courses. For more
information, contact Curt Walker, executive
director, via email at MWGCOA@aol.com.
The mission statement of the Minnesota
Section of the PGA of America is to establish
itself as a viable, valuable and visible
organization to the golf community. For more
information, contact Jeffrey Hintz, CEO, at
763-754-0820, or go to
minnesotapga.com.
Minnesota Golf Course
Superintendents Association, MGCSA
The objective of the MGCSA is to advance
the art and science of golf course
management. For more information, contact
Jack MacKenzie at 651-324-8873.
The CMAA, Upper Midwest Chapter
The CMAA is the professional association
for managers of private membership clubs.
It promotes friendly relations among people
connected with the management of
clubs and other associations of similar
character. For more information, contact
Rollie Carlson at 612-419-9102.
Trans-Mississippi Golf Association
Founded in 1900, the Trans-Mississippi
Golf Association is one of the oldest and
most prestigious golf organizations in the
United States. For more information,
contact the Kansas Golf Association at
785-842-0155.
The First Tee
The First Tee was established to impact
the lives of young people around the world
by creating affordable and accessible
golf facilities to primarily serve those not
previously exposed to the game and its
positive values. For more information, go to
thefirsttee.org.
License to Kill...
Poa Annua
The Minikahda Club,
straddling
Excelsior Boulevard on the western
edge of Bde Maka Ska (formerly Lake
Calhoun), celebrated the May 23 grand
opening of a new proshop, bag room
and teaching center,
located on the
Minnesota Public Golf
Association, MPGA
The purpose of the MPGA is to both promote
interest in the sport and to conserve the
true spirit of the game of golf. For more
information, contact Jim Overocker, public
golf manager, at 651-452-6394 or jogolf@
comcast.net, or go to mpga.net.
Explore Minnesota
Golf Alliance, EMGA
The EMGA is a rapidly growing statewide
organization that promotes the Minnesota
golf experience to those outside of the
state. For more information, contact Steve
Dowling, executive director, at
612-860-8538.
footprint of the old building adjacent
to the clubhouse. A significant part of
the Minneapolis club's renovations also
includes ridding its fairways and greens
of poa annua, an annual bluegrass, and
replacing the turf with creeping bentgrass-Dominant
X-treme 7 on the
fairways and 007 on the greens.
The course was closed last summer
and the greens were roto-tilled and
recontoured before reseeding began in
August, says Jeff Johnson, Minikahda's
golf course superintendent.
Although growing conditions were
The Fairway Foundation
The Fairway Foundation uses the game
of golf to teach lifetime values and skills
to youth who would not otherwise have
an opportunity to be exposed to the game.
For more information, call Erick Goodlow at
763-226-1636.
Minnesota Evans Scholars
Sending deserving young men and
women caddies to college for more than
50 years. For more information, contact
the MGA at 952-345-3969 or visit
wgaesf.org.
hardly ideal over the ensuing fall and
spring, Johnson is happy with how the
007 variety came out of the winter.
" I'm pretty pleased with where we're
Midwest Public Golf Managers
Association, MPGMA
The MPGMA promotes and enhances
the public golf experience through the
education and networking of its membership.
For more information, contact
Troy Nygaard at 763-694-7697.
Physically Limited Golfers
Association, PLGA
The PLGA is an organization that provides
camaraderie and competitive events for
golfers with disabilities. For more information,
contact John Ross, president,
at 763-479-6419.
at, " he said after Memorial Day, adding
he hopes to see the course open for play
by the end of June when the bentgrass
has satisfactorily matured. According
to a 1976 report by Dr. Donald White,
a turfgrass scientist at the University of
Minnesota, bentgrasses are an alternative
to annual bluegrass and better tolerate
the conditions responsible for winter
turf damage collectively known as " winter
kill. "
Or as the other 007 might have
quipped about the pesky poa annua, " I
have another motto, it's 'live and let die'. "
The Ladies Professional Golf
Association, LPGA
The Ladies Professional Golf Association
encompasses both the LPGA Tour and
the LPGA Teaching and Club Professionals.
For more than 50 years, it has grown to
include programs intended to advance
golfers with an emphasis on women's
and youth golf. For more information,
contact Nora McGuire at 651-698-4218,
or go to lpga.com.
Minnesota Minority Junior Golf
Association, MMJGA
The MMJGA sponsors a Caddie Program,
which gives young people a chance to
discover golf and earn income at the same
time. Teens in the program learn how to
play golf and are afforded an opportunity to
earn income, respect, confidence and free
rounds of golf by working as caddies. Go to
mmjga.org or call 612-702-1406.
Corrections >> In the Spring issue's
Driving Minnesota feature, " Golf &
Art Out West, " the illustrated map
placed Madison Country Club, of
Madison, Minn., near the town of
the same name in South Dakota. We
regret the error.
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