Highland CC makes
significant Scholarship Fund Donation
December 02. 2009
Jeff Rivard, Executive Director (contact)
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Highland Country Club, one of Pittsburgh's oldest with great
traditions, donated $2650 to the WPGA Scholarship Fund, the
second largest among WPGA Member Clubs to the Fund this
year.
In 1922, the club hired a young pro from Westchester County,
NY, who had previously been employed at Titusville Country
Club. His name--Gene Sarazen. While employed at Highland, he
taught a youngster by the name of Sam Parks, who later won
the 1935 US Open at Oakmont. Sarazen took a week off from
his duties to win the 1922 US Open at Skokie CC, near
Chicago. Upon receiving another job offer after winning the
title, he did not return. Other golfers from Highland
include George Ormiston, winner of the 1899 and 1903 West
Penn Amateurs. He also was the Association's first Executive
Secretary. Another is Bob Reilly, an outstanding WPIAL
golfer who was an All-American at the University of
Pittsburgh. He won four straight West Penn Amateurs,
1960-63. All four of these golfers are in the WPGA's History
Makers, the top 100 golfers of its centennial.
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