PITTSBURGH – The Western Pennsylvania Golf Association (WPGA) enters its 125th Anniversary year with an exciting Competitions Schedule officially set. The 2024 WPGA Competitions Schedule is designed to showcase the diverse talents of the region’s golfers while...
Use your favorite adjective to describe the summer that Rick Stimmel had in 2023, but understand that adjective must start at a level no lower than ‘spectacular’ or ‘mind-numbing.’ It was that good. Period. “Even this far removed from it now, it’s still unbelievable,”...
Jim Boughner, 64, of Mount Vernon, passed away on Monday, November 20, 2023. Jim served as WPGA President in 2014 and was a long-time volunteer and committee member, serving on the Advisory, Audit & Finance, and Championship committees. A graduate of The Ohio...
Ken Flisek, The Club at Nevillewood, was elected President during the WPGA Annual Meeting on October 9. He succeeds Jim Beck of Hannastown Golf Club and is the 104th President of the WPGA. Other Executive Committee members elected include Carol Onufro, Sunnehanna,...
The native Scotsman was born in Carnoustie in 1885. He showed up on the 1891 census as a schoolboy, and as a 15-year-old club making apprentice on the 1901 census. He became an outstanding player at the Carnoustie Club, and showed just how outstanding when, as the...
