Over the last two years, Duquesne University has made several decisions that will almost assuredly positively impact the landscape of girls and women’s golf in Western Pennsylvania. The University, situated on the doorstep of downtown Pittsburgh, decided in 2022 to...
Dan Rodgers knows his team is going from the hunter to the hunted in 2024. But that’s not exactly a bad spot to be. Rodgers, the eighth-year head coach of Carnegie Mellon’s men’s and women’s golf teams, is currently leading his group – he hopes – to a defense of its...
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...
