Preview: 101st Father & Son, 13th Parent & Child Tournaments Monday at Diamond Run
By Josh Rowntree, Director of Communications • June 22, 2025
SEWICKLEY — The oldest WPGA team competition will be contested Monday with the 101st Father & Son and 13th Parent & Child Tournaments set for Diamond Run Golf Club.
The event is 18 holes of Chapman format team stroke play. The tournament features both a gross and net competition and is open to amateur and professional golfers. Fathers and parents are permitted to include multiple children in their group.
Play will begin Monday in a shotgun format, with teams commencing play at 12:30 p.m.
Since 1921, the Father & Son Tournament has offered players who are members of WPGA Member Clubs a fun, yet competitive day of golf alongside family and on a top Western Pennsylvania golf course.
With a special, family-oriented history, the Father & Son has seen several sons win the competition, only to then return as fathers and win with their own child years later.
Jack C. Benson won in 1938 with his father, H.C., and then won with his sons Jack in 1958 and George in 1963. J.W. Oliver won three times with his father, A.K., and then won five times with his son O.M. R.A. Graciano won with his father, D.F., in 1974 & 75 and then with his son Perry in 1978. John Jones won with his father Gary in 1992 and then with his son Derek in 2009.
The Parent & Child Net division was added to the event in 2003. It was not contested from 2009-2017 but returned in 2018 and has been held every year since, with the exception of 2020. It has been won three times by the duo of Larry and Samantha Milosh.
In 2024, the team of Brent and Parker Johnson claimed the Father & Son Tournament, shooting 1-under and outlasting two other teams in a five-hole playoff at Pittsburgh Field Club in the competitions 100th anniversary. Brent Johnson also won the competition with another son, Tanner, at Cranberry Highlands Golf Course.
Tom and Thomas Garbin won the Parent & Child Tournament at 4-under last year.
This will be just the second time that Diamond Run has hosted the long-running tournament. In 2016, Jacob and James Augustin won the tournament at Diamond Run.
To see the groups, starting times and a live leaderboard for the Father & Son and Parent & Child Tournaments, please click here. (GGID: 25WPGAFSPC)
For any media inquiries, please contact WPGA Director of Communications Josh Rowntree.
About the WPGA
Founded in 1899, the Western Pennsylvania Golf Association is the steward of amateur golf in the region. Started by five Member Clubs, the association now has nearly 200 Member Clubs and nearly 37,000 members. The WPGA conducts 14 individual competitions and 10 team events, and administers the WPGA Scholarship Fund and Western Pennsylvania Golf Hall of Fame.