Columnist: Terry Moore
Ben Cook Hopes to Raise the PGA Trophy This Time
By Terry Moore In an unlikely set of events last August, a young golf professional won a major Michigan tournament – but didn’t lift the trophy in celebration. Huh? Surprisingly to most fans, that’s what happened to Caledonia’s Ben Cook, an assistant pro at Cascade Hills CC at the time, who won the 2018 PGA Championship […]
Dave Hill Put Jackson on the PGA Tour Map
By Terry Moore This summer marks the 40th anniversary of one of Dave Hill’s PGA Tour victories in Memphis, Tenn. The Jackson native won 13 PGA Tour titles in all, but four of them (’67, ’69, ’70 and ’73) occurred in the city now known as the home of the World Golf Championships-FedEx […]
Michigander Playing in the PGA Championship
By Terry Moore Caledonia’s Ben Cook is heading to the PGA Championship at famed Bethpage Black — as a competitor, not a spectator. The 25-year-old teaching professional at Yankee Springs GC in Wayland earned his way into golf’s second major of the season by finishing tied for fourth at the recent PGA Professional Championship […]
Get To Know Grand Valley State’s Alex Scott
by Terry Moore “Own and take up your space.” This is not a realtor’s slogan but rather the adopted credo of Alex Scott, the heralded senior golfer at Grand Valley State University who competed in remarkable fashion in 2018. The GLIAC Golfer of Year, Scott became the first amateur in 27 years to win the Tournament of […]