DIEM Award. Kahanec was honored for being a team member of a MGCA member course and demonstrated creativity and success as defined by the legacy of the late John Dodge. She received a grant from the MGCA Scott Family Educational Support Foundation. Maple Hill Golf was named the recipient of the Dul Family Player Development Award. Maple Hill is honored as the MGCA member course that demonstrated creativity and success in growing the game by developing new golfers and new rounds by overcoming perceived barriers. Maple Hill will also receive a grant award from the Scott Family Educational Support Foundation to support continued golf programming for kids, women and beginners. Also honored at the MGCA Awards Banquet, Sundance at A-Ga-Ming Golf Resort, was named the Michigan Golf Course of the Year. Sundance, designed by Jerry Matthews, opened in 2005, is one of two courses at the main campus of A-Ga-Ming and sits atop glacier-carved bluffs between Torch Lake and Grand Traverse Bay in Northern Michigan. The MGCA Course of the Year Award honors a member course that meets four criteria: Unique characteristics of the course; exceptional quality of ownership and management; outstanding contribution to its community; significant contribution to the game. Michigan Golf Journal
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