Hank Gola — Veteran Sportswriter & Author
Hank Gola has spent more than four decades as a journalist, covering professional football and golf for the New York Daily News and the New York Post. Hank is also author of 3 sports books, including “City of Champions,” which chronicles Garfield (NJ) High School’s unlikely path to a national football championship in 1939.
ListenBen Kline — Shivas Irons Society Executive Director
Ben Kline serves as Executive Director of the Shivas Irons Society, a California-based non-profit organization established in 1992 that’s based on the deeper mysteries of golf and life found in a book written 20 years earlier in 1971 by Michael Murphy, called “Golf in the Kingdom”…which is one of the best selling golf books of all time.
ListenEvan Schiller — Golf Course Photographer
Over the past 20 years, former PGA Professional Evan Schiller has established his reputation as one of the world’s premier golf course photographers. Evan has photographed hundreds of championship courses in several countries, and his work has been published in the golf industry’s most prestigious publications.
ListenJohn Kaczkowski — Western Golf Association President & CEO
The Western Golf Association has more than 400 member clubs across the nation, and is a sponsor of a number of amateur and PGA Tour events; notably the BMW Championship. The crown jewel of the WGA is the Evans Scholars Foundation, which since 1930 has provided full 4-year college scholarships to nearly 11,000 deserving caddies.
ListenRutgers Professor William A. Meyer — Turfgrass Management Expert
What makes great golf courses possible is the many decades of turfgrass-related science and experimentation that have been the life-long passion of individuals like Rutgers Professor William A. Meyer.
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