WISCONSIN GOLFER l NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2011
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JACK SCHULTZ
WSGA PLAYER OF THE YEAR
hat a season 2011 was for 21-year-old
Jack Schultz. Schultz, a member of the
University of Michigan golf team and the
2010 Big Ten freshman of the year, didn’t
play many amateur events in Wisconsin
during the summer season, but he made
the most of his opportunities when he did
compete.
Schultz, who plays out of Fire Ridge GC
in Grafton, came up big in the Wisconsin
State Golf Association’s two marquee
state championships, the WSGA Match
Play Championship, sponsored by Taylor-Made, in June and the WSGA State Amateur Championship, played in July.
Schultz came from behid to earn the
Match Play title on the 19th hole at the
Links at Grand Geneva in Lake Geneva
over Ricky Hearden of Horseshoe Bay GC
in Egg Harbor. Schultz was 2-down to
Hearden on the 17th tee, but won the
17th and 18th to force extra holes, then
birdied the 19th for the title.
Schultz also had a prime opportunity in
July to win the State Amateur at Maple
Bluff CC in Madison. He earned a spot in
the final pairing with a round of 66 in the
third round, before a final-round 73
dropped him into a tie for second. He
then missed a 4-foot birdie putt on
18 that would have forced a
playoff with eventual winner
Mike McDonald of Blackstone
Creek GC in Germantown.
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Schultz also medaled twice in 2011
United States Golf Association qualifiers.
He shot 141 on Aug. 1 at Milwaukee CC
to earn a spot in the U.S. Amateur Championship at Erin Hills in Erin, but shot 73-
73–146 in the stroke play rounds there
and failed to reach the match play portion
of the tournament.
Schultz earned his other USGA berth at
Mark Bemowski
KETTLE MORAINE GC
WSGA SENIOR
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Washington County GC in Hartford on
June 6, where he shot 143 in U.S. Amateur Public Links qualifying. He tied for
27th in qualifying (77-71–148) at the
championship before losing in the third
round of match play.
In all, Schultz amassed 1,220 points dur-
ing the 2011 season. In second place was
Paul Jacobsen of The Racine CC, with 828
points. Robert Gregorski of
North Shore GC in Menasha
was third with 691 points. For
the full points list, click here.
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MARK BEMOWSKI
WSGA SENIOR PLAYER OF
THE YEAR
SGA Hall of Famer Mark
Bemowski had another amazing
season on the state level in
earning WSGA senior player
of the year honors for the
sixth time. Male play-
ers must be 55 or older
to compete in senior
amateur events.
Bemowski, 65, swept
Wisconsin’s most important
senior events in 2011 for the
second consecutive season,
winning the WSGA Match Play
Championship in July at Eau
Claire G&CC in Altoona, the
WSGA Senior Amateur
Championship at the end of
August at the Wisconsin Club
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in Milwaukee and the State Senior Open
in September at South Hills G&CC in
Fond du Lac.
Bemowski, the 2004 U.S. Senior Amateur champion, shot 68-72–140 in the
stroke play rounds this year at the U.S.
Senior Am at Kinloch GC in Virginia to
lock down the second seed before losing
1-down in the first round of match play.
Bemowski, who lives in Mukwonago and
plays out of Kettle Moraine GC in Dous-man, compiled 1,235 senior player of the
year points. Finishing second was Richard
Pfeil of Evergreen GC in Elkhorn – the
man who Bemowski beat in the finale at
the WSGA Senior Match Play – with 855
points. Steve Johnson, the 2008 WSGA
senior player of the year, was third with
757 points. For the full points list, click
here.
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JACKIE SHEPHERD
WWSGA PLAYER OF THE YEAR
junior at the University of Minnesota
this season, Jackie Shepherd began the
2011-12 season with the sixth-lowest
stroke average in school history (78.25).
Over the summer, Shepherd found her
way to the winner’s circle on a couple of
occasions. In June at The Racine CC,
Shepherd claimed a final-match win over
former University of Wisconsin player
Carly Werwie of Maplecrest CC in
Kenosha (4 and 3) to win the Wisconsin
Women’s State Golf Association Match
Play Championship. Shepherd shot 80 to
