Mark Hansen, Chair of 2013
USDGC,
Unveils a
video - Catalina Flyover
May 19, 2013
If you watch PGA on
TV, you would see a flyover on a golf course. It
would show how a hole would be played. Of
course, it would be interesting if US Deaf
Golf Championships have that kind of video!
Yes, Mark Hansen and his 2013 Committee did it!
Check out
Catalina Flyover. Enjoy viewing!
More information on 2013 US
Deaf Golf Championships on June 3-6, 2013 - Go
visit
http://www.azdga.org/AZDGA/USDGC.html
HOF Announcement
May 8, 2013
From: Bernie
Brown, USDGA Hall of Fame Chair
Re: Hall of
Fame Inductees
I am most
pleased to report the USDGA Hall of Fame’s
selection for the 2013 Hall of Fame inductees.
There will be a Hall of Fame ceremony during the
USDGA Golf Championship Tournament in Tucson,
Arizona on June 7, 2013. All inductees and/or
family members are invited to attend the
ceremony to be held on Friday evening, June 7,
2013. Please contact Bernie Brown at
berniepbrown@gmail.com for dinner reservations.
2013 Hall of
Fame inductees are:
Helen DiFalco Sun City West,
AZ Leader
Linda Nelson Cary, NC
Leader
Heyward Thompson South Carolina
Player
George Dyess Silver Spring,
MD Player
I want to thank the USDGA Hall of Fame committee
members for their time nominating, reviewing and
selecting the candidates.
Tucson 2013
Committee
Unveils a New 2013 USDGC logo
Feb 19, 2012
The
Tucson 2013 Committee was formed with
the goal of bringing the US Deaf Golf
Championships to the American Southwest
as never happened in the history of
national tournaments. One of the things
we sugarcoated for the bid package was
to design a logo showing our commitment
to the success for the 2013 tournament.
Typically the USDGA board would
advertise for a design competition after
bid award and we want to cut out that
inconvenience. So I have created three
different concepts in hand-drawn
sketches and the committee was equally
divided in deciding one. I think that
is a nice problem to have if you will.
The design
intent was to capture the iconic saguaro
that is only found in the Sonoran Desert
and since Arizona is the only state
populating it. It is a highly valuable
"tree" for fruit production to the local
native people and they are rightly
called "sentinel" of the desert.
And then we
have the five named majestic mountains
around Tucson that often sports the
purple hue either at sunrise or sunset.
The sun is actually a highly stylized
icon that belongs to the Omni Tucson
National which is our tournament site
and very much a celebration of our 300
annual days of sunshine.
SPANKING NEW STATE ASSOCIATION LOGO
A
logo also developed for our own
state golf association as resultant
effort of developing the tournament
logo. Since most of the committee
loved the whimsical character of the
swinging saguaro, I would
incorporate that for our state logo
along with the unique state flag of
Arizona. This flag was first used
by the state infantry company first
at the 1906 national rifle
competition in Ohio. The design was
adopted by the Legislature in 1912
when the statehood took place, but
the governor never signed for the
official proclamation of it and the
adoption STILL remain unofficial to
this day. Take a count at the
number of sunrays - yes it is 13 in
total representing the American
colonies but with the southwest
color glow. The bottom half is
Liberty Blue to copy the US flag
body. The copper star is to
represent Arizona as the only state
with a major copper industry.
TOURNAMENT DATE AND COURSE
SELECTION
Since
2006 the World Match Championships
took center stage and the focus
moved up north to the Ritz Carlton -
Dove Mountain. Tucson
Conquistadores are the proud
sponsors of that event. Rumor has
it that this is the last year of
contract for Ritz Carlton and the
event would move back to the Omni
Tucson National. WOW! If that
holds true, you are gonna play on a
course where the top 64 world
golfers will compete at. The staff
there is equally excited for both
that venue AND ours!
Yes,
Tucson at 2,600 feet and being in
the desert but playing at Catalina
will make you feel the course is
well maintained and so lushly green
with thick rough lies that will grip
your club if your ball find its way
there. This is a newly renovated
resort (spending 30 million dollars)
with the singular goal of winning
back into the PGA Tour where you
could leave your car there during
the whole stay and enjoy the
creature comfort including swimming
pool, chipping & putting areas and
hit unlimited balls at a separate
driving range all within walking
distance.
We
would love to welcome BOTH the
qualifiers (handicap of 15 or
better) AND the non-qualifiers so
everyone will get to experience
ARIZONA GOLF at its best and get
inspired especially when Kevin Hall
is available and decides to play
with us. I have already asked him
to.
The
interview with Kevin Hall
Kevin
Hall speaks how he likes the golf
course as a great and challenging
platform for the qualifiers of the
2013 USDGC. Click on the YouTube
video link below to see the story
below:
Tucson,
Arizona
Tucson
(Population: 750k) is the largest
city in America that can only boast
a (Coronado) National Forest
property at the edge of city limit.
That is where you go up to Mt.
Lemmon (9,157ft above sea level) the
place if you want to experience from
the desert to Canada in 35 minutes
of interesting transformation.
There is a town up there named
Summerhaven where old Tucson
families still own property there.
You will have a hard time trying to
acquire one unless you are in that
set of families.
Tucson
is not a sleepy town. The
international airport is an easy 25
minutes drive away. The largest
employers are the Davis Montham Air
Force Base, Raytheon and IBM and
then there is the University of
Arizona with a student population of
27,000. Remember Lute Olson and his
streak of 24 straight NCAA
basketball appearances? Sean Miller
is trying to fill in his big shoes.
Mike Canderea and the success of
girls softball program. And then
the newcomer Rich Rodriguez to
resurrect the football program. UA
is committed to overall excellence.
Astronomy is another important
activity here so the city takes care
not to have nightlight pollution so
the UA observatory towers on the
mountaintops can see the Milky Way
still.
It also
evokes the spirit of the Wild Old
West. You can see it at the Old
Tucson Studios and nearby is the
wonderful Arizona Sonoran Desert
Museum where the desert comes ALIVE!
A great crash course for at least
half of the day if you "thought" a
desert is a boring place with mean
stickers on plants. You can learn
more about the rich diversity of the
Sonoran Desert in plants and animals
there.
This
June 2, 2012 we will have a
fundraising tournament with great
cash prizes. Details are
forthcoming. Any of you board
members should take advantage of
this "preview" to experience the
Tucson weather and golf course at
exactly the same time ONE YEAR
EARLY! If there is a will, there is
a way!
Let's
begin the countdown.
USA Golf Teams Ready for 2012 World Deaf
Golf Championships
Feburary 3, 2012
Congratulations to the US Deaf Golf team
golfers who’ve tried out for the team at
2011 United States Deaf Golf
Championships (USDGC) at Centerville,
Ohio last July. The World Deaf Golf
Championships will take place at Tsu,
Japan on October 8 – 12, 2012.
For more
information, go visit 2012 WDGC's web
site -
http://www.2012wdgcjapan.com
Now, we have official representatives on
the USA Deaf Golf Team who will
participate in the World Deaf Golf
Championships on October 8-12, 2012 in
Tsu, Japan. Let us give them a round of
applause and we wish them good luck.
Go visit our web page to find out who
are on the teams -
USA
Teams
2011 US Deaf Golf Championships Results
July
27, 2011
2011 US Deaf Golf Championships
Full Leaderboard
2014
WDGC Committee Unveils a New WDGC logo
May
27, 2011
Traverse City, Michigan -
The WDGC 2014 Committee Tri-Chairs Darrell
Hovinen, Dan Nawrocki and Susan Zupnik are
pleased to announce the following:
Congratulations to
Lika Rau-Reece of Frankenmuth, Michigan. Her
star logo was chosen as the winner of the
WDGC 2014 Logo Contest over 34 other
submitted logos from 9 people. She is
married to Patrick Reece and has two
children, Kalika and Kaleb. She works as a
freelance graphic designer ever since she
graduated from RIT with Bachelor of Fine
Arts in 1991. Her hobbies are digital
scrapbooking and crafts.
We thank all the artists for taking the time
to create and submit their logos. There
were other logos worthy of being selected,
but Lika's star logo was the clear favorite
of the WDGC 2014 Committee and the USDGA
Board.
New 2011 USDGC
Website Launches!!!
Dayton, Ohio - here is a new website's link:
www.usdeafgolf.org/2011USDGC.
It has all information: player registration,
schedule, golf course and accommodations. Please
come visit our new 2011 USDGC website.
Dayton, Ohio - It is customary to create a new logo
for the next US Deaf Golf Championships (USDGC). The
important key is that characteristics of the new
logo shall be able to be identified. These include
the name and characteristics of the golf course
where US Deaf Golf Championships would play on, year
and, if possible, famous location.
In Ohio, Ben Young, who is the chair for 2011 US
Deaf Golf Championships, has unveiled a new logo.
The Golf Club at Yankee
Trace has been selected as the
championship course for the 2011 USDGC to be held on
July 12-15, 2011. The club is a premier
upscale public golf course in southwestern Ohio. It
features 18-Hole championship golf course and a
9-hole Vintage courses, along with a 32,000 square
foot clubhouse, a complete practice facility, and
friendly and professional staff. Yankee Trace Golf
Club has been awarded the “Best Public Golf Course
in Dayton and in Miami Valley” for five consecutive
years. The course hosted the Nationwide Tour’s
Dayton Open from 1999 to 2003.
Ben wants to emphasis that the work
of the new logo was mostly done by Nancy Rourke. Nancy
has very good artistic skills and tools in her PC.
Keith Worek, President of US Deaf Golf Association,
was very pleased with her work. He also want us to
know that the
new official web site for the 2011 US Deaf Golf
Championships website will be launched in early
February.
Announcement:
The 2014 WDGC Logo Contest!!!
