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Shows what happens when people get together, doesn’t it? Just a few months ago, the Duval County high school golf programs were headed for an early grave. To-day, assuming the school system does its job, the golf programs could be stronger than ever.The county school system is in awful financial trouble and sports is taking a big hit. Not just golf, things like volleyball, tennis and cross-country. Yes, the world can get along with-out all these and yes, a lot of people would be glad to let them go if we could just do something about debt ceilings and the like.However, there are plenty of us who think youth sports are very, very im-portant. Everyone reading this, I’ll bet, is playing or has played youth sports. I don’t know anyone who has emerged for the worse from that ex-perience.How to save the sports? Money, money, money, and none from the tax coffers.

You know the rest about golf. The local professional chapter leadership went to the school board, found out how much was needed, and set about raising it. They put together a raffle, a charity tournament, knocked on doors and figured out how to reach every golfer.They did.The total is something around $70,000, just about the right num-ber. The pros, and those who donat-ed to them, saved high school golf, at least for a year.Let’s follow this up with a few thoughts:1. When our pros get together, they can accomplish as much as any group. I can think of two instances when the child of a local pro was di-agnosed with a terrible illness, and the families needed financial assis-tance.I wasn’t active here at the time but I was reminded by those who were. In both cases, a charity tournament was held with tremendous donations in prizes, and a resulting check for the families.

2. What was done this year was good enough for only this year. I think the golf community did its job be-yond what anyone anticipated, and I assume that the school system folks appreciated it. Now, it’s the system’s turn to keep this going. If they sim-ply sit back and think this will auto-matically repeat, they will be testing people’s good will. 3. Leadership is everything in times of crisis. I’m not sure that enough people realize what Mike Lynch, Jack Aschenbach, Mike Broder-ick and others in the chapter have done ... on their spare time. I hope their actions will stir their members to get more active in the chapter, and I hope the chapter’s increased strength will lead to other commu-nity projects. Congrats to all who helped.

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The smallest player was among the longest hitters and got the biggest check in the Northern Chapter PGA Championship.

He is 28-year-old Broc Nell, who’s about 5-foot-8 and weighs maybe 150 pounds. He’s a club profession-al — head pro at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation — and that’s his goal in life.

Why not the Tour? “I played in the national club pro championship and shot 78-76. I know my place. I’m competitive locally. I have a good day job and I know the facts of life.”

Why so long? “It’s all about the shoulder turn. Get the clubhead traveling a longer distance. I’ve been compared to (PGA Tour player) Kyle

Stanley. He isn’t big but he really makes a turn.”

Biggest win? “This was big but I won the Gate in 2008. Take your pick.”

Background? “I’m from Indiana and went to Methodist College in Fay-etteville, N.C., because they had a PGM (Professional Golf Management) program. It was a small school and I felt comfortable there.”

How did he get here? “I took a job as an assistant at Amelia in 2005 and last year was promoted to head pro. It’s the only place I’ve ever worked.”

Family? “Girl friend named Lacy. We like to go to the beach, go fishing, anything outdoors.”

Future? “I’d like to stay in this area and be a director of golf at a club.”

Chapter championshipLeaders: The winner was Broc Nell of Omni Amelia Island Plan-tation with 7-under 137, one better than TPC assistant Jenni-fer Heinz and two ahead of long drive champion Gerry James. Tied for fourth were Chapter points leader Cary Splane of Marsh Creek, teaching pro Brad Rollinson and Turkey Creek own-er Walter Smith. James was the Senior champ, one better than Rollinson.

Where: Both World Golf Village courses.

How he won: With a birdie on the final hole. Nell and Heinz were both just short of the green on the par-5 18th at the King & Bear. Heinz left her chip 20 feet short, Nell was 12 feet past. Heinz barely missed, Nell didn’t.

Chapter President Mike Lynch with Nell and Senior champion Gerry James.

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We certainly want to give new Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown a honeymoon but enough is enough with his talk about getting an NBA franchise. Will

someone tell him that we will need a new arena (a cheapie might go for $250 million) and a whole bunch of new residents who will pay the big ticket prices? C’mon, Alvin, talk about supporting what we have. <<<

Might have picked up this internet memo on “Federal Golf Rule Chang-es.” It says that President Obama has now decreed that the term “gimmie” will be changed to “entitlement,” with anyone with a handicap of 10 or below getting no entitlement, 11-17 getting entitlements for inside the leather, and 18-over getting an automatic one-putt for any ball on the green. <<<

Am I alone when I say that David Fe-herty’s TV show isn’t very good? Or, is it that they keep telling us that it will be funny, and isn’t? <<<

Have a bad day on the course? Might not beat the one in a recent junior event at Eagle Landing when a young lady’s round included three balls in a hazard, a golf bag dropping into a lake, resulting in wet grips for the rest of the round; and a lost cell phone. Still shot 80. <<<

Great work by all who raised money to keep high school golf in Duval County. But we hope they’re wary about the school system, which got us into this mess and now may be thinking that the golf community will keep getting them funded. But our folks surely learned that the school folks can’t be trusted; the No. 1 guy in the system took a vaca-tion during the height of the fund-raising, and only a few high school

coaches showed up for the charity tournament at Jacksonville G&CC. <<<

30-plus pros played 36 holes and only two skins? Good payday at the Northern Chapter Championship for Marsh Creek’s Cary Splane and GC of Amelia’s Keith Gibson. $400 each. <<<

And nice job by the World Golf Vil-lage folks at the Chapter Champi-onship. Lot of attention to detail, which you expect from Honours Golf. Really good cookies, too, on the lunch buffet. <<<

C’mon, Blaine Gabbert. Just when Jag GM Gene Smith cleans out the thug-dressing crowd, in you come with your hat on backwards like some 1990’s high schooler. This isn’t the big city, we know, but it’s a step above Missouri. Among modern ath-letes, the only backwearer we can think of: Dale Earnhardt Jr. You want to be like him? <<<

Peter Bream is one of those good ra-diologists we’re blessed to have here and last month he was hauled off the golf course for a weekend proce-dure. He had just birdied San Jose’s 9th for 39, his best nine ever, and grumbled that he surely would have matched that. Justice was served; he played the following Wednesday and made a hole-in-one. (Personal note: I felt your pain when you were on call, but I sure appreciated what you did with me in that hospital.) <<<

Good captains down the road in the Underwood Cup. New pro leader Tom Aycock has chosen Chapter leader Mike Lynch as his assistant and eventual successor, Amateur captain Billy Varn has reached out to ex-PGA Tour staffer Mike Bodney. <<<

Inspiration? How about longtime tournament director John Randall of

1stcoast Golf, who’s 84 and clanking along. <<<

So Steve Williams is a jerk, and that’s one reason he was dumped by Tiger Woods. Don’t know Stevie so I can’t comment, but did you ever read any-thing about his ill nature before he got canned? <<<

Phil Mickelson caught grief when he criticized the Atlanta Athletic Club’s Highlands Course for being unfriendly to the average player. Hey, he was right. I played there some years back — even before Rees Jones worked it over — and won-dered how the average player would have much fun with all the long car-ries over water with no escape route. <<<

Palencia assistant pro Dan Meinert says you need two things to play golf: a sense of humor, to laugh off the awful things that happen, and a streak of masochism, to like the awful things that happen. And did you know that Meinert once was the athletic director at Western Michi-gan University? <<<

Anyone have any idea how the Jags will do? Or the Gators? <<<

Seems odd not to have the Suns in the post-season. Let’s hope the par-ent Florida Marlins — Oops! They’ll be the Miami Marlins next year — get themselves straightened out and don’t soak the farm system to keep the mother ship flowing. <<<

Yes, expect another college lacrosse doubleheader in the stadium. The prime game may not equal last year’s rematch of the national champion-ship (Duke vs. Notre Dame) but the ticket prices will drop to a reason-able level. <<<

— Fred Seely is editor of Jacksonville Golf & Sports Magazine and can be reached at

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North Florida charities won more in the past year here than the com-bined first place purses of K.J. Choi and David Mathis. And it will be the same in the coming year.

Choi won $1.17 million for taking The Players in May. Mathis’ first-place check was $108,000 in the Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open last October. Together, that’s $1,278,000.

The charitable contribution from the tournaments? About $5,200,000.

“We expect to do ever better this year,” said Winn-Dixie Open direc-tor Jeff Sanders. “Last year was tre-mendous. The response from chari-ties was more than we expected. Now, the word is out and more are involved.”

The 2010 Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open presented by Planters generat-ed more than $1.6 million for char-ity — a record amount for a first-year Nationwide Tour event.

There are numerous ways for chari-ties to get tournament money and

the Winn-Dixie Open way is about the most direct: a charity sells a ticket and it keeps the money. Plus, the money is available on a monthly basis.

The Players has been giving money back since its very early days here as the Greater Jacksonville Open in 1965.

There was a steady flow over the

years but the big dollars didn’t start coming until the PGA Tour moved the tournament permanently to this area in 1977. Last year’s $4.6 million was a record and it’s no secret that director Matt Rapp is aiming for $5 million this year.

Over the years, some $40 million has been contributed and an even more ambitious Players goal was an-nounced this year: a commitment to generate $50 million for youth-related charities over the next 10 years.

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On the coverTwo who are closely involved with the Tour’s charity giving are Andy Pazder and Bill Calfee. Pazder’s title is Executive Vice President & Chief of Operations of the PGA Tour, and Calfee is president of the Nationwide Tour.

Charities with a tax-exempt sta-tus in the five-county area (St. Johns, Duval, Baker, Nassau, and Clay) are eligible and can get full information at www.pgatour.com/tournaments, then by clicking on Charity, then on Guidelines.

Tickets Fore Charity: Charities can get the entire face value of sales of tickets to the Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open. In addition, there will be a $50,000 bonus pool provided by Pepsi that will be divided among participating charities based on the total ticket revenue they produce.

Birdies for Charity: Charities so-licit entries in the program and keep the donations. The person who comes closest to predicting the number of birdies made dur-ing The Players got a trip to this year’s President’s Cup in Australia. The charity with the most do-nors gets $25,000 and the charity that raises the most money gets $25,000.

Red Coat Grant: The committee of past chairmen awards annual grants, typically in the $2,000-$10,000 range.

Major Grant: The Players offers multiyear grants beginning at $50,000 on a periodic basis. The primary area of focus for major grants are education, youth de-velopment, and children’s well-ness.

Chip in for Youth Sports: Quali-fied youth sports organizations and middle and high school ath-letic programs in the five-county area can sell Players tickets and get a percentage of each ticket sold.

Auction packages: Charities hav-ing auctions can purchase a “Play-ers Auction Package” of two week-ly grounds tickets and 1 weekly parking pass at a discounted rate.

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The United States GA is taking a new step in 2014. Both the men’s and women’s U.S. Open championships will be played at the same site and a week apart.

The site is Pinehurst and dates are June 12-15 for men and June 19-22 for women.

As usual, each event has its own logo. But there’s also a combined logo, as shown here.

Each tournament has a relevant item. For the men, a hat represents the Pinehurst logo, a small boy known as the “Golf Lad” who wears the hat. For the women, a cardinal is the North Carolina state bird and

the icon of the major Pinehurst ho-tel, the Carolina Hotel.

Like to have merchandise with the logo? It’s on sale now in the Pinehu-rst golf shop.

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Rollinson is a teaching pro who this year is the tournament di-rector of the Northern Chapter PGA.

Age: 53.

Hometown. “My dad was sta-tioned in California and I was born in Carmel. But I’ve lived all over because of the service; I’ve made 12 moves in my life. We settled in a small town north of Pittsburgh.”

To North Florida? “My wife is a corporate executive and we moved here when she took a job with Blue Cross Blue Shield.”

His job. He was with a golf management company and now is on his own as a teach-ing pro. You can book him at [email protected].

His game. He’s one of the state’s best senior players and competes in numerous events. He’s also competitive with the pre-senior set and tied for fourth in the re-cent Northern Chapter champi-onship.

Overseas. “I’ve tried to make the European Tour from 2007-09. I just missed every time.”

Good words: From PGA Chapter President Mike Lynch: “We have a great tournament schedule this year. It takes a lot of hard work and Brad has really done a great job.”

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Joey Combs, a Jacksonville native who has been a professional at sev-eral local clubs, will take over the management of the Cecil Field Golf Club.

Combs and several investors have been awarded the lease for the course, owned by the City of Jack-

sonville as part of a deal with the U.S. Navy that turned the Westside base into what is now Cecil Com-merce Center.

Combs formerly was head pro at the now-defunct Westland course and has served as an assistant at several clubs including Marsh Landing.

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Sept. 25: St. Johns G&CC.

Oct. 2: St. Johns G&CC.

Oct. 15: North Hampton.

Nov. 5: Deercreek.

Nov. 20: St. Johns G&CC.

Dec. 4: St. Johns G&CC.

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Sept. 20: Directors, Ponte Vedra G&CC.

Oct. 3: Scholarship tournament, Ponte Vedra.

Oct. 19: Directors, Palencia.

Nov. 7: Four-Ball, San Jose.

Nov. 21: Club Team Championship, Deerwood.

Dec. 13: Directors, Fleming Island.

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Sept. 14: Opening day, Deerwood.

Sept. 28: Fleming Island.

Oct. 5: Windsor Parke.

Oct. 12: Amelia River.

Oct. 19: Orange Park

Oct 26: Ponte Vedra Lagoon.

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Sept. 10: Stableford, Ponte Vedra Inn & Club.

Sept. 19: Military Pro-Am, NAS.

Oct. 3: Pro-Assistant, Glen Kernan.

Oct. 17: Marsh Creek Pro-Am.

Nov. 7: Sawgrass Pro-Am.

Nov. 21: Pro-Am Tournament of Champions, Amelia National.

Dec. 12: Partners Pro-Am, Walt Disney World.

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Sept. 12: LPGA Legends.

Sept. 21: Magnolia Point.

October 1: Ormond Beach Club de Bonmont.

Oct: 31: Eagle Harbor.

PGA Tours

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Sept. 22-25: The Tour Championship, Atlanta East Lake.

Oct. 13-16: PGA Tour McGladrey Classic, Sea Island.

Oct. 20-23: Nationwide Tour Winn-Dixie Open, TPC Valley.

Oct. 20-23: Childrens Miracle Network Hospitals Classic, Walt Disney World Magnolia and Palm.

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Nov. 15: Amelia Island Plantation.

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Sept. 24: Eagle Landing.

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Sept. 13: MaliVai Washington Foundation Pro-Am, Marsh Landing.

Dec. 14: Gate Petroleum Senior, Ponte Vedra Lagoon and Ocean. (Qualifier: Dec. 6.)

Dec. 15-16: Henry Tuten Gator Bowl Pro-Am, Timuquana and San Jose.

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Sept. 7: All Association at Jacksonville G&CC.

Sept. 15: Seniors at Bent Creek.

Sept. 19: AmaTOUR at Marsh Creek.

Oct. 6: AmaTOUR at Deercreek.

North Florida PGA

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Sept. 12-15: Section Championship and Senior Section Championship, TBA.

Sept. 26-27: Senior/Junior, TBA.

Florida State GA

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Sept. 13: One-day event, King & Bear.

Sept. 19: Mid-Am qualifier, Queen’s Harbour.

Sept. 26: One-day event, Marsh Creek.

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One of the most talked-about golf items in this area has been the Dream 18, a summer Sunday night feature at Jacksonville’s sister tele-vision channels of CBS30 and FOX47.

Assistant sports director Brent Mar-tineau conceived the project and takes the lead in lining up a four-some that usually consists of a ce-lebrity, a club pro, a media personal-ity and a Ch. 30/47 staff member.

We caught up with Martineau to find out more:

Who selects the holes?“We have a panel that suggests the holes, but this year the celebrities so far have pointed us to a destination. Last year we had Len Mattiace, Jack Aschenbach and Mark Spencer on the panel. We had courses submit their favorite three holes and from

there we put them on a spreadsheet nos. 1 through 18. Our panel then picked the best first hole, second hole, etc. We had a variety of public, private, and resort courses chosen.

This year is a bit different. We are playing all par 3s. Aschenbach and Spencer are still a part of the panel along with me. I didn’t want to ask

too much of Len; that’s the only rea-son he’s not back. Plus, this year is more celebrity driven so the panel is more of a guide for suggestions than actually making the decision.”

Who chooses the guests?“Celebrities — ahhhh, the fun part. There actually are quite a few celebs around here with local ties, but we also try to find folks that may be vis-iting or in town.

“Also, they don’t have to be sports people. In fact, we would really love to get an actor or musician if pos-sible or even a politician if available. This is no doubt the hardest part of the Dream 18. It took two months of work to get Tim Tebow and Tom Coughlin. The logistics of everything aren’t easy, but it’s worth it when it happens.”

How about the media guests?“Last year we had folks from Ac-tion News play, but quite frankly we didn’t have a lot of golfers in our station so a bunch of us played twice. Steve Wrigley (Ch. 47 sports director) played with David Garrard and I played with Anthony Kim and Fred Funk.

“This year, I’ve opened it up to other

media like newspaper writers or ra-dio personalities. I think this will help grow the project in the sense other media folks can spread the word and talk about it. Plus, they will add some personality to the TV pieces.”

How hard is the production?“The taping of the segment doesn’t take too long. Again, it’s the logis-tics of getting everyone in place that is the difficult part. When we tape, we do a quick introduction and then we just play the hole with the four-some — 20 minutes tops and we’re done. The editing isn’t so quick. Patrick Kavanagh and Dave DeCan-dis, our photographers and produc-ers, help put the pieces together. The packages come out to be about 3-4 minutes.”

Good memories“No doubt the most memorable hole we’ve played was No. 17 at the Sta-dium Course last year. Jaxson de Ville played in the costume and on the first try hit the green and then birdied the hole. It was wild and the theater that surrounded the play-ing of the hole was everything you would imagine with Jaxson.

“This year, when we were set to tape Tebow’s hole, Urban Meyer walked into the pro shop. I asked if he would play and he said ‘anything you need’ so that was very cool. It wasn’t even set up that way.

“It seems like there is a story behind every hole we shoot.

“Perhaps the biggest story we have was last year when we were having the flags signed to be auctioned. I had everyone’s signature on the flags except for three including Ar-nold Palmer (he did our 1 & 5th hole introduction). We sent them to Ar-nold Palmer in Orlando, he got them, signed them, and mailed them back. I never got them back — lost in the mail!! I had to go around and get everyone’s signature on new flags I bought. 1,000 miles in ten days and

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How do you redevelop an aging golf course in this economy? Sim-ple. You redevelop the neighborhood. Recon-figure the course to provide space for “town

center” homes around the club-house, 9th and 18th greens – as at St. Andrews in Scotland or Celebra-tion in Central Florida – and use the proceeds to build a new layout and a new clubhouse.

That’s the plan for Selva Marina Country Club, a private country club in Atlantic Beach. The equity mem-bers formed a partnership with Bob-by Weed’s golf course design firm and the Cronk Duch architectural firm to completely redesign the course, clubhouse, pool and tennis courts. The redesign will free up 30 acres at the center of the club, on which will be built 98 single-family homes. All units will be a five-minute or less walk from the clubhouse. The homes will not front the golf course, but each will have a partial view of the new course.

“We were going to die if we did noth-ing,” said Alan Ennis, a former chair-man of the club and a senior vice president with TD Bank. “There was no reason not to try something new.”

The plan is on hold, as many ambi-tious real estate projects are. In the meantime, Selva Marina has con-tracted with Hampton Golf to run the club and its membership drive, and delay the redevelopment until conditions are more favorable for real estate.

“Hampton has a broader under-standing of golf management and the ability to buy supplies more economically than we could,” Ennis said. “They had very creative ideas on how to increase membership that

worked. With golf play down, and membership down, the volunteer board didn’t feel that we had any room to make mistakes.”

The redevelopment, while on hold, is very much alive. The entitlements are good ˝for another four years”, Ennis said. The partners in the proj-ect are confident of success, for sev-eral reasons. One is that Atlantic Beach is an historic beach town in which there are virtually no vacant lots for new homes. Another is that there has been little cash outlay or carrying cost: The club owns the land, and the designers have done their work on spec.

Bobby Weed and landscape archi-tect Chris Monti have worked on similar projects, including The Del-tona Club in Central Florida and TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Conn. In both cases, the course was rede-signed to spin off surplus property at the edges. Selva Marina may be a first for a redesign that places

the homes around the center of the course, clubhouse and amenities. In-stead of building a swimming pool for the residents, the residents will have an entire country club and clubhouse.

That could make Selva Marina a business model for equity golf clubs around the country. A large number of golf courses built in the 1960s or earlier – between 5,000 and 9,000 courses, depending on whom you ask – need renovation. But many of those clubs have little capital, a declining membership base and resistance on the part of remain-ing members to be assessed for a multi-million-dollar capital project. And many, like Selva Marina (which once hosted the Greater Jacksonville Open, the predecessor to The Players Championship), are historic courses in historic communities.

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JAGA gets donationsThree local clubs gave checks total-ing more than $4,000 to the Jack-sonville Area GA’s scholarship fund at its meeting last month at Cimar-rone.

The men’s golf association at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club gave $2,500, the Marsh Landing MGA gave $1,055 and the Hyde Park MGA gave $1,000.

The 2011 scholarship class includes Ryan Cowan of Sawgrass, Florida Gateway College; Theodore Huffing-ham, Champions Club, Florida State; Brandon Hyder, Blue Cypress, UNF; Ewa Ponikiewska, Sawgrass, UNF; Patrick Schumann, Queen’s Harbour, UNF; Cody White, Selva Marina, Morningstar University; and Harri-

son Yazgi, Hyde Park, Florida Gulf Coast.

The scholarship tournament sched-uled for October 3 at Ponte Vedra has been cancelled.

The year’s final event, the Club Team

Championship, will be on Nov. 21 at Deerwood and information will be available soon. This formerly was called the Past President’s Tourna-ment.

The directors will meet this month on the 20th at Ponte Vedra G&CC.

JAGA Scholarship chair Tom Tierney (second from left) with representatives of the three clubs that gave checks to the scholarship fund last month: Jim Cook, Hyde Park, Ed McDonald, Marsh Landing; and Adair Roberts, Ponte Vedra Inn & Club.

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we got it done. Crazy stuff”

Best and worst“No aces just yet! There have been plenty of bad shots but we use mul-ligans sometimes — we can’t ask people to participate then embarrass them on TV. I’d say Jaxson de Ville’s shot had to be the best. Vic Ketch-man (former Jaguars web editor) also hit a killer approach last year on the 7th at Amelia National. This year, Tebow hadn’t even hit any practice balls when he got to the tee on the 17th at Glen Kernan and ripped a 205-yard 5 iron within 8 feet! Un-fortunately, he missed a tricky putt.

Examples of who has played and where?“Here’s the 2010 list:

“1. San Jose, Jaguars kicker Josh Scobee. 2. Mayport Windy Harbor, a Navy commander. 3. Palencia, Suns GM Peter Bragan. 4. Slammer and Squire, broadcaster Joe Cowart. 5. Sawgrass East, Tour pros Jim Furyk, Leonard Thompson. 6. Hidden Hills, basketball great Artis Gilmore. 7. Amelia National, Ketchman. 8. Glen Kernan, Jaguars center Brad Meester. 9. Jacksonville G&CC, First Tee of Jacksonville director Pepper Peete. 10. Marsh Creek, Vietnam vet and jet pilot Fred Olmstead. 11. Timuquana, cart supervisor Billy McKenzie, who filled in when an invited guests didn’t show. 12. Dye’s Valley, broad-caster Bob Wenzel. 13. Fleming Is-land, Tom Watson - not the real Tom, but an 80-year-old who plays at Fleming 14. Eagle Harbor, basket-ball legend Sam Jones. 15. King and Bear, long drive champ Landon Gen-try. 16. Ponte Vedra Inn . and Club, PV owner Herb Peyton. 17. TPC Sta-dium, Jaxson De Ville. 18. St. Johns Golf and CC, Champions Tour player Fred Funk and Olympic Gold Medalist Shannon Miller.”

What else?“We’ve given away more than $5,000 worth of free golf on our internet

18 flag in their store during our auc-tion.”

“We have added a 4th to our group. Every week we’re having a kid from the First Tee of Jacksonville or St. Johns County.

“Just like last year, we are keeping a scorecard of our holes played. Last year, the club pros won!”

thanks to participating courses do-nating foursomes.

“We’ve raised more than $2,000 for First Tee of Jacksonville, First Tee of St. Johns County, and Dreams Come True by auctioning framed, autographed flags. Palm Beach Auto-graphs teamed up with us to frame all the flags and display the Dream

Jaxson de Ville is a familiar sight at charity golf tournaments, but can the Jaguars’ mascot really play golf?

Better than you think. But there’s one problem. He can’t see where the ball goes.

“I think I could break 100 with a caddie to line me up and follow the ball,” said Jaxson. “I can’t see very well out of the costume head. I could be about a 15 handicap.”

His alter ego, Curtis Dvorak, is definitely a good player, carrying a 2.6 index.

“I grew up in New Jersey and the options for public courses were slim and there weren’t enough tee times for the amount of people in those areas,” said Dvorak. “My brother and I would arrive at the course at 4 a.m. and sleep in the car sometimes to get a tee time on a Saturday because they were first

come, first serve...and at 4 a.m. you were about 20th in line.”

Dvorak hits tee shots about 275. In the bulky Jaxson costume, they’re in the 200 range.

“I started playing golf when I was about 5 years old and my first set of clubs was a 7 iron and a put-ter. I didn’t even have a bag — I had one of those pyramid carrying racks that the clubs clipped into sideways and you carried it like a small suitcase. But I think learn-ing the game with just a few clubs was the best way.”

You’ll see him all over the area.

“We live in the best area in the country for a golfer,” said Dvorak. “The amount of accessible courses that you can play in the North Florida area is ridiculous and with all the discounts you can get it’s so cheap to play.”

Jaxson’s goal is a big one, and he’s working on it.

“I’d love to do a challenge at The Players next year to see if I can break 100 under tournament con-ditions,” he said. “I’m trying to work up the details and fit in a charity fundraising aspect to it.

“Once I have that, the only hurdle left is mowing (PGA Tour Commis-sioner) Tim Finchem’s lawn to get permission to do the event.”

(Jaxson de Ville is available for ap-pearances at golf tournaments and other functions. He does about 300 events a year and among his favorites are youth camps. Dvorak can be reached at [email protected].)

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Jacksonville Area GA Junior at Hidden Hills

Boys 16-18: Osborne Theam d. Anthony Scolapio, playoff.

Boys 13-15: Spencer Slayden.

Boys 12-under: Cody Carroll.

Girls: Kaitlyn Price.

Eagle Harbor club championshipsMen: Neal Goldblatt.

Women: Carrie Parmer.

Senior: Ray Baughn.

Men net: Ben Parmer.

Senior net: Gary Owensby.

Northern Chapter PGA Championship at World Golf Village

Regular: Broc Nell.

Senior: Gerry James.

1stCoast Senior at Laurel Island Links

Flight winners: Bruce Moskovciak, J.C. Campbell.

San Jose ShootoutGross: Don Poag.

Net: Stew Baker.

Jacksonville Area GA Championship at Ponte Vedra

1. Sean Dale. 2. Mike Smith. 3. Greg Carrier. 4. Pete Kell-erman.

AmaTOUR at Hidden Hills

Flight winners: Kenny Robshaw, Jim Lynch.

Senior Interclub at San Jose

1. Jacksonville G&CC. 2. Hidden Hills.

Northeast Florida Seniors at Ormond Beach Oceanside

Gross flights: Joe Swihart, Steve McLaughlin, Russell Mullen Jr., Joe Infante, Jack Tinsley, John Raybon, Bill Levchuck, James Weber.

Net flights: Tony Krieg, Joe Power, Dan Hutchinson, Bill Soman, Mike Piers, Dick Tyson, Gerry Verheeck, Reggie Frye.

North Florida Junior Tour (Masters) at Sawgrass

Girls: Emily Tillo.

Boys 16-18: Jonathan Folkner.

Boys 14-15: Travis Trace.

Boys 12-13: Alexander Forsbrand.

North Florida Junior Tour (Prep) at Hidden Hills

9-hole: Samuel King.

12-13: Jaxson Bratton.

14-15: Kyle Dodson.

Dr. Gordon Ira Junior at Hyde Park

Overall: Cody Carroll.

Flight winners: John Mangus, Eric Havixbeck, Trebor Mangum, Aisha Peete, Bobby Crouch.

Florida Junior Tour at Palm City

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JAGA Directors at Cimarrone

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PUBLICBent Creek 103rd St. on Westside. Range. 779-0800.

Blue Cypress Off University Blvd. in Arlington. Range. 762-1971.

Cecil Field 103rd St. on Westside. Range. 778-5245.

Deerfield Lakes Lem Turner Rd. just south of Callahan. Range. 879-1210.

Fernandina Beach Amelia Island Parkway. Range. 800-646-5997

First Tee of Jacksonville Golfair Blvd. west of I-95 North. Nine holes. Range. 924-0401.

First Tee of St. Johns County. Three holes. SR 207, St. Augustine. 810-2231.

Hyde Park Northern dead end of Jammes Rd. on Westside. Range. 786-5410.

Jacksonville Beach Penman Rd. south of Beach Blvd. Range. 247-6184.

King & Bear Part of World Golf Village but about three miles south of main area off SR 16. Range. 940-6088.

Mill Cove Monument Rd. in Arlington. Range. 642-6140.

Palatka Moseley Ave. west of downtown. Range. 386-329-0141.

Palm Valley Palm Valley Rd. east of U.S. 1. Nine holes. Range. 285-8978.

River Bend Golf Links South of Green Cove Springs. Range. 284-8777.

Slammer & Squire In World Golf Village. Range. 940-6088.

St. Augustine Shores U.S. 1 south of St. Augustine. Range. 794-4653.

St. Johns Golf Club Cypress Links Blvd. 27 holes. Range. 209-0350.

Starke East of town. Nine holes. Range. 964-5441.

UNF Golfplex At University of North Florida. Three holes. Range. 620-2050.

SEMI-PRIVATEAmelia River Amelia Island Parkway. Range. 491-8500.

Champions Club at Julington Creek Off SR 13 in Mandarin. Range. 287-4653.

Cimarrone CR 210 west of I-95. Range. 287-2000.

Country Club of Orange Park West end of Kingsley Ave. in Orange Park. Range. 276-7664.

Cypress at Grand Club Palm Coast. Range. 386-437-5807.

Eagle Harbor CR 220 in Fleming Island. Range. 269-9300.

Eagle Landing OakLeaf Plantation. Range. 291-5600.

Golf Club at Fleming Island US 17 in Fleming Island. Range. 269-1440.

Keystone Golf & Country Club U.S. 21 south of town. Range. 352-473-4540.

Magnolia Point Off US 17 in Green Cove Springs. Range. 269-9315.

Matanzas Course at Grand Club Palm Coast. Range. 386-446-6330.

North Hampton Off A1A west of Fernandina Beach. Range. 548-0000.

Pine Course at Grand Club Palm Coast. Range. 386-445-0852.

Queen’s Harbour Atlantic Blvd. west of Intracoastal Waterway. Range. 221-1012.

Royal St. Augustine SR 16 west of I-95 in St. Augustine. Range. 824-4653.

Selva Marina Selva Marina Blvd. north of Atlantic Blvd. in Atlantic Beach. Range. 246-3144.

South Hampton CR 210 west of I-95. Range. 287-7529.

St. Johns Golf & Country Club CR 210 west of I-95. Range. 940-3200.

Windsor Parke Hodges Blvd. north of Butler Blvd. Range. 223-4653.

PRIVATEThese clubs are private and are open to the public only for special events.

Amelia National Off A1A west of Fernandina Beach. Range. 652-0660.

Deercreek North of Avenues Mall on Southside Blvd. Range. 363-1507.

Deerwood Baymeadows Rd. west of Southside Blvd. Range. 642-5917.

Glen Kernan Hodges Blvd. north of Butler Blvd. Range. 646-1116.

Grand Haven Palm Coast. Range. 386-445-2327.

Hidden Hills Monument Rd. in Arlington. Range. 641-8121.

Jacksonville Golf & Country Club Hodges Blvd. north of Butler Blvd. 223-6910.

Long Point South of Amelia Island Plantation. Range. 277-5908.

Marsh Creek A1A south of St. Augustine Beach. Range. 461-1145.

Marsh Landing South of Butler Blvd. in Ponte Vedra Beach. Range. 285-6514.

Osprey Cove East of I-95 at Exit 1 in Georgia. Range. 800-352-5575.

Pablo Creek San Pablo Rd. south of Butler Blvd. Range. 992-6900.

Palencia US 1 north of St. Augustine. Range. 599-9030.

Plantation Country Club A1A south of Ponte Vedra Beach. Range. 543-2960.

Ponte Vedra G & CC In TPC. Range. 285-0204.

San Jose San Jose Blvd. Range. 733-1511.

Sawgrass A1A in Ponte Vedra Beach. Range. 273-3720.

Timuquana Timuquana Rd. west of US 17. Range. 389-0477.

RESORTThese courses are primarily for the use of resort guest or mem-bers. Some are also open for public play at certain times.

Omni Amelia Island Plantation In Amelia Island Plantation. 54 holes. Range. 261-6161.

Golf Club of Amelia Island Amelia Island at Ritz-Carlton. Range. 277-8015.

Ponte Vedra A1A in Ponte Vedra Beach. Range. 273-7710.

TPC Sawgrass In Sawgrass Country Club, 36 holes. Range. 273-3235. Open to public 14 days in advance.

MILITARYThese clubs are located on Navy bases and are for persons assigned to the bases or retired military per-sonnel. They occasionally are open for public play during special events.

NAS US 17 north of Orange Park. Range. 542-3249.

Windy Harbor Mayport Rd. north of Atlantic Blvd. in Atlantic Beach. Range. 270-5380.

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