We're back. And with the winter months approaching, we're going to be doing the podcast every 3-4 weeks - subscribe to get notified when a new episode is uploaded! PGA Gateway Section Award Winners Golf Professional of the Year Gideon Smith, Quincy Country Club Assistant Golf Professional of the Year Jordan McKelvy, St. Louis Country Club Teacher & Coach of the Year Blake Sharamitaro, Family Golf & Learning Center Professional Development Award Jeffrey Field, Westborough Country Club Bill Strausbaugh Award Larry Salsman, Osage National golf Club Player Development Award Blake Sharamitaro, Family Golf & Learning Center Youth Player Development Award Blake Sharamitaro, Family Golf & Learning Center Patriot Award Jon DePriest, Sunset Hills Country Club Public Merchandiser of the Year Adam Betz, Family Golf & Learning Center Private Merchandiser of the Year Curt Goss, Country Club of St. Albans Resort Merchandiser of the Year Andi Taylor, Margaritaville Lake Resort Soft Goods Sales Representative Jake Wall, Peter Millar Hard Goods Sales Representative Jeff Thronhill, TaylorMade Player of the Year Ryan Roy, Bogey Hills Country Club Ladies Player of the Year Ali Wells, Gateway PGA Section Senior Player of the Year Rob Sedorcek, Family Golf & Learning Center Super Senior Player of the Year Bob Gaus, Family Golf & Learning Center Assistant Player of the Year Matt Swanson, Forest Hills Country Club Ryan Roy joins the show to talk all thing Bogey Hills, his summer of golf, and 5 questions with Andy. MAGA Awards Peter Weaver of Bellerive Country Club had an incredible summer to finish the year as the Men’s Player of the Year. Playing in four points qualifying events, Weaver won three of them. He began the summer with the Missouri State Amateur Championship. Weaver fought his way into the final match at Payne’s Valley Golf Course, where he would win 4 & 2 to be the Champion. He then played in the U.S. Amateur Qualifier, in which he played well enough to earn the second alternate spot. He followed up the state championship win nearly a month later with the St. Louis District Golf Association Griesedick Men’s Championship at Glen Echo Country Club. For a second time, Weaver showed he could contend in a match-play event by winning on the 22nd hole and earning another Champion title. Of course, his summer would not be complete without proving that he could also get it done in stroke-play. Weaver shot three rounds under par at Persimmon Woods Golf Club to hold off his competition by one-stroke at the Metropolitan Amateur Championship. Rounding out his summer as the Metropolitan Amateur Champion, Weaver earned the points to sit at the top of the Player of the Year standings. Paul Neeman of Persimmon Woods Golf Club played some great golf over the summer to be the Senior Men’s Player of the Year. He started the year by battling his way to a runner-up finish in the Old Warson Cup, followed by a tied for fourth finish in the East Side Amateur Senior Division. Neeman’s next best finishes of the summer came from a T-4 finish in the Metropolitan Four-Ball with his partner Brian Hall and a T-5 finish in the Cassett Senior Championship. Racking up all of these points, he was not quite finished. At the end of July, Neeman won the City Championship with a score of six-under par. A month later, Neeman took a three-stroke lead in the Metropolitan Senior Amateur Championship at St. Clair Country Club to win the championship and leap to the top of the Senior Player of the Year leaderboard.
