The Met Golfer June-July 2016 ​

Sometimes, being “behind the scenes” means we are SO far behind that we never get to see even one shot actually struck on the golf course. That certainly was the case at the recent AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, where the HPR crew’s duties running the media   center kept us indoors, providing a large international media contingent with all the tools and facilities they needed to report on a stellar week on the Monterey Peninsula.

How stellar? As Northern California’s own Art Spander summed it up, “Taylor gets ‘magical’ win at Pebble Beach.”

We agree. There is nowhere more magical than the Peninsula and Pebble, and while it’s always a little crazy AT&T week, it was great fun and a chance to show off some of our clients.

For instance, we landed a piece in Golf DigeSTIX about the tournament’s cool new logo, and scored a great vignette on Carmel-by-the-Sea’s Centennial during the CBS telecast, narrated by our friend Dottie Pepper.
 

And yet, despite our “inward focus,” we were able to share the moments of joy felt by victor Vaughn Taylor and his lovely family. It was magical, indeed, and was all we needed to top off a wonderful week.

Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla. (Oct. 20, 2015) – Healthy feet are happy feet, which is why Spa Marbella at Mission Inn Resort & Club is redefining foot care with a host of new services. Read more…

MONTEREY, Calif. (June 2, 2015) – Bryson DeChambeau, the 2011 Player of the Year on the Junior Tour of Northern California sponsored by Capital Insurance Group®, captured the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship individual title Monday.

A junior at Southern Methodist University, DeChambeau, from Clovis, also was named to the PING First-Team All-America team, announced today.

He is the first product of the JTNC to win the NCAA Division I championship and also is SMU's first NCAA men's golf individual national champion, winning at the Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Fla., with an 8-under par final score of 280.

As a junior golfer, DeChambeau played regularly on the JTNC and has credited that experience for helping him attain a higher level of play, as well as raising the standard of his character.

The SMU co-captain, wearing his trademark Kangol cap, posted four par-or-better rounds at Concession, closing with a 1-under 71 to hold off Cheng-Tsung Pan of Washington, No. 4-ranked amateur player in the world. DeChambeau played the final seven holes 3-under par to nail down the one-shot victory.

Beginning in 2011, CIG helped establish the JTNC when the Northern California Golf Association and the Northern California PGA combined resources, creating a single tour where junior golfers could compete against the best players for an affordable price. This partnership proved extremely successful.

Now in its fifth year, the JTNC scheduled 26 tournaments in 2015, from March through December. The quality of these tournaments has been recognized the American Junior Golf Association by awarding performance based entry status to the winners of all Boys and Girls Championship flight events in 2015.