Letter from the PGA President:

Michigan Golf Journal Readers,

I’m excited to share another of my quarterly updates as I write to you all from our PGA Professional Championship in New Mexico. 

Each year the top 312 players in our association from around the country come together to compete for a chance to hoist the prestigious Walter Hagen Cup and to represent the PGA of America at the PGA Championship as one of the 20 members of our Corebridge Financial PGA Team.

I was fortunate enough to have competed in 5 separate PGA Professional Championships during my career in the industry so I know first-hand the hard work and effort that goes into the preparation for this championship. I hope that you will be able to tune in and cheer on our great competitors.  

The PGA Professional championship marks the start of an incredible championship season for the PGA of America. Our PGA Championship kicks off in May at a renovated Oak Hill Country Club. The KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship (which alternates every other year in Benton Harbor) marks the major championship debut of our new home of PGA Frisco and our KPMG Women’s PGA Championship will be played at historic Baltusrol. 

All three of these majors will feature PGA Professionals who have earned a spot on their respective Corebridge PGA Team and I hope that you will cheer them on as you would your favorite PGA, Champions and LPGA Tour athletes. 

While our championships are sure to draw the eyes of the golfing world, it’s what’s going on with our nearly 28,000 PGA Professionals including the over 800 in the Michigan PGA Section that truly have me fired up for the remainder of 2023.

I know how much the sport of golf means to our great state and am proud to represent it at the national level as the President of the PGA of America. I can’t wait to keep you updated on the progress we are making over my two years in office. 

I’ll close with that message and call to action that I say at the end of every meeting I lead with the PGA of America:

“Play more golf. Play more golf. Play more golf.” 

Sincerely,

John Lindert, PGA
President, PGA of America