The Wisconsin PGA will move its Junior Championship ? held at Yahara Hills Golf Course in Madison for the past 22 years ? to Milwaukee.
The 2013 Wisconsin PGA Junior Championship will be held at Brown Deer Park Golf Course and Dretzka Park Golf Course in Milwaukee, according to the WPGA Website. The 36-hole event will be played June 25 and 26.
The move reflects the first significant fallout from the city of Madison's decision last fall to not renew the contracts of its four long-serving club professionals at its city-owned courses, effective Dec. 31.
Wisconsin PGA officials had cautioned city officials it would likely pull its junior championship, which draws more than 300 juniors golfers to the area each June, if it went forward with the decision to end services with Mark Rechlicz (Yahara Hills), Tom Benson (Odana Hills), Rob Muranyi (Monona) and Bill Sheer (Glenway).
City officials said they wanted to change the contractual arrangement with the four city pros and use potential extra revenue to upgrade golf course facilities.
"This isn't a decision based solely on the fact that the city did not offer the four long-term professionals a new contract," Wisconsin PGA executive director Joe Stadler wrote in an email explaining the move.
"We understand the (city of Madison's) desire to have control of the revenues. If the city planned to hire two to four PGA Professionals and had one of them full-time at Yahara Hills, we may have returned this year. So, it has more to do with the plan to hire one PGA member to oversee the four courses than the plan to have assistants running the operations at each course.
"We want to see how things work out before committing our most important junior event. ...?We also didn't feel we could wait until all of the hiring of new personnel was done to evaluate the final outcome of the changes. We will take a look at things after the year and hopefully return to the Madison courses for many future events."
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