Indiana’s Lance Ringler Is Committed to Collegiate Golf Both Lance Ringler’s personal and professional lives have been intertwined with golf for the last 25 years, that it’s difficult imagining him involved in anything else. Currently Ringler is involved in promoting, publicizing and organizing the Hoosier Amateur golf tournament. It is a 54-hole event, held every August at the new Pfau Course at Indiana University, featuring both male and female collegiate golfers. “I started the Hoosier Amateur Golf Tournament during the pandemic, when college golf was cancelled.” Ringler was born and still lives in Ellettsville, Indiana with his wife, who was herself a top collegiate golfer. He credits her with the inspiration to start the event. “My start in golf came with my wife, who was a good junior, amateur golfer in her own right. She attended Iowa State on a golf scholarship. I also attended Iowa State after going to Vincennes JuniorCollege.Iworked in theathleticdepartment at ISU in media relations and marketing, plus I spent one summer with the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) running events around the country. After that I worked as sportswriter at the Bloomington Herald-Times before heading out on the PGA Tour to caddy for Craig Bowden in 1997.” After his caddy experience, Ringler expanded his horizons in the golf business. From 1998-1999, he was the assistant men’s and women’s golf coach at the University of Idaho and spent the 1999 fall season as an assistant at Iowa State. He also worked with Jeff Sagarin to develop a golf ranking system and then sold it to Golfweek, where it became the Golfweek/Sagarin rankings. “They brought me on full-time to manage the Golfweek/Sagarin rankings in 2000 and I have been with them, since then, but my job has evolved a lot. I now run more than a dozen events per year all over the country.” He has covered every NCAA Division 1 men’s and women’s golf tournament since 2000, for Golfweek. Another big event has also been added to his schedule for next year. He will serve as the Tournament Director for The National Golf By Mike May Indiana Golf Journal
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