Three-time U.S. Open champion Hollis Stacy played in the pro-am in late January at the LPGA Tour’s Drive On Championship at Bradenton Country Club. She is pictured here alongside Golf Channel anchor Grant Boone. Stacy has fond ties to Indiana as she won the 1978 U.S. Women’s Open at the Country Club of Indianapolis. Seven-time LPGA winner Debbie Austin was a volunteer on the driving range at this year’s LPGA Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions at the Lake Nona Golf & Country Club in Orlando in mid-January. Two of Austin’s seven wins came in Indiana, the 1977 Hoosier Classic at the Plymouth Country Club and the 1981 Mayflower Classic at the Country Club of Indianapolis. She was the 1977 LPGA Player of the Year. Tim Prichard, who grew up in Indianapolis and graduated from Lawrence Central High School back in 1982, remains a key cog on the production crew as a mobile unit engineer for NEP, the world’s largest provider of facilities (i.e. production trucks) for all the TV networks, including Golf Channel. Prichard was on-site at the LPGA Tour’s first two 2024 Florida events in Orlando and Bradenton.
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