Pancake Receives PGA’s Top Honor Tony Pancake, the Director of Golf at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel, has been named the 2024 PGA Professional of the Year. Pancake was selected for this honor out of the 29,000 golf professionals in the U.S. This is the highest annual award given to a PGA of America Professional. Pancake was notified about winning this award in November. “I was attending a collegiate basketball game in Columbus, Ohio with my wife and daughter. Annabelle’s boyfriend plays for Ohio Dominican University,” recalled Pancake. “I received a call from John Lindert, President of the PGA of America. John is a friend whom I’ve known for many years, so it was extra special coming from him.” Pancake had never won the honor, but it was the third time that he was a finalist for this prestigious award. “I was a finalist in 2009 and 2019,” said Pancake. “This is a once in a lifetime recognition.” Pancake is a 1981 graduate of Seymour High School and a 1985 graduate of the University of Alabama. Crooked Stick Renovation Project As Crooked Stick Golf Club prepares to host the 2028 U.S. Senior Open, the golf course will be enhanced, and updated this year. According to Tony Pancake, the Director of Golf at Crooked Indiana Golf News Stick, Tom Doak will be the consulting architect on the project and the renovations will be accomplished in threephases. Phase one will require replacing the tie wall around the lake on the 18th hole, plus expanding it to include the 10th and 17th holes, as well. Phase two is scheduled to begin in June and will include rebuilding all 18 greens, as well as the two practice greens along with re-grassing the fairways, plus minor tweaks to the bunkers. The greens will remain the same except for expanding a few greens to create more hole locations. Phase two will require the course to be closed for approximately one year. Indiana Golf Journal
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTQ2Nzk4