TEEING IT FORWARD GOLF GUIDE 2014
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Travis Youngblut puts some body into his swing while teeing off during the 2013 Waterloo Junior Golf Championship at Irv Warren Memorial golf course in Waterloo last July. BRANDON POLLOCK / Courier Staff Photographer
Youth movement
Future of golf starts with youth
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DOUG NEWHOFF I doug.newhoff@wcfcourier.com
year ago, the Waterloo Junior Golf Association had one foot in the rough. The organization that for years has helped develop and serve youth golfers throughout the Cedar Valley needed to shape a shot to put it back on the fairway. Under the leadership of Tom Berg and Marianne Christensen, the WJGA is back in the short grass and rolling toward the green. “I couldn’t have been happier,” said Berg, who returned as the WJGA’s executive director after a 10-year hiatus and surrounded himself with a staff that shares his vision. “When you dive into something like that, you don’t really know what the outcome is going to be.” That outcome was significant. WJGA membership increased from fewer than 50 members in 2012 to approximately 140 last summer.
See WJGA, page 6