Karnes honered:
in the Open four times between 1980 and 1992.
Frank Lickliter, Mike McGee, Randy McGohan and Jimmy Henderson did it at least once.
Several from the Miami Valley will play Monday at Maketewah with the same goal. They are Ron Eubel, Alex Flick, Sam Geise, Jake Gilkison, Josh Gilkison, Kevin Grabeman, Andy Mayhew, Pete Samborsky II, Christopher Sloan, Jeff Steinberg, Connor Quigley, Scott Thompson, Doug Wade and Ian Walton.
Others who submitted entries to the USGA with the intention of trying to qualify elsewhere include Jeff Scohy, Randy Leen and Frank Lickliter II.
Rob Karnes, head professional at Dayton Country Club, has a shiny new plaque to show off this spring: the PGA’s Master Professional award.
“I’m glad I did it and I’m glad it’s over,” Karnes said of a process that took two years. It required a one-hour presentation at the PGA Learning Center in Port St. Lucie, Fla., in November.
The Master Professional program began in 1969, and 362 pros have completed it. The other Dayton area pro I can recall having done it is John Marchi, who recently retired as director of golf at Cassel Hills in Vandalia.
Wounded Warrior fundraiser:
In preparation for an October exhibition by the Wounded Warrior amputee softball team, a fund-raising golf outing will be July 23 at Locust Hills Golf Club, south of Springfield.
It’s a four-person shotgun scramble at 8:30 a.m. with a donation of $75 per person.
Jon Herst of Lexington, Ky., a member of the softball team, will participate. He lost lost part of his leg in combat in Afghanistan.
Proceeds of the softball team’s October appearance will go to the new Fisher House project at the Dayton VA Medical Center and Honor Flight-Dayton. Contact dayton_softball@hotmail. com for more information.
Michael Bernard, the Wayne High sensation who won the Ohio Amateur in 2010 at age 15, graduated cum laude from Ohio State University a week ago with a degree in mechanical engineering.
Bernard was a member of the OSU golf team for three years before putting golf aside to concentrate on his studies. He has taken a job with an engineering firm in Columbus.
Tim Krapfel of Centerville won the Southern Ohio PGA Senior Match Play Championship when he defeated Tim Walton, 4 and 3, at Sycamore Creek Country Club. Krapfel works at Bel-Wood Golf Course in Morrow.
The Dayton District Women’s Golf Association will hold its Spring Shamble on Monday at Sugar Valley Golf Club.