Rodriguez High’s Hether wins golf tournament

Easton Hether won the boys 14- and 15-year-old age group at the 1st Tee of Greater Sacramento Junior Golf Tournament played at Valley Hi Country Club in Elk Grove on Monday.

Hether finished with a one-under-par 71, three strokes ahead of local favorite Charlie Gulbe of Elk Grove. Hether played a steady round with two birdies and one bogie.

Hether will be a junior this fall at Rodriguez High School.

Five PGA pros inducted into Hall

The Northern California Section of the PGA of

America (NCPGA) has announced the 2020 Class of PGA Professionals inducted into the Association’s Hall of Fame, including longtime NBC Sports golf commentator Roger Maltbie, Alan Krueger, Charlie Leider, Rick Rhoads and Ken Towns.

Maltbie is a 38-year PGA Member, five-time winner on the PGA Tour and a key member of NBC Sports’ golf coverage team since 1992. As the network’s lead course reporter, Maltbie traditionally walks with the leaders and provides expert on-course insight.

Krueger, a 51-year member of the PGA, was the PGA Golf Professional at Round Hill Country Club in Alamo for over 40 years before retiring in 2005.

At 86 years old and a 56year PGA Member, Leider is the current owner of Pajaro Valley Golf Club in Salinas, which he operates with his son and daughter, and where he still goes to work every day. He earned NCPGA Player of the Year honors in 1971.

Rhoads, a 46-year PGA Member, is a 1967 graduate of the University of Southern California, where he was a two-time golf All American. He was hired at the San Francisco Golf Club as the head professional in 1976. During his time at the SF Club, Rhoads still competed at the highest level but also became a highly respectable golf instructor, both learning and working with the likes of Gary Player, Lee Trevino, Dave Stockton, Al Geiberger, Sam Snead, Dave Pelz and many others.

A PGA Member for 52 years and close friend of fellow 2020 NCPGA Hall of Fame inductee Leider, the 92-year-old Towns was born in San Mateo, where he learned the game of golf and eventually won a host of amateur events, including the National Public Links Championship in 1949 and the San Francisco city crown in 1964. Towns earned his way onto the PGA Tour and played from 1964-1966, where one of his highlights was capturing the Pro-Am portion of the Bob Hope Desert Classic.