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| 87 2019 INDUCTEES • 18-time Burlington Golf Club Women’s Club Championship • Participated in four USGA Women’s Championships • President of the IWGA from 2002-2005 • Volunteer Director of the annual Wife-Husband Championship, Iowa Women’s Ama- teur Championship, and the Iowa Senior Amateur Championship for several years • Dedicated more than 30 years of service to Iowa golf Jill Blackwood • Competed in two major championships to date, the 2003 U.S. Open at Olympia Fields and the 2018 PGA Championship at Bellerive • Four-year letter winner at the University of Iowa, and the first golfer to be inducted into the University of Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame • Three-time Indivudal and Team High School State Champion as a member of the West Branch Golf Team • Has earned Iowa Section Player of the Year honors nine times • 1995 Iowa Golf Association Player of the Year Sean McCarty Rick Tegtmeier • Earned the title of being a Master Greenkeeper, held by only 74 people worldwide • Began working on a golf course at the age of 14, at Rockford Country Club in Rockford, Iowa • Has dedicated over 45 years of work in service to golf in Iowa, spending time at Rockford Country Club, Urbandale Golf & Country Club, Hinsdale Golf Club, Elmcrest, and Des Moines Golf & Country Club along the way • Oversaw four years of renovation to the 36 Holes at Des Moines Golf & Country Club, in preparation of the 2017 Solheim Cup Matches • DMGCC hosted the 2017 Solheim Cup under his leadership Pat Willcox • Three-time Iowa Open Champion and four-time Iowa Masters Champion between 1940 and 1951. • Qualified for five major championships over his career, including the 1937 U.S. Open at Oakland Hills, the 1939 PGA Championship at Pomonock, the 1940 U.S. Open at Can- terbury,, the 1941 U.S. Open at Colonial, and the 1947 U.S. Open at St. Louis Country Club. • 1938 Waterloo Open Champion • 1944 Cedar Rapids Open Champion