2020 IGA Yearbook

• ISU Women’s Golf Team most valuable player in 1993-94 • Runner-up at the Big Eight Championship and earned All Big Eight honors back to back years • Recorded 24 career top-10 finishes which is still an ISU record • Named ISU’s Female Athlete of the Year in 1996 • Played on the LPGA Tour from 2000-2012 • $1 million in career earnings and competed in 26 major championships. • Best finish in a LPGA event was a tie for fourth at the 2007 LPGA Corning Classic 2020ANNUAL REPORT 2020 IOWA GOLF HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES BETH BADER JOHN BENDA JUDD GIBB • After competing on the Iowa State men’s golf team from 1967-1969, Benda worked with the ISU Cyclone Country Junior Golf Camp from 1971-1986 as a professional instructor. • Won the Iowa Open in 1973 and the Waterloo Open in 1985 • Qualified for the The Open Championship in 1979 and 1980 • Played professionally on the Asian Golf Circuit/Asian Golf Tour, the European Tour, the Australian/New Zealand Tour and the European Senior Tour • In 1988 Benda was named the Asia Golf Circuit Coordinating Director and in 1992 was named Executive Director, a position he held until retirement in 1998. Jerry Smith, a 2017 Iowa Golf Hall of Fame inductee and PGA Champions Tour Member, commented that he honestly does not know anyone coming out of the State of Iowa who has had a bigger influence on the game of golf worldwide than Benda. • Four-year letter winner (1992 team captain) at Iowa State University, • Participated in two NCAA Regional Championships • Five-time Iowa PGA Player of the Year • Two-time IPGA Teacher of the Year • Competed in a total of 12 National Club Professional Championships in addition to three National Assistants Championships. • Played in the John Deere Classi in 1999 and 2010 and would have competed in 2020 if it weren’t canceled due to Covid-19. • Two-time Iowa Section PGA Champion 2009, 2019 • 2004 Herman Sani Tournament Champion