On June 19, 140 golfers and 38 tennis players took part in the Sixteenth Annual Howard W. Koch Memorial DGA Foundation Golf Tournament, and the Ninth Annual DGA Foundation Tennis Tournament. Both events were fundraisers created to benefit the Directors Guild Foundation (DGF), a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting DGA members facing difficult times.
The golf tournament ‑ renamed in 2001 in honor of former DGF Chair Howard W. Koch ‑ and the awards reception were held at the Wilshire Country Club, which was founded in 1919 and has hosted many great tournaments and groups such as the LA Open, the Senior PGA and the LPGA. The tennis tournament took place right around the corner at the Los Angeles Tennis Club, home of champions since 1921.
DGA President Taylor Hackford thanked all the players for their participation and announced that due to their generosity, more than $50,000 had been raised on behalf of the Foundation. He turned the podium over to DGF Chairman Donald Petrie, and tennis tournament co-chairs Howard Storm and Gil Cates Jr, who thanked all the supporters of the tournaments including: Golf Tournament co-chairs Mel Damski and Michael Zinberg, DGA National Executive Director Jay D. Roth; the Wilshire Country Club and Los Angeles Tennis Club; the USTA's Annette Buck who served as the tennis tournament's director; and the tournaments' gold, silver and bronze sponsors, before proceeding to hand out the raffle prizes and announce the winners of the golf and tennis tournaments.
Golf Tournament Winners
The 16th Annual Howard W. Koch Memorial DGA Golf Tournament consisted of a morning "Own-Ball" competition with players competing for first, second and third places in the categories of “Best Gross Score” and “Best Net Score” and an afternoon Scramble format with each team of golfers playing the group's “best ball.”
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Golf "Own Ball" Tournament Gross Score Winners
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First Place
Andy Cheng
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Second Place
Joel Nishimine
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Third Place
Jeffrey Harrier
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Golf "Own Ball" Tournament Net Score Winners
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First Place
Graeme Joyce
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Second Place
David Phinney
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Third Place
Bob Graf
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Golf Scramble Tournament Winners
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First Place
Cleve Landsberg,
Joel Nishimine, Chris Pollack, Joe Ball
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Second Place
Kristopher White,
Dee Shaw, Lisa Read, Martin Lutzeier
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Third Place
Damien Bisserier, Michael Judd, Kevin Griffin, Ryan Anker
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Golf Closest to the Pin & Longest Drive Contest Winners
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Closest to the pin
on hole #4
Scott Larson
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Closest to the pin
on hole #7
Claudia Hoover
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Closest to the pin
on hole #13
Lincoln Forbes
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Longest Drive
on hole #2
Joel Nishimine
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Tennis Tournament Winners
The 9th Annual DGA Tennis Tournament was a round-robin doubles competition segmented by skill level, featuring eight-game sets. The teams accumulating the most games were the winners of each flight.
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Flight One
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First Place
Jared Ward &
Rob Stone
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Second Place
Jim Chatelain &
Scott Smith
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Third Place (three-way tie)
Bruce Caulk & Nick Arthur
Mia Fogh & Christine Setian,
Martin Bruestle & Dana Rummerfield
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Flight Two
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First Place
Ben Phan &
Ladd Vance
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Second Place
John Cramer &
John Sheppird
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Third Place
Hank Lachmund &
Michael Messina
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Sponsors
The DGA thanks our Golf and Tennis Tournaments' Sponsors
Gold Sponsors:
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Silver Sponsors:
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Bronze Sponsors:
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- Anthem Blue Cross
- Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss, LLC
- BNY Mellon Asset Management
- Bush Gottlieb Singer Lopez Kohanski Adelstein & Dickinson
- Express Scripts
- Horizon Actuarial Services, LLC
- IngleDodd Publishing
- Miller, Kaplan, Arase & Co., LLP
- NBC Universal
- Nigro Karlin Segal & Feldstein, LLP
- Peerless Building Maintenance Co.
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- BlackRock Inc.
- Delta Dental Plan of California
- Entertainment Lighting Services
- Law Offices of Peter H. Alpert, Inc.
- Mata Construction
- Motion Picture & Television Fund
- Moving Image Technologies
- NTT Data
- Rossmore Property & Casualty
- Vitech Systems Group, Inc.
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