On June 17, 137 golfers and 56 tennis players took part in the Seventeenth Annual Howard W. Koch Memorial DGA Foundation Golf Tournament, and the Tenth 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 First Vice President Paris Barclay thanked all the players for their participation and acknowledged the work of Golf Tournament Co-Chairs Mel Damski and Michael Zinberg, and Tennis Tournament Co-Chairs Howard Storm and Gil Cates Jr. He turned the podium over to DGF Treasurer Cleve Landsberg, who announced that due to the generosity or the participants, more than $50,000 had been raised on behalf of the Foundation. Then Golf Tournament Co-Chair Mel Damski and Tennis Tournament Co-Chairs Howard Storm and Gil Cates Jr. thanked all the supporters of both tournaments including: DGA National Executive Director Jay D. Roth; the Wilshire Country Club; the 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 17th 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
Craig Pinckes |
Second Place
Neil Tardio |
Third Place
Jeffrey Harrier |
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Golf "Own Ball" Tournament Net Score Winners
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First Place
Christian Clark |
Second Place
Michael Runyard |
Third Place
Jim Manera |
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Golf Scramble Tournament Winners
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First Place
Kevin Griffin, Roger LaPage, Craig Pinckes, Rob Logevall |
Second Place
Jay D. Roth, Michael Stevens, Mack Clapp, Bobby Roth |
Third Place
Karen Lotta, Jim Lotta, Damien Bisserier, Pat Garrity |
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Tennis Tournament Winners
The 10th 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
Jim Wilson &
Jamie McShane |
Second Place
Rob Stone &
Jared Ward |
Third Place
Steve Carmendy &
Phillip Brooks |
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Flight Two
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First Place
James Davidson &
Brian Callen |
Second Place
Mike Robe &
Bill Schwartz |
Third Place
Kevin McKidd &
Steve Hirsen |
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Flight Three
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First Place
Terry Morse &
Dana Rummerfeld |
Second Place
Marc Peterson &
Howard Storm |
Third Place
James Spencer &
Jamie Marshall |
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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
- Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP
- Express Scripts, Inc.
- Greenberg Glusker
- IngleDodd Media
- Miller, Kaplan, Arase & Co., LLP
- Moving Image Technologies/Barco Digital Cinema
- Nigro Karlin Segal & Feldstein, LLP
- Paramount Pictures
- Peerless Building Maintenance, Co.
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- BlackRock
- Bridgewater Associates
- City National Bank
- Delta Dental
- Deluxe Media Management
- Entertainment Lighting Services
- Henegan Construction Co., Inc.
- Law Offices of Peter H. Alpert, Inc.
- Motion Picture Television Fund
- Rossmore Property & Casualty Insurance Agency, Inc.
- Seyfarth Shaw, LLP
- Sharp 360 Dynamic Technology
- Technicolor
- The Segal Company
- Vitech Systems Group
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- ABLE Engineering Services
- Alligator Pear Catering
- ASCAP
- Bernstein Real Estate
- Dimensional Fund Advisors
- EMCOR Services/Mesa Energy Systems
- g-Net Media
- GNW Evergreen Insurance Services, LLC
- Good Gracious! Events
- Hyatt Regency Century Plaza
- Jacob Feinberg Katz & Michaeli Consulting Group, LLC
- Keller Williams Hollywood Hills
- Latham & Watkins, LLP
- Legacy Partners Residential, Inc.
- Loomis Sayles & Company, L.P.
- NTT DATA
- Pension Consulting Alliance, Inc.
- PIMCO
- Progressive Productions
- The DigiTrust Group
- The Friedman Agency
- Thorsen French Advocacy
- Town & Country Event Rentals
- Union Bank
- Urdang Capital Management Inc
- Valet Parking Services
- Venuti & Associates
- Western Asset Management
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