WJGS Scores an Ace at the World Golf Hall of Fame

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Published: December 24, 2012

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Golf Writer Andy Reistetter attended the Opening and Closing Ceremonies and watched the play of the World Golf Junior Series (WJGS) event this week at the World Golf Hall of Fame on the Slammer & Squire golf course. Soon-to-be 2013 LPGA rookie Marina Stuetz, last year's American Junior Girls Champion, was on hand for the festivities as well.

When an event takes place in Shell Hall, the heart of the World Golf Hall of Fame (WGHOF), it is quite special. In that very same entrance way to greatness, the Night of Legends dinner honors the WGHOF Inductees Sunday night before the Induction Ceremony on Monday during THE PLAYERS week. An ambiance emerges amidst the 141 bronze plaques with head shots of the game's influential people and the large display cabinets of the current year inductees.

Both the coach and mother who founded the WJGS—which is also now located in Poland, Germany and South Africa in addition with plans for further expansion in America in 2013—opened the evening program. The coach, Tom Burnett who runs his namesake academy near the WGHOF out of St. Johns Golf & Country Club, was more like the mother, holding up a range finder left out on the course during the day's practice round to find its owner.

The mother, Dr. Susanna Rosswag, was more the coach as she read a quote off the wall in the hall from Bobby Jones: "Golf is usually played with the outward appearance of great dignity. It is, nevertheless, a game of great passion…"

She encouraged the world citizens from 19 different countries to pursue their passion, whether it be as golfers or as much needed natural leaders off the course in government, private enterprise or wherever their hearts, souls and minds lead them.



Steve Mona, CEO of the World Golf Foundation—which is the umbrella organization of the WGHOF—the First Tee and the Golf 20/20 initiative, asked each young person in the room "to keep go...
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