Midwestern Amputee Golf Association

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  • Home
    • Hello from the President 2021
    • Board Members
    • Our Mission
    • First Swing
  • Tournaments
  • Photos
  • History
  • Sponsors
    • Become a Sponsor
  • Scholarship
    • Rules & Application
    • Scholarship Recipients
  • Contact Us
    • Our Brochure
  • Donate

History

PAst Champions and Presidents 

Who We are... 

Established in 2001, the Midwestern Amputee Golf Association (MWAGA) is a volunteer group of individuals who have experienced and overcome the loss of a limb or limbs and utilize the game of golf to promote friendship, fitness, fun and rehabilitation through active participation in golf for amputees of all ages.  We believe our local annual amputee golf event helps not just amputee golfers, but any golfer with a physical disability, achieve some of these objectives.

The MWAGA is a 501-C-3 non-profit organization headquartered in Northbrook, IL and includes Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota in its region.  The Midwestern region is under the larger umbrella of NAGA, the National Amputee Golf Association (nagagolf.org) and we are a member of the United States Golf Alliance (USAGA.org). 

Competition in sporting events, combined with the fellowship of men and women in similar life situations, provides a wonderful environment for sharing ideas, realizing potential and forging life-long friendships.   The MWAGA also promotes the value of golf for rehabilitation by providing information and training to rehabilitation centers and prosthetic facilities.   We utilize NAGA’s “First Swing” program to partner volunteer amputees with clinical therapists to use golf in rehabilitating their physically challenged clientele.

We do more than play golf…………we have donated to the firemen in New York City after 9/11, OperationWarriorWishes.org (benefits the Wounded Warriors) and an orphanage in Haiti.  We also provide annual academic scholarships to amputees and family members of amputees.  In September 2013, a member of our group traveled to Boston to mentor some of the amputees from the Boston Marathon bombing.  Another member traveled to Guatemala in October 2014 with seven other prosthetic clinicians (ROMP) and five physical therapists on a humanitarian mission to provide free prosthetic care to amputees who had limited access to such care (Hearts in Motion).  This team fitted 29 Guatemalan amputees with new prosthetic limbs.

Past Overall Champions 

2001     Dan Cox              144
2002     Cory Tibbs          156
2003     Dan Cox              151
2004     Dan Cox              144
2005     Dan Cox              150
2006     Dan Cox              109
2007     Dan Cox              149
2008     Les Meade          148
2009     Les Meade          150
2010     Les Meade          156 
2011     Dan Cox              152
2012     Kim Moore         157
2013     Les Meade          157
2014     Les Meade          161
2015     Bill Morrison     156
​2016     Darin Strenzel   165
2017     Steve Husome    164
2018     Tracy Ramin      155
2019     Kenny Bontz      146
2020     Kenny Bontz​      141
2021     Tim Herrmann  148
2022     Evan Mathias       73

PAst Women's Overall Champions

2022     Kelsey Koch      91

​Past Senior Division Overall Champions 

2022     Steve Husome     77

Past 9-Hole Division Champions

2021     Gus Lease           116  
2022     Kurt Smith           55  

Past Presidents 

Bud Sanders                2001-2003
Steve DeBlasio            2004-2006
Don Zommer              2007-2009
​John Benway              2010-2012
​Jeff Linton                   2013-2015
Don Zommer              2016-2017
Bradley Schubert      2017-present
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