TJGA offers scholarship to honor Paul Szymanski
Written by Kristen Criswell | | krapin@toledofreepress.comThe Toledo Junior Golf Association (TJGA) has established a scholarship to honor its former president and board member Paul Szymanski.
Szymanski battled brain cancer for 14 years, but remained active with TJGA until his death July 3.
“We wanted to honor Paul for all of his contributions to the Toledo Junior Golf Association,” said Scott Walsh, TJGA board member. “He was on the board for 10 years and served as president. He was a great junior golfer when he was a kid and won the organization’s top golf award back in 1981. He was a great guy. A lot of the association’s success and growth can be attributed to him.”
TJGA is a nonprofit organization that aims to develop competitive junior golfers in the Toledo area. Boys and girls ages 12 to 18 participate in 16 events throughout the area each year. The Paul Szymanski Spirit Award will recognize one incoming or outgoing high school senior who demonstrates a love of life and golf. The recipient of the $1,000 scholarship must have a good grade point average and have dealt with an obstacle in his or her life. It is the first TJGA honor to include a college scholarship.
TJGA will host a golf tournament to go toward the endowment for the award, which has been established through the Toledo Community Foundation.
The four-man golf scramble will take place Aug. 28 at the South Toledo Golf Club, 3915 Heatherdowns Blvd.
The cost of the benefit is $80 per player. Registration is at noon with a shotgun start at 1 p.m.
The fee includes 18 holes of golf, a cart, lunch and dinner. The event will feature 50/50 raffles, as well as longest drive and closest to the pin contests.
Preregistration is available on the TJGA website, www.toledojuniorgolf.com.
