[Yoda]

The PGA of America's Winter Series is in full swing the first six weeks of each new year at the PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

The TaylorMade-adidas Golf PGA Senior-Junior Team Championship was held last week (January 22-25, 2008 ). It was a best-ball, stroke play event with 144 two-man teams competing over 72-holes (the field is cut to 65 teams and ties after 36 holes). With age 50 being the line of demarcation, each team features one senior and one junior.

This year's event included two LBG players: Jim Burke and Jeff Hull. Jeff is well known to visitors of this site as a Professional Contributor (golfgnome), moderator of The Bag Room, star of several videos in The Gallery and 2007 Georgia PGA Player of the Year. Jim is a PGA Professional in the New England Section and, also, the men's golf coach at Harvard University. He has been on board LBG (jrbjr6) since March 2007, and in that time, with the help of fellow PGA Professional and LBG Pro Contributor Drew Chapman (drewitgolf) has gained a solid TGM foundation. With a gentle nudge from Drew, Jim recently made the pilgrimage to SwampSouth (Orlando) where we worked together for two days the week before the tournament.

Jim and his senior partner, Mo Guttman, came out of the gate strong. In fact, their brilliant 65-64 put them in a tie for 2nd after 36 holes. Their third round 68 moved them to T3. Alas, a disappointing 73 in Round 4 dropped them back into a tie for 22nd. Still, it was a wonderful performance for a pair of Massachusetts guys whose wintertime golf usually consists of watching it on TV!

Oh, and that tie for 22nd? It was with . . . you guessed it: Jeff Hull and his senior partner, Danny Elkins. Jeff and Danny also opened strong, shooting 68-63 to garner a T9 position after 36. A third round 70 moved them to T22, where they remained after their 4th Round 69.

Congratulations, gentlemen, on a well-played tournament. We're proud of you!