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and that keeps it in perspective. “It has been fantastic interacting
with players because part of rules of- ficiating is learning how to deal with them, and all golfers are different. But what I have liked most is working with all of the fantastic volunteers who have been doing this far longer than I have.”
AGA’s new president The AGA’s incoming president didn’t just grow up with golf, he also rubbed elbows at a young age with some of the game’s most legendary players. Mike McWilliams was introduced to
Tim Hulscher was honored by the AGA with the Doc Graves Volunteer of the Year Award.
dedication, recently received the Doc Graves Volunteer of the Year Award. “I’m what you call a golf nut,”
Hulscher said. “If I wasn’t playing or at a golf event, I was watching it on TV. I always wondered about getting into rules officiating but actually thought I might be too old to do that. As it turned out, I was the young guy, and it has been a great experience.” Hulscher began officiating in
2013 at a Junior Golf Association of Arizona event and, later that year, worked his first AGA tournament, where he was paired with Graves. He received the JGAA’s Volunteer
of the Year Award in 2015 and, over the past four years, has worked tournaments for the AJGA, US Kids, AWGA, USGA, NCAA, NJCAA, E-Golf, Cactus Tour and PGA Tour Qualifying School. In 2016, he volunteered more than 50 days at AGA events. Hulscher has scored a perfect 100 on
the PGA/USGA Rules of Golf Exam twice and 99 and 98 on his other attempts. He joined the USGA Junior Amateur Committee in 2016 and recently was elected to the AGA Executive Committee. “I just like the rules and
understand them,” Hulscher said. “To me it’s not a technical thing. I see the principles behind the rules
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golf by his father, who was a Phoenix Country Club member and got all six of his children involved in the game. One very big bonus was that his club was the host of the Phoenix Open, and Mike and his siblings often came face to face with the likes of Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player. “We had clubhouse access, so we
always tried to hang around and meet those guys,” McWilliams said. “They were golf idols so it was quite a thrill when you’re 10 or 12 years old. We always thought it was so cool that the best golfers in the game were coming to play at our course, and we used to get their autographs on pairing sheets.” McWilliams, 67, has lived all but
the first six months of his life in the Valley, and still tees it up regularly at Phoenix CC, where he sports a 3.8 handicap. The former Phoenix Brophy Prep golfer attended the University of Arizona and competed as a junior with Arizona golf greats Howard Twitty and Tom and Paul Purtzer. He also learned from some of Ari-
zona’s best teaching pros, starting with Scottish-born Willie Low, who was at Phoenix CC when McWilliams first put a peg in the ground. He has served on the AGA Executive Committee for five years. “It has been a great experience,
and I have met some wonderful people along the way,” said McWilliams, who has been involved in commercial real estate for 33 years. “I grew up with the game, and I’m glad that it’s still such a special part of my life.” n
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