Bob Sowards has amassed over 17 wins at the PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Florida, but none as prestigious as the Senior PGA Professional Championship. Sowards resides in Dublin and is the Head Professional at Kinsale Country Club.
He is the first winner of the Senior PGA Professional Championship from the Southern Ohio PGA Section and is just the second person to have won both the PGA Professional Championship (2004), as well as, the Senior. Steve Schneiter from Utah also won the 2016 Senior PGA Professional to accomplish the rare feat.
With the win, Sowards earned $21,000, plus a spot in the field of the 2019 Kitchenaid Senior PGA Championship, to be held at historic Oak Hill Golf Club in Rochester, New York May 21-26.
In all 35 professionals qualified for the Kitchenaid Senior PGA Championship among those was Dave Bahr, Head Professional at Maketewah Country Club near Cincinnati.
Five senior pros from the Northern Ohio PGA Section competed in the Senior PGA Professional, Tom Atchison, Mitch Camp, Craig Goldsberry, Rob Moss and Steve Parker. Moss finished inside the top 35 to punch his ticket to Oak Hill next year.
Congrats to these great Ohio Pros, Sowards, Bahr and Moss.
