On June 20, 2011, 139 golfers and 43 tennis players took part in the Fifteenth Annual Howard W. Koch Memorial DGA Foundation Golf Tournament, and the Eighth Annual DGA Foundation Tennis Tournament. Both events were fundraisers created to benefit the Directors Guild Foundation (DGF), a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting DGA members facing difficult times.
The golf tournament - renamed in 2001 in honor of former DGF Chair Howard W. Koch - and the awards reception were held at the Wilshire Country Club, which was founded in 1919 and has hosted many great tournaments and groups such as the LA Open, the Senior PGA and the LPGA. The tennis tournament took place right around the corner at the Los Angeles Tennis Club, home of champions since 1921.
DGF First Vice Chairman/DGA Past President Gene Reynolds thanked all the players for their participation and announced that due to their generosity, more than $50,000 had been raised on behalf of the Foundation. He turned the podium over to golf tournament co-chair Michael Zinberg, and tennis tournament co-chairs Howard Storm and Gil Cates Jr, who thanked all the supporters of the tournaments including: DGA National Executive Director Jay D. Roth; the Wilshire Country Club and Los Angeles Tennis Club; the USTA's Annette Buck who served as the tennis tournament's director; and the tournaments' gold, silver and bronze sponsors, before proceeding to hand out the raffle prizes and announce the winners of the golf and tennis tournaments.
Golf Tournament Winners
The 15th Annual Howard W. Koch Memorial DGA Golf Tournament consisted of a morning "Own-Ball" competition with players competing for first, second and third places in the categories of “Best Gross Score” and “Best Net Score” and an afternoon Scramble format with each team of golfers playing the group's “best ball.”
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Golf "Own Ball" Tournament Gross Score Winners
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First Place
Joel Nishimine
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Second Place
Jeffrey Harrier
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Third Place
Craig Pinckes
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Golf "Own Ball" Tournament Net Score Winners
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First Place
Roger LaPage
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Second Place
Tim Davison
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Third Place
David Rosenbloom
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Golf Scramble Tournament Winners
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First Place
Jerry Van Der Rydt,
Bill Paxton, Duke Kulas
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Second Place
Scott Syring, James Aleck, Ken Scherer, Tom Zimmerman
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Third Place
Jim Lotta, Leslie Small, Gary Shimokawa, Karen Lotta
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Golf Closest to the Pin & Longest Drive Contest Winners
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Closest to the pin
on hole #4
Mike Judd
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Closest to the pin on
hole #7 & Longest Drive
Duke Kulas
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Tennis Tournament Winners
The 8th Annual DGA Tennis Tournament was a round-robin doubles competition segmented by skill level, featuring eight-game sets. The teams accumulating the most games were the winners of each flight.
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Flight One
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First Place
Rob Stone & Eric Davenport
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Second Place
Ron Bisciglia & James Wong
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Third Place
Bobby Lewis & Jeff Meyer
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Flight Two
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First Place
Jeff Jacobs & Steve Hirsen
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Second Place
Steve Carmendy & Bruce Olinder
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Third Place
Bill Schwartz & Mike Robe
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Sponsors
The DGA thanks our Golf and Tennis Tournaments' Sponsors
Gold Sponsors:
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Silver Sponsors:
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Bronze Sponsors:
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- Anthem Blue Cross
- Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss, LLC
- BlackRock Inc.
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BNY Mellon Asset Management
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Bush Gottlieb Singer Lopez Kohanski Adelstein & Dickinson
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Cohen & Steers Capital Management
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Grosvenor Capital Management, L.P.
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Horizon Actuarial Services, LLC
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IngleDodd Publishing
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Legacy Partners
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Medco Health Solutions, Inc.
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Miller, Kaplan, Arase & Co., LLP
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Nigro Karlin Segal & Feldstein
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Norm Levin & Company
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Pension Consulting Alliance, Inc.
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Tom Welling Productions
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Wells Capital Management
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- Delta Dental Plan of California
- JP Morgan Asset Management
- Law Offices of Peter H. Alpert, Inc.
- Motion Picture & Television Fund
- Rossmore Property & Casualty
- The Revere Group
- Urdang Securities Management
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ABLE Engineering Services
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Acadian Asset Management, Inc.
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Barco Digital Cinema
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Batterymarch Financial Management, Inc.
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Bernstein Real Estate
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Capital Dynamics, Inc.
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City National Bank
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Crestline Investors, Inc.
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Earnest Partners, LLC
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Fox Printing Co. Inc.
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Good Gracious! Events
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GNW - Evergreen Insurance Services, LLC
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Light Source
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Los Angeles Capital Management
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Moving Image Technologies
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Nuveen Investments
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PIMCO
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Robeco Investment Management
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Seyfarth Shaw
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Standard Parking
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Union Bank
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