Bob Sowards

PGA Director of Instruction at Kinsale Golf and Fitness Club…Playing in his sixth Senior PGA Championship…Finished T-10 in the 2024 Senior PGA Professional Championship to earn a spot on the Corebridge Financial Team in the 2025 Senior PGA Championship at Congressional…Finished T-5 at the 2021 Senior PGA Championship at Southern Hills after leading for portions of the second round (earned the second-largest payday of his professional career with $106,000)…Made the cut at the 2024 and ’23 Senior PGA Championships and also played in the 2022 and '19 editions…Competed in his 12th PGA Championship in 2025 at Quail Hollow, his first since 2020…Tied the record for most PGA Championship appearances by someone qualifying as a PGA of America Golf Professional…Winner, 2004 PGA Professional Championship at Longaberger Golf Club in Nashport, Ohio...Won the 2023 Senior PGA Professional Championship at PGA Golf Club, shooting a final-round 6-under 66 to finish at 15-under 272 and win by six strokes...Became the seventh PGA of America Golf Professional to win the Senior PPC twice, having previously won the event in 2018, also at PGA Golf Club…Winner, 2023, '22, '21, '19, '18 Senior PGA Professional Player of the Year...Winner, 2014, '05, '04, '03 PGA Professional Player of the Year...His nine national PGA awards are the most in the history of the Association...Member of 2005, '13, '15, and '19 U.S. PGA Cup Teams; Ignited final-day comeback victory in the 2019 PGA Cup by holing out a blind, downhill pitch on the 18th hole for eagle to secure the first U.S. point of the day...Inducted into the Southern Ohio PGA Section Hall of Fame in 2019…Has won 21 Southern Ohio PGA Section Player of the Year awards (2024, 2022, 2011-20, 2002-07, 2000, 1997, 1995), the most in the section's history…Has won the Southern Ohio PGA Section Senior Player of the Year in all seven years of his eligibility (2018-24)...11-time Southern Ohio PGA Section Champion…Won six consecutive Southern Ohio Senior PGA Professional Championships from 2018-23...Winner, 2023, '22, '21, '20, '19 Ohio Senior Open...Winner, 2024, ’20, '19, '18 Southern Ohio PGA Tour Championship; 2020, '19, '18, '17, '16 Southern Ohio PGA Match Play Championship; 2019 Southern Ohio PGA Senior Match Play Championship; 2010, '04, '02 Ohio Open...Five-time winner of PGA Stroke Play Championship (2016, '14, '13, '06, '05)...Three-time winner of PGA Match Play Championship (2013, '12, '06)...Winner, 2023 PGA Senior Stroke Play Championship and Quarter Century Championship...Competed full-time on the Korn Ferry Tour in 1998, 2004, and 2009, playing a total of 76 events and making 31 cuts (he had five top-25 finishes, best was T-12th at the 1998 Lakeland Classic)...Competed full-time on the PGA TOUR in 2008, with best finish T-9th in the 2008 Wyndham Championship...Has played a total of 41 events on the PGA TOUR...At Glenville State, he was a two-time All-American, three-time conference golfer of the year and four-time all-conference selection...Was inducted into the Glenville State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2004...Made a name for himself early in life, finishing as a co-champion of the 1986 OHSAA AA state championship…Member of the Southern Ohio PGA Tournament Committee.