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EL PASO, Texas — Jere Pelletier and amateur Robert Dunlop closed out the title at the Club Car Pro-Official Championship on Tuesday, posting back-to-back 63s at El Paso Country Club to win by seven.
About an hour later, Pelletier traded the trophy for a whiteboard. The Director of Instruction at El Paso Country Club went from finishing off a 16-under, wire-to-wire win to standing in front of a dozen kids, walking them through the week's lesson: sportsmanship. The work he came back to is the work he does every week, on a course he has called home for the better part of a decade.
Pelletier has been at El Paso Country Club since 2016, first as an assistant professional and, since March 2020, as Director of Instruction. The members know him. The juniors know him. Then on Tuesday, with the home crowd behind him, he and Dunlop put together one of the most dominant performances of the 2026 Sun Country PGA season so far.
The pairing finished at 16-under 126 in the Pro-Official competition, matching Monday's opening 63 with six birdies and an eagle in the final round. Three teams tied for second at 9-under 133: Tyler Diehl, PGA, of Cruces Total Golf with amateur Greg Patti; Mark Gonzalez, PGA, of Studio Golf with amateur Chris Lozano; and Pat Murphy, PGA, of Santa Ana Golf Club with amateur Brian Hoffpauir.
Pelletier added the Professional Individual title at 3-under 139 on rounds of 69 and 70. Murphy finished second at 2-under 140, and Kent Jones, PGA, climbed to third at 1-under 141 behind a final-round 66, the low individual score of the day. Bill Harvey, PGA, of Ladera Golf Course took the Senior Professional title at 3-under 139.
Pelletier collected his second trophy of the afternoon and headed back to the practice tee. The juniors were waiting.
The Sun Country PGA Club Car Pro-Official Championship was presented by title partner Club Car with supporting partners Tournament Solutions, StrackaLine, True Linkswear, El Paso Country Club, and the Sun Country Amateur Golf Association.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Shandiin Harper has been to the PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship before. Four times, actually. This week makes five, and for the first time, she is not playing in it.
The Sun Country PGA WORKS Fellow traveled to The Park West Palm Beach for the 39th edition of the championship, working the event alongside PGA Professionals from across the country. It is the same championship she competed in as a Western New Mexico University player in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. Now she is on the other side of the ropes.
"Returning to this event as a PGA WORKS Fellow feels like a full circle moment, reflecting how much I've grown and the lasting impact of this community," Harper said.
A career in golf was not the plan. Harper grew up in Farmington, New Mexico, picking up the game through her father and pushing into junior tournaments in high school with the help of her coach, Tom Yost, PGA. She played four years at Western New Mexico while majoring in chemistry and math, with dentistry as the goal after graduation. The shift came during her senior year, when Taylor Harvey, the first PGA WORKS Fellow in Sun Country history, told her about the chance to succeed her in the role back home.
Harper took it. Today she is the second PGA WORKS Fellow in the Sun Country PGA Section history, gaining hands-on experience across tournament operations, Foundation programming, and youth development, while learning directly from the person who held the role before her.
The PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship is bigger than a national title. It introduces local youth to the game, and through events like Beyond the Green, it connects student-athletes from HBCUs, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and other minority-serving universities to careers across the $102 billion golf industry. Harper spent four years experiencing that access as a player. Now she is helping build the same kind of access at home in Sun Country.
-Clay Adelizzi
