Two-player teams dueled in the desert to earn a PGA Team Golf Championship title on Sept. 7–8 at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The 2024 PGA Team Golf Championship saw two-player teams of adult amateurs competing in two separate formats: Best Ball and Scramble. Teams competed over two days in their respective format on Grayhawk Golf Club’s picturesque Talon and Raptor Courses.
James Cataldo of Sterling, Massachusetts, and Anthony Carra of North Grafton, Massachusetts, won the Overall Best Ball competition with a 4-under-par performance, shooting rounds of 71 and 69. No strangers to the national stage, they were runners-up at the 2023 PGA Team Golf Championship in North Carolina.
“Chemistry between partners is the whole ball game,” said Cataldo. “When you can trust your partner to be there for you or to make a difficult shot, it makes you play better.”
In the Scramble competition, Nick Braydich and Aunders Erickson and Brady Heidemann and Will Efkeman forced a playoff after finishing 15-under-par. Following a one-hole playoff that ended tied with pars, the teams went to a closest-to-the-hole contest from the back tee of hole No. 10 and over the water to the 18th green. Cincinnati-based Heidemann and Efkeman won with a distance of 11´1˝ from the hole.
“The best part was going out there and having fun with my best friend I grew up playing golf with,” said Heidemann.
The 2025 PGA of America Teaching & Coaching Summit – the premier event for PGA Coaches – will take place on Jan. 19-20, 2025 during PGA Show Week in Orlando, Florida.
Coaching the game is a process that never stops as effective coaches search for new strategies that succeed with many types of learners and athletes of differing levels of ability. The offerings at the 2025 PGA Teaching & Coaching Summit in partnership with Rolex will be presented by industry-leading professionals and authorities (to be named at a later date) focused on enhancing the overall experience and effectiveness for your players, the parents, the coaches and for you as a teacher and coach.
Registration opens on Oct. 1, 2024 at PGA.org.