The 2024 NEBGOLF "CELEBRATION OF CHAMPIONS"
Featuring Rich Lerner
presented by
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Friday, December 6, 2024
Embassy Suites Convention Center, La Vista
6 P.M. - 7 P.M. Lexus of Omaha Patron Sponsor Reception with Rich Lerner
Hosted private cocktail reception with Rich Lerner for Patron Sponsors and their table guests prior to the Celebration of Champions Dinner Program.
6 P.M. - 7 P.M. Celebration of Champions Social Reception
Cocktail reception in the main banquet area prior to the Celebration of Champions Dinner Program. Cash bar.
7 P.M. - 9:30 P.M. Celebration of Champions Dinner Program
The evening dinner program will recognize this year’s NGA state champions and Junior All-Star Team members as well as honor the 2024 Golfers of the Year. Golf Channel’s Rich Lerner concludes the evening as the dinner program’s featured speaker.
TREVOR GUTSCHEWSKI, OMAHA
CHAMPION, 76th U.S. JUNIOR AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
NebGolf looks forward to celebrating Trevor Gutschewski’s win at the 2024 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship. Gutschewski defeated Hunter Watts of Huntsville, Alabama 4 & 3 in the 36-hole final. In doing so, he became only the second USGA champion from Nebraska, and the first U.S. Junior Champion from our state. Omaha’s Johnny Goodman won the 1933 U.S. Open and the 1937 U.S. Amateur. Goodman was the last amateur to win the U.S. Open. Gutschewski qualified for the championship in May through a play-off at Champions Run in Omaha. He was one of 264 players who competed in two rounds of stroke play at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan to determine the 64-player match play bracket. As the 33rd seed, Gutschewski played 6 rounds of match play to claim his title. For the week, he played a total of 160 holes of competition.
OPTIONS FOR ADMISSION:
PATRON LEVEL SPONSORSHIP - $2,500
Table of Ten with Priority Seating
Group Admission to Lexus of Omaha Patron Reception with Rich Lerner (private hosted cocktail reception prior to dinner program).
TABLE OF TEN - $1,000
Table of Ten
Group Admission to Celebration of Champions Social Reception prior to dinner program.
INDIVIDUAL TICKET - $100
Individual Admission
Admission to Celebration of Champions Social Reception prior to dinner program.
To purchase admission with a credit card, link to the payment button on the left. Should you have questions please contact Craig Ames by e-mail at cames@nebgolf.org or by phone at (402) 505-4653, x102.
EMBASSY SUITES (LA VISTA) ROOM BLOCK: A block of rooms has been reserved at the Embassy Suites in La Vista for Friday evening, December 6. To make a reservation please call 1-800-362-2779 and reference the group code (935). The rate is $139+tax. The cutoff date for making reservations in this block is November 6, 2024. You may also use the link below to book your room:
Book your group rate for Embassy Suites, La Vista
FEATURED GUEST - RICH LERNER, Television Personality and Lead Anchor for Golf Channel’s Live From
Rich Lerner grew to love the game of golf working at his father’s driving range and putt-putt in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He grew to love broadcasting while announcing Whiffle Ball and basketball games with his three brothers in his backyard. For the last 27 years, he’s combined his two passions at Golf Channel.
Rich has earned a reputation as one of sports television’s premier storytellers. His unique essays punctuate the network’s coverage of golf’s major championships as well as The Players and Ryder Cup. Jim Nantz of CBS says of Lerner, “There’s no one in our business I admire more than Rich, he’s a poet,” while acclaimed golf author Lorne Rubenstein called Lerner “an essayist of distinction.”
Rich also serves as lead anchor for Golf Channel’s Emmy-nominated Live From shows at the game’s biggest events like the Masters and The U.S. Open, writing and delivering the opening teases in addition to those signature closing essays. And he handles play-by-play for The PGA Tour as well as the world’s most prestigious amateur championships. In the summer of 2020, he was the lead play-by-play voice for the Olympic golf competition in Tokyo, Japan. In February of 2018, he worked as a feature story reporter on NBC’s coverage of The Winter Olympics in South Korea.
Through the years, Lerner’s written and reported various documentaries, including “Tiger Woods, Millennium Man,” “New York Stories,” a poignant
account of five golfers impacted by the tragedy on 9-11, and “Se Ri Pak, A Champion’s Journey,” for which Lerner was awarded The Women’s Sports
Foundation Journalism Award. More recently, he co-produced and wrote two Golf Channel films, “Summer of ‘76” and “Go Down Swinging.”
Lerner is a recipient of the prestigious Lew Klein Award for Excellence in Broadcasting from his alma mater, Temple University. Rich and his wife, Robin, live in Wilton, Connecticut. They have two sons, Jesse and Jack. For 20 years, through their Elijah Ross Foundation, Robin and Rich hosted a charity pro-am golf tournament in Orlando, The December Classic, benefitting The Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit at The Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies.
CHARITY: The core purpose of Youth on Course is to provide youth with access to life-changing opportunities through golf. Youth on Course is based on the following formula. The Nebraska Golf Foundation (NGF) negotiates a preferred Youth on Course junior golf rate with participating facilities in Nebraska. Youth on Course members can then play golf at these facilities (along with other Youth on Course courses nationwide) for $5 or less. The NGF is responsible for subsidizing the difference between the negotiated rate and the member payment, which is in excess of $100,000 each year. We're proud to create access and make the game affordable for over 5,000 Youth on Course members in our state.