Adam Schenk
of Vincennes and Richmond’s Skip Runnels captured the IGA 2013 Player of the
Year and Senior Player of the Year honors and were recently recognized at the
Indiana Golf Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Ceremony at Meridian Hills
Country Club in Indianapolis.
Schenk, a senior
at Purdue University, began the 2013 tournament season with a victory at the state’s
most prestigious event for amateurs, the Indiana Amateur Championship.
Schenk was
the wire to wire winner in the Am at South Bend Country Club firing rounds of 67-69-75-68
for a 279 total and a seven shot victory.
In early
July, he entered the Indiana State Open looking for back-to-back major titles. Although he didn’t accomplish that goal, he
did succeed in capturing the low amateur title and a fourth overall finish with
rounds of 70-72-72-72 for a 286 total at The Hawthorns Golf Club.
After a
victory at the State Am and a top five finish at the State Open, he attempted
to qualify for the US Amateur Championship along with 57 other hopefuls at
Otter Creek Golf Course in Columbus. Adam fired rounds of 68-70 for a 6-under-par
total to tie for first and qualify for the National Championship.
At the US
Amateur Championship at The Country Club, Adam fired rounds of 74-69 to tie for
38th and qualify for the match play portion of the event. Though he
went on to lose his opening match, the Championship capped a very solid 2013
for Schenk.
Runnels, who
has been a mainstay on the IGA tournament leaderboard for over 25 years, had
five top five finishes in 2013 including a win with partner Sam Till in the IGA
Senior Team Championship at Harrison Lake in early June.
His top 2013
finishes included a fifth place showing in the senior amateur division at the
Monticello Open, a fourth place finish in the Mid-Amateur, a runner-up performance
in the Senior Match Play Championship and a second place finish in the PGA Four
Man Team Championship along with partners Till and Bill and Mike Schumaker.
It’s
somewhat ironic that Skip wins his first Player of the Year honor in a year
that saw him go winless in individual events, given the fact that he has won
over 14 IGA Events. In addition to being this year’s IGA Senior Player of the
Year, Skip has been a 20+ year member of the IGA board of directors and is a
past Wagoner Award Winner.