100th Father & Son, 12th Parent & Child Tournaments coming Monday
By Josh Rowntree, Director of Communications • July 14, 2024
The oldest WPGA team competition celebrates its 100th anniversary Monday with the 100th WPGA Father & Son Championship at Pittsburgh Field Club.
Since 1921, the Father & Son Championship has offered players who are members of WPGA Member Clubs a fun, yet competitive day of golf alongside family and on a top Western Pennsylvania golf course.
The event is 18 holes of Chapman format golf. The championship features both a gross and net competition and is open to amateur and professional golfers.
With a special, family-oriented history, the Father & Son has seen a number of sons win the competition, only to then return as fathers and win with their own child years later.
Jack C. Benson won in 1938 with his father, H.C., and then won with his sons Jack in 1958 and George in 1963.
J.W. Oliver won three times with his father, A.K., and then won five times with his son O.M.
R.A. Graciano won with his father, D.F., in 1974 & 75 and then with his son Perry in 1978.
John Jones won with his father Gary in 1992 and then with his son Derek in 2009.
In 2023, John Aber and his son, J.F., claimed victory at Green Oaks Country Club, shooting 5-under to edge Robert and Connor Bruce by a stroke. A year prior, Robert and another son, Hunter, won the title at Connoquenessing Country Club.
In 2021, Rod Piatt and his son, Nathan, took home the Father & Son at Wildwood Golf Club. Nathan went on to win the 124th WPGA Amateur Championship last month.
Records of the location of the Father & Son prior to 1978 are not available, but this will be the first Father & Son tournament played at the Pittsburgh Field Club since at least that point.
Monday will also feature the contesting of the 12th WPGA Parent & Child Net Tournament.
Last year, the tandem of Derek and Jim Mousseau shot 4-under, winning by two strokes over Brad and Jim Usher.
The Parent & Child Net division was added to the event in 2003. It was not contested from 2009-2017 but returned in 2018 and has been held every year since, with the exception of 2020. It has been won three times by the duo of Larry and Samantha Milosh.
Monday’s competitions will include a shotgun start at 12:30 p.m. Fathers/parents are permitted to include multiple children in their group.
To see the groups, starting times and a live leaderboard for the Father & Son and Parent & Child Championships, click here (GGID: 24WPGAFATHERSON).
For media inquiries, please contact WPGA Director of Communications Josh Rowntree.
About the WPGA
Founded in 1899, the Western Pennsylvania Golf Association is the steward of amateur golf in the region. Started by five Member Clubs, the association now has nearly 200 Member Clubs and nearly 37,000 members. The WPGA conducts 14 individual competitions and 10 team events, and administers the WPGA Scholarship Fund and Western Pennsylvania Golf Hall of Fame.