Steve and Nicki Stricker, center, pose with grant recipients during the American Family Insurance Championship's Grant Distribution Celebration on Monday.

Ryan Quinn was seven years into his professional career, playing in a Dakotas Tour event in Rapid City, South Dakota, and headed toward another paycheck big enough to get him through the week but small enough to remind him how far he was from the PGA Tour.

Skip Kendall has played in more than 700 PGA Tour-sanctioned tournaments and has experienced just about everything imaginable, good and bad, on the golf course.

The top-ranked golfer on the PGA Champions Tour is not Bernhard Langer, who won the Schwab Cup for the fourth time in five years. It’s not Vijay Singh, who won three times in 2018, including the season-ending Schwab Cup Championship.

TINLEY PARK, Illinois – The squarish two-story building in an industrial park yards from Interstate 80 doesn’t stand out from the others, but the simple one-word sign – “Bettinardi” – lets you know you have arrived at the Taj Mahal of putting.

Gary has covered golf in Wisconsin since 1980 and is a multiple award winner in the GWAA writing contest. He was inducted into the WSGA Hall of Fame in 2017 and joined Wisconsin.Golf in 2018 after a distinguished career at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

BROOKFIELD – Burleigh Jacobs hasn’t played an 18-hole round of golf in years, but when he takes an imaginary grip – his hands placed just so on a club that isn’t there – it’s easy to see why he once was one of Wisconsin’s best.

BROOKFIELD — Mark Wilson did everything in his power to reverse the slow but steady decline in his golf game. He went from swing coach to swing coach searching for answers. He worked with a “performance coach” on the mental side of the game. He woke up in the middle of the night thinking abo…

It has taken time, the great healer, plus perspective and patience on a path of self-discovery, but Emily Joers has arrived at a very good place.

It’s the hole-in-one story to end all hole-in-one stories.

HAVEN — Chris Lutzke doesn’t have a business card, doesn’t grant many interviews and has never been big on promoting himself. He’s most comfortable on a bulldozer or a loader, pushing dirt around, moving it here and there, sculpting the skeletons of golf courses.

When Jeff Radder shot a 68 recently at Pleasant View Golf Course in Middleton, beating his age by one stroke, he accomplished what he said was his final goal in golf.