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The 2014 PGA Professional National Championship Players' Guide — 167ALEXANDER WEIRBirth Date: August 15, 1989Birthplace: Rochester, N.Y.Age: 24Home: Erie, Penn.College: MethodistTurned Professional: 2012PGA Membership: 2012ELIGIBILITY CODE: 5PGA Classification: A-8PGA Section: Western New YorkPGA assistant professional at Kahkwa Club in Erie, Pennsylvania...Winner, 2012 Western New York PGA Section Championship,2012 Section Assistant Championship... Finished Top-5 inpoints for section in 2012 and 2013... Finished 13th in the PGAStroke Play championship in Port St. Lucie, Fla... Competed onthe National Championship team for Methodist in 2010... has onehole-in-one.Personal: SingleSpecial Interests: Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres, Syracuse Orange.First Appearance in thePGA Professional National ChampionshipBEN WEIRBirth Date: April 20, 1970Birthplace: Rock Island, Ill.Age: 44Home: Mesa, Ariz.College: Arizona StateTurned Professional: 1993PGA Membership: 2012ELIGIBILITY CODE: 5PGA Classification: A-14PGA Section: SouthwestPGA director of instruction at Red Mountain Ranch C.C. & JohnJacob’s Schools in Mesa, Arizona... 2013 Southwest Section PNCChampion, birdied 6 of last 8 holes to win in a 3 man sudden deathplayoff last September at Longbow Golf Club. “I took the winvery personally, was in my hometown, I couldn’t be morepleased”... Played on multiple worldwide tours: Asian Pga Omega(2 yrs), Canadian Pga Tour (3 yrs), FNB South African SunshineTour (1 yr), Greygoose/Gateway Tour (4 yrs)... Twice Crackedthe Top 700 in the world rankings, formerly known as The SonyWorld Rankings... Participated in ten Pga Sanctioned events, sixPGA Tour and four Web.com/Nationwide/Nike Tour events...Have participated in twenty-seven countries as a professional...Voted Top 10 “Best of the West” Short Game experts by CaliforniaGolf News & Travel (formerly California Golf Mag)... VotedArizona Central’s Best New Instructor 2007 (East Valley)... InstructionalPersonal Mentors and former employers ALL perenniallyin Golf Digest’s Top 100, Mike Malaska, Stan Utley, EdOldfield, Dan Campbell... Roommates with Phil Mickelson atASU in ‘90 & ‘91, when we won the NCAA TEAM CHAMPI-ONSHIP in ‘90 & Phil won the Tucson Open in ‘91 (had 3 TVstations in our apartment that night!)... Beat Kevin Stadler by twostrokes down the stretch in 2004 to win a Greygoose/GatewayTour event in Temecula... former roommates with Golf Channel’sJerry Folz on the Adam’s Texas Tour and traveling companionwith PNC Champion Mike Small on the ASIAN Tour... works forgolf industry icon & owner of Scottsdale Golf Group, ShelbyFutch (Owner of nearly a dozen golf courses reaching from S.California, Arizona, to San Antonio, Texas)... 3 double Eagles, allin competition (one was backed up with a hole-in-one).Personal: Single; Children; Brennan, DavisSpecial Interests: watching my two sons play their favorite sportsof football (Brennan) & soccer (Davis), Deep-Sea, Fly, & BassFishing are my favorite personal interests outside of golf; also,traveling, hikingFirst Appearance in thePGA Professional National Championship

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