A cha mpion is defined as one who shows marked superiority or one who is clearly superior or has the attributes of a winner.
I have always wanted to meet a champion, someone like Jack Nicklaus or Tiger Woods, and recently I got that opportunity. I met Lea Anne Brown, a true champion, maybe not in the global sense, but for our part of the world as true a champion as we have. Just let this soak in: thirteen-time Charleston City Amateur Champion, three-time South Carolina Stroke Play Champion, three-time South Carolina Match Play Champion, three-time South Carolina Mixed Team Champion, S.C. 4-Ball Champion, played in two USGA Mid-Amateurs and is a U.S. Mid-Am qualifying co-medalist. She has won every major amateur in South Carolina. The experience of meeting this champion was all I had hoped it would be.
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If  you were to line up 10 women golfers in a row and you did not know any of them, you probably would not pick out Victoria Tsurutis as the Charleston Women’s Amateur Champion. This petite, brown-eyed golfer is dangerous. She was born with the talent and has the drive and determination of a winner. When she steps onto that first tee box, she develops tunnel vision, and the vision is to win.
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I recently sat down with Brad Parker, Head Golf Professional at Wescott Golf Club
 CGN: Where are you from, Brad?
BP: Originally from Buffalo, NY.
CGN: How long have you lived in the Charleston area?
BP: I’ve been down here five years. I came down here after graduating college in Pennsylvania to look for a job all year round.
CGN: What college did you attend?
BP: I went to Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa. It’s not known for anything but their hockey program. It’s a division 2 golf school. I played my freshman year there and then got into the golf business after that.
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When Ri ckey Sullivan was 5 years old, his mother died, and he moved in with and was adopted by his grandparents. Since they were both avid golfers and lived on a golf course, from the very beginning Rickey was playing golf, and because there were very few kids around, Rickey played with the adults. Many of them gave him counsel, lessons and support. Rickey went to West Florence High School and then to Limestone College where he played on both teams.
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Ch arleston bred and born, Caulder Moore has been swinging a golf club since he began walking. Richard, his dad, who is a very accomplished golfer himself, cut down an old set of clubs as soon as Caulder could stand and he’s been playing ever since. Caulder attended elementary school on Sullivan’s Island and now attends Wando High. Growing up, Caulder played several other sports including soccer and football. His natural athletic ability allowed him to have some success with these sports but they lacked the fulfillment he found with golf. He started playing in Junior Amateur Tournaments when he was seven or eight and has found his greatest satisfaction and his greatest disappointments, with this very humbling game.
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 South Carolina Junior Champion Katie Rose Higgins was born in Bethlehem, PA and then she moved with her family to Detroit and finally in 2005 the Higgins family moved to Charleston. It was then that Katie Rose first began playing golf; she was in the eighth grade and already thirteen. Katie Rose really started playing golf as a family thing, it allowed them to all share in the same activity spending quality time together. It was then that Mom, Kay and Dad, Kevin noticed that Katie Rose had a very natural swing without ever having a lesson. Both Kevin and Kay have an eye for athletes, he is the football coach at the Citadel and she coached college basketball. After making this discovery they began taking her for lessons, first with Scott Rosenthal at Charleston National and then a year and a half ago they started with Rickey Sullivan.
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 Chris Short and his new wife, Meredith (he, an aspiring golf professional and she, a writer) succumbed to the lure of the Holy City a little over three years ago. They, like so many others, were looking to explore what the south had to offer, leaving their northern roots, each searching for employment opportunities in an environment conducive to raising a family. It wasn’t long before they welcomed the arrival of their daughter, MacKenzie, now 14 months old and chasing the cat around the house with her plastic golf club. The toddler has a considerable head start on her father, who never picked up a club before reaching high school.
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 Charleston has many golf legends to be proud of, like Henry Picard and Terry Florence, but there is also another name that should be included in this group, and that is Frank Ford, Sr. As one of the original inductees into the South Carolina Golf Hall of Fame, Frank Ford, Sr. is not only a legend, but there’s something about him that uniquely sets him apart from these other greats - he started a Charleston golfing legacy that is 90 years old and still going strong to this day.
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