The nonprofit Junior Golf Foundation was co-founded by Donna White in 1995 and is currently directed by Mary-Lee Cobick.
Both of these LPGA professionals have received awards to recognize their performance in golf. Golf Professional Services Inc. was also co-founded by White in 1995. Its mission is to provide all customers with quality and affordable golf instruction programs, activities, merchandise, and food and beverage operation.
The Ladies Professional Golf Association and Club Professionals membership has selected Cobick as the Professional of the Year. This award is given annually to an LPGA teaching and club professional.
“I am truly honored to receive the LPGA National Professional of the Year award,” Cobick said. “I have always felt this award best represented my role in the golf industry for the past 21 years.”
Cobick oversees a staff of 18 sub-contracted employees, while teaching more than 400 private lessons a year. She is the president of the Junior Golf Foundation of America, which provides more than 7,500 junior participants in golf instruction every year in Palm Beach County.
On Sept. 16, White received the 2016 Nancy Lopez Golf Achievement Award, which recognizes an LPGA professional who gives back to the game in the spirit of Nancy Lopez.
“Nancy Lopez is recognized as an unsung hero, setting the stage for what women’s golf is today,” White said. “To share an award in the namesake of an esteemed friend, competitor and consummate professional with my business team is truly an honor.”
White’s professional golf career began in 1977 when she was an LPGA Tour member and winner of three tour titles.
