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38-526: The subdivision is bordered on the north by PGA Boulevard , on the east by Military Trail , the south by Northlake Boulevard , and the west by Florida's Ronald Reagan Turnpike . The main road within BallenIsles is BallenIsles Drive. The road stretches between the north entrance on PGA Boulevard and the south entrance on Northlake Boulevard . The east entrance on Military Trail connects to BallenIsles Drive via East Island Ave. The community of BallenIsles

76-552: A barrier island of the Atlantic Ocean and pass through John D. MacArthur Beach State Park . Most of the original alignment of the highway was known as "Monet Road" (named for a settlement located near the modern day intersection of RCA Boulevard and SR 811 in Palm Beach Gardens) and was a gravel road. The highway had received the "PGA Boulevard" name in 1965 six years after the incorporation of Palm Beach Gardens at

114-682: A 41-mile (66 km) stretch from PGA Boulevard northbound to SR 70 in Fort Pierce was rescinded in favor of a separate alignment for I-95 The portion of I-95 north of PGA Boulevard was completed in 1987. Since then, PGA Boulevard has become an important commercial and commuter route due to the rapid population growth in northeastern Palm Beach County. The entire route is in Palm Beach Gardens , Palm Beach County . Professional Golfers%27 Association of America The Professional Golfers' Association of America ( PGA of America )

152-571: A canal crossing two miles from the western terminus and becomes a four lane road. The road then creates the border between two major golf country clubs, with the Country Club at Mirasol to the north and the Professional Golfers' Association of America 's National Golf Club , where PGA Boulevard receives its name, to the south. Following the Avenue of Champions/Jog Road intersection, SR 786 reaches

190-551: A compromise was reached in December: the tour players agreed to abolish the APG and form the PGA "Tournament Players Division", a fully autonomous division under the supervision of a new 10-member Tournament Policy Board. The board consisted of four tour players, three PGA of America executives, and three outside members, initially business executives. It hired its own commissioner and was renamed

228-543: Is Play Golf America, instigated in 2004 with the help of the Allied Associations ( LPGA , National Golf Course Owners Association , PGA Tour , USGA , and others involved in the annual Golf 20/20 Conference ). The PGA is organized into 14 districts and 41 sections. To be elected to membership of the PGA, aspirant golf professionals (apprentices) and students go through three levels of education courses, written exams, simulation testing, seminars, and must pass

266-554: Is adjacent to the west. There are four golf associations, MGA (Men's Golf Assoc). MSGA (Men's Seniors), WNGA (Women's Nine Hole) and the WGA (Women's Golf). The WGA also holds an annual event on behalf of Play for P.I.N.K. and the MSGA raises money for the USGA 1st Tee program. The MGA's annual prostate cancer fundraising event benefits Scripps Research. The BallenIsles Director of Golf, Jeff Fitzherbert,

304-457: Is an American organization of golf professionals that was founded in 1916. Consisting of nearly 29,000 members, the PGA of America's undertaking is to establish and elevate the standards of the profession and to grow interest and participation in the game of golf. In 1968, the PGA Tour was spun off from the PGA of America as a separate organization to administer professional golf tours . However,

342-621: Is located near the east gate and has baseball fields for public use as well as playground facilities, outdoor stretch stations, a swimming pool, and a running track. BallenIsles is located within walking distance of the PGA Commons shopping and dining area and within a five-minute drive from Downtown at the Gardens , the Gardens Mall shopping areas, and the Legacy Place condo complex. To the north,

380-625: Is made up of 1,575 residences in 33 neighborhoods. The residences are a mix of patio homes, golf villas, courtyard homes, and estate homes. BallenIsles was originally the PGA National Golf Club (1964–1973), commissioned by Palm Beach Gardens patron John D. MacArthur as the home of the Professional Golfers Association . From 1973 to 1989, it was privately operated as JDM Country Club, before splitting from JDM and renaming to BallenIsles in 1989. There are three courses, and

418-455: The Abacoa shopping district is within a ten-minute drive. These are the assigned schools for the BallenIsles community. PGA Boulevard State Road 786 ( SR 786 ), locally known as PGA Boulevard , is an 8.6-mile-long (13.84 km) east–west highway located completely within the city limits of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida . Serving as the major east-west route in the city, it spans from

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456-507: The PGA Championship , several leading tour pros voiced their dissatisfaction with the venue and the abundance of club pros in the field. The increased friction resulted in a new entity in August, what would eventually become the PGA Tour . Tournament players formed their own organization, American Professional Golfers, Inc. (APG), independent of the PGA of America. After several months,

494-666: The PGA Championship , the Senior PGA Championship , and the Women's PGA Championship (which was renamed from the LPGA Championship in 2015 after a partnership between the LPGA and the PGA of America to heighten the event's profile). All three tournaments feature professional golfers, but their fields also contain slots reserved for club professionals. The PGA conducts more than 30 tournaments for its members and apprentices, including

532-818: The PGA Professional Championship and the Assistant PGA Professional Championship. It also co-organizes the biennial Ryder Cup , PGA Cup and in 2019, the inaugural Women's PGA Cup . In 2003, the PGA of America created the Player Development department within the Association in an endeavor to reach out to new, past and sporadic adult golfers. This is accomplished through the growth, promotion and support of instructional programs and events at PGA Member facilities that support adults and families to play golf. Included in these programs

570-515: The "PGA Tour" in the mid-1970s. Women were not allowed to be members of the PGA until 1977. In October 2014, PGA President Ted Bishop responded to Ian Poulter 's criticism of the Ryder Cup captaincy of Nick Faldo and Tom Watson by calling Poulter a "lil' girl", which led to Bishop's firing. The PGA called Bishop's statements "unacceptable" and "insensitive gender-based". The PGA conducts annual men's , senior , and women's major championships:

608-586: The 32 lowest finishers in the U.S. Open would be paired for match play, following Robert White's contention that the U.S. was too large for section qualifiers. The all-professional match play concept was in direct contrast to the United States Golf Association's medal (stroke) play format. Wanamaker requested that the proposal for the Championship be contingent upon approval by the USGA or other governing bodies. Tillinghast spoke up and declared that

646-521: The Bee Line Highway ( SR 710 ) to Federal Highway ( U.S. Route 1 or US 1) and SR A1A . The western terminus is an intersection with Bee Line Highway ( SR 710 ) near North Palm Beach County General Aviation Airport at the Palm Beach Gardens city limits. It begins as a two lane road through undeveloped sections of Palm Beach Gardens, with the first development on the road occurring after

684-531: The East Course, originally named the Champions Course, hosted the 1971 World Cup , 1971 PGA Championship , Senior PGA Championship (1966–1973), and the first qualifying tournaments for the PGA Tour . The North and East courses were designed by Dick Wilson and Joe Lee. The South course was redesigned by Gene Bates Golf Design, and is reserved for members and their guests. The current PGA National Golf Club

722-556: The Hotel Martinique on 32nd and Broadway, the Professional Golfers' Association of America was born. There were 78 members elected that day, including 35 PGA Charter Members, of which 28 were born outside the U.S. The Association began with seven PGA Sections: Metropolitan, Middle States, New England, Southeastern, Central, Northwestern and Pacific. Today, there are 41 PGA Sections nationwide. From 1934 through November 1961,

760-525: The PGA Playing Ability Test. These men and women have the option to pursue the PGA education through self-study, by the use of accredited PGA Golf Management Universities (currently 18 universities in the United States offer a PGA Golf Management program), or through an accelerated PGA Golf Management Program. PGA Reach is the charitable foundation of the PGA of America. The mission of PGA Reach

798-475: The PGA moved it to Philadelphia at Aronimink . With an increase of revenue in the late 1960s due to expanded television coverage, a dispute arose between the touring professionals and the PGA of America on how to distribute the windfall. The tour players wanted larger purses, where the PGA desired the money to go to the general fund to help grow the game at the local level. Following the final major in July 1968 at

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836-483: The PGA of America maintained a "Caucasian-only" membership clause in its bylaws. The clause was removed by amending its constitution. The previous year, it had voted to retain the clause, and had gained the ire of California Attorney General Stanley Mosk , who threatened to shut down the PGA in the state until the clause was removed. The 1962 PGA Championship was scheduled for Brentwood Country Club in Los Angeles, but

874-454: The PGA of America still directly conducts several tournaments, including the PGA Championship , the Senior PGA Championship , and the Women's PGA Championship . On December 4, 2018, the PGA of America announced plans to relocate its headquarters from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida , to a planned 660-acre mixed-use development in Frisco, Texas . PGA Frisco is a public and private partnership between

912-641: The PGA of America, Omni Hotels & Resorts , the City of Frisco and the Frisco Independent School District . The 660-acre campus inaugurated in May 2023 and it includes the headquarters of PGA America, Northern Texas PGA, Fields Ranch (two world-class 18-hole championship golf courses and a state-of-the-art clubhouse), Omni PGA Frisco Resort, The Monument Realty PGA District (retail and entertainment district). The Professional Golfers' Association of America

950-445: The U.S., McNamara believed that his fellow professionals could benefit by working together. Wanamaker also believed consolidating professionals would also improve their social standing, having long been treated by club members as second-class citizens. Toastmaster Joseph H. Appel, vice president of Wanamaker's foundation, presented Wanamaker's offer to conduct a match play championship for professionals, similar to Great Britain's News of

988-714: The World Tournament. Appel also broached the subject of a national association of professionals. In addition, Wanamaker would donate a cup and $ 2,580 in prize money, and would ultimately pay the travel expenses of the competitors. That "cup" became the Rodman Wanamaker Trophy, and the tournament the PGA Championship . The inaugural PGA Championship was held October 10–14, 1916, at Siwanoy Country Club in Bronxville, New York , and won by English-born Jim Barnes . Former British PGA Secretary James Hepburn suggested that

1026-762: The country. Wanamaker's ninth floor restaurant was chosen as the site for the Monday luncheon, which attracted amateur great Francis Ouimet; noted writer, player and budding architect A.W. Tillinghast; and P.C. Pulver, the New York Evening Sun reporter and one of the first newspaper golf "beat" writers who later served as the first editor of The Professional Golfer, today's PGA Magazine. The guest list also included some of America's top professionals: Alex Smith, James Maiden, Robert White, Jack Mackie and Alex Pirie, as well as others who derived their livelihoods from their jobs at private and public golf facilities. The Taplow Club

1064-487: The development, as well as an outdoor exercise facility near the south gate with several circuit stretch stations and a running track. There are two dog parks inside BallenIsles. The Sports Complex features a swimming pool and hot tubs. The clubhouse offers a variety of dining options, event rooms, card rooms and meeting rooms. Outside the development, the PGA park is near the south gate, and has soccer and track fields for public use. The Palm Beach Gardens Municipal Building park

1102-453: The group was American-born. This group drafted a constitution, turning to the British PGA for assistance. The luncheon agenda addressed giving golf professionals say when it came to the organization and staging of tournaments, among other employment issues. The response to creating such a body was positive, and additional meetings followed. On April 10, 1916, in the second-floor boardroom of

1140-552: The intersection with Florida's Turnpike (SR 91), with an overpass with the toll road just east of it. To the east of the Turnpike, PGA Boulevard borders the BallenIsles Country Club to the south, and other residential communities to the north, and quickly transitions to a commercial road, with a shopping center on both sides of the road heading closer to Military Trail . After this interchange, PGA Boulevard moves to

1178-474: The northeast and quickly approaches the interchange with Interstate (I-95 or SR 9 ), an overpass with SR 811 and access via a side road. This overpass also crosses the Florida East Coast Railway , where Tri-Rail has proposed adding a station . Afterwards, the road heads straight east and forms the southern boundary of The Gardens Mall , with other shopping centers on the southern side of

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1216-580: The professionals should be independent of the USGA in handling their own affairs and competitions. Tillinghast's argument held, as a follow-up organizational meeting was planned the following day in Wanamaker's store. Organizers then formed a seven-person group whose primary task was to define tentative bylaws for the new association. They named Hepburn to chair an organizational committee of professionals that included Maiden, White and Mackie, as well as Gilbert Nicholls, John "Jack" Hobens, and Herbert Strong—none of

1254-417: The request of the city's founder John D. MacArthur . Following a realignment of SR 786 east of I-95, a portion of the old road was renamed "RCA Boulevard" due to the road serving a new RCA factory there. From 1973 until 1987, SR 786 served as the temporary northern terminus of I-95 in southeastern Florida, when a previously approved alignment in which I-95 would be cosigned with Florida's Turnpike for

1292-554: The road. At the southeast end of the mall, the southern side of PGA Blvd. forms the northern border of the Palm Beach State College Palm Beach Gardens campus until an intersection with Prosperity Farms Road. Afterwards, the road passes through a drawbridge over a canal before reaching the eastern terminus at the intersection with Federal Highway (US 1- SR 5 ) and SR A1A . East of US 1, PGA Boulevard becomes Ocean Boulevard and SR A1A, which continue along

1330-587: Was established on April 10, 1916, but the genesis of the first all-professional golf body in the United States was sparked by a luncheon on January 17, 1916, hosted by Rodman Wanamaker at Wanamaker's Store on Ninth Street and Broadway in New York City. Sixty attendees were invited by the Taplow Club, which was a business group within Wanamaker's Store and led by professional Tom McNamara of Brookline, Massachusetts , an outstanding player and talented salesman who

1368-467: Was keenly aware of the welfare of the club professional. McNamara pressed upon Wanamaker that it was prime time to bring U.S. professionals together, and that the publicity generated would be advantageous. Locked into a retail battle with rival A.G. Spalding & Bros. for the sale of golf balls, Wanamaker enthusiastically approved the initiative. He asked McNamara to arrange the luncheon inviting prominent amateur and professional golf leaders from throughout

1406-621: Was named the 2016 Troon Golf PGA Professional of the Year. Teaching professionals include Chris Kaufman, voted by his peers as 2016 Florida Teacher of the Year in South East Florida, Matt Grobstein and Scott Dietrich. The staff also includes Annette Thompson, named as one of Top 50 Teachers by Golf for Women Magazine in 2012 and 2017 and named as one of top 25 U.S. women's teacher in Golf Digest . The subdivision has several playgrounds located within

1444-462: Was not an eatery or dining establishment. Instead, it was Wanamaker's nickname for his in-store business group. He had taken the name from a palatial estate he leased on Taplow Court some 25 miles outside London. He would later stamp "Taplow" on his store's lower-end, private-label golf balls. Wanamaker, who was not a golfer, was never reported to have attended the luncheon. He delegated the details to McNamara. With golf becoming more and more popular in

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