“There's not a day that goes by he doesn't wear a veteran hat or has a veteran sticker on his on his truck. “It was so emotional,” Casey said of when he first told his father about it. “That’s how much he believes in this event,” Lubahn said.Īnd of course, it’s an event that means a lot to Lubahn’s father, Dale. It’s also an organization and cause dear to Jack Nicklaus, who designed American Dunes, giving it the nickname, “The church that Jack built.” Nicklaus was scheduled to meet with the teams on Sunday. “It (quickly) went from a very minor thing to the biggest thing in college golf,” Lubahn said. Amateur, Lubahn flew to Oklahoma to meet with Rooney. Three days after MSU’s James Piot won the U.S. Dan Rooney with the idea for the tournament. Lubahn reached out to Folds of Honor founder Lt. What can we do to broaden our reach as a college golf community?” It's about a lot of things, some of those good things and some of them maybe are about money and other things like that. “And when you get to the golf course (they take your clubs and) you walk through this living memorial, with all the folks that they honor there, and I just kept thinking (how) college athletics is growing very quickly. “The golf course has been opened about a year and I hadn't been there,” Lubahn said. Lubahn, inspired by his father and his father’s service in the Vietnam War, came up with the vision for this event 2 1/2 years ago. To date the organization says it’s given out 44,000 scholarships. The tournament, in conjunction with the Golf Coaches Association of America, benefits Folds of Honor, a nonprofit that gives scholarships to families of military members who’ve lost their lives or been disabled in action and recently began including families of first responders. MSU is hosting the second annual Folds of Honor Collegiate this Monday through Wednesday at the famed American Dunes Golf Course in Grand Haven, featuring 18 schools, including highly ranked programs such as Florida State and Arizona, along with all three service academies, two HBCUs and one Division II program, Grand Valley State. Certainly as important as any invitational. EAST LANSING – What began as something between an idea and personal mission for Michigan State men’s golf coach Casey Lubahn has turned into one of the bigger events in college golf.
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