Micky Wolfe, Director of Golf at Canebrake Club, was named the American Junior Golf Association’s 2023 Golf Executive of the Year.
Each year, the AJGA presents awards to the tournaments with the best individual hospitality, Junior-Am fundraising tournament, charitable giving and volunteer base. Awards are given to the events with engaged media and social media participation. Finally, the AJGA recognizes the year’s most outstanding golf professional, superintendent and golf course executive, as well as the most game changing event, best new event, best Preview Series tournament, best Ninja Junior All-Star Series tournament, best Invitational and overall tournament of the year. Tournament awards for the 2023 season will be presented on-site at 2024 tournaments.
This is the first tournament award recognition for Wolfe and the AJGA Junior at Canebrake Club.
Words won’t do justice to how special and impactful Micky has been to this event. The event’s accomplishments and proceeds would not be possible without Micky and everyone at the Canebrake Club. Everyone that truly knows Micky has nothing but great things to say about him and what he has done for the junior golf community in Alabama. He embodies all the good things about the golf industry, and it is an honor and privilege to call him a friend and a colleague.
In 2023, Molly Davidson of Birmingham, Alabama, won the girls division while Blades Brown of Nashville, Tennessee won the boys division. Davidson is verbally committed to play golf at the University of Alabama in the fall of 2025 and Brown, who went on to win two more AJGA events in 2023, was recently named to the inaugural U.S. National Junior Team under the U.S. National Development Program.
Wolfe is the heartbeat of this event. He has dedicated a lot of his time and effort into the tournament since its inception in 2021 and is on-site every day of the event. He uses both his personal and club media to promote the event and helps the AJGA staff by donating private housing, meals, vehicles and water for the week. To maximize proceeds towards charity, Wolfe helps the AJGA with costs such as the course fees for the event which allowed for net proceeds of over $34,000 in 2023.
Wolfe and the Canebrake Club are big advocates of growing junior golf. For over a decade, they’ve poured their passion into hosting the PGA Jr. League, which provides a competitive platform for young golfers. Their commitment to the next generation of golfers has helped 33 golfers from the club move on to play collegiate golf. The success stories of Lee Hodges and Nick Dunlap, both PGA TOUR winners, started at the Canebrake Club. Wolfe is no stranger to the successes of junior golf, and he continues to help more players year after year achieve their golf aspirations.
I am extremely humbled to be named AJGA Golf Executive of the Year. The relationship I have developed with the AJGA team over our event has been very rewarding and I consider them personal friends. The impact the AJGA event at Canebrake has had on our local community is immeasurable and I am deeply indebted to this event for the impact it has had on my late wife Stacy's foundation. I am excited about the future of our AJGA event and feel the best days are still ahead of us.
The 2024 AJGA Junior at Canebrake Club is the fourth year of this event. All tournament proceeds for this tournament go towards the Stacy Wolfe Breast Cancer Foundation and the AJGA’s Liberty National Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) Grant. Stacy recently passed away, but she had a tremendous impact on the event and its success. Read more on the impact of the AJGA event and the foundation here
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