Bill Schuchart
Golf professional at Happy Hollow Country Club in Omaha for 35 years. Helped organize the Nebraska PGA in the 1930’s and served as the Section president for more years than any other individual. Schuchart was selected Nebraska Professional of the Year on two occasions.
The first Nebraska professional to serve on the National PGA board of Directors. He was instrumental in helping revive the Nebraska State Amateur in 1946; inaugurate the Omaha World Herald Junior Clinics and Championship; and create the Omaha Ladies City Tournament in 1950.
Won several State PGA championships and made the 36-hole cut in three U.S. Open championships in the 1930’s.
The patriarch of the only three-generation professional golf family in Nebraska, he spent 67 years in golf as a caddie, golf professional, golf promoter and pioneer.
