Jim White

Jim White’s playing record in the Nebraska PGA is almost beyond compare. Player of the year 19 times. Section champion 10 times. Not to mention the former PGA Tour member has played three times in the U.S. Open, seven times in the PGA Championship and 21 times in the PGA Club Professional championship.

He also is a noted instructor and course designer. Among his works is Wilderness Ridge, a collaboration with Lincoln’s Grant Wencel.

Jim White was a two-sport standout at Hastings High School, an all-state basketball player and state champion golfer, who went on to Hastings College and took third place at the 1972 NAIA national tournament to garner All-America honors. His career includes being head professional or director of golf at Oakland Golf Club (1974 to 1976), Lakeshore Country Club in Council Bluffs (1980 to 1984) and Wilderness Ridge.

He has been the Nebraska PGA’s teacher of the year four times, its Senior Champion three times and its match-play champion three times. He has played in three PGA Senior Championships and two U.S. Senior Opens. He founded the Nebraska Golf Academy in 2002 and co-patented Precision Fit club-fitting system with Greg Johannesen in 2004.

A past president of the Nebraska PGA, Jim was its Professional of the year in 1998.