Eric Lohman, PGA, has been named the 2017 Southern California PGA Golf Professional of the Year. In addition, Lohman will receive the Bill Strausbaugh award recognizing his work for career development for PGA professionals, both to be presented at the Annual SCPGA President’s Dinner on December 3rd at Newport Beach Country Club. The President’s Dinner is an evening dedicated to honoring the outstanding achievements of SCPGA members in 2017.
Lohman is the General Manager of Monarch Beach Golf Links in Dana Point, CA, and has been working in hospitality for more than 25 years. For the past 15 years, Eric has held managerial positions such as PGA Director of Sales and Marketing, PGA Director of Golf, and PGA General Manager.
Growing up in the Coachella Valley, Eric was an accomplished high school golfer at Palm Springs High School. As an amateur, he had a distinguished career including winning the 1993 Washington State Amateur. Collegiately he lettered in golf as a freshman at the University of Houston, then finished up his college career playing three additional years at UCLA. Now an active participant in Southern California PGA events, he qualified for the national PGA Professional Championship in 2014 & 2015.
Mostly working in the public/resort golf sector, Eric has worked for numerous management companies, including his current employer, OB Sports, based out of Scottsdale, AZ. Some of the golf clubs he has worked at are The Reserve in Aloha, OR; Trophy Lake in Port Orchard, WA; Cimarron Golf Resort in Palm Springs, Black Gold Golf Club in Yorba Linda, Oak Creek Golf Club in Irvine and his current position at Monarch Beach.
A PGA Member since 2000, Eric has served for several years on the Board of Directors for the Metro Chapter of the SCPGA, been an active participant in numerous Section committees, and is currently a Board member for the Section. Some of his accomplishments as a board member include creating the annual Chapter Challenge, reintroducing the Southern California Open which he hosted three years at Monarch Beach, and most recently he helped develop and host the very first Influencer Speaker Series as an arm of the Mentorship Committee, of which he is also the chairperson.
For many years Eric has been a Nike Golf Elite Staff Member, and currently is a member of the Callaway Master Staff program. He has been very fortunate to have strong support from such great companies. Eric, along with his wife Lauren and their two daughters, Harper and Sutton, resides in Newport Beach, CA.
Lohman will receive the awards along with twenty-one other individuals who have made a significant impact throughout the Southern California golf community. SCPGA President Todd Keefer, PGA said, “We congratulate our section award winners and commend them for their leadership and influence on all of us PGA Professionals.”