Now, posthumously, the veteran golf week The employee will be honored Dec. 4, when he will be inducted into the Connecticut Golf Hall of Fame during the group’s 2025 annual meeting.
From a statement:
In the 1970s, Balicki began his career in the newspaper business, but it was not until 1980, while working for the Florida Daily News, who covered his first golf tournament. That tournament turned out to be just the beginning, as just three years later, Balicki was hired to join the Florida-based team. golf week. …
Balicki took the amateur game by storm. He covered college events, state events, and top-tier summer amateur events. I went anywhere there was a story. He covered every NCAA championship from 1985 until he couldn’t do it anymore. Balicki was a force. The players and coaches loved him, as did his colleagues.
“Ron was an icon of college golf and there was no better ambassador for what makes our dynamic so special,” Stanford University director of men’s golf Conrad Ray told the United States Golf Coaches Association after Balicki’s passing.
Ron’s work gained much recognition. He earned numerous honors from the Golf Writers Association of America, the International Golf Network and the Texas Golf Writers Association. In 2010, Balicki became the first non-coach inducted into the United States Golf Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
In the words of Balicki, when accepting the Golf Writers Association of America award in 1998 for best column, “not bad for a Polish kid from the New Britain projects.”