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Association of Golf Clubfitting Professionals: Announces that life member Dana Upshaw of Warner Robins, Ga., has been named a Top 100 Fitter by Mizuno Golf.

PuttingZone: Certifies Ryan Vermeer of Oak Hills Country Club in Omaha, Neb., as a PuttingZone coach.

Dancin’ Dogg Golf: Names Mike Smith as European business manager. Smith will oversee OptiShot sales through his longstanding network of contacts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and continental Europe.

Dancin’ Dogg Golf: Names Mike Smith as European business manager. Smith will oversee OptiShot sales through his longstanding network of contacts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and continental Europe.

EWGA: Names Janet Phillips as its 2011 EWGA Businesswoman of the Year.

KemperSports: Hires Andy Crosson as vice president of business development. Crosson will join the new business team responsible for growing KemperSports’ golf course management portfolio.

National Golf Management: Names Steve Mays as vice president of marketing and sales.

Rife Putters / Innovex Golf: Hires John Anton Bergquist as the company’s vice president of engineering and design.

Linda Hartough: To have an exclusive exhibition of her golf landscape art work April 9-15 at the Karis Art and Design Gallery in Hilton Head, S.C. The exhibition, Hartough’s first at this venue, will take place during the RBC Heritage.

Rife Putters / Innovex Golf: Hires John Anton Bergquist as the company’s vice president of engineering and design.

Linda Hartough: To have an exclusive exhibition of her golf landscape art work April 9-15 at the Karis Art and Design Gallery in Hilton Head, S.C. The exhibition, Hartough’s first at this venue, will take place during the RBC Heritage.

KPMG: Signs Stacy Lewis to an endorsement agreement. Lewis will wear the KPMG logo on her golf shirt and shirt collar during all golf-related appearances, beginning at this week’s Kraft Nabisco Championship where she is the reigning champion.

EWGA: Selects Kathryn Freshley, of Orange County, Calif., as its 2011 Nancy Oliver Founder’s Award winner. The honor goes to the association member who displays exceptional long-term volunteer leadership and service to the organization.

Fourteen Golf: Hires Ken Maly as a sales representative to service Arizona, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas.

EWGA: Selects Kathryn Freshley, of Orange County, Calif., as its 2011 Nancy Oliver Founder’s Award winner. The honor goes to the association member who displays exceptional long-term volunteer leadership and service to the organization.

Polara Golf: Signs Donnie Hammond, a 33-year veteran of the Nationwide, PGA and Champions tours, to an endorsement agreement. Hammond will appear in a new television commercial that starts the week of April 2.

Loudmouth Golf: Hires Rod Taylor as its North American sales director.

International Club Suppliers: Names Serenity Flickinger to a sales associate position.

Honours Golf Co.: Appoints Charbett C. Fincher as director of membership sales.

AHEAD: Re-signs Luke Donald to represent the company’s headwear line.