Rich Berberian Jr.

Is participating in his fifth straight PGA Championship, the longest active streak among PGA Club Professionals...Captured the 2016 PGA Professional Championship at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York, making 33-foot birdie putt on the 18th green...Finished T-6 in the 2019 PGA Professional Championship...Winner, 2016 and '17 PGA Professional Player of the Year honor, and earned a berth on the 2017 U.S. PGA Cup Team...Is the second New England PGA Member to win the national championship, and is the first since Bob Lendzion in 1986...Won national Championship on the 69th birthday of his father, PGA Life Member Richard Berberian Sr., who competed in 1988, '90 PGA Professional Championship and five (1997-2001) Senior PGA Professional Championships...Made the cut in the 2017 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am (T-66); the Puerto Rico Open (71st); and the Barbasol Championship (83rd, MDF)...Posted a 71-69, earning one of four 2015 U.S. Open qualifying spots at Old Oaks Country Club and Century Country Club in Purchase, New York...Competed in the 2005 U.S. Junior Amateur at Longmeadow Country Club (missed cut)...Won the 2012 Vermont Open and 2014 New England PGA Section Championship...Is one of six PGA Professional Champions whose father was a PGA Professional...Introduced to the game of golf by his father, who has been his son's coach throughout his career.