CHARLES A. “BUTCH” LIEBLER

has earned a reputation as one of the most respected PGA golf professionals in the East Coast. In 1984, he was accorded the distinction of being the first golf professional inducted into the Virginia PGA Hall of Fame.

Liebler is founder and tournament director of the annual Mid-Winter Shootout at Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic. For more than three decades, he has arranged and supervised golf vacations and countless other activities for thousands of amateur players, their families and corporate affiliates. He has been assisted in the Dominican Republic by his wife and co-director Patty Liebler, who will be working with the non-golfer getaways for FORECADDIES.

Closer to home, Liebler gained extensive experience in planning and coordinating the highest-quality group outings and tournaments during more than 40 years as the head professional at two of the area’s most prestigious clubs: Elizabeth Manor in Portsmouth and Cavalier Golf and Yacht Club in Virginia Beach. A former president of the Virginia PGA, Liebler served as director of the Buy.Com Tour’s Virginia Beach Open in 2002 (Patty was the co-director), and raised more than $250,000 for the Boys and Girls Clubs of South Hampton Roads. A tireless instructor, Liebler’s professional students include Carl Paulson of the PGA Tour and Omar Uresti of the Nationwide Tour. More than 65 of Liebler’s junior students have earned golf scholarships to college. Among them is Evan Beck (Wake Forest), runner-up in the 2008 USGA Junior Amateur Championship and winner of the 2008 AJGA Junior Players Championship at TPC-Sawgrass.

Contact Butch at: greatgame@forecaddies.net or (757) 510-8074

JIM DUCIBELLA

knows as much about the history of Virginia golf and those who made it as anyone. In 2000, he authored the definitive work on the subject, entitled “Par Excellence: A Celebration of Virginia Golf.” Ducibella spent more than three years interviewing Sam Snead, Curtis Strange, Lanny Wadkins, Donna Andrews, Chandler Harper and dozens of professionals who achieved at least one PGA Tour victory. His research extended into the history of Virginia’s greatest courses, new and old, memorable tournaments, even the relationship between U.S. presidents and golf in the Commonwealth.

In 2007, Ducibella retired as a sportswriter from The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot after 26 years in which he covered more than 300 amateur and professional golf tournaments. Included were the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA Championship, the PGA Tour’s Michelob Open, the LPGA’s Crestar Classic and Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill, the Eastern Amateur, and the NCAA championship.

Through it all, he has developed close working relationships with local club professionals and other service providers that will aid in your group receiving the highest quality service at the lowest possible price.

Contact Jim at: greatgame@forecaddies.net or (757) 510-8074