Staff Spotlight featuring Tournament Coordinator Addison Blome
Name: Addison Blome, PGA
Hometown: Holden, Massachusetts
Began Full Time: March of 2022
College/Graduation date: Coastal Carolina University 2020 & 2021 (Yes, our football field is Teal)
Major/Minor: Undergrad: Marketing and Professional Golf Management, Graduate: Business Administration
Favorite Teams: America's Team (Dallas Cowboys), Boston Red Sox, Boston Bruins, Boston Celtics, and the superior football school south of the Mason-Dixon (Coastal Carolina Chanticleers)
Favorite food: Nothing beats a steak
Who is your favorite artist: Post Malone
What is your favorite song: Enemies - Post Malone (ft. DaBaby)
Favorite Course you’ve been to: TPC Sawgrass
What’s your favorite place you played: Favorite course I've played is Tobacco Road. My lowest round ever was a 67 at Belfair Golf Club's West Course.
What’s one thing people don’t know about you: I have a tattoo on my right arm.
Were you involved in golf before working with the STPGA: Yes, I have been an assistant professional and a golf instructor prior to working with the STPGA.
What’s your favorite way to spend a day off: Sleep in, have a late breakfast, go play a round of golf, lounge on the couch watching football or Netflix at night.
What would you sing at karaoke night: If I had the pipes, 'Since U Been Gone' by Kelly Clarkson always gets the people going. 'Friends in Low Places' by Garth Brooks is probably more in my range though.
What was your first job: Cart staff at a public course back in Massachusetts.
What’s the farthest you’ve ever been from Texas: Maine
What are some of your favorite hobbies: I love going to sporting events and concerts more than the average person. It always seems like I have a ticket to something. Traveling is another one of my favorite things to do. I've been to 26 of the 50 states, but never to another country.
What’s your favorite golf memory: I was in the massive crowd running down the fairway at East Lake when Tiger won the Tour Championship in 2018 then again in the crowd that stormed the fairways at Kiawah in 2021 when Phil won the PGA Championship.
What is your greatest accomplishment/what are you most proud of: Getting my Masters and being elected into PGA membership.
What is your favorite sport outside of golf: Football
Who is your favorite PGA TOUR Professional?: Justin Thomas because his personality is similar to mine in that we both like to give jabs and talk smack on the golf course. I've met him a couple times and he was super easy to interact with.
What did you want to be when you were little: I have always been into sports, so it was always a baseball player or on the PGA TOUR.
What’s your favorite quote: "Two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights, make a left." -Ty Webb (Caddyshack)
