Forgive Jane Schlosser if she’s a little uncomfortable when the spotlight is shining on her. After all, she spent 30-plus years helping others step into the bright lights of the golf world as she spent those years working with Las Vegas junior golfers as an advisor, executive, director and any number of other titles. Now she can add one more title to her resume: Member of the Las Vegas Golf Hall of Fame. –by Bill Bowman, Las Vegas Golf Insider
Schlosser joins Keith Flatt, Kevin Marsh and the Las Vegas Women’s Golf Association as the Class of 2024 members of the Hall of Fame. Butch Harmon, a 2006 inductee, is being honored with a Lifetime Achievement Honor along with the Class, which is being inducted Oct. 12 at TPC Summerlin to kick off the PGA Tour’s Shriners Children’s Open.
If you would like to support Schlosser or other inductees, the public is invited and tickets or tables of 8 are available at LasVegasGolfHOF.com
“This is such a big honor for me,” Schlosser said. “I put my heart and soul into junior golf for a lot of years and never expected it would end up with me being recognized. I did it because I loved it. To be honored like this is…I don’t have words for it.”
Schlosser got into the golf world like so many others…playing as a youngster with her parents.
She passed that love on to her kids and, in the process, found her calling.
“I really got into the junior golf scene when my kids were about five or six,” she said. “I wound up taking over the day-to-day activities of junior golf…memberships, tournament fees, getting the golf courses, doing the tee sheets at midnight…and I did all of it from my house for about two years. Then the SNJGA board of directors made me the director of the junior golf association and it really took off.”
The rest, as they say, is history.
“It was a long, long time ago,” Schlosser said with a laugh. “I’ve seen a lot of juniors like Robert Gamez, Pat Perez, Stephanie Louden, Craig Barlow and others come through junior golf and go on to college and some even to become pros.”
The career also let her do a lot of traveling and interact with some of golf’s biggest names.
“I’ve been on a lot of committees and traveled all over the country,” Schlosser said of her time affiliated with Girls Americas Cup teams and USGA girls teams. “That was a big honor for me. I got to meet a lot of great girls over the years…like Lorena Ochoa, Christina Kim and others. I got to meet them and then follow their careers. There were just a lot of great memories.”
Now, those memories will also include a night to remember as she will be front-and-center at the Hall of Fame ceremony.
“It’s going to be a great night,” she said. “I’m just going to go up there and let everyone know I’m so very proud to be part of the Hall of Fame.”
