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Fore! Gary Wiren Golf Memorabilia Collection to Come to Lighthouse ArtCenter

TEQUESTA, FL.- Mark your calendar now! Come February 17, it’s all about golf at the Lighthouse ArtCenter. The museum will pay tribute to the local and national favorite pastime through an exhibition featuring one of the finest collections of golf memorabilia in the world, compliments of Dr. Gary Wiren. Dr. Wiren is a golf educator, a Master member of the Professional Golfers Association of America, a former national PGA staff director, and is one of only three professionals named to both the PGA Hall of Fame and Golf Magazine’s World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame. The exhibition premieres alongside some of the nation’s finest golf art from the renowned Academy of Golf Art. Participating artists are: painters David Coolidge, Leslie B. DeMille, Linda Hartough and George T. Lawrence; photographers Dick Durrance II and Larry Lambrecht; sculptor Brad Pearson. Both exhibitions open February 17, 2011, and run thr