Anna Kittelson (right) has worked with Mark Peterson, executive director of the Golf Association of Pennsylvania, to develop more adaptive golf programs. Courtesy Anna Kittelson.
Gather a group of golf administrators into one room, and the years of service add up quickly.
When Ty Riggin, a regional affairs director for the USGA, organized a focus group on adaptive golf during the U.S. Adaptive Open in Pinehurst, North Carolina, this past July, roughly 25 administrators attended the eight-hour session to hear from 15 experts in the adaptive golf community.
Then there was Anna Kittelson, a 23-year-old P.J. Boatwright intern who could hardly keep her hand down.
“Anna asked more questions than anybody,” Riggin said of his first time meeting Kittelson that week. “She’s willing to just put herself out there and ask some great questions.”
Adaptive golf is a growing niche in golf, boosted in the past few years by the USGA’s creation…