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15th
Annual TEC LA Open
PICTURE
GALLERY
 Sponsored by Guitar Center
Professional
Close to 100 audio professionals
came out to play at the 15th Annual TEC LA Open Golf
Tournament, held on May 17, at the Malibu Country
Club, Presented by the TEC Foundation for Excellence
in Audio the ever-popular event was sponsored by
Guitar Center Professional. It was a fun day for
all, filled with chair massages, sake, barbecue,
and some golf thrown in!
The event was presided over by Honorary Chairman
Al Schmitt, who was joined on stage for the evening’s
festivities by Master of Ceremonies Ed Cherney. Sponsors
included Focusrite Novation, Iron Mountain Film & Sound,
Ocean Way, Record Plant, Shure, PMI Audio and the
Producers & Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy.
The winning team, with a score of 58, was Avid/Apple
(Tom Graham, Andrew Wild, Mike Franklin and Clint
Ward). Along with their first place trophies, the
team was also awarded four Sterling Audio ST55 large
diaphragm condenser microphones, donated by Sterling
Audio. Second place went to newcomers Iron Mountain
(Guy Abrahams, Jeff Anthony, Jeff Beaulieu and Gabriel
Seqovia) with a score of 60 winning in a card-off
with a low-back 9; and coming in third was Team Ed
Cherney (Cherney, Ken Gradney, Frank Pirruccello
and Jerry Kanter) with a score of 60.
Contest winners included Jeremy Umland (Longest Drive),
Dave Reitzas (Closest to the Pin), and Ed Cherney
(Longest Putt). The putting contest was won by Paul
Camarata. The day concluded with a dinner and awards
presentation, along with a raffle and silent auction.
Auction items were donated by American Music and
Sound, Antares, Apogee Electronics, Artesa Vineyards & Winery,
Audio-Technica, Avid, Earthworks, Lobster.com, Ozumo,
Sennheiser, Shure, Sonoma Wine Garden, Taylor Guitars,
Shure, and Universal Audio, among others. The event
was organized by KMD Productions.
 Proceeds of the tournament support the House Ear
Institute’s hearing health outreach services
for audio professionals and the TEC Foundation’s
TECnology Hall of Fame, recognizing the most historically
significant audio innovations and inventors, held
annually at the AES Convention.
Special thank you to Ozumo Restaurant for donating
sake, Ahhh Massage for their chair massage services,
Artesa Vineyards & Winery for their evening wine
tasting and Mr. Bonzai for donating signed copies
of his 1984 First Edition of "Studio Life: The
Other Side of the Tracks" to all the winners.
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