Frank
Kyes
Frank was born on Feb. 14th,
1939 in Cadott, WI. Frank first started
playing golf in
college in La Crosse where he received
his teaching degree. In 1964, with the help of
Gordy Hettzel, Frank started running the golf
course in Bloomer and occasionally asked Bill
Rolland to give lessons at the “City”. Soon
after that, Gordie convinced him to take over
the remaining 6 months of the lease remaining
on the golf course. Frank was 25 at the time. When
1965 rolled around, Frank was on his own
running Bloomer’s golf course, doing all the
tasks required for the operation of the golf
course 7 days a week. Frank
started playing in Flight tournaments in the
CVGA and eventually played in Open tournaments
as well. Bloomer was one of 10 golf courses
that were part of the CVGA at that time and
Frank went to his first board meeting in 1964. In
1966, he became the Vice President of the
CVGA. Frank also ran the Junior
Division for the CVGA from 1971 until
1986. In 1977, he took over for Art
Tangen as President of the CVGA which lasted
until 2011.
He was also Treasurer of the CVGA in
2008, until his retirement in 2016.
In the fall of 1986, Frank, along with Gordon
Emerson, created the beautiful Whispering
Pines golf course in Cadott, WI. The nine hole
golf course opened in the fall of ’87; the
second nine holes was added in 1993. During
all of his time being involved with running a
golf course as well as designing and actually
building Whispering Pines, for 33 years Frank
taught Physics and Advanced Chemistry at
Colfax High School. He
also was the head basketball coach for 10
years, and was an assistant football coach for
6 years. Frank’s
contributions to the CVGA span 50 years and
his contributions are immeasurable. Frank
married his wife Nancy, Oct. 24, 1964 and they
have two children, Dick and Michelle. The Kyes
also have 5 grandchildren. Frank and Nancy
live on one of the fairways of the
Veteran's Memorial Golf Course in
Bloomer, WI. Frank continues to work at
Whispering Pines Golf Course with his son
Dick.