14th Annual TEC LA Open      PICTURE GALLERY

It was perfect weather for golf as more than 100 audio professionals participated in the 14th Annual TEC LA Open Golf Tournament, held on May 11, at the Malibu Country Club, Presented by the TEC Foundation for Excellence in Audio the ever-popular event was sponsored for the second year by Guitar Center Professional.

The honorary chairman of this year’s tournament was 21-time Grammy® winning engineer and producer, Al Scmitt. Sponsors included AlterMedia/studioexpresso, Design FX, KMD Productions, Lurssen Mastering, Natural Soundfields Limited, Record Plant, Sennheiser, Sound Design Corporation., Shure, Sugar Mama’s, The Pass Studios, The Recording Academy's P&E Wing and Yamaha Commercial Audio.

The winning team was Natural Soundfields Limited (Eric Tomooka, Ken Dahlinger, Mike Cruz and Richard Gordon), with a score of 57; second was Ed Cherney Team (Cherney, Scott Thurston, Frank Pirruccello and Jerry Kanter), with a score of 61; and coming in third was The Village (Charlie Bidwell, Ken Cross, Rudy Tomjunovich and Kyle Smith).

Contest winners included Cyle Wehbu (Longest Drive), Alex Brown (Closest to the Pin), and Rudy Tomjonovich (Longest Putt). The putting contest was won by Jason Toney. The day concluded with a dinner and awards presentation, along with a raffle and silent auction. Audio equipment was donated by AlterMedia, American Music and Sound, Apogee Electronics, Audio-Technica, AVID, BLUE, Brauner, Gibson, Mojave Audio, Rode, Shure, Sterling Audio, Universal Audio and Yamaha Commercial Audio, among others.The event was organized by KMD Productions.

Proceeds of the L.A. Open go to programs of the TEC Foundation, including the Technical Excellence & Creativity (TEC) Awards, the world’s foremost program recognizing the achievements of audio manufacturers and production professionals.