Meet the HJGT Staff
Mario Conte
Mario Conte serves as the Executive Director and founder of the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour. Mario started the HJGT back in 2007 due to his passion for junior golf and turned it into the largest junior tour in the country. In 2017 Mario announced one of the biggest partnerships in the history of junior golf bringing the Nexus group on board as a new partner of the HJGT. Lead partners in Nexus include Tiger Woods, Justin Timberlake, and the Tavistock Group.
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Mike Barbato
Mike joined the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour as the Chief Operating Officer in March of 2018 based out of Orlando FL. In this role Mike is responsible for designing and implementing the day to day business operations of the tour, including establishing policies that promote company culture and vision, as well as drive performance and growth.
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Sara Even
Sara joined the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour in June of 2019. She was born and raised in Westland, Michigan and accepted a position as the Director of Marketing for HJGT, shortly after relocating to sunny Florida. She grew up a multi-sport athlete which included basketball, soccer and her main passion, golf.
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Nick Bennett
Nick first joined the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour as an operations intern in August of 2018. He was able to excel in that role and was brought on as a Tournament Director in April of 2019.
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Ryan Sorrow
Ryan first joined the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour as a course scheduling intern back in 2020.
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Tyler Walrath
Tyler first joined the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour as an operations intern in the fall of 2019. He was able to excel in that role and was brought on as a Tournament Director in January of 2020.
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Cooper Henry
Cooper first joined the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour as an Operations Intern in the summer of 2018.
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Tyler Mgebroff
Tyler joined HJGT in the Fall of 2020 as an operations intern. After the completion of the internship he was officially hired as a Tournament Director for the 2021 season.
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Corey Burke
Corey first joined the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour as an Operations Intern in the summer of 2020.
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Mike McCay
Mike first Joined the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour in September 2021.
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Noah Purvis
Noah Purvis is in his first season as the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour Director. He came to the tour after earning his degree in Business Administration in Management from Saint Leo University.
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Steve Jones
Steve Jones retired from Nationwide Insurance Companies in 2006 after 26 years and joined the HJGT in 2008.
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Brian Chafin
After forty years in college athletics Brian Chafin retired from Centre College as the Director of Athletics and Director of Golf. Brian joined the HJGT in 2011.
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