Carrie Williams fell in love with tournament administration early in life, and she has built a career pursuing that love. Carrie Williams, executive director of the Illinois PGA section and the Illinois PGA Foundation, took her first job in golf at age 14. She worked in the golf shop at California Golf Course, owned by the city of Cincinnati. In two years, she went from answering the phone and running the cash register to functioning as a full-fledged assistant professional, holding the keys to the shop. In a sense, she was raised by Southern Ohio PGA Hall of Famer Zack Fink; Williams’ father once quipped that it was Fink who should walk her down the aisle at her wedding, given how much time she spent under his wing. Carrie Williams In time, Williams fell in love with tournament administration, and after graduate school at Indiana University, she began to build a career pursuing that love. She joined the Illinois PGA in 2000, moved over to run the Illinois Junior Golf Association in 2007, and returned to the Illinois PGA in 2015 as ex...