South Carolina H 4407: Palmetto Giving Day

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2025-2026 Bill 4407 Text of Previous Version (Apr. 24, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 4407

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A house RESOLUTION

TO RECOGNIZE AND 
HONOR STEPHEN CRAIG BEHR SR., HEAD GOLF PROFESSIONAL AT FLORENCE COUNTRY CLUB 
SINCE 1996, UPON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT AFTER YEARS OF OUTSTANDING 
SERVICE, AND TO WISH HIM CONTINUED SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS IN ALL HIS FUTURE 
ENDEAVORS.

Whereas, the South 
Carolina House of Representatives has learned that Stephen Craig Behr Sr. will 
begin a well-deserved retirement after forty-five years as a golf professional, 
the last twenty-nine of which have been as the distinguished and highly 
regarded head golf professional at Florence Country Club; and

Whereas, he began his 
love of golf at an early age and was a two-time South Carolina Junior 
Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) champion in 1975 and 1977. 
He was the two-time South Carolina High School individual champion in 1975 and 
1978 and a First-Team High School All-American in 1978. He was a member of the junior 
matches team for South Carolina vs. Georgia in 1978; and

Whereas, a four-time 
MVP on the College of Charleston men's golf team from 1978 to 1981, Mr. Behr 
served as an assistant golf professional at Kiawah Island Golf Resort's Cougar 
Point from 1980 to 1982; and

Whereas, in 1983, he 
began his career as a head golf professional in South Carolina, at the Links and 
Harbor Course for Wild Dunes Golf Resort on the Isle of Palms where he served 
for fourteen years, and then for nearly three decades at Florence Country Club, 
which was twice named South Carolina Country Club of the Year by the South Carolina 
Golf Association; and

Whereas, Mr. Behr has 
been a team member of the South Carolina PGA (SCPGA) Palmetto Cup sixteen times 
and qualified for the 2006 Verizon Heritage PGA Tour event at Harbour Town Golf 
Links. He was a four-time SCPGA Pro/Pro Champion and a two-time Carolinas PGA 
Pro/Pro Champion; and

Whereas, he has given 
back to the golf community with his time and talents, serving as a former vice president 
of the SCPGA, on the Tournament Committee of the Carolinas PGA, and as a 
teacher of over a dozen PGA workshops on calligraphy and scoreboards; and 

Whereas, even more rewarding, 
he taught golf to his son, Stephen Behr Jr., who became the South Carolina Junior 
Champion in 2010, earned All-American honors at Clemson University in 2016, was 
a recipient of the Byron Nelson Award in 2016, and was the highest ranked Mid-Amateur 
Golfer in the World in 2020. Mr. Behr caddies for his son in the United States 
Mid-Amateur every year, and he and his son are the only father-son duo to ever 
play on team College Golf; and

Whereas, the South 
Carolina House of Representatives takes great pleasure in extending best wishes 
to Stephen Behr as he transitions to a richly deserved retirement and the 
unhurried pace of the days ahead, and the members wish him many years of 
enjoyment in his well-earned retirement. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House 
of Representatives:

That the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives, by this resolution, recognize 
and honor Stephen Craig Behr Sr., head golf professional at Florence Country 
Club since 1996, upon the occasion of his retirement after years of outstanding 
service, and wish him continued success and happiness in all his future 
endeavors.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution 
be presented to Stephen Craig Behr Sr.

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