Golf pro at the Robert T Lynch Municipal Golf Course, Brian Bain was recognized by the Brookline Board of Selectmen for his recent achievement, the 2011 President's Plaque from the Professional Golfer's Association of America (PGA). Bain is one of 27,000applicants for the plaque.

Bain has been a member of the PGA for 12 years, and went pro in 1995. Bain has introduced programs to teach kids aged 3 to 5 to play golf, and was at the Baker School earlier in the year. Bain is also running a program at the Golf course to give free lessons to local veterans. 

Selectman Dick Benka had just won a golf tournament with his nephew in Rhode Island, and had an anecdote about the value of the sport: 

"A lesson that came up during that tournament that makes golf so valuable: it’s not just about refining your golf swing and being outdoors. It is the one game that teaches honor, honesty and integrity. The one game where you call fouls on yourself, call strokes on yourself. That’s what makes it a particularly valuable sport.” 

Said Selectman Chair Betsy DeWitt, "Thank you for bringing this honor to Brookline. It's not the top of the list of places people might have imagined this honor would fall."

[Correction 11:33 p.m.: There were 27,000 applicants for the plaque, and not 2,700 as previously reported. ]