Elmsford, N.Y.--Cornelius E. “Connie” DeLoca of Franklin Lakes, NJ, was elected to a second one-year term as president of the Metropolitan Golf Association at the Association’s 104th Annual Meeting on Wednesday, December 5th, at the Westchester Country Club in Harrison, NY.  Mr. DeLoca, the Association’s 55th president, will head a 21-member Executive Committee comprised of three officers, 11 regular members, three special members and three ex-officio members.

Mr. DeLoca is a member and former president of the Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, NJ. He has been an active MGA committeeman since 1983, serving in recent years as the chairman of the Association's Junior Committee. A member of the Executive Committee since 1991, he served as secretary, treasurer, and vice president before being elected president. Mr. DeLoca also served as vice chairman of the 1990 U.S. Senior Open at Ridgewood.

         Also re-elected to one-year terms as officers at the Annual Meeting were Vice President Paul R. Dillon of Winged Foot GC and Donald J.          

         Hendler of Glen Head CC, who will serve as Secretary and Treasurer in 2002.

The Association’s Executive Committee will also include one newly elected member, J. Michael Carter of Baltusrol GC.  Also joining the Committee are Dr. Donald K. Brief of Green Brook CC, who replaces Gene Benzenberg as President of the New Jersey State Golf Association, and John Pinto of Wykagyl CC, who succeeds Rudolph Machacek as President of the Westchester Golf Association.     

More than 200 club delegates, MGA Committeemen, members of the press and representatives of the local and national golf community were present at the Meeting.  Highlights of the evening included remarks by Mike Davis, Director, U.S. Open Championship; the awarding of the Association's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award, to Gerald T. “Jerry” Mahoney of the Winged Foot GC, the MGA’s long-time Director of Golf Programs; and the presentation of the MGA Jerry Courville Sr. Player of the Year Award to George Zahringer III of Deepdale GC.  It was Zahringer’s record ninth such title and his first since 1992.

The MGA was founded in 1897, and is one of the nation's oldest and largest regional golf associations with more than 450 member clubs in the tri-state Metropolitan Area.

For more information, please contact Richard J. Cerame of the MGA at (914) 347-4653.