ELMSFORD, N.Y. (February 17, 2010) – The MGA, along with hundreds of others representing the golf industry, will be at the Greater New Jersey Golf Show, the Lower Hudson Golf Show and the Long Island Golf Expo. Met area golfers will have the opportunity to visit travel booths as well as participate in numerous equipment and instruction activities sponsored by local businesses. The MGA will also conduct several Educational Seminars at each of the shows.

Every month former MGA Senior Director of Rules and Competitions Gene Westmoreland will answer one question posed by the readers of the MGA e-Revision Newsletter (click here to sign up). Gene recently received the following Rules question from a reader:

Q: A player is on the green putting for birdie. He hits the putt too hard and it rolls off the green and into the water hazard that is in front of the green. What is the ruling and where is the ball replaced?

ELMSFORD, N.Y. (January 22, 2010) – Led by defending champion Cameron Wilson of Shorehaven Golf Club, the top amateur players in the Met Area will travel to Quaker Ridge Golf Club in Scarsdale, N.Y., for the 108th Met Amateur Championship from July 29-August 1. The MGA returns to Quaker Ridge for the first time since 2004, when George Zahringer III cruised to a seven-stroke victory at the Ike Championship.

Stanwich’s Scott Niven Receives Sherwood A. Moore Award

ELMSFORD, N.Y. (January 19, 2010) – The 2009 Met Open at Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, N.J., provided all the excitement that local golf fans have come to expect from the area’s premier event. This year promises more of the same, as the Met Open sponsored by MetLife returns to another world-renowned golf course – Bethpage Black. It’s been nine years and two U.S. Open Championships since the last Met Open was held at the Black course and much has happened since Johnson Wagner defeated Rick Hartmann by three strokes to claim his first of two Met Open titles.

ELMSFORD, N.Y. (January 11, 2010) — For more than a century, the Metropolitan Golf Association has conducted its championships at some of the best venues in golf, and 2010 continues that tradition. The Association’s three major events—the Ike Championship presented by Canon; the Met Amateur; and the Met Open sponsored by MetLife—are hosted by three of the most outstanding courses in the Met Area.