ELMSFORD, N.Y. (October 22, 2009) – Head pro Bill King of Spring Lake Golf Club was honored as the 2009 New Jersey PGA Golf Professional of the Year at the Section’s Fall Meeting, held on October 19th at Crestmont Country Club in West Orange, N.J.
LAS VEGAS (October 15, 2009) -- Long Island native Marc Turnesa, who won the 1994 Met Junior Championship at Mount Kisco Country Club, is back in Las Vegas this week as the defending champion of the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospital for Children Open, held at TPC Summerlin.
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:
CLIFTON, N.J. - The Metropolitan Golf Association Foundation conducted its annual Presidents Council Conference on October 13 at Upper Montclair Country Club in Clifton, N.J.
October 7, 2009 — Lowell Schulman has been honored with the USGA Ike Grainger Award in recognition of his more than 25 years of volunteer service to the USGA. The award is named for Isaac B. “Ike” Grainger, a dedicated volunteer and rules official who was president of the MGA from 1943-45 and of the USGA from 1954-55.
First Stage fields are getting finalized with Met Area players represented in many of the different venues.
First Stage Qualifying October 20-23:
Play is now completed at four of the seven sites conducting the first stage of 2009 PGA Tour Qualifying School, and former Met Open champion John Stoltz of Concord, N.Y., and 2004 MGA/MetLife Boys champion Sunny Kim of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., were the only two Met Area players to advance to the second stage so far.
The First Stage of 2009 PGA Tour Qualifying School is being played at venues across the country, with several Met Area players looking to advance to the second stage.
First Stage Qualifying October 20-23:
PELHAM, N.Y. (October 1, 2009) – Linda Sokol and Betty Wagner of the Meroke Golf Association (Long Island) beat out a talented field of golfers to win the 25th MGA/MetLife Women’s Net Team Championship at Pelham Country Club in Pelham, N.Y.
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: