Palmer, Feherty, Nantz Also Attended Annual Awards Dinner

By Greg Midland

June 17, 2009 — Though he now makes his home in Fort Worth, Texas, J.J. Henry will forever be linked to Met Area amateur golf. The Fairfield, Conn., native who grew up playing at the Patterson Club won three Connecticut State Amateur titles (1994, ’95 and ’98) and was a mainstay of MGA competition throughout the 1990s, competing in the Met Junior, the Met Amateur, Met Open and the Ike.

ELMSFORD, N.Y. (June 16, 2009) — The MGA Foundation held the third of five MGA/MetLife Youth Clinics on Monday, June 15th at Bethpage State Park. The event was hosted by MetLife in the company’s corporate hospitality tent. The clinic was held during the first day of practice rounds for the 2009 U.S.

ELMSFORD, N.Y. (June 16, 2009) — Former Met Open (2003) and Met Amateur champion (2004) Andrew Svoboda of Larchmont, N.Y., has been working hard on his game since finding out last Friday that he was officially in the U.S. Open field. Today, he took his preparation to a whole new level, playing nine holes with defending U.S. Open champion Tiger Woods. Svoboda and Woods teed off at 7:00 a.m. on the 10th hole, about the farthest point from the clubhouse as you can get, and finished in front of a large crowd at the 18th hole grandstand.

Farren, Henry soaking up Bethpage experience at U.S. Open

By Greg Midland

June 16, 2009 — The MGA Foundation held the third of five MGA/MetLife Youth Clinics on Monday, June 15th at Bethpage State Park. The event was hosted by MetLife in the company’s corporate hospitality tent. The clinic was held during the first day of practice rounds for the 2009 U.S.

ELMSFORD, N.Y. (June 14, 2009) - A field of 156 professionals and amateurs will tee it up in the first round of the U.S. Open at Bethpage Black this coming Thursday, and three of them have strong ties to the Met Area. Though he now makes his home in Fort Worth, Texas, J.J.

109th U. S. Open Championship
June 18-21
Bethpage State Park (Black Course), Farmingdale, N.Y.

The following are the groupings and starting times for the first two rounds of the U.S. Open, to be held Thursday, June 18 and Friday, June 19 Bethpage State Park (Black Course) in Farmingdale, N.Y. (A=amateur); All Times EDT. Bold names indicate Met Area players.

By Greg Midland

(updated June 12, 2009)

Every two weeks 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). Matt from New Jersey asked Gene the following Rules question: