More than 100 managers, superintendents, golf professionals and other club officials gathered at Wheatley Hills Golf Club in East Williston, N.Y., on March 18th for a symposium convened by the Metropolitan Club Managers Association (MCMA) entitled “The State of the Club Environment, Round 2.” Guest panelists included Jay Mottola and Charlie Robson, executive directors of the Metropolitan Golf Association and Met PGA, respectively; Richard Spear, the superintendent at the Piping Rock Club on Long Island; Ran

Gene Westmoreland will be at the helm as the non-playing captain of the six-man amateur team representing the Metropolitan Golf Association at the 8th Governor Hugh L. Carey Challenge Cup, a Walker Cup-style competition against the Golfing Union of Ireland.

Since its inception in 1994, the MGA Foundation’s GOLFWORKS Student Intern Program has impacted the lives of more than 1,600  young men and women across the Met Area. Founded as a true intern program, GOLFWORKS is designed to give interns exposure to all areas of club business — clubhouse, maintenance and golf operations — during a ten-week, paid summer internship.

ELMSFORD, N.Y. — Steve Shellock (left) of Shrewsbury, N.J., finished second at the NGA Classic on March 8, the first event on the Pro Series schedule for the NGA Hooters Tour (Final Results).

The top senior players in the Met Area will visit Preakness Hills Country Club in Wayne, N.J., for the 81st playing of the MGA Senior Amateur Championship on May 4 and 5. The Willie Tucker-designed golf course promises to provide a tough test for the field and will add another chapter to its already storied history.

Every month 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). Ed from Westchester County asked Gene the following Rules question:

For additional Information on any of the events

below please call the MGA office at 914-347-4653

Schedule of Events

Annual Rules & Handicap Seminars

Saturday, March 21

Cherry Valley Club, Garden City, N.Y.

Saturday, March 28

The USGA Museum and Arnold Palmer Center for Golf History in Far Hills has extended a special buy-one-admission, get-one-free offer to all Metropolitan Golf Association members who would like to visit the Museum. The USGA Museum reopened last June after three years of renovation and expansion, and its new facility provides visitors the opportunity to explore golf history in America from the perspective of the USGA, its national championships and its champions.

ELMSFORD, N.Y. (February 26, 2009) - The MGA Foundation has announced the 2009 Spring Educational Forums schedule. These programs feature presentations by industry experts that are designed to educate club leaders and the golfing public about a wide range of topics of interest including the Rules of Golf, handicapping procedures and new technology.

The MGA, along with hundreds of other individuals and businesses representing the golf industry, will be at the 5th Annual Lower Hudson Valley Golf Show at the Westchester County Center in White Plains, N.Y., on Saturday & Sunday, March 14 and 15. Met Area golfers will have the opportunity to visit travel booths as well as participate in numerous equipment and instruction activities.