ELMSFORD, N.Y. (July 8, 2011) – A field of 64 talented Met Area junior golfers will compete in the 94th Met Junior Championship sponsored by MetLife at Fairmount Country Club in Chatham, N.J., July 12-14. The Met Junior, the nation’s oldest junior championship, is a three-day, match play competition featuring one of the most skilled groups of competitors in regional junior golf.
Bernardsville, N.J. (June 27, 2011) – St. John’s University junior Pat Wilson of Panther Valley shot a four-under-par 66 and holds the lead after the first round of the 56th Ike Championship presented by Canon Business Solutions. Wilson, 20, took advantage of his early morning tee time and the ideal scoring conditions at Somerset Hills Country Club, making five birdies to just one bogey.
The biggest Met Area story at this year’s Open was 22-year-old Chris DeForest of Cottekill, N.Y., and Rondout Country Club. DeForest is a recent graduate of the University of Illinois and won the 2006 Carter Cup at Baltustrol. He advanced through the gauntlet of local and sectional qualifying and this was his first Open appearance, as well as his inaugural tournament as a professional.
ELMSFORD, N.Y. (June 14, 2011)–The deepest field in Met Area amateur golf assembles at one of the country’s most prestigious clubs when the 56th Ike Championship presented by Canon Business Solutions comes to Somerset Hills Country Club in Bernardsville, N.J., on June 27 and 28. In hosting the Ike, the MGA’s 54-hole stroke play championship, Somerset Hills will now have hosted two of the MGA’s major championships, the other being the Met Amateur in both 1982 and 2003.
ELSMFORD, N.Y. (December 2, 2010) – Fomer MGA President Paul R. Dillon and Joe Saladino of Huntington Country Club were honored at the Metropolitan Golf Association Annual Meeting and Dinner on Wednesday, December 1, at Westchester Country Club in Harrison, N.Y. Dillon received the 2010 MGA Distinguished Service Award, the Association’s highest honor, and Saladino received the 2010 MGA Jerry Courville Sr. Player of the Year Award.