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SPRINGFIELD, N.J. (August 5, 2006) – For the first time in its 104 year history the Met Amateur Championship will feature two teenagers in the final match. Seventeen-year-old Tommy McDonagh of Shorehaven and 19-year-old Kevin Foley of Somerville, N.J., will begin the 36-hole final match tomorrow at 7:30 a.m.

ELMSFORD, N.Y. (August 4, 2006) – Four top Met Area junior golfers have been selected to represent the MGA on the 2006 Williamson Cup team, which will travel to Syracuse, New York for the 43rd playing of the Williamson Cup Inter-City Matches, to be held on August 14-15 at Bellevue Country Club. 

SPRINGFIELD, N.J. (August 4, 2006) – Four of the top players in the Met Area emerged from the quarterfinal matches today at the 104th Met Amateur Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club.  The last two Ike champions, Roger Hoit (2006) and Andrew Giuliani (2005) both won matches against tough opponents who had been playing well.

SPRINGFIELD, N.J. (August 3, 2006) – Reigning MGA/MetLife Public Links champion Mark Farrell of Higgins started off the day with five consecutive bogeys, a deficit few players would be able to overcome.  But the 2005 Connecticut Player of the Year managed to do much more.

SPRINGFIELD, N.J.

SPRINGFIELD, N.J. (August 2, 2006) – On an oppressively hot day at Baltusrol Golf Club, Chris DeForest of Cottekill, New York kept his cool down the stretch and won the 4th Carter Cup Invitational-MGA Stroke Play Championship.

ELMSFORD, N.Y. (August 1, 2006) - After a one-year hiatus due to Baltusrol’s hosting of the PGA Championship in 2005, the fourth annual Carter Cup-MGA Junior Stroke Play Championship returns to Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey, on Wednesday, August 2. Attracting top young players from across the Met Area, this 36-hole, stroke-play event is contested over the Upper and Lower courses – both former U.S. Open venues – and in its short history has established itself as one of the premier junior championships in the country.

RYE, N.Y. (July 27, 2006) – David Pastore of Greenwich, Conn., defeated Chris Scialo of New City, N.Y., 1-up in the final of the 89th MGA/MetLife Junior Championship at the Apawamis Club in Rye, N.Y.  At 14, Pastore becomes the youngest champion in the history of the MGA Junior, one year younger than the former record holder, 2005 champion Gene Yang.