ELMSFORD, N.Y. (February 7, 2011) - Danny Balin, assistant professional at Burning Tree Country Club in Greenwich, Conn., picked up where he left off in 2011 by capturing the 59th PGA Stroke Play Championship at the Wanamaker Course at PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Fla. The tournament is the first major event of the 2012 season for PGA of America club professionals.
From the February/March 2012 issue of The Met Golfer
by Greg Midland
Name: Martin Brodeur
Age: 39
Club: Essex County Country Club
Handicap Index: 3.7
by Jeff Day
Glenn A. Miller of Brielle, the former superintendent of Manasquan River Golf Club, received the 2011 Distinguished Service Award from the Golf Course Superintendents Association of New Jersey.
The award is presented to a member who has served for at least 25 years and has contributed to the cause of improving golf turf and the advancement of the course superintendent profession.
NEW YORK, N.Y. (January 24, 2012) – On Tuesday, January 24, The First Tee of Metropolitan New York Young Benefactors hosted its 2012 Kickoff Event at Drive 495, the Manhattan golf and fitness center hosting The Met Golfer Makeover, which is owned by two-time MGA Jerry Courville Sr. Player of the Year Joe Saladino and his brother, Don.
ELMSFORD, N.Y. (January 22, 2012) - 2007 Met Open Champion and accomplished Met Area professional Frank Bensel joined familiar partner Kevin Morris of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., in winning the duo's third title at the PGA Winter Championships Senior-Junior Team Championship.
By Lou Cutolo
ELMSFORD, N.Y. (January 22, 2012) - Scores of different architects have shaped the golf courses of the Met Area, which boasts designs by A.W. Tillinghast, C.B. Macdonald, Seth Raynor, Devereux Emmet and Robert Trent Jones, just to name a few. But when you are sitting around the 19th hole discussing that great course you just tackled, do the names William Mitchell, Alfred Tull or John Van Kleek come up? Probably not.
Name: Rick Bernstein
Age: 54
Club: Quaker Ridge Golf Club
Hometown: Larchmont, N.Y.
Handicap Index: 9.9
Rick Bernstein is the Executive Producer and Senior Vice president of HBO Sports. His credits include a number of sports documentaries, HBO’s flagship World Championship Boxing, and the journalistic Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.
By Greg Midland
ELMSFORD, N.Y. (January 22, 2012) - In what serves as a testament to the amount of work Johnson Wagner and coach Bobby Heins have put in this winter, the Met Area standout is now the hottest player on the PGA Tour through three events. After winning last week at the Sony Open in Oahu, Wagner followed it up with another clutch performance at the Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation at the PGA West course in La Quinta, California.