January

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.

ELMSFORD, N.Y. (January 12, 2012) - Even if the calendar still says winter, one sign of spring is here: 2012 MGA Championship registration is now open. The lineup of host venues for 2012 championships is, as always, among the best in the country. Some highlights of the 2012 calendar include:

This is the first in a series of MGA member spotlight stories that we will be posting throughout the year

Name: Dennis Lynch
Age: 50
Club: Nassau Players Club
Hometown: Smithtown, N.Y.

Dennis Lynch, the two-time MGA Mid-Amateur champion, integral member of the 2011 MGA team that earned a victory in the Carey Cup Matches at Bethpage Black, and one of the newest members of the MGA Executive Committee, sat down with us to talk about his golfing life, outside interests, work and more.

ELMSFORD, N.Y. (January 11, 2011) – As first reported on NJ.com, The New Jersey State Golf Association today announced that for the first time in its 112-year history, the New Jersey State Open Championship will be played at a public, county-owned course. The 2016 NJSGA Open will be hosted by Galloping Hill Golf Course, a Union County-owned facility in Kenilworth.

BRONX, N.Y. (January 9, 2012) - On Saturday, January 7th, more than 30 First Tee Metropolitan New York participants gathered at Mosholu Golf Course in the Bronx for the second seminar in The Path to College series. Designed to help high school students gain insight into the college application process, students were provided tips on how to build a solid resume.

Updated January 11, 2012

The 2012 PGA Tour season is off and running with the completion on Monday of the Hyundai Tournament of Champions at the Plantation Course at Kapalua Resort in Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii and the start of this week's second consecutive even in the Aloha State, the Sony Open in Hawaii. While Steve Stricker left Maui as the champion and got an early jump on the Money List and FedEx Cup points standings, two players with Met Area ties also made a splash.

Elmsford, N.Y. – On Thursday, January 20, The First Tee of Metropolitan New York Young Benefactors hosted its 2011 Kickoff Event at Drive 495, a Manhattan golf and fitness center owned by 2010 MGA Jerry Courville Sr. Player of the Year Joe Saladino and his brother, Don.