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NEPGA P.O. Box 473
67A Shrewsbury St. Boylston, MA 01505
(508) 869-0000 (Office) (508) 869-0009 (Fax)
NEPGA Officers
Steve Demmer, PGA NEPGA President
Jim Noris, PGA NEPGA Sec-Treasurer
Jim Lane, PGA NEPGA Honorary President
NEPGA Staff
Michael J. Higgins Executive Director
Dave McAdams Tournament Director
Joan Stuart Accounting/Finance Director
Ron Green, PGA Rules & Championships
Senior Director [email protected]
Jacy Settles Junior Golf Operations Manager
Chapter Tournament Managers
Dave Christy, PGA (VT) [email protected]
Tony Decker, PGA (ME) [email protected]
Mickey Herron, PGA (CC/RI) [email protected]
Frank Swierz (NH) [email protected]
CONTENTS
Member News
Chapter & Assoc. News
Member Updates
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MESSAGE FROM NEPGA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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Dear Fellow Professionals:
The dog days of summer finally arrived! The overall operations of the section are running smoothly with some slight down turns in the NEPGA Junior Tour and the New England Amateur Series. Now is the time to take a look at your own operation as we do at the section level and do some hard evaluations while we still have time to make adjustments. In today’s business climate manufacturers will work with you on a variety of levels because they want your future business. Do not be afraid to ask sales reps and direct ship companies for help with inventory problems or incorrect product se-lection in the buying process. Waiting to address a problem will only make it worse in the long run. Be honest with yourself and your business practices for a better future for your facility.
I would like to wish everyone a solid rest of the season and look forward to seeing you at the Sec-tion Championship in a few weeks. Please remember if there is anything we can do for you, all you need to do is contact us. I want to say thank you to all the section staff for their hard work that keeps us rolling along through the 100 day war.
Thank you,
Steven Demmer, PGA President NEPGA Cell 774-454-2521 [email protected]
MESSAGE FROM NEPGA PRESIDENT STEVE DEMMER
I hope this month’s newsletter finds you all doing well. July is in our rear view mirrors and we wel-come August with open arms. We find ourselves in the middle of summer camps, member guests and at the NEPGA, August is major championship month.
The deadlines have all come and gone for the three New England Section Championships, and we saw an increase in our registration numbers. Out of the 41 Sections across the country the New England Section did quite well. We finished 14th in registrants for our Senior Championship/PNC at Okemo Valley GC, 4th overall for our Assistant Championship at Tedesco CC and 3rd overall at our Section Championship/PNC at Pinehills GC. The NEPGA will be very well represented at the Na-tional events. A special thank you to the host PGA Professionals and the host Championship sites for 2011.
We all know how important it is to send a thank you note or email. After each Section event we send thank you information for our host facilities as well as our sponsors to the participants. I know we are all very busy with our families and our jobs that sometimes sending a quick note may slip our mind. That is why I am very excited to hear from our Section sponsors and host facilities that they are receiving an overwhelming number of thank you notes from our NEPGA professionals. Many sales representatives have been forwarding the notes on to their sales managers showing the New England Sections’ appreciation. I can not express how wonderful this is to hear. Thank you to eve-ryone who takes the time to write a quick note. It is going a long way. Keep it up!
Have a great August.
Respectfully yours,
Michael Higgins Executive Director New England PGA
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Front Nine Member News
SECTION & SR CHAMP. LODGING/PRACTICE ROUND INFORMATION
NEPGA SR Championship- Okemo Valley GC, Aug. 3-4
Lodging Options: www.okemo.com Jackson Gore Inn - (1 mile from course); $128.05 + Tax Okemo Mountain Lodge - (1 mile form course); $98.15 + Tax. Call 1-800-786-5366, option 1, for reservations. When calling, please mention you are playing in the New England PGA Sen-ior Championship to receive the discounted rate.
In the village of Ludlow, two properties are offering dis-counted rates:
Best Western Ludlow Colonial Motel, 1-800-780-7234, 802-228-8188 - $89.00/nt + tax. Room with 2 Queens or 1 King. Per Kiran Patel, owner. 93 Main St., Ludlow, VT
The Pointe at Castle Hill Resort & Spa, 1-800-438-7908, 802-226-7688 - $89.00/nt + tax. King or 2 Queens. Per Andy Smith, Manager. 2940 Rt. 103, Cavendish, VT
Practice Rounds: Practice rounds will be available to all participants leading up to the day before the Championship by contacting the Okemo Golf Pro Shop for availability at 802-228-1396. On Tuesday August 2nd the day before the Championship practice rounds will be available between the hours of 11:45 and 2:45 with tee times required. Okemo has a Men’s League playing late that afternoon so you will need to call and book a practice round time if you would like to play on Tuesday August 2nd. Pro Shop: 802-228-1396.
NEPGA Section Championship- Pinehills GC, Aug. 22-24
Lodging Options: Radisson Hotel Plymouth Harbor, 180 Water Street, Plymouth, MA 02360…Telephone: 508-747-4900. The NEPGA has se-cured a block of hotel rooms for the Section Championship on the nights of Sunday, August 21 through Tuesday, August 23 at the Radisson Hotel Plymouth Harbor. When reserving a room, please mention that you are a competitor in the NEPGA Championship to receive the discount.
Practice Rounds: Pinehills GC and host PGA Professional John Tuffin are gra-ciously extending practice rounds for all players competing in the 2011 NEPGA Championship. The staff will make every effort to accommodate Monday – Thursday practice round requests and Friday – Sunday requests may be reserved after 12:00 PM. All starting times are based on availability.
Complimentary practice rounds are available for PGA Profes-sionals that are competing in the 2011 Section Championship ONLY. Proper golf attire is required for all PGA Professionals during practice rounds. No shorts please. To schedule a prac-tice round, please contact John Tuffin, PGA Head Professional at Pinehills GC via email at [email protected].
THANK YOU TO OUR 2011 AUGUST SPONSORS
VOLUNTEER FOR THE DBC PRO-AM! The 2011 Deutsche Bank Champi-onship Pro-Am is scheduled for Thursday, September 1st at TPC Boston located in Norton, MA.
NEPGA Ambassadors are needed to volunteer for walking with a Pro-Am group to facilitate the pace of play with yard-ages and club selections for the amateurs with tee times in two waves: 7 am to 9 am and noon to 2 pm OR working at the range with the amateurs prior to their tee times: approxi-mately 6:30 am to 8:30 am and 11:30 am to 1:30 pm. You may request to walk with a Tour Professional and his group and we will do our best to match you with him. This is a FedEx Cup Playoff event (the second) and we will not know the field until the standings are updated after the first event is finished. Also, please keep in mind that the Tour Professional that you have requested might not be playing in the wave that you have stated as your preference.
Please register below or call Joan at the NEPGA office, 508.869.0000. Be sure to indicate your shirt size.
Click Here to register for the AM Wave from 7am - 9am.
Click Here to register for the PM Wave from 12pm - 2pm.
Click Here to register for both the AM and PM Waves.
Click Here to register with no preference between waves.
Click Here to register for working at the range in the AM.
Click Here to register for working at the range in the PM.
Click Here to register for working at the range all day.
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Our true major highlights the August tournament schedule, the New England Section PGA Professional Championship, August 22-24 at Pinehills Golf Club presented by Club Car, Mercedes-Benz and Omega and supported by Titleist/FootJoy, Nike Golf, Callaway Golf, TaylorMade-adidas Golf/Ashworth and the PGA Tour. One hundred seventy-eight players have entered; if you are one of them look for continuing updates and information concerning this event through emails and on the NEPGA website. I can tell you I have already made my initial on-site visit and both the Jones and Nicklaus courses are in pristine condition. Big thanks to our host John Tuffin, PGA and Superintendent Joe Felicetti.
While we are on the subject of major Championships, con-gratulations are in order for the performances turned in by NEPGA Members Chip Johnson, PGA, Jeff Martin, PGA and Frank Dully, PGA. They all survived the cut and played all four rounds at the 44th PGA Professional National Championship presented by Club Car and Mercedes Benz and played at the Hershey Country Club, Hershey, PA.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves, before we get to Pinehills we will have headed north to New Hampshire on Monday, August 1 for our fourth AHEAD Series event. The event will be contested at the exclusive Montcalm Golf Club. It is the next to last chance to earn points if you want to be one of the elite 36 players who will qualify for the year-end AHEAD Se-ries Championship at Turner Hill Golf Club. Cary Gordon and Golf Buddy will be on-site, as always, to help you navigate this beautiful layout. Check out the point standings on the NEPGA website (look under Tournaments & Player of the Year Points).
From there it is on to the beautiful Okemo Valley Golf Club in Vermont for the New England Section Senior Professional Championship. Jim Remy, Honorary President of The PGA of America and Superintendent Rod Williams will be our hosts. For those who are attempting to qualify for the Southworth Senior PGA Professional National Championship presented by Mercedes-Benz, the Champion and the next six low scorers will advance. How many times can we say Thank You to Terry Frechette for his support of both the AHEAD Series and as the long time sponsor of the NEPGA Seniors Championship. “T”, we all appreciate what you do for the New England Section. One last Championship is on the docket in August, the NEPGA Pro Senior-Junior is scheduled for Wednesday, Au-gust 31 at Pleasant Valley Country Club. Many thanks to Paul Parajeckas, PGA for hosting and our event sponsors Mizuno and Sales Representatives Matt Mikan and Brent Skinner, as well as Antigua and Jeff Dibona.
Finally, August is also the month that the NEPGA and its Pro-fessionals give something back by participating in the Joey Coakley Memorial Pro-Am at Charles River Country Club and Woodland Golf Club. This ongoing relationship continues to
help fund the battle to find a cure for cystic fibrosis. Kudos to Jim O’Mara, PGA, Charles River CC and Ted Griffin, PGA, Woodland GC for once again hosting this event.
So by the end of August we will have determined two of our most important Champions, but September is no slouch ei-ther.
The New England Open returns to the Mt. Washington Re-sort, September 7-9, and then it’s on to The Purpoodock Club in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, September 14 for the final AHEAD Series event. Another Championship, the New England Sec-tion Assistant Championship, September 21-22 at Tedesco Country Club and the Head Professional Championship at Granite Links on September 26. Finally, the Pro-Superintendent Championship at Red Tail Golf Club on Sep-tember 30. Wow! September is a busy month, isn’t it? Hope-fully many of you after a busy season at your clubs will have some much deserved free time and be able to come out and play some golf, we hope you have the opportunity to join us at some of these events.
We want to recognize some terrific performances in July. Congrats go to Greg Sandell, PGA and Rick Karbowski, PGA and their teams of over 50 players from Golf Club of New England and the Auburn Driving Range respectively; both squads fired 8 under par scores of 63 to become Co-Champions at the NEPGA Pro-Senior Championship. Thanks go to Dave Lane, PGA and Hopkinton Country Club for host-ing.
Sandell continued his stellar play, teaming with David Grygiel, PGA to take home the Pro-Pro Stroke Play Championship. A second round 60, yes, that’s right, a 12 under par 60 sealed the deal. I obviously need to start setting these golf courses up harder!! Many thanks to Sales Rep extraordinaire Jeff Dibona, who sponsored this event and Matt Walsh, PGA and Superin-tendent Todd Sauer for hosting.
The extreme heat didn’t slow down the team from Abenaqui Country Club, Jim Sheerin, PGA and Dana Harrity took home the title at the Pro-Lady Championship, once again hosted to perfection by professional Frank Dully, PGA and the Kern-wood Country Club. Many thanks to Tail & Kathy Lynch who were our sponsors. I once again ate too many of Chef’s BBQ ribs! Please continue to check out the weekly “Mixed Bag” emails and the NEPGA website for updates and more information on all things tournaments and we’ll be back with more Tourna-ment News next month. Greenie [email protected]
NEPGA TOURNAMENT NEWS
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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Volunteers are needed for the Jimmy Fund Summer Clinic Festival being held on Sunday, July 31st from 1:00pm to 5:00pm at Noble and Greenough School Grounds in Dedham, Mass. Free golf lessons will be given to cancer patients and their families.
Members are also needed to volunteer for Golf Fore Military Kids at the Braintree Municipal Golf Course on Saturday, Au-gust 6th from 9:00am to noon. Massachusetts National Guard Family Programs is offering a golf instruction clinic for military dependents between the ages of 10 and 17.
Volunteers are needed for Veterans Appreciation Day on Sat-urday August 6th from 1:00pm to 4:00pm at the Braintree Municipal Golf Course. Free golf lessons will be given to veter-ans and their families. Adaptive golf cart will be available to help veterans with a physical challenge. This program will fol-low the Golf Fore Military Kids.
Volunteers are needed to run the Skills Competition for a Special Olympics State golf competition on Saturday, August 13th from 1:00pm to 5:00pm at Westover Golf Course in Granby, MA.
Please contact Bob Beach at 781-843-6513x2 or [email protected] for more information or to sign up for any of these volunteer opportunities.
NEEDED - USED RANGE BALLS Bruce Murphy of The Longest Drive Golf Center in South Dennis, MA is in search of used range balls. If you are able to help Bruce, please contact him at 774-994-1261.
BODA MEMORIAL-REGISTER TODAY! The NEPGA John E. Boda Memorial Tournament of Junior Club Champions is coming up on Thursday, August 4, 2011. The event is open to male and female 2011 junior club cham-pions from New England PGA recognized facilities. If a 2011 champion cannot be determined prior to July 29th, the 2010 junior club champion may represent the club provided they are 18 years of age or younger as of August 4, 2011. The Championship will be an 18-hole Stroke Play competition con-sisting of an open boy's and an open girl's division. If neither your 2011 nor 2010 champion can participate in the 2011 Boda Memorial, please have your club’s best junior player available (18 of age or younger as of August 4, 2011) register/complete the application. Register by today- Fri-day, July 29th! Click here for more information and to download the application.
2011 NEPGA LAS VEGAS PRO-AM ROOM STILL AVAILABLE!
The NEPGA will make its annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas for 5 days and 4 nights of golf, gambling and fun! There is still room available if you and 4 amateurs would like to join us! To download the application, click here then send it in with your names as soon as possible and we hope to see you on the strip this November!
GOLF IN THE KINGDOM Click here to view the trailer for Golf in the Kingdom, a soon-to-be-released movie based on the 1972 novel by Mi-chael Murphy about the game of golf.
BEN BOYD PRO-AM
REGISTER FOR PATRIOT GOLF DAY! Patriot Golf Day will be held over Labor Day weekend, September 2-5, 2011. Golfers will be asked to donate a minimum of $1 to raise funds to benefit the Folds of Honor Founda-tion which provides post secondary educa-
tional scholarships for children and spouses of military service men and women killed or disabled while serving our great nation. If you are interested in joining our mission to em-power the lives of deserving military families with educational opportunities, then please become a participating facility in 2011! To participate, click here to register on PlayGolfAmerica.com.
PGA Professionals who host an event and submit funds to the Folds of Honor Foundation will receive TWO MSR Credits.
This Second Annual Pro-Am was started for the purpose of raising monies to sponsor cancer research in honor of the late Ben Boyd. Ben was a PGA Assistant Professional at the Brae Burn Country Club. Please join us in honoring Ben and raising money for a great cause.
The entry fee of $225.00 per team can be paid online at www.nepga.com. Registration and a buffet breakfast will start at 7:15am followed by an 8:30am shotgun start. The BBQ lunch and Awards will take place at 12:30pm. Click here for more information.
Click here to learn more about how to donate items for the raffle, sponsor a hole, or send a cash/check donation.
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CHAPTER & ASSOCIATION NEWS CAPE COD CHAPTER
Turning Cans into Cash
Squirrel Run GC PGA Head Professional David Moore contin-ues to lead the way at his home club – turning bottles and cans into cash – and then into charitable donations to junior golf. Moore is pictured below marking another milestone for this season with a goal of $24,000 by the end of the summer!
Moore’s program, which involves staff/ members/ and juniors who routinely play Squirrel Run, is leg-endary in the Plymouth area, raising well over $100,000 since its incep-tion many years ago. Squirrel Run is also host to the Cape Cod PGA chapter Pro-Junior each year. Thanks Dave!!!
Quashnet Valley’s PGA Head Professional Kevan Evangelista fired an even-par 57 at Squirrel Run GC in early July to win low pro and lead his team to 2nd place in the Cape’s annual Pro-Junior. Finishing 2nd low pro was Oyster Harbors PGA assistant Matt Baran. Special mention to sales representatives David Woods (FootJoy) and David Moynihan (Titleist) who provided tee-gifts, lunch and proximity prizes for the entire event. Kevan and his team are pictured below.
Evangelista Captures Low Pro
Cape Cod National’s PGA assistant professional Brad Wheatley topped the field with a stunning 67 at the Ahead Series event at Andover CC held in mid-July. Brad’s efforts pocketed him $1,185 and huge Ahead Points which almost guarantee him a spot in the year end Ahead tournament, fea-turing the top 36 points earners.
Four teams cashed in at the annual PRO-PRO Stroke Play Championship held at Mt. Pleasant. Led by LeBaron Hills PGA Head Professional Tom Rooney and his former assistant Rob Bradley (now at GolfTown/Avon) who finished 8th (-7) our chapter was well represented also by Kittansett’s PGA Head Professional Steve Demmer and PGA Teaching Professional Larry Demers T-9 (-6) and CC of New Bedford’s Joe Cordani who paired with Rhode Islander John Rainone, PGA assistant at N. Kingstown GC on the same score of -6. Rounding out the Cape’s teams who fared well were Rochester’s PGA Head Professional Rusty Gunnarson and Bay Pointe’s PGA Head Professional Tom Tobey who finished T-14 (-5).
Mickey Herron, PGA NEPGA Cape Cod Ch. Tournament Operations Manager [email protected]
Wheatley on the Move
Mt. Pleasant Review
Cape Cod Junior Golf Association News
Summer fun for Cape Cod junior golfers continues as the CCJGA has held a weekly event since the end of school averaging over 100 kids per event. At each tournament site local professionals volun-teer their time and exper-tise to conduct clinics for
new golfers. Pictured below are Pocasset GC’s PGA Head Professional Jeff Halunen, Kevan Evangelista and Woods Hole’s PGA Assistant Professional Roman Greer at The Fal-mouth CC event in mid July, where over 130 kids of all ages enjoyed the competition and instruction.
As the NHC mid-year is upon us, Dan Wilkins, Laconia CC Director of Golf has taken the lead in the chapter’s Player of the Year contest. Wilkins, due to his steady playing in recent events has 159 points and leads Lake Sunapee Assistant Pro-fessional Matt Arvanitis (149.9) by almost 10 points. Rounding out the top five are: Bill Schmedes, CCNH Assistant Pro with 130.5; Rich Berberian, Jr., Hoodkroft Assistant, 123.8 and La-conia PGA Head Professional Todd Rollins at 93.2.
The New Hampshire Chapter raised over $13,000 from its annual Super Raffle that was spearheaded by Rob Hardy of HardyGolf. Rob was very instrumental in soliciting prizes for the raffle from his fellow sales representatives who donated sets of irons, various clubs, golf shoes and other equipment. The chapter is also grateful to its members who contributed complimentary rounds of golf for prizes and especially to those members who sold tickets. The money raised is distrib-uted directly in to the professional purse at each NHC event.
The New Hampshire Chapter is gearing up for its annual championship which will be held at the North Conway CC on August 15-16. Defending champion is Rich Berberian, Jr. (pictured right) of Hoodkroft CC who shot a 6-under par score of 136 last year to best Joe Clark, Jr. and Bob McGraw by 5 shots. The latter pair were declared co-champions in the senior division.
Frank Swierz NEPGA NH Ch. Tournament Manager [email protected]
NEW HAMPSHIRE CHAPTER
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CHAPTER & ASSOCIATION NEWS Continued...
RHODE ISLAND CHAPTER
North Kingstown GC PGA Professional Brian Owens took firm hold on the Player-of-Year race in the Rhode Island Chapter with his masterful 4-under par 68 at the scenic Quid-nessett CC on July 26th. Owens, coming off a T-20 at the section’s most recent Ahead Series tournament at Andover put together five birdies with one lone bogey enroute to his three shot victory over Brad Gardner, PGA Professional from Metacomet GC who was the only other pro under par for the day. Gardner’s 71 could have been a winner but a triple bogey seven on the 18th hole cost him a chance at victory. Many thanks to PGA Head Professional John Del Bonis for his gen-erousity in hosting this event. Owens leads his co-worker and fellow PGA Professional John Rainone in the annual POY race with Tramonti just points behind, as the chapter readies for the fall season slate of events at Aoaxet, Misquamicut and Warwick CC. Four chapter teams finished in the top 10 at the section Pro-Pro Stroke Play Championship. Jeff Martin & Troy Pare, win-ners earlier of the Section Match Play Pro-Pro Championship placed 3rd (-12), Dave Baluik and Eddie Kirby finished 7th (-8), while the teams of Brent Amaral and Steve Deimoz and John Rainone and Joe Cordani tied for 9th (-6).
Owens Conquers Quidnesset CC
Calling all Apprentices!!
PGA Professional Bob Tramonti –pictured at Quidnesset with his team of Bob Kerwin, Rick
Leary and Steve Scandariato
The Eddie Kirby Team & the Paul White Team enjoy a seaside surprise at the beautiful Quidnesset CC, N. Kingstown, RI.
Rhode Island Open Visits Kirkbrae CC Several of our chapter members will be teeing it up against the best golfers in New England next week at the challenging Kirk-brae CC, Lincoln, RI in this years’ Rhode Island Open. Good Luck to all! Finally, congratulations to Brendon Ray, PGA assistant profes-sional at Warwick CC who finished T-21 at the recently played Mass Open at Oak Hill CC.
Mickey Herron, PGA NEPGA Rhode Island Tournament Operations Manager [email protected]
Jeff Seavey successfully defended his State of Maine Championship title at Sugarloaf GC last week with rounds of 71-72. Jeff's 143 total was six shots clear of David Grygiel. Brian Bilodeau from Martindale CC was low amateur. In all, 23 professionals and 51 amateurs competed at one of Maine's best courses. Many thanks to Steve Niezgoda, PGA Head Pro-fessional at Sugarloaf GC and his first class staff for helping put on a great show.
The Chapter would also like to thank our long time sponsors, Cleveland Golf/Srixon, EZ-GO Golf Cars and Gepetto's res-taurant for their support to Maine's premier golf tournament.
Top 7 Finishers Jeff Seavey 71-72 143 $1600; David Grygiel 72-77 149 $1100; Don Roberts 74-77 151 $800; Mike Baker 82-70 152 $700; Shawn Warren 75-79 154 $465; John Hickson 78-76 154 $465; Tim Desmarais 79-75 154 $465
In all 12 of the 23 professionals cashed a check. Co-Champions: Pro-Junior Champ. at Riverside GC
Our August Partners
Tony Decker, PGA NEPGA Maine Ch. Tournament Operations Manager 207-671-9242
MAINE CHAPTER
JW Parks GC - Mike Dugas Falmouth CC - Shawn Warren
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On July 5th, the Vermont Chapter played a Mohegun Sun qualifier Pro Am at Rutland CC hosted by Greg Nelson, PGA. We thank our long time sponsor, Budweiser Farrell Distribu-tors, for their generous contribution to our purse. Our win-ning team was led by Zack Wyman, PGA, Vermont National CC with a score of 131. Runner ups were led by Jim Dayton, PGA, Ralph Myhre GC with a score of 133. Individual Profes-sional honors went to Jim Dayton, with a 70 followed by John Goodchild, Williston GC and host Professional Greg Nelson with 71. The following week we held our Pro Junior Championship at Williston GC hosted by Todd Trono, PGA. Thanks to Bryan Saylor from Ping Golf for providing carry bags to our gross and net junior champs. Team Gross Champions were the team led by Justin Bonnet, PGA, Lake Morey CC with a 2 best ball score of 137. Our Net Champions were the host team led by John Goodchild with a score of 121. Individual Profes-sional results were Zack Wyman, PGA, Vermont National CC with 69 followed by host professional Todd Trono with 70.
Next up on our schedule was a Pro Am at Quechee Club Highlands Course hosted by Steve Rogers, PGA, Dan Russell, PGA, and Todd Nalette, PGA. We would like to thank Rob Lamy from Bridgestone Golf for providing golf balls for tee gifts and winning teams. The winning team with a gross score of 63 was host professional Todd Nalette, PGA, and his team from the Quechee Club. We had a tie for the Net winning team. With a score of 58, the teams were led by Sugarbush GC PGA Professional RJ Austin and Williston GC PGA Pro-fessional Todd Trono. Top scores for the professionals were Zack Wyman, PGA, Vermont National CC with 68 and Dave Pfannenstein, PGA, Sugarbush GC with a 71 .
The Vermont Chapter Stroke Play Championship at Okemo Valley was won by Rodney Bicknell, PGA, Ne-shobe GC with a 2 hole playoff victory with RJ Ziats, PGA, Stratton Mountain Golf School. Both players had tied
with scores of 144. We thank host Professionals Jim Remy and Michael SantaMaria for their hospitality, Jim Mayo and Antigua for the tee gift jackets, and local Farrell Distributors for their $1500 sponsorship to the purse. Other Championship scores of note were Ron Philo, PGA, Stowe Mountain Club 148, and Todd Trono, PGA, Williston GC 150. Pro Pro winners were Ron Philo and Mike Bailey, PGA, Kwiniaska GC with a best ball score of 137. Placing second was John Goodchild, Willis-ton GC and Brian Gara, PGA, Vermont National CC with a score of 139. The traditional Monday evening dinner was at-
CHAPTER & ASSOCIATION NEWS Continued...
VERMONT CHAPTER
ASSISTANTS’ ASSOCIATION The Assistants Association is gearing up for an exciting Fall Series. The Association gets things kicked off with the Ben Boyd Pro-Am on August 10th at the Dedham Country and Polo Club. This is the 2nd Annual Pro-Am in memory of Ben Boyd. Information regarding signups is available under the Assistants tab on the section website. Following the BBPA, the Fall Series gets started with the Event Man Fall Classic at Presidents Golf Course on September 1st. The Fall Series will visit the following clubs: Presidents, Franklin, Prouts Neck, Wollaston, Kittansett, and Kernwood. The Callaway Golf NEPGA Assistant Championship returns to Tedesco Country Club on September 21-22, where more than 70 Assistants will attempt to qualify for the National Championship this winter. A special thank you to the Calla-way Golf team for their continued support of the crown jewel of the summer.
Also, as a reminder, if you qualify don't forget to apply for the Apprentice Scholarship by September 30, 2011. The applica-tion and further details can be found on the Association's website in the Apprentice Corner.
Thank you to all of our members and sponsors for continuing to make the 2011 season a success. Justin Lawson, PGA NEAA President
tended by most of the play-ers and their guests. The Vermont Chapter mem-bers extended a special birthday treat for NEPGA Executive Director Mike Higgins on his birthday Monday evening. Let it be known that, at the ripe old age of 36, Mike is still able to blow out one candle on his cake.
The Vermont PGA Junior Tour has had a very suc-cessful season with partici-pation considerably increased. We have averaged 50 players at each venue for our first four events. Our thanks go out to our sponsors, hosting clubs and their PGA Professionals, our juniors, and especially to all the parents who handle the trans-portation. Our state championship will be conducted on Fri-day, August 5th at Ralph Myhre GC. David Christy, PGA NEPGA Vermont Ch. Operations Manager 802-476-7007 [email protected]
VT Ch. President Dave Soucy with our Champion Rodney Bicknell
NEPGA Executive Director Michael Higgins
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At the Turn Member Updates
Name Class Facility Michael T. Moore, PGA A-8 The Kittansett Club
Classification Changes
Name Class Start Facility Michael T. Moore, PGA A-8 7/12 The Kittansett Club
Employment Changes
*This report reflects changes made between June 30, 2011 through July 28, 2011.
New Apprentices Name Class Facility Chris Riley B-8 South Shore Country Club
NEPGA August PROfile
PROfile: Rick Finlayson, PGA
Year turned Pro: 1986
Facility: Country View Golf Club
Click here to view entire PROfile.
Name Class Previous Section John W. Kasper, PGA A-14 North Florida Lucas M. Williams, PGA A-8 South Florida
New Transfers into Section
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GROWING THE GAME!
The member and apprentice Birthday Directory can be found on NEPGA.com under Directories, then click on Members. You must log in with your PGALinks username and password to view this page.
Zeno Mountain Farm Camp Clinic at Cedar Knoll CC, Hinesburg, Vermont on July 18-19, 2011