Fox Ridge Head Pro Bob Darling and St. Dom’s varsity golf coach Chris Whitney are working together on a new golf program for middle school students. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) AUBURN — New St. Dominic Academy varsity golf coach Chris Whitney wants to bring the Saints program back to the glory days when they were contenders for […]
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Maine Open: Former champ Jerry DiPhilippo playing again for old times’ sake
The 1995 champion, who is now the head pro at Fox Ridge Golf Club, tees off Monday at the two-day tournament a different player with the same old mindset. “I think right now just mainly just playing a nice, solid two rounds, hopefully. If I can get under par, that’s great,” DiPhilippo said of his […]
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Par for the Course: Tournament a natural, local fit
The Lewiston-Auburn Golf Tournament of Champions — it’s such a natural, that one wonders why it has taken until 2014 to be held. Four club champions from Fox Ridge, Martindale, Poland Spring and Fairlawn will compete Sept. 27-28, with nine holes of play at each course. The teams will comprise each club’s women’s, senior, ‘A’ […]
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Par for the Course: Larger holes, greater potential
Pardon the pun, but Fox Ridge is attempting to outfox the golf industry. The Auburn course, which opened in 2001, is experiencing the numbers/players shortages of many semi-private golf courses throughout the nation. The Fox Ridge answer to this problem, in part, is to expand on the standard of methods of attracting more golfers with […]
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Golf: Local courses playing catch-up
Members of Springbrook Golf Club who happened to drive past the course on Route 202 in Leeds a little more than a week ago probably hoped it was an April Fools’ joke. Alas, the prank already had been played. Neither Mother Nature nor the golf gods held up their end of the bargain with the […]
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MSGA Match Play: Greenleaf rallies past Walp for title
Matt Greenleaf dropped two of the best shots of his life onto the 17th and 18th greens at Fox Ridge Golf Club. Joe Walp, try as he might, couldn’t match them. And so it was Greenleaf who walked off with the 1-up victory and his first individual title in any of the MSGA’s showcase events. […]
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Golf: Jones, Wyman survive day of upsets at Fox Ridge
Tuesday’s opening rounds of the MSGA Match Play Championship were brutal for top-ranked players. Fulfilling the adage that anything can happen in head-to-head competition, No. 1 Ricky Jones and No. 2 Jack Wyman were the only amateurs among the top eight to earn a berth in Wednesday’s quarterfinals at Fox Ridge Golf Club in Auburn. […]