The Topsham native plays a bogey-free final round, shooting a 2-under 68 to edge Minot’s Will Kannegieser by one shot.
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Maine Amateur Championship: Jack Wyman wins 2nd straight title
Jack Wyman holds the trophy after winning the Maine Amateur Championship on Thursday at the Belgrade Lakes Golf Club. (Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal Photo) BELGRADE — For two days, Belgrade Lakes Golf Club’s seventh hole had been defending champion Jack Wyman’s personal bugaboo at the 99th Maine State Golf Association Amateur Championship. In Thursday’s final round, […]
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Maine Amateur Championship: Wyman takes over lead from Anderson
Jack Wyman tees off on the second hole on the second day of play in the Maine Amateur Championship on Wednesday at the Belgrade Lakes Golf Club. (Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal Photo) BELGRADE — There were no eagles on Jack Wyman’s scorecard. No long birdie streaks. He didn’t need them. Consistency was Wyman’s weapon on Wednesday. […]
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Martindale foursome hopes team success at Belgrade Lakes translates individually
Martindale members, left to right, Joe Baker, Jace Pearson, Craig Chapman and Andrew Slattery won the MSGA Club Team Championship at Belgrade Lakes in May. (Submitted Photo) Just like Pebble Beach will do in 2019 by holding two tournaments — the regular PGA Tour stop in February and the US Open in June — Belgrade Lakes […]
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Maine Amateur: Jack Wyman jumps ahead, holds off Grindle for first win
Jack Wyman tees off at the 18th hole of the 98th Maine Amateur Golf Championship on Thurday at Brunswick Golf Club. BRUNSWICK — On Thursday, Jack Wyman became the first left-handed player to win the Maine Amateur Golf Championship in its 98-year history. The way Wyman started out in the third and final round, it […]
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Hutchins highlights youth movement
YORK — Matt Hutchins finished the Maine Amateur Championship with a dominating round of 5-under-par 65 Thursday at York Golf & Tennis Club, winning the tournament by six strokes. His path to the championship began last fall, but he didn’t have much say in the matter. His family returned to Maine after 12 years living […]
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Maine Amateur: Matt Hutchins topples Ricky Jones, Joe Baker for title
YORK — Second-round leader Ricky Jones and first-round leader Joe Baker found themselves laughing together midway through the third and final round of the 97th Maine Amateur Golf Championship on Thursday. They knew that there was nothing they could do — first-time event participant Matt Hutchins was on a roll, and wasn’t going to stop. […]
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Maine Amateur: Joe Baker relinquishes second-round lead to Ricky Jones
Oxford native and Martindale Country Club member Joe Baker seized hold of the first-round lead after teeing off at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday. That was the same time that three-time champion Ricky Jones teed off in the second round Wednesday, and the same success followed. Jones, a native of Thomaston, shot a 2-under 68 a […]
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Maine Amateur: Joe Baker leads after unforgiving 1st round
YORK — It’s good to be under par in a round of golf. In the first round of the Maine Amateur Championship on Tuesday, just making par was good. Martindale Country Club member Joe Baker shot an early 2-under 68 and was the only player under par after day one of the three-day tournament at […]
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Maine’s best amateur golfers head south
Some of Maine’s finest amateur golfers will filter down to the southern point of the state this week for the 97th Maine Amateur Championship. York Golf & Tennis Club is this year’s host of the Maine State Golf Association-sanctioned event, which runs Tuesday through Thursday. One of the oldest courses in the state, the Donald […]