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Roop, Lacognata lead after first day of Maine Junior Amateur Championship

CUMBERLAND — As Tom Higgins walked to turn in his scorecard, Jacob Laplume asked him how he played the first round of the Maine Junior Amateur Championship at Val Halla Golf Course. “Not good enough,” Higgins, from South Portland, said. “Still got tomorrow, though, right?” Fist bump. Higgins did play good enough Tuesday to sit […]

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Par for the Course: Maine golf in fine shape

On July 23, HBO Real Sports aired a show titled, “The Future of Golf,” in which host Bryant Gumbel, an avid golfer, had Jack Nicklaus and Taylor Made executive Mark King as his guests. They painted a picture of the golf industry that was not pretty. It showed closed courses and a variety of gimmicks […]

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Par for the Course: Bibeau honored with ‘TK’ award

The golf legend of Tom Kimball lives on, and one of the primary sources of the memories of “TK” is Ron Bibeau, executive director of First Tee of Maine. This is not just because the Maine State Golf Association presented Bibeau with the 2013 Tom Kimball Award on Monday night, but because Bibeau and Kimball, […]