Haylock, the Women’s Amateur champion, and Spaulding, the Maine Am champ, are both up by several strokes in their respective divisions.
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Par for the Course: Scramble for first responders is a great idea
Charlie’s Heroes Scramble is open, at no cost, to first responders. The first-year event will be held Monday at Augusta Country Club.
Golf: Ruby Haylock and Team Maine ready for New England junior tournament
Next week’s event at Val Halla Golf Course in Cumberland will feature 10 of Maine’s best junior golfers.
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 […]
Warm welcome: Staci Creech finds success in first Maine golf season
SACO — The next big thing in Maine women’s golf has been tearing it up in Pennsylvania and North Carolina for more than 30 years. Our list of top homegrown female competitors both rolls off the tongue and ends abruptly. The hall of fame sister tandem of Martha White and Pennie Cummings and 1990s phenom Abby […]
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 […]
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, […]