Val Halla pro takes over for Nancy Storey, who retired after more than 20 years at the helm.
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Par for the Course: MSGA executive director Nancy Storey retiring after 20 important years
Storey oversaw merger of Maine State Golf Association and the state’s women’s organizations.
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Par for the Course: MSGA merger the highlight of the 2018 Maine golf season
“Par For The Course” today is completing its sixth season of publication in the Sun Journal. That being the case, it is appropriate to evaluate the 2018 Maine golf season. This has been a landmark year for the Maine State Golf Association, which formally and officially merged Jan. 1 with the Women’s Maine State Golf […]
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Par for the Course: Good players left off U.S. Ryder Cup team
From this vantage point, the United States Ryder Cup team of 12 players has been viewed by fans as a simple and almost automatic selection process. The team that will play Sept. 28-30 at Le Golf National, located outside of the Paris, France city limits, is composed of 12 outstanding Americans — Brooks Koepka, Dustin […]
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Par for the Course: Undressing golf course dress codes
It might be time to “undress” the subject of golf course dress codes. Probably the most debatable parts of dress codes concern men’s socks and shorts. Apparently there still are clubs which insist on golfers wearing white socks only. With socks manufacturers selling black socks and socks of a variety of colors, it seems to […]
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Par for the Course: Ricky Jones highlights Hall of Fame class
This year’s Maine Hall of Fame class consists of one of the state’s best-ever amateurs, Maine’s top rules official, a well-known teaching professional, and an all-time great women’s player. They will be inducted Sept. 6 in the banquet room of the Poland Spring Resort Inn. One of the many buildings on the Poland Spring complex […]
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Par for the Course: State of Maine Championship hoping for a comeback
The State of Maine Championship will be held Aug. 27-29 at Sugarloaf, but according to veteran Maine golfers it will not be the event it once was. When started back in 1989, primarily as a project promoted by Augusta Country Club pro Al Biondi, it became an extremely popular event. The field was good when […]
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Par for the Course: Warren planning to return to PGA Championship
Because only three Maine golf professionals (Tim Angis, John Hickson, Mike Bauber) ever had competed in the PGA Championship prior to this year’s event, many Maine golfers thought that Shawn Warren had made a significant accomplishment by qualifying for this year’s tournament, held Aug. 9-12 at the Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Missouri. And […]
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Par for the Course: Not much Maine in the Maine Open
Only four golf professionals from Maine participated in the Charlie’s Maine Open last week at the Augusta Country Club, and that could be a sign of the times. Ron Bibeau, head pro at Dunegrass and president of the New England PGA, feels that things are different than a quarter of a century ago, when many […]
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Par for the Course: Odds against Tiger doing Tiger things again
When this writer mentioned during the week that a subject for this week’s golf column was not coming easily, a golf friend replied, “Why don’t you write about the prospects of Tiger Woods winning a PGA Tour event?” The more thought given to it, the more it became clear that this might make interesting reading. […]