Given the chaotic nature of sports this time of year – so much going on, so little time – we will grant a rare mulligan to provide folks the opportunity to reflect upon an impressive performance that wasn’t given proper respect. Rich Berberian’s historic 59 to open the 103rd NEPGA Championship was … [Read more...]
Notes: Joey Lenane, Cole Anderson among New Englanders back in college action
With the collegiate golf season upon us, New England golfers opened up with contrasting performances at the Folds of Honor Collegiate in Grand Haven, Mich. Riding a roller-coaster was Joey Lenane of Dedham, Mass., who posted one of the best second-round scores, a 67, but it was sandwiched between 81 … [Read more...]
How Rebecca Skoler broke through to win the Mass. Women’s Amateur
DEDHAM, Mass. – For a golfer who birdied the first hole to jump out in front and never trailed, Rebecca Skoler seemingly teetering on the edge the entire way against Molly Smith in the Massachusetts Women’s Amateur championship Friday morning at Dedham Country & Polo Club. OK, so it’s not … [Read more...]
Notes: Matt Boldy’s path from Mass. to the NHL … to PGA Tour Canada
Hockey players spending their summers on the golf course? No news there. But a young hockey player with strong Massachusetts ties taking his passion for golf into the professional arena? Now that’s a different spin – and one which he is embracing. “When you kind of add that competitiveness element … [Read more...]
Ryan Downes’ winning ways continue as he defends Ouimet title
AUBURNDALE, Mass. – Can you script an old story when you’re just 17 and haven’t even started your senior year in high school? Semantical question, perhaps, but frankly, what does it matter because Ryan Downes of Longmeadow, Mass., continues to be a young man piling up impressive feats in a hurry. A … [Read more...]
Megan Khang’s road to the LPGA part of a tale that ‘truly is the American dream’
Images and testaments to the awe of the human spirit are at the heart of what helped give shape to the beginning of the Megan Khang story. For instance, the perception that Lee Khang was pushing his only child hard and fast into golf. “I never saw that,” said Greg Simeone, who is the principal at … [Read more...]