Eddie Kirby said he feels as if he’s come “full circle” with this life-long love affair with competitive golf. His upcoming date in the U.S. Senior Open will provide an appearance in a fourth different USGA competition across a 43-year span (previously he was in the U.S. Junior Am, U.S. Amateur, and … [Read more...]
Michael Thorbjornsen heads New England class at NCAAs: McCabe’s notebook
There will be some New England flavor in the NCAA men’s golf championship when play gets underway May 27 at Grayhawk GC in Scottsdale, Ariz. Michael Thorbjornsen, the reigning Massachusetts State Amateur champion from Wellesley, Mass., will be playing for Stanford; Cole Anderson, a redshirt freshman … [Read more...]
Chip Johnson revels in memories of another hometown U.S. Open
Certainly, the romantic notion tickled his fancy. With the U.S Open returning to The Country Club in Brookline for the first time since 1988, how cool if 59-year-old Chip Johnson qualified just as he had done as a 25-year-old all those many summers ago? Heck, he actually put in an entry, too. But on … [Read more...]
Mike Mottola is still winning, even if he didn’t make the cut
Mike Mottola’s inspiring story of a fight against cancer has been afforded plenty of traction on the local level over the last seven years. But thanks to a trip to a national golf championship this past weekend that would have been most unthinkable back in those harrowing days of his … [Read more...]
How New Englanders have fared at U.S. Amateur Four-Ball
If you’re thinking a couple of high school seniors are in the deep end at the ongoing U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship, you don’t know the history of this event and you surely don’t know the track record that Joey Lenane (Dedham, Mass.) is compiling. As for the former, take note that a pair of … [Read more...]
Mark Purrington — The music man who could just never quit golf
This, perhaps, is the secret to why his has been a great adventure. Mark Purrington never intended for it to be one. Never set out to play golf and caddie at Nanea Golf Club on The Big Island of Hawaii. Never mapped out a road through the Minor League Golf Tour. Never told himself to toss in a … [Read more...]