In addition to the MGA, Golf Central is the home to a number of other Met Area golf associations. Click on the links below for contact information.

Metropolitan PGA
Metropolitan Club Managers Association
Metropolitan Golf Course Superintendents Association
Metropolitan Golf Writers Association
Tri-State Turf Research Foundation
Westchester Golf Association
Women’s Metropolitan Golf Association

For more information on any of these associations please click on the link or call the MGA office at (914) 347-4653.

Metropolitan Section - PGA
Suite 200
Phone:(914) 347-2325
Junior Golf: (914) 347-2416
Fax: (914) 347-2014
E-mail: pga@pgahq.com
Web site : www.met.pga.com

The Metropolitan Section of the PGA is one of 41 sections of the PGA of America. Led by Executive Director Charlie Robson, it serves almost 250 head professionals and another 400 assistants and apprentices. Its educational and tournament programs are highly regarded and together with the New Jersey PGA Section, are considered among the nation's best, as are its member professionals in the areas of teaching and playing.

The Met PGA Junior Golf Association, which involves more than 1,000 juniors in the game every year, offers educational seminars, teaching clinics, and more than 60 junior competitions annually. A program called “Golf-in-Schools,” brings instruction to inner-city students, while The First Tee of Metropolitan New York at Mosholu has become the hub of local programs and activities.

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Metropolitan Club Managers Association
1st Floor
Phone:(914) 347-4653
Fax: (914) 347-3437
Web site: www.metcma.org

The Metropolitan Club Managers Association was formed in May of 1923 at the newly erected locker building of the Westchester Hills Golf Club by a group of club managers. The MCMA was formed for the betterment of relations among club executives to compose, adopt and live up to a “code of ethics”, in short, to work in fraternal unity for the advancement of their best professional and social interests.

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Metropolitan Golf Course
Superintendents Association
1st Floor
Phone: (914) 347-4653
Fax: (914) 347-3437
Web site: www.metgcsa.org

The Metropolitan Golf Course Superintendents Association affords its 405 members a forum for sharing information that concerns their profession. Through monthly meetings and a variety of educational endeavors, the Met GCSA brings together experts in maintenance-related fields, such as environmental research and government regulations, and updates its members on issues affecting the turfgrass industry.

Who to contact at Golf Central:

Metropolitan Golf Writers Association
1st Floor
E-mail: kkeller@mgagolf.org
Phone: (914) 347-4653
Fax: (914) 347-3437
Web site: www.metgolfwriters.org

The Metropolitan Golf Writers Association celebrating its 51st year as one of the game’s most important organizations. Formed in 1952 under the guidance of super promoter Fred Corcoran, the MGWA continues to serve the game by honoring outstanding champions and contributors, promoting golf journalism, and raising money for Metropolitan (New York) area caddie scholarship programs.

The MGWA National Awards Dinner was originally held each winter at various New York City locales, including the Waldorf-Astoria, Plaza, Pierre and Americana. Toots Shor’s Restaurant hosted the first dinner on Jan. 29, 1953. In 1975, the event was moved to the suburbs of Westchester County, N.Y., and Fairfield County, Conn.

Who to contact at Golf Central:

Tri-State Turf Research Foundation
1st Floor
Phone: (914) 347-4653
Fax: (914) 347-3437

Founded in 1990, the Tri-State Turf Research Foundation is dedicated to providing better turf conditions and a safer environment through turf research. The Foundation was organized and is run by area golf course superintendents with help the MGA. The organization works directly with researchers at universities in the Northeast to identify and fund research projects aimed at problems faced specifically by golf courses in the Met Area. Tri-State has already completed several successful studies working with Cornell, Rutgers and the University of Rhode Island.

Who to contact at Golf Central:

Westchester Golf Association
WGA/Caddie Scholarship Fund
Suite 220
E-mail: info@westchestergolf.org
Phone: 914-347-2340
Fax: 914-347-2418
Web site: www.westchestergolf.org

The Westchester Golf Association, led by Executive Director Bob Thomas, is an organization of 81 clubs and individuals in nine counties, which conducts local championships and administers the WGA Caddie Scholarship Fund. Since 1956, this Fund has helped deserving youngsters attain a college education, making it one of the most successful of its kind in the country.

Who to contact at Golf Central:

Women’s Metropolitan Golf Association
Suite 230
E-mail: wmga@aol.com
Phone: (914) 592-7888
Fax: (914) 592-7936
Web site: www.wmga.com

The Women’s Metropolitan Golf Association serves 170 member clubs and more than 2,300 individual members throughout the Met Area. It conducts 37 tournaments each year for women and girls. Its match-play championship dates back to 1900. Headlining its competitive golf schedule, in terms of participation, is a women's interclub series held each spring that attracts nearly 1,000 players. The WMGA maintains a diligent Course Rating Committee and a 17-member volunteer Board which oversees the daily operations and long-term progress of the Association.

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