2009

March 20, 2009 — The MGA Foundation held its annual MGA/USGA Green Chairmen Education Series on March 19 at Hackensack Golf Club. The seminar featured expert speakers addressing a variety of topics of interest to club leaders. The presentations are now available on mgagolf.org, click here to access them. The MGA Foundation also honored Westchester Country Club in Harrison, N.Y., as the recipient of the third annual MGA Club Environmental Award.

The Metropolitan Golf Association and the Metropolitan PGA held their annual Rules of Golf Workshop on March 25 at Lake Isle Country Club in Eastchester, N.Y. Attended by golf professionals, club officials and MGA Committeemen, the workshop featured a presentation by USGA Manager of Rules Education David Staebler.

March 20, 2009 -- The Metropolitan Golf Association Foundation honored Westchester Country Club in Rye, N.Y., as the recipient of the third annual MGA Club Environmental Award.

ELMSFORD, N.Y. (February 26, 2009) - The MGA Foundation’s 2009 Spring Educational Forums series is well underway. These programs feature presentations by industry experts that are designed to educate club leaders and the golfing public about a wide range of topics of interest including the Rules of Golf, handicapping procedures and new technology.

More than 100 managers, superintendents, golf professionals and other club officials gathered at Wheatley Hills Golf Club in East Williston, N.Y., on March 18th for a symposium convened by the Metropolitan Club Managers Association (MCMA) entitled “The State of the Club Environment, Round 2.” Guest panelists included Jay Mottola and Charlie Robson, executive directors of the Metropolitan Golf Association and Met PGA, respectively; Richard Spear, the superintendent at the Piping Rock Club on Long Island; Ran

Gene Westmoreland will be at the helm as the non-playing captain of the six-man amateur team representing the Metropolitan Golf Association at the 8th Governor Hugh L. Carey Challenge Cup, a Walker Cup-style competition against the Golfing Union of Ireland.

Since its inception in 1994, the MGA Foundation’s GOLFWORKS Student Intern Program has impacted the lives of more than 1,600  young men and women across the Met Area. Founded as a true intern program, GOLFWORKS is designed to give interns exposure to all areas of club business — clubhouse, maintenance and golf operations — during a ten-week, paid summer internship.

ELMSFORD, N.Y. — Steve Shellock (left) of Shrewsbury, N.J., finished second at the NGA Classic on March 8, the first event on the Pro Series schedule for the NGA Hooters Tour (Final Results).

The top senior players in the Met Area will visit Preakness Hills Country Club in Wayne, N.J., for the 81st playing of the MGA Senior Amateur Championship on May 4 and 5. The Willie Tucker-designed golf course promises to provide a tough test for the field and will add another chapter to its already storied history.

Every month MGA Senior Director of Rules and Competitions Gene Westmoreland will answer one question posed by the readers of the MGA e-Revision Newsletter (click here to sign up). Ed from Westchester County asked Gene the following Rules question: