December 11, 2009 – Robert A. Dickison, the longtime superintendent at Upper Montclair Country Club in Clifton, N.J., was selected as one of three recipients of the 2010 GCSAA Col. John Morley Distinguished Service Awards.
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August 24 - MGA/MetLife Youth Clinic at Ridgewood Country Club
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Every month former 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). Gene recently received the following Rules question from a reader:
December 3, 2009 – USGA Executive Director David B. Fay and Cameron Wilson of Shorehaven Golf Club were honored at the Metropolitan Golf Association Annual Meeting and Dinner on December 2 at Westchester Country Club in Harrison, N.Y. Fay received the 2009 MGA Distinguished Service Award, the Association’s highest honor, and Wilson received the 2009 MGA Jerry Courville Sr. Player of the Year Award.
November 30, 2009 – Mary Jane “Sis” Putman, a longtime scoreboard keeper for the MGA, died at her home in Mendham, N.J., on November 26 after a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Putman joined the MGA as a scorekeeper in 1984 and worked hundreds of tournaments throughout the Met Area.
ORLANDO, Fla. (November 25, 2009) – Andrew Giuliani continues to perform well at The Big Break: Disney. Giuliani advanced through the seventh week of the competition and is one of the five remaining contestants on the show.
November 23, 2009 - Four Met Area pros have made it through to the final stage of PGA Tour Q-School: 2004 MGA/MetLife Boys champion Sunny Kim of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.; former Long Island resident Keegan Bradley of Orlando, Fla.; 2003 Met Open champion Andrew Svoboda of Larchmont, N.Y.; and Nationwide Tour player Chris Nallen of Tucson, Ariz.
