Past Presidents & DSA Winners
LIGA Past Presidents
2023 and 2024 ................................Jay Sessa
2021 and 2022...........................David Mattana*
2019 and 2020..........................George Gatta*
2017 and 2018 ................... Martin Winkelman*
2015 and 2016................... Michael J. Sullivan*
2013 and 2014…………….Alan R. Finkelstein*
2011 and 2012 .................... James L. Dunne *
2009 and 2010........................... John Partilla*
2007 and 2008...................Robert J. Capazzi*
2005 and 2006..................... Martin J. Bartow
2003 and 2004......................... Peter F. Barry
2000 to 2002 ....................... William Cariello*
1998 and 1999........................ John H. Lynch*
1997 and 1998............... Joseph C. Cantwell
1995 and 1996.................Frank J. Faruolo, Jr.
1992 to 1994 ........................ J. Daniel Walsh
1991 and 1992............... Joseph A. Donahue*
1989 and 1990........... Dr. Harold M. Lenobel
1987 and 1988............... William J. Zaremba
1985 and 1986................. Raymond J. Larkin
1982 and 1984.....................F. Roy McMahon
1980 and 1981...................... Arthur P. Weber
1978 and 1979.................... John E. Sedlmayr
1976 and 1977........... Dr. Robert L. Andrews
1974 and 1975........................ Robert Hooper
1972 and 1973....................... Louis S. Backiel
1970 and 1971.................... Joseph Schlanger
1968 and 1969......................... John J. Humm
1966 and 1967.................... E. Kenneth Smith
1963 and 1965...................William F. Keegan
1961 and 1962.......................... Gordon Stott
1959 and 1960.................... William T. Slader
1957 and 1958...................... George E. Sands
1955 and 1956..................George T. Baird, Jr.
1953 and 1954...................... Robert B. Baxter
1950 and 1952.................... O. M. Lamberson
1948 and 1949....................... Dr. O. V. Wibell
1946 and 1947.................Frederick A. Marsh
1944 and 1945..........Dr. Charles J. Robinson
1942 and 1943................ Wesley M. Cotterell
1941 and 1942............. Jerome W. Nammack
1939 and 1940.....................Capt. E. F. Carter
1937 and 1938............. David R. Longnecker
1934 to 1936 .............................. J. Ebb Weir
1932 and 1933............ W. Neal Fulkerson, Jr.
1930 and 1931................. Edmund H. Driggs
1928 and 1929................. Gardiner W. White
1926 and 1927............... Frederick W. Kiendl
1924 and 1925.................. Wesley M. Oler, Jr.
1922 and 1923.......................... John M. Ward
* Active Past Presidents
Distinguished Service Award Winners
2024
Michael Sullivan (Past President, LIGA)
2023
Marty Winkelman (Past President, LIGA)
2021
John Lynch (Past President, LIGA)
2019
Alan Finkelstein (Past President, LIGA)
2018
Robert J. Capazzi (Past President, LIGA)
2017
Stephen A. Smith (Former Executive Director, LIGA & LICSF)
2016
James L. Dunne (Garden City Golf Club)
2015
Charles Robson (MetPGA)
2014
Gene Bernstein (MeadowBrook Club)
2013
The Seawane Club
2012
Donald J. Hendler (MeadowBrook Club)
2011
Peter Barry (Huntington Crescent Club)
2010
Richard Spear (Piping Rock Club)
2009
Mike Wade, PGA (First Tee-Eisenhower Park Golf Club)
2008
Astoria Federal Savings
2007
William Cariello (Hempstead Golf & Country Club)
2006
John J. Glozek, Jr. (Publisher, Golfing Magazine)
2005
David C. Catalano (Director, Bethpage State Park)
2004
Joseph C. Cantwell (Hempstead Golf & Country Club)
2003
Joseph A. Donahue (Garden City Golf Club)
2002
Arthur P. Weber (Old Westbury Golf & Country Club)
2001
James F. Tingley (Nassau Country Club)
2000
Arnold M. Kerner (Glen Head Country Club)
1999
Bernadette Castro (NYS Commissioner of Parks & Recreation)
1998
Mike Hebron, PGA (Smithtown Landing Country Club)
1997
The Treiber Group
1996
Gilbert Merrill (Pine Hollow Country Club)
1995
Raymond J. Larkin, Jr. (Cherry Valley Club); Michael Cornacchia (Huntington Crescent Club)
1994
Roslyn Savings Bank
1993
Joseph N. Carbone (Brookville Country Club)
1992
George E. Sands (North Shore Country Club)
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