Elmsford, N.Y. – On Thursday, January 20, The First Tee of Metropolitan New York Young Benefactors hosted its 2011 Kickoff Event at Drive 495, a Manhattan golf and fitness center owned by 2010 MGA Jerry Courville Sr. Player of the Year Joe Saladino and his brother, Don.
January 12, 2011 – While the Met Area remains frozen in a winter wonderland, the best golfers in the world are teeing it up in Honolulu, Hawaii, this week for the first full-field event of the 2011 PGA Tour season. The Sony Open in Hawaii begins on Thursday, January 13 at Waialae Country Club, one of the most scenic and historic tracks on the PGA Tour. The field includes four players with Met Area ties, each of whom looks to begin 2011 on a high note and improve his standing on Tour.
Handicap Indexes to be revised on the 1st and 15th of every month starting in 2011
Executive Director got his start at the MGA in 1976, won DSA in 2009
December 21, 2010 – After a four-year hiatus, Westchester Country Club will again host a professional golf tournament after the Champions Tour announced that the 2011 Constellation Energy Senior Players Championshipwill be held at the historic Harrison, N.Y., club, a venue that is quite familiar to many of the senior circuit’s players. The 2011 event will be played August 18-21 over the same West Course at Westchester that hosted a PGA Tour event for 41 years.
The MGA wishes to extend season’s greetings to all of our friends in the Met Area golf community. In a season full of tournament triumphs, milestone celebrations and feel-good stories, the MGA has come up with our top 10 highlights from the 2010 season. We hope you will send us an email or post on our Facebook page if we forgot a top moment.
December 15, 2010 – Looking for a stocking stuffer to give that golfer in your family? Try theater tickets. In a revival of the original production from 2003, Golf: The Musical is currently playing off-Broadway through January 16, 2011. Below is a review of the show by George Kirsch, professor of history at Manhattan College in Riverdale, N.Y., and the author of Golf in America (University of Illinois Press, 2008).
With another year of Q-School in the books, 29 golfers have punched their ticket to the PGA Tour for the 2011 season. By finishing in the top 25 and ties, these men will join the like of Graeme McDowell, Jim Furyk, Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods. Four Met Area natives played in the final stage, which was held December 1-6 at the Orange County National Golf Center in Winter Garden, Fla. Although none of the four finished in the top 25, three of them will have PGA Tour status next season. Final scores.