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2016

2016

Catching up with Met Am champion Peter Kim

Catching up with Met Am champion Peter Kim

When a golfer hits the competitive scene at a young age, there's an opportunity to see their game develop through the following years. That's just the case with Peter Kim, who hoisted his first MGA trophy with a win at the MGA/MetLife Boys Championship in 2008.

2016 Met PGA/MGA Rules of Golf Seminar

2016 Met PGA/MGA Rules of Golf Seminar

ELMSFORD, N.Y. (March 23, 2016) - Over 70 Met Area professionals and rules officials from our local golf community came out to Brae Burn Country Club in Purchase, N.Y., for the Met PGA/MGA Rules of Golf Seminar. The topic of discussion focused on 2016's changes to the Rules of Golf, and also involved best practices for approaching these Rules changes in the upcoming season.

MGA Green Chairman Education Series has record turnout

Visit the MGA and start the golf season at The Journal New Golf Show

Visit the MGA and start the golf season at The Journal New Golf Show

ELMSFORD, N.Y. (March 9, 2015) – The recent warm weather is making us all think about smashing that perfect drive or holing a lengthy putt as we anticipate the upcoming golf season. Luckily, one can feed their hunger for golf this weekend at The Journal News Golf Show, March 12 and 13 at the Westchester Marriott in Tarrytown.

Limited Volunteer Opportunities Remain for 2016 PGA Championship

Limited Volunteer Opportunities Remain for 2016 PGA Championship

SPRINGFIELD, N.J. (March 7, 2016) – The PGA of America announced today that a limited number of volunteer positions remain for the 2016 PGA Championship, which will be played at historic Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey, July 25-31, 2016.

Davis Love III to receive Gold Tee Award

Davis Love III to receive Gold Tee Award

ELMSFORD, N.Y. (March 1, 2016) Davis Love III, one of the best players of his generation and widely respected for upholding the finest ideals of the sport throughout an illustrious career, will receive one of golf’s most important honors—the Gold Tee Award—from the Metropolitan Golf Writers Association at the 65th National Awards Dinner on Monday, July 25, at the Westchester Marriott in Tarrytown, New York.

Catching up with Xander McDonald-Smith

Catching up with Xander McDonald-Smith

Add Xander McDonald-Smith to the seemingly always growing list of Met Area players teeing it up in the professional ranks. During the last week of January, the Rockaway, New York, native and 2014 MGA Public Links champion navigated his way through PGA TOUR Latinoamérica qualifying school in Bogota, Colombia.