5 individuals will probably be inducted into the Maine Golf Corridor of Fame Oct. 13 within the banquet room of the Poland Spring Inn.
Invoice Kennedy, Golf Columnist
• Casey Bourque of Dutch Elm is a high teacher who excelled as an novice and have become knowledgeable in 2000.
“If you happen to’ve ever discovered your self holding a 7-iron on a Maine seashore in January, then we’re clearly kindred spirits,” Bourque as soon as stated.
• Robert Girvan II, of Penobscot Valley, was a high quality novice golfer who died of most cancers in 2008 on the age of 54.
• Julie Inexperienced, of Bangor Municipal, has been a high ladies’s novice golfer and coach at Husson College. She joined Bangor Muni in 1964 and received the Maine Girls’s Novice championship in 1990.
• Norm Hevey is proprietor and superintendent of Dutch Elm. He’s a previous president of the Maine Golf Course Superintendents Affiliation.
• Leon Oliver, who has been an excellent Maine golfer, is proprietor and superintendent of Sheepscot Hyperlinks, a course he bought in 2019 after being the professional and common supervisor at Bathtub.
The induction dinner is at Poland Spring for apparent causes. Poland Spring is probably the most historic golf website in Maine, for a number of causes, together with the very fact that it’s the oldest resort golf course in america, and the place U.S. presidents and celebrities have performed golf for greater than a century.
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Brian J. Bilodeau and Jace Pearson of Martindale captured the Maine State Golf Affiliation 4-Ball Championship Sept. 17-18 at Rockland by carding 64-65—129 to win the match by three strokes. Within the course of, they earned $600 in professional store credit score.
Bilodeau and Pearson performed the primary 12 holes of the second spherical in even-par. On the final six holes, they had been 5-under to go away the sphere effectively behind. It was the second consecutive state four-ball title for them, after successful it in 2021 at Bridgton Highlands.
For Bilodeau, it was his third four-ball crown, successful it with Phil Bilodeau at Sugarloaf in 2012.
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The semifinal spherical of the MSGA Senior Match Play Invitational, scheduled to conclude Sept. 22, was rained out and can have these two matches and the ultimate held Sept. 26 for the title at Prouts Neck.
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The MSGA, aka Maine Golf, will conduct 4 play days throughout the week.
The boys will probably be at Northeast Harbor Sept. 30 and at Kebo Valley Oct. 1. The ladies will probably be enjoying Sept. 27 at Penobscot Valley and Webhannet.
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In Charlie’s Cup competitors, two space males’s gamers are among the many high 10. Don Flanagan of Springbrook is sixth with 49 factors, whereas James Thumbs of Bridgton Highlands is ninth with 43 factors.
There are not any space gamers within the ladies’s high 10.
Invoice Kennedy, a retired New Jersey golf author and editor now residing on Thompson Lake in Otisfield, is in his tenth season as Solar Journal golf columnist.
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