No golfer has received the New Hampshire Golf Affiliation’s Thomas J. Leonard Jr. Participant of the Yr award in three consecutive seasons, however Laconia Nation Membership’s Jim Cilley can turn out to be the primary to do it this 12 months.
Seven golfers have been in place to win the NHGA Participant-of-the-Yr award in three straight years because it was first introduced in 1993 (Bob Mielcarz), and all seven got here up quick in Yr No. 3.
“I could fall to the again of the pack this 12 months, however it might be good (to win it once more) since I’m fairly certain nobody has received three in a row,” stated Cilley, 41. “Hey, I prefer it anytime my title’s within the paper — so long as it’s for factor.”
The NHGA additionally acknowledges a Ladies’s Participant of the Yr, a Junior Participant of the Yr (male), a Junior Participant of the Yr (feminine) and a Senior Participant of the Yr. Final 12 months’s different winners:
Junior (male): Sam Maurice
Junior (feminine): Julianna Megan
Golfers earn player-of-the-year factors based mostly on their end in sure NHGA and NEGA occasions, in addition to qualifying for USGA occasions.
“I begin actually fascinated by it proper after the Stroke Play championship … proper after the primary week in August,” Cilley stated. “At that time you’ve had the (State Am), you’ve had the 4-Ball, you’ve had the Gamers (Invitational) — and a whole lot of the USGA qualifiers occur at that time too. At that time, you type of know as a result of there aren’t that many issues left you possibly can play in and get factors. To me, that’s once I have a look at it so see if I’m within the operating and what needs to be completed if it’s potential.
“I feel it might be troublesome to win the Participant of the Yr with out successful something, and in the event you win the State Am that provides you a leg up … particularly in the event you play in all the pieces else. Successful one of many massive 4 or 5 tournaments goes to actually put you within the operating.”
Others who’ve received the Participant of the Yr award in consecutive years: Phil Pleat (1996-97), Craig Steckowych (2000-01), Danny Arvanitis (2002-03), Nick MacDonald (2010-2011), Joe Leavitt (2014-15), Matthew Paradis (2016-17) and Pat Pelletier (2018-19).
Cilley had the factors lead getting into the New Hampshire Mid-Newbie final 12 months and was capable of fend off Ryan Kohler for the Participant of the Yr title when he and Kohler tied for second within the Mid-Am.
“It’s aggressive,” Cilley stated. “I do know that Ryan knew he was jockeying with me for it final 12 months. I don’t know that it’s aggressive at the beginning of the 12 months, however while you get all the way down to the tip … it turns into aggressive then in the event you nonetheless have an opportunity.”
Guidelines query
Query: True or False? A participant could restore injury to the placing inexperienced made by animals, equivalent to hoof indentations?
Source: USGA Rule 13.1c (2)
Native collegians in NCAA regionals
The Southern New Hampshire College males’s golf group is seeded No. 5 and the Franklin Pierce males earned the No. 7 seed for the NCAA Division II East Regional, which will probably be performed Thursday by means of Saturday at Iron Valley Golf Membership in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. As well as, Saint Anselm’s Drew Semons is one in every of 4 golfers who have been chosen to compete in regional competitors as a person.
The highest three groups and the highest two gamers not with a group from every regional will advance to the finals, which will probably be held Might 22-26 at Avalon Lakes in Warren, Ohio.
The Franklin Pierce girls’s golf group is seeded thirteenth out of 15 groups for the East Regional, which will probably be held at Creek Golf Membership in Springfield, Illinois. The Ravens received their fourth consecutive Northeast-10 championship this season.
Kish tops in Professional-Am
Danny Kish of the Atkinson Resort and Nation Membership took first place within the skilled division of the 2023 Granite Hyperlinks Professional-Am, which was performed April 25 at Granite Hyperlinks Golf Membership in Quincy, Mass.
Kish shot a 2-under-par 69. His spherical included 4 birdies.
New Hampshire calendar
Might 9-Sept. 9: Match Play Championships (Pease, Beaver Meadow, Sky Meadow, Montcalm, GC of New England)
Might 16: Stroke Play Collection (Candia Woods)
Might 17: Ladies’s Weekly “B” (Exeter)
Might 18: Ladies’s Weekly “A” (Hoodkroft)
Might 21: Spring 4 Ball (Keene)
Might 23: Ladies’s Weekly Mixed (Rochester)
Might 25: President’s Cup (Maplewood)
Might 27: Membership/Combined Membership Workforce (Derryfield)
Might 31: Ladies’s Weekly Mixed (Indian Mound)
June 3-4: Gamers Invitational (Baker Hill)
June 5: Stroke Play Collection (The Oaks)
June 6: Spring Fling (Windham)
June 8: Event Collection (Lake Sunapee)
June 12: 4 Ball Championship (Owl’s Nest)
June 12-14: NEGA Ladies’s Newbie (Manchester, Conn.)
June 12-14: Ladies’s Tri-States (Martindale CC/Auburn, Maine)
June 13: Ladies’s Weekly Mixed (Hooper)
June 20: State Am Qualifier (Passaconaway)
June 22-24: New Hampshire Open (Bretwood)
June 24: State Am Qualifier (Bretwood South)
June 25: State Am Qualifier (Beaver Meadow)
June 26: State Am Qualifier (Maplewood)
June 27: Ladies’s Weekly Mixed (Breakfast Hill)
June 28: Ladies’s Weekly Mixed (Blackmount/North Haverhill)
June 28: State Am Qualifier (Breakfast Hill)
June 30: State Am Qualifier (Harmony)
July 6-7: Ladies’s Workforce Championship (Canterbury Woods)
July 10-15: a hundred and twentieth NH Newbie Championship (Manchester)
July 17: Guardian-Little one Championship (Stonebridge)
July 18-20: NEGA Newbie (The Woodlands, Falmouth, Maine)
July 19-21: Junior Championship (Beaver Meadow)
July 19: Senior Legend Basic (Lochmere)
July 21: Ladies’s Weekly Mixed (Newport)
July 23-24: Senior Workforce (Mount Washington)
July 31-Aug. 2: Ladies’s Newbie Championship (Montcalm)
Aug. 7-9: NEGA Junior Newbie (Mt. Washington Resort)
Aug. 8: Ladies’s Weekly Mixed (Pease)
Aug. 8-10: Stroke Play Championship (Ridgewood/Atkinson Resort)
Aug. 15-16: Ladies’s Mid-Newbie (Ridgewood)
Aug. 20-21: Mid-Newbie Workforce (Mount Washington)
Aug. 20: Combined (Mount Washington)
Aug. 22: Ladies’s Weekly “B’ (Bretwood)
Aug. 24: Stoke Play Collection (Hoodkroft)
Aug. 29: Ladies’s Weekly “A” (Derryfield)
Sept. 5: Ladies’s Weekly Mixed (Den Brae)
Sept. 6-7: Senior Championship (Canterbury Woods)
Sept. 11-12: NEGA Senior Newbie (Fox Hopyard/East Haddam, Conn.)
Sept. 21: Stoke Play Collection (Kingswood Gold)
Sept. 26: Fall Basic (Keene)
Oct. 2-4: Mid-Newbie Championship (Rochester)
Oct. 8: Combined (Kingswood Golf)
Oct. 16: Event Collection (Cochecho)
Oct. 18: Stroke Play Collection (Newport)
Oct. 23: Company Problem (Harmony)
Oct. 30: Event Collection (Laconia)
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