Long Island Golf News Volume VII Fall 2004
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Darrel Kestner won this year's 2004 Met PGA Championship held Sept 13-15 at the Inwood Country Club. In a performance that lapped the filed , Darrell shot 201 (67, 69, 65) to win by 9 strokes over Mark Mielke. Darrell is arguably the most successful and accomplished professional golfer to have come from Long Island. This Deepdale Country Club head professional has also made his mark as a touring pro on the PGA Champions tour. Mark Mielke is the 2003 NY State Open Champion and is the 2004 runner up for MGA Player of the Year.
Denise Martorana is the Women's Cross County Golf Association's 2004 Senior Stroke Play Champion. Denise shot a 79 at The Creek on August 10 to win by one stroke over Cheryl Brayman and Jean Schob.
Cheryl Brayman is the Women's Metropolitan Golf Association's ( WMGA ) 2004 Senior Champion, courtesy of a 2 round total of 161 shot at the Brae Burn Country Club on September 21 and 22. |
Long Island Golf News often receives inquiries about league play. There are numerous golf associations in the metropolitan area but they often are both restrictive and expensive. The Links at Shirley offers one of the few opportunities for league play at a public facility. They offer a Tuesday night league for both men and women as well as a Saturday Men's league. The Links at Shirley is a 215-acre multi-million dollar course and facility that opened in 2000. Designed by noted Florida Golf Course Architect Jeff Meyers, the course is located just 1,000 yards from the Great South Bay, just off the William Floyd Parkway. It features an 18-hole Par 72-championship course that plays more than 7,000 yards and an18-hole lighted Par-3 course for day or night play. As the 2004 golf season nears its end it may be time to think about league play for next season. To learn more, visit the Links at Shirley on line.
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Ball striker or scrambler? The pure ball striker with a limited short game knocks it pin high in 2 on a par 5. He then stumbles in with a bogey. The scrambler is all over the place on the same par 5 but gets up and down for a par. We all have both qualities within us but there is usually one trait that is paramount. It can be very gratifying to hit it long and straight and nothing compares to catching all of the ball and hitting it as far as we can. If ball striking is not accompanied by an effective short game scoring is out of the question. We measure our games against the greatest in the world, those PGA touring pros we see on TV every week. Have you ever noticed that the touring pros miss a lot of greens? The Greens in Regulation averages on the PGA Tour are in the 60 percent range. That is to say, they miss more than a third of all greens. How do they still score so low? Simple - they are scrambling all the time. They are getting up and down from the fringe , the sand , behind a tree and from the deep rough. They also make a few putts when they are on in regulation. Long Island Golf News offers free posting of your scores with statistical analysis on your own web page at WLIGA - Happy scrambling !!! |
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