It’s
almost time to put another season in the books. The summer has come and
gone, but not the golf season. There is still some prime golf left to
go and golfers should be enjoying some of the best conditions of the
year. What started off as a slow and easy season, became challenging at
the end. The excessive rain, followed by the heat and humidity of
August more than made up for the easy June. I hope everyone had a
productive and successful season.
I would like to thank all
of our meeting hosts for allowing us to enjoy their facilities. We
started at Quoque, had our US Open event at Bethpage, Eisenhower Park,
our family beach party, and just attended our MET / LIGCSA joint meeting
at Meadowbrook. All meetings were strongly attended and successful.
Our hosts and their clubs went above and beyond for us, so again thank
you for your efforts. We still have one more monthly meeting to go and
I am sure we will have another great event at Southhampton for our
Superintendent / Club official day.
I would also like to take
the opportunity to thank our commercial members for their support. We
are fortunate to have commercial partners, who continue to offer their
support during these tough economic times. A special thanks to Maxwell
Turf, Fairway Golf Car and Mill Pond for hosting the 3rd
annual Superintendents Appreciation Day. Jim Vogel and everyone at Mill
Pond did an excellent job and gave us a perfect day.
We again awarded our
annual scholarships in August at our 9 and dine hosted by Piping Rock.
The following were the 2009 scholarship winners:
Lauren Kocienda
Elisabeth McAvoy
Emily Carlone
Katherine McAvoy
Lauren Lambert
David Golan
Kevin Anderson
Hannah Friend
Congratulations to all of
our 2009 Scholarship winners.
Again, I hope everyone had
a good season I hope to see everyone at our next meeting on October 19th
at Southhampton Golf Club
Russ MacPhail
President
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