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Gary Larrabee’s Honorable Mentions for Top Moments in North Shore golf history

 

1897 – Host club member Nellie Sargent loses in the final of the second USGA Women’s Amateur at Essex, 5 and 4, to Beatrix Hoyt.

1904 – Andre Carnegie II wins the second Massachusetts Amateur on his home course, Essex County Club.

1905 – Willie Anderson becomes the only player to win three U.S. Opens in a row, winning at Myopia.

1922 – Nine years after his U.S. Open victory at The Country Club rocked the golf world; Francis Ouimet wins his fifth of six Massachusetts at Kernwood CC.

1932 – Virginia Van Wie wins her first of three successive U.S. Amateurs, defeating five-time champion Glenna Collett Vare, 10 and 8, at Salem.

1938 – The U.S. defeats Great Britain, 5-3, at the Curtis Cup played at Essex.

1951 – Julius Boros wins his first tournament as a professional, the Mass. Open at Salem, a prelude to his winning his first of two U.S. Opens the following year in Dallas.

1952 – Tom Mahan Jr., University of Miami student and son of United Shoe head pro Tom Mahan, beats stifling heat and opponent Leo Grace to win the Massachusetts Amateur at Winchester.

1953 – An exhibition match involving Sam Snead, Ben Hogan, Jimmy Demaret and Jack Burke draws a gallery of 800 to Salem Country Club.

1960 – United Shoe’s Pat Granese wins the Massachusetts Amateur at Tedesco CC.

1963 – Jack Nicklaus defeats Gary Player in an exhibition at Essex, 67-71.

1965 – Weston pro Jim Browning, at 54, becomes to oldest player to win the Massachusetts Open at Winchester CC.

1970 – In an all-North Shore final, the host club’s Barbara Thorner defeats United Shoe’s Paula Brophy, 1 up, for the Massachusetts Amateur title at Tedesco.

1972 – Ould Newbury-bred Charles Volpone shoots a course-record 65 en route to becoming only the fourth player to win back-to-back Massachusetts Opens, at Tedesco.

1973 – Bob Crowley wins the Mass. Open in a playoff over Dave Marad at Kernwood; Ross Coon wins his third NEPGA title, edging Volpone, by sinking a 40-foot putt on the final hole at Ferncroft.

1977 – Dale Morey wins his second U.S. Senior Amateur at Salem.

1980 – Dale Lundquist wins the inaugural Boston Five Classic at Ferncroft.

1980 - Host club member Jack McNiff, at 62, four years past major cancer surgery, becomes the oldest on-site qualifying medalist in Massachusetts Amateur history at Salem CC

1981 – Essex head pro Dave Marad wins his second NEPGA title at Ferncroft.

1993 – Longmeadow’s Flynt Lincoln wins the Mass. Amateur at Essex in the longest championship match in history, a 40-hole verdict over Jason Kissel.

1996 – Future PGA Tour player James Driscoll defeats John Curley at Myopia for the Massachusetts Amateur title.

1998 – Tracy Welch of Winchester wins her first Women’s State Amateur at Kernwood.

1999 – Mike San Filippo holds off Kirk Hanefeld and host pro Frank Dully to win the New England PGA at Kernwood.

2005 – Frank Vana wins his second consecutive Massachusetts Amateur at Myopia Hunt Club.