Former Salem Country Club golf director and Beverly resident Kirk Hanefeld is gearing up for one last shot at success on the PGA Champions Tour for players 50 and older.
In an e-mail distributed to friends and family, Hanefeld, 53, said he would not be seeking to qualify for the three remaining events on the 2009 [...]
Entries from August 2nd, 2010
Georgetown Club closes its doors
September 30th, 2009?> · by Bob Albright · No Comments · Uncategorized
As was reported in the North Shore Golf Blog last week, the Georgetown Club closed its doors, and its fairways, this week leaving golfers, 15 salaried employees, and several prospective brides in the lurch.
In filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy North Shore Golf Magazine has learned that primary owner Peter Wotjkun and his partners are subject [...]
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Beer cart approved for Sagamore Spring
September 25th, 2009?> · by Bob Albright · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
by Alix Roy
LYNNFIELD – Visitors to the Sagamore-Spring Golf Club off Main Street can now purchase beer and wine from a cart that will be circulating through the fairways.
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Record win for Higgins at Mid-Am; Vesper’s Smith second; Sagamore’s Miceli finishes on fire
September 18th, 2009?> · by Bob Albright · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Becky Blaeser, MGA
Haverhill, MA — It wasn’t a question of whether he would win… it was more about how much would he distance himself from the field.
Brian Higgins (Franklin CC) took care of business on Thursday by calmly posting a 5-under par 65 and claiming his second straight Massachusetts Mid-Amateur Championship title by an [...]
Breaking News: Georgetown Club headed for bankruptcy
September 16th, 2009?> · by Bob Albright · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
By Gary Larrabee
The nearly 20-year saga of The Georgetown Club’s financial instability appears to have reached a new milestone.
Principal owner Peter Wojtkun last Friday (September 11) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in United States Federal Court in Boston on behalf of his three holding companies – Georgetown Golf Club Inc., New England Golf [...]
U.S. Senior Open coming back to Salem CC in 2016
September 3rd, 2009?> · by Bob Albright · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Gary Larrabee
The United States Senior Open Golf Championship is returning to Salem Country Club in Peabody in 2016. The Salem CC membership Wednesday evening, in an absentee ballot mail-in vote, approved the initiative, endorsed unanimously several weeks ago by the club’s Board of Governors, by a nearly 2-1 margin (185 for the championship [...]
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