Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
CLUB CHAMPS CROWNED<br />
AT NORTH SHORE COURSES<br />
By ANNE MARIE TOBIN<br />
2 0 17<br />
It’s been a glorious fall on the North Shore as area clubs<br />
wrapped up their 2017 seasons with annual club<br />
championship tournaments. In the fall issue, we<br />
highlighted many champions’ stories. We follow up with<br />
more results and wish to thank all of the clubs that<br />
graciously shared their stories, results and photos.<br />
______<br />
At Sagamore Spring Golf Course in Lynnfield, a<br />
husband and wife team took center stage in the club’s stroke<br />
play senior championship. Connie Hayton took the<br />
women’s gross title, while hubby Joe Hayton won the senior<br />
men’s net title.<br />
“That has never happened in my 18 years here at<br />
Sagamore,” said PGA teaching instructor and director<br />
of teaching Steve Vaughn. “It was really cool to have a<br />
husband and wife team winning championships, something<br />
really special.”<br />
Fifty-year-old Jim Chesna won the senior gross title in his<br />
first attempt, while Donna DiLeso took the women’s senior<br />
net title. The 2017 men’s club champion is Dan Tucker, who<br />
prevailed over Chesna in the match play final. Bill Yeo won<br />
the net title, defeating Bill Tripes in the final. DiIeso doubled<br />
up, winning the women’s club championship, while Kathy<br />
Rovnak won the women’s net title.<br />
_____<br />
Mac Lee and Karen Joseph won titles at Andover<br />
Country Club. Lee shot 295 in the 72-hole men’s<br />
championship, while Joseph won the women’s title with a<br />
36-hole score of 192. Thomas Finn took the junior title with<br />
a 36-hole total of 157, while Brian Theriault won the senior<br />
title with a 36-hole score of 149. ______<br />
At Ferncroft Country Club in Danvers, Steven Camara<br />
swept the men’s and seniors’ championships, while<br />
Lisa Anderson won the women’s club championship and<br />
Trent Han won the junior title.<br />
______<br />
Mike McAuliffe and Gerry Feeley were first-time winners<br />
at Indian Ridge Country Club in Andover with McAuliffe,<br />
50, winning the senior championship in his first attempt over<br />
runner-up Peter Ciaccia. Feeley, 70, won the super-senior<br />
championship. Chris Dunham defeated Jim Staffieri to<br />
take the men’s title. Cheryl Doherty won the women’s club<br />
championship and Susan Burnley won the women’s net<br />
championship, both for the second straight year.<br />
Sue Mariani won the senior women’s gross championship<br />
while Sandra Divincenzo won the net title.<br />
______<br />
At Nabnasset Lake Country Club in Westford, Dave<br />
Walshe won his first men’s club championship, defeating<br />
Mike Schnyer 4 & 3 in the final. Molly Smith, 12, is<br />
believed to be the youngest women’s champion in the club’s<br />
history. Earlier this summer, Smith also won women’s<br />
championship titles at Vesper Country Club in Tyngsboro<br />
and Mount Pleasant Golf Club in Lowell. Steve Jackson<br />
won his second senior title, while 66-year-old Al Burndrett<br />
won his first super-senior title.<br />
______<br />
Morgan Smith, 13, Molly’s older sister, completed the family<br />
grand slam, winning the women’s club championship at Long<br />
Meadow Golf Club in Lowell.<br />
______<br />
Myopia Hunt Club in South Hamilton crowned several<br />
champions this summer. Josh Webber defeated Ted Ober<br />
1-up in the 18-hole final to win the men’s club championship.<br />
In another close match, Deidre Clark defeated<br />
Penny Ward 1-up, also in 18 holes, to take the women’s title.<br />
Ward found the winner’s circle, though, taking the seasonlong<br />
net match play championship, defeating Marcie<br />
Hunsaker in the final, 3&2, while Jeff Murphy captured<br />
the men’s net championship, defeating Webber in 18 holes,<br />
1-up. The senior championship was won by Joe Roberts,<br />
who defeated Carle Shotwell, 4&3, while R.J. Fates<br />
defeated G.L. Needham, 3&2, to capture the super-senior<br />
title for the 70-and-over set. Tom Riley won the junior<br />
championship.<br />
______<br />
At Renaissance Golf Club in Haverhill, Jeff Weischaar<br />
won the men’s club championship and Teri Burtoft won the<br />
women’s club championship. Weischaar defeated Pete<br />
Beaulieu, 2-up, while Burtoft defeated Betsy Masse, 2&1.<br />
Joe Harnden won the senior club championship for the<br />
umpteenth time, while Lynn Wailes won her first senior<br />
women’s title. Jim McDonald was the senior men’s net<br />
title, while Joan Apkin captured the senior women’s net<br />
championship. James Robbins won the junior club<br />
championship and Ava Spencer won the junior-junior<br />
club championship. >>><br />
22 >>> WINTER 2017
Change language