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10 >>> SUMMER 2020

Calendar

The spotlight’s

on Myopia,

Tedesco, Essex

The North Shore will host several

major amateur and professional

championships this summer,

including two of the oldest events ever

played in Massachusetts.

The crown jewel on the men’s

side, no doubt, is the 100th annual

NEPGA Championship, which

will be co-hosted by Myopia Hunt

Club and Tedesco Country Club Aug.

17-19. The field will be split over the

first 36 holes with 18 holes at each

site. Players who survive the 36-hole

cut will return to Myopia for the final

round Aug. 19.

Defending champion is Shawn

Warren of Falmouth CC.

In 1921, Gil Nichols shot 78-78 at

Myopia in the chapter’s inaugural

one-day, 36-hole to claim the Donald

Ross Trophy and a hundred bucks.

Modern fields typically boast nearly

150 players with purses hovering

around the six-figure neighborhood.

Winners shoot scores 10 strokes lower

MYOPIA

HUNT CLUB

than a century ago,

and are rewarded

with the Tom Mahan

Sr. Trophy and a fivefigure

payday.

The championship

has not returned

to Myopia since

that inaugural

tournament. Dan

Venezio, PGA pro at

Portland CC, spent

eight years as an

assistant professional

at Myopia from

2007-15, and

anticipates the course

will demand disciplined golf.

“Playing well at Myopia boils

down to two things: Fairways and

patience,” said Venezio, who qualified

for the 2015 PGA Championship at

Whistling Straits. “The golf course

is not long, and on almost every

par-4, you have a scoring iron in

your hand. But miss the fairway

and find the fescue or one of the

devilish bunker complexes, you will

be fighting an uphill battle the entire

day. Aggressive play can be rewarded

with a lot of birdies, but those same

aggressive choices tend to narrow

your landing areas and make your

margin for error shrink.”

Tedesco Country Club, which

has hosted several Massachusetts

Opens, Stage I of PGA TOUR

qualifying and LPGA

tournaments, will be

hosting the NEPGA

Championship for the

first time.

“The two clubs have

similar traditional

characteristics which

put a premium on

accuracy off the tee

with great touch

needed around fast

undulating greens,”

said Jake Leech,

Tedesco’s head

golf professional.

TEDESCO

COUNTRY CLUB

“It’s unique to see how the Section

Championship sites vary, some

being big modern golf courses

where distance is an advantage,

to the traditional style courses in

which precision and accuracy play

of more importance. Traditionally

Peter Hasak, our golf course

superintendent, has the golf course

firm and fast with high fescue in

August and throughout the fall.”

The 117th Women’s Amateur

Championship, the oldest of all

Mass Golf tournaments and one of

the oldest in the United States, will

be staged at famed Essex County

Club in Manchester by the Sea Aug.

11-14. Essex is the home of the Curtis

sisters (Harriot and Margaret) and

site of the 2010 Curtis Cup won by

the United States over Great Britain.

Woburn native Noreen Friel Mohler, a

former Curtis team member, served as

captain of that U.S. squad.

The Amateur features 36 holes of

qualifying, with the top 16 advancing

to the championship match play

bracket and the next 16 advancing to

the President’s Cup bracket. Angela

Garvin (The Ranch Club) won last

year’s event at Weston.

This will be just the third Amateur

hosted at Essex. Joanne Goodwin won

in 1954, while Anne Marie Tobin won

in 1991.

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