Rock Ridge CC

 

Kickers Winners, July 25: Low Gross – John Piorkowski and Tom Bartram; Low Net – 1. Bob Wilhelmy and Mike Reisman, 2. Pat McLaughlin and Charlie Grant, 3. Matt Klein and Dean Harvey, 4. Jay Higham and Jim McDade.

Men’s Thursday Night Quota League, July 29: Low Net – 1. John O’Connor, 2. Ken Throupe, 3. Tony DiPerrio, 4. Dave Sigovich, 5. Tom Nathanson and Tom Meyer, 6. John Muller, Marty Gersten and Sean Patrick.

Ladies 18-Hole Tournament – Two Gals and a Guy, July 29: Low Net – 1. (56) Jayne DuBraski and Nancy Linden w/ Gary Horvath, 2. (61) Isabelle Murray and Pat Denlinger w/ Jim Dolan.

Kickers Winners, August 1: Low Gross – John Piorkowski and Tom Bartram; Low Net – 1. Ken Throupe and Gary Horvath, 2. Tony DeCredico and Matt Klein, 3. Charlie Grant and Scott Roberti.

Ladies Tuesday Night Scramble, August 3: Low Net – Janet Duffy, Pat O’Connor and Carol Piorkowski.

Men’s Thursday Night Quota League, August 5: Low Net – 1. Mike Portnoy, 2. John Piorkowski, Scott Roberti, Graham Fyffe and Peter Wallace, 3. John DuBraski and Dave Thomann.

 

Buick Championship

 

Two-time NCAA championship coach Jim Calhoun, ESPN anchor Stuart Scott, actor Leslie Nielsen and University of Hartford women’s basketball coach Jen Rizzotti have committed to play in the Buick Championship’s St. Paul/Traveler’s Celebrity Pro-Am later this month at the TPC at River Highlands in Cromwell.

“Jim Calhoun has been a wonderful promoter of our tournament for years,” said tournament director Dan Baker. “He always comes back to play even if he has to fly in and fly back out to be here.”

In other news, 1988 Canon Sammy Davis Jr GHO champion Mark Brooks and 2000 Canon GHO champion Notah Begay III have committed to play in the 2004 Buick Championship.

 

Area Golf Tournaments

 

Monday, August 16 – B’Nai Israel will host its first annual Golf and Tennis Classic on Monday, August 16, at the Country Club of Waterbury. Call Susan Commike at 1-203-267-4594 if you would like to participate. There are plenty of sponsorship opportunities and golf/tennis slots available.

Monday, August 16 – The 10th annual VFW Post 308/American Legion Post 202 Timothy Powell Memorial Golf Tournament will be held Monday, August 16, at Pomperaug Golf Club in Southbury. The tournament will be an 18-hole shotgun scramble, held rain or shine. Fee is $90 per golfer and includes golf with car, steak barbeque at the VFW Hall, refreshments, trophies and cash prizes. For further information, call George A. Powell Jr at 426-4004 or Dan Winsett at 459-9634.

Monday, August 23 – The Newtown Junior Women’s Club will hold its second annual golf tournament on Monday, August 23, at Whitney Farms Golf Course in Monroe. All proceeds from this event make it possible for NJWC to sponsor all of their major town wide service programs, such as Back-to-School Backpacks; Tag-a-Gift; Discovery, Science, Math & Technology Workshops; their new Field Trip Fund; and other charitable causes. NJWC is actively recruiting sponsors and players now, so please contact tournament co-chairs, Kim DiDomizio at 426-4917, or Kathryn Wolf at 270-0307. For as little as $100, any interested sponsors can advertise their company, and support our efforts. Send all information, along with your tax-deductible donation to P.O. Box 217, Botsford, CT, 06404.

Monday, September 13 – The Special Olympics Connecticut Southwest Region Golf Tournament will be held Monday, September 13, at the Yale Golf Course in New Haven. Registration will begin at 7:30 am and the tournament – with a shotgun start – will begin at 9 am. Registration fee is $250.

For a registration form and more info, call (203) 380-9990.

Holes In One

 

Ron Walsh aced the par-3, ninth hole at Rock Ridge Country Club on Tuesday, July 27. He was played with his wife, Anne and Ken and Betty Throupe.

Joe Feher, 73, of Newtown aced the par-3, eighth hole at Minnechaug Golf Club in Glastonbury –  get this –  for the second time. Feher owns that hole as he also earned a closest to the pin award there in a recent men’s club competition.