Rock Ridge Country Club

 

Men’s ABCD, June 20: Low Net – 1. (136) Bob McDonald, Peter Wallace, Scott Roberti, Ken Miller; 2. (138) Tim Rahr, Dean Harvey, Gary Horvath, Bob Tendler; 3. (138) Mark Curtis, Jay Higham, Joe Golden, Charlie Grant; 4. (139) Frank Gavel, Graham Fyffe, Joe Strasser, Brian Cleary; 5. (139) John Piorkowski, Marty Gerstenm Gary Tamburri, Bill Caso. Closest to the pin on #9 – 1. (5-0) Frank Gavel, Graham Fyffe, Joe Strasser, Brian Cleary; 2. (13-2) Dean Harvey, Tim Rahr, Gary Horvath, Bob Tendler. Closest to the pin on #14 – 1. (7-91/2) John Piorkowski, Marty Gersten, Gary Tamburri, Bill Caso; 2. (20-101/2) Jay Higham, Mark Curtis, Joe Golden, Charlie Grant.

Golf Tournaments

 

Monday, June 28 – The first annual Family and Children’s Aid Benefit Golf Tournament will be held Monday, June 28, at Candlewood Valley Country Club in New Milford. Registration and check-in begins at 8:30 am with a light breakfast. A shotgun start will commence at 10 am. There will be prizes, including a hole-in-one contest with a ‘C’ Class Mercedes as the grand prize. Lunch, cocktail hour and dinner are all included. Fee is $195. The tournament benefits Family & Children’s Aid Safe Home Programs, which supports some 9,000 children each year who are rescued from abusive homes and provided with foster care. Call 748-5689, extension 136 for further information.

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. Please send all information, along with your tax-deductible donation to P.O. Box 217, Botsford, CT, 06404.

Buick Championship

The Greater Hartford Jaycees announced that veteran PGA Tour members and New England natives Brad Faxon and Billy Andrade are planning to compete in Hartford at the Buick Championship.

Faxon and Andrade received the Bing Crosby Tournament Sponsor Award on June 14 from the Metropolitan Golf Writers for their work in hosting the CVS Charity Classic event annually in their home state of Rhode Island. To date they have donated more than $4 million to youngsters in Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts.

Other players previously committed include Nick Price (ranked No. 22 in the world), Stewart Cink (24), Stephen Leaney (28), Peter Lonard (47), Zach Johnson (43), Jerry Kelly (29), Heath Slocum and Connecticut natives Tim Petrovic and JJ Henry.

“Billy and Brad run their own golf tournament and they understand how difficult it is to continue to support the sponsors and the golf fans in each community,” said tournament director Dan Baker. “They are so engaging with their pro-am groups, with our sponsors and with our fans because they know that the lifeblood of the PGA Tour is the fans, the volunteers and the sponsors. They get it, so every day out there they do the best they can to provide an entertaining experience for everyone.”

Faxon has earned seven victories on the tour since joining in 1984, the first in 1991 at the Buick Open. Andrade, a native of Bristol, Rhode Island, has won four tournaments on the tour, including two in back to back weeks at the 1991 Kemper Open and Buick Classic.