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L2%$03%%>!!;3<$0!@'%!(#30!10!(#3!%3'*+#!81*!'!03@!+'G reer  in  golf.      “I  was  checking  GCSAA  job  board  online   and  there  it  was,  the  timing  was  perfect.”    Although  he   @'%!#$*34!(#$%!&'%(!)'*+#E!(#3!6$374!.('88!&*1B*'A!#'%! 9330!*200$0B!81*!F!:3'*%!01@!93+'2%3!,-.//!$%!('MG $0B!$(%!($A3!@1*M$0B!(#*12B#!(#3!924B3($0B!&*1+3%%!(1! A'M3!(#3!&1%$($10!'%!%2++3%%827!'%!&1%%$973>!! ! ! GCSANE BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT Jason S. Adams 27 Cherry Street, Wrentham, MA 02093 781-828-6540 Fax: 781-326-3801 E-mail: jadams@bluehillcc.com Blue Hill Country Club Thoughts From Your Association Manager VICE PRESIDENT Michael W. Stachowicz 68 Westfield Road, Westwood, MA 02090 781-326-7860 Fax: 781-326-0664 E-mail: Mstach@dedhamclub.org Dedham Country & Polo Club Wetlands come into play at the 369-yard, par-4 11th hole at The Golf Club of New England. (L.C. Lambrecht/USGA) TREASURER Mark Gagne 233 Baker Street, Walpole, MA 02081 508-668-3859 Fax: 508-668-9969 E-mail: Mgagne@walpolecc.org Walpole Country Club SECRETARY Michael Luccini, CGCS 10 Griffin Road, Franklin, MA 02038 508-520-3615 Fax: 508-528-1885 E-mail: Mluccini@verizon.net Franklin Country Club TRUSTEE (Membership) Richard T. Gagnon 85 Gulliver Street, Taunton, MA 02780 508-823-0466 Fax 508-823-3915 E-mail: sccturf@hotmail.com Segregansett Country Club TRUSTEE (Government Relations) J. Michael Rose 181 Winter Street, Belmont, MA 02478 617-484-5360 Fax 617-484-6613 E-mail: mrose@belmontcc.org Belmont Country Club TRUSTEE (Scholarship & Benevolence) July 19th, I attended the USGA Junior Amateur Championship at the Golf Club of New England in Stratham, New Hampshire. The Championship is for boys  that  haven’t  reached  their  18th birthday by the end of the Championship and that have a handicap index that does not exceed 6.4. Most are from the United States but some come from other countries. David Stowe, CGCS 30 Western Avenue, Natick, MA 01760 617-789-4631 Fax 617-789-4631 E-mail: Newtonmaint@aol.com Newton Commonwealth Golf Club continued on page 3 AFFILIATE TRUSTEE Mark Casey 890 East Street, Tewksbury, MA 01876 617-990-2427 Fax: 978-409-0445 Email: mcasey@mte.us.com MTE - Turf Equipment Solutions FINANCE CHAIRMAN Scott Lagana, CGCS 840 Oak Hill Road, Fitchburg, MA 01420 978-342-6451 Fax 978-345-2044 E-mail: slagana@oakhillcc.org Oak Hill Country Club GOLF CHAIRMAN Carl Miner 357 W. Squantum Street, North Quincy, MA 02171 617-328-0277 Fax: 617-328-9479 E-mail: Carlpminer@gmail.com Presidents Golf Club EDUCATION CHAIRMAN David W. Johnson 179 Fletcher Street, Whitinsville, MA 01588 508-234-2533 Fax: 508-234-2533 E-mail: djohnson.wgc@verizon.net Whitinsville Golf Club NEWSLETTER CHAIRMAN Jeffrey Urquhart 70 Green Lodge Street, Canton, MA 02021 781-828-2953 Fax 781-828-3220 E-mail: jmartin101@gmail.com Milton-Hoosic Club PAST PRESIDENT Patrick J. Daly, CGCS P.O. Box 2284, Framingham, MA 01703-2284 508-872-9790 Fax: 508-872-5393 E-mail: Pat@framinghamcc.com Framingham Country Club ASSOCIATION MANAGER Donald E. Hearn, CGCS 300 Arnold Palmer Blvd., Norton, MA 02766 774-430-9040 Fax: 774-430-9101 E-mail: donhearn@gcsane.org BUSINESS MANAGER, THE NEWSLETTER Julie Heston Phone: (401) 934-7660 Email: jheston@verizon.net GCSANE Headquarters 300 Arnold Palmer Blvd., Norton, MA 02766 Tel: (774) 430-9040 Fax: (774) 430-9101 Web Site: www.gcsane.org Any opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author and/or person quoted, and may not represent the position of GCSANE. Information contained in this publication may be used freely, in whole or in part, without special permission as long as the true context is maintained. We would appreciate a credit line. 2 Don Hearn - continued from page 2 The July meeting at Pleasant Valley Country Club was a treat for all who attended. The course was in fantastic  condition  and  the  hard  work  of  Donny  D’Errico  and   his staff was evident by the striking conditions. The golf shop and clubhouse staff did all they could to make the day memorable. It truly was a fun-filled day. The registration glitches have been worked out and the process went smoothly and quickly. Thanks to Garrett Whitney  for  his  help  developing  the  skins  card  we’ll  be   using at the meetings. The card, separate from the scorecard, allows scores to be compiled quickly. If anyone has an idea they think might be useful for us to consider,  please  let  me  know.    We’re  always  looking  for   good ideas and show no shame adopting them. The course weaves through 450 acres of land and is an  impressive  layout.    It’s  big,  bold,  beautiful  and  im-­ peccably maintained by Superintendent Jeff Baker, Assistant Superintendent Jess Hamilton, both are GCSA of New England Members, and a dedicated staff of hard working and enthusiastic team members. They deserve a tremendous amount of credit for the tireless amount of work and long hours they put in before and during the event. Other members of the GCSA of New England working the  event  were  Jim  Skorulski,  the  USGA’s  on-site agronomist, Joe Sprague, the Massachusetts Golf Association’s  Executive  Director  who  served  as  a  USGA   Rules Official, and Scott Whitcomb, the Massachusetts Golf  Association’s  Director  of  Field  Operations,  who   also served as a USGA Rules Official. Don Hearn, Association Manager GCSA of New England 3 London Games Raise Excitement for Golf's Olympic Inclusion By Rex Hoggard Olympic golf, a largely theoretical concept for many fans that has focused on familiar formats and as-yet-un -built golf courses, will inch closer to reality today when the 2012 Games get underway in London. We  can’t  be  the  only  ones  who  will  be  daydreaming   during  Friday’s  Opening  Ceremony  about  golf’s  place   in  the  2016  Games  in  Rio,  and  this  week’s  Cut  Line   checks  under  the  hood  of  golf’s  Olympic  movement. Critics claim stroke play is a default format for deciding championships and therefore not a good fit for the  Olympic  Games,  but  Cut  Line’s  pretty  sure  the  an-­ cient Greeks never tried to reinvent the wheel. Bunker mentality. In a preemptive move, the PGA of America  declared  all  of  South  Carolina  “through  the   green.”  Actually,  officials ruled that all sandy areas at Kiawah’s  Ocean  Course  will  play  as  waste  areas,  not   bunkers,  for  next  month’s  PGA  Championship. This move is in contrast to the 2010 PGA at Whistling Straits when all areas of the course were designated as bunkers. Officials say at Kiawah the sand is natural compared with Whistling Straits where . . . well, nothing is natural. In an unrelated item Dustin Johnson just ruled all of Wisconsin unplayable. Made Cut A stroke of genius. There was plenty of talk last week  about  the  format  selected  for  golf  in  the  ’16   Games, with Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews chief Peter Dawson suggesting that match play or a team competition may be a better fit for future Games. Those who dismiss stroke play as a viable option, however, must not have been paying attention last Sunday. Adam  Scott’s  heartbreaking  loss  combined  with  Ernie   Els’  72nd-hole heroics at Lytham is all the argument one needs for stroke play. continued on page 5 Hillcrest Turf Services Providing quality service to golf courses  Dethatching  Root Pruning  Seeding Michael Parks 617-852-0479 michaelparks09@comcast.net 4 London Games - continued from page 4 “Better  progress  to  report  from  Rio  than  we  had  last   time we met, and I'm confident that we're going forward,”  Dawson  said.  “We're  obviously  keeping  a  close   eye on it. It is Rio 2016's responsibility to provide the venue, not the International Golf Federation's. But we're  involved.” As one official familiar with the situation explained to  Cut  Line  last  week  at  Lytham,  “These  things  work   themselves  out  in  their  own  special  way.  It’s  just  how   things  happen  (in  South  America).” Made Cut-Did Not Finish (MDF) Devilish details. When officials pitched golf for the 2016 Games, one of the initial concerns was how to fit two weeks of golf competition, one for the men and one for the women, into an already crowded summer dance card. Officials assured Olympic organizers that none of the  game’s  major  championships  would  conflict  with   the  ’16  Games,  and  the  PGA  of  America  offered  to   move the PGA Championship to the last week of July to fulfill that promise. Still to be determined, however, is when the Open Championship will be played and what impact the Games  will  have  on  that  year’s  Ryder  Cup,  FedEx  Cup   playoffs  and  women’s  majors,  which  will  include  the   Evian Masters in France. Long view. In less than a year, long putters have gone from relative afterthoughts to public enemy No. 1 in golf circles, the byproduct of victories in three of the last four majors by players using longer-than-standardlength putters. On this U.S. Golf Association executive director Mike Davis was clear, no final decision has been made and  golf’s  rules-makers have been looking into long putters, specifically anchoring, long before Keegan Bradley (PGA), Webb Simpson (U.S. Open) and Ernie Els (Open Championship) broke the Grand Slam mold. “That  has  almost  zero  to  do  with  it,”  Davis  said  at   Lytham.  “I  do  mean  that.  If  we  did  something,  we  talked   about this fresh look long before any of these guys won majors. To say that we reacted because of the last few guys  who  won  would  be  unfair.” On course. Perhaps the most concerning element for officials  as  the  ’16  Games  inch  closer  is  an  ongoing   land dispute in Brazil for the property where architect Gil  Hanse  is  scheduled  to  build  golf’s  2016  Olympic   venue. Last week at Lytham, Dawson was asked about the property dispute and he sounded confident the course would  be  ready  in  time  for  a  “test  event”  in  2015. continued on page 6 5 Missed Cut London Games - continued from page 5 Closed shops.  There  is  little  doubt  that  the  world’s   best  athletes  marching  in  Friday’s  Opening  Cere-­ mony  in  London  are  second  to  none.  That’s  not  al-­ ways the case in golf. Consider  next  week’s  WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, which currently features a field of 77 players including Robert Allenby. Allenby is currently 101st in the Official World Golf Ranking, 97th in FedEx Cup points and has missed (eight)  almost  as  many  cuts  as  he’s  made  (10)  this   season, and yet the Australian will have a spot in the limited-field, no-cut  event  via  his  status  as  a  captain’s   pick  for  last  year’s  Presidents  Cup. This  is  not  a  knock  on  Allenby,  one  of  the  game’s   top ball-strikers, just a system that rewards potential not performance. If the drumbeat against long putters seems louder given  its  recent  record  that’s  understandable,  but  it’s   been pounding for some time. Bradley, Simpson and Els only expedited that process. Tweet of the week:  @Steve_Flesch  “For  the  record   everyone,  I  don’t  believe  that  a  club  should  be  allowed   to be anchored. The ball has gotten away from the USGA.” Tweet of the week II:  @JasonDufner  “I  will  gladly  play   with balata balls, persimmon heads, etc., just take the course back to 6,700-6,900 (yards). And 495 (yards) is a  par  5!” Source: www.golfchannel.com July 27, 2012 6 .;<=>).?;@>AAA)+##"&#!'3'#$8)AAA)'(&!+$%"#+B)8'3%#+08)AAA)C"D)"**"0$&#%$%'8 )AAA$"&0#+3'#$)0'8&B$8AAA+#()3%8!'BB+#'"&8)%$'38)"2)%#$'0'8$)$")$E')3'3D'08E%*A) NMOLJ8M!IMN!8M8PM4! KC1H-%L,=C172%K>*17E!.2&3*$0(30430(E!!!!! a34!"'$7!,178!-729E!=3<30%E!)/! 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