HARTFORD, Conn. – When Jack Heath was 2 years old, his mother, Kelley, wanted to get him out of the house so she sent him off to the golf course with his dad, Ron. “I encouraged him to go driving range because golf is all he wanted to do,”
Read More »Back to Back 65s By Bruce Berlet GROTON, Conn. (July 16, 2019) – One of golf’s all-time “traveling man” has a simple motto about his favorite game. “Wherever there’s a course, I’ll play,” Robin Byrd said. “I’ve been playing
Read More »Bruce Berlet It’s only fitting and appropriate that Lindsey Hansen and Chuck Lasher will enter the Connecticut Section PGA Professional Hall of Fame together. After all, Hansen and Lasher both live in Southington and spent 23 years
Read More »Byrd shoots 65; Ken Green is two shots back at 67 GROTON, Conn. (July 15, 2019) – The 37th Connecticut Senior Open at Shennecossett Golf Course got underway today under perfect scoring conditions. Then the wind came up. Only three players;
Read More »By Bruce Berlet NEW HAVEN, Conn. (June 27, 2019) – For the first six holes at Yale Golf Course on Wednesday, Tyler Woodward didn’t have much of an idea what was going to happen. Woodward was all over the legendary course, hitting his drive
Read More »ELLINGTON, Conn. (June 17, 2019) – Ryan McCormick of Middletown, N.J., was medalist today at Ellington Ridge Country Club at the Travelers Championship Open Qualifier, firing a bogey-free 6-under par 66. In doing so, McCormick earns one of the
Read More »By Bruce Berlet ELLINGTON, Conn. (June 13, 2019) – After his freshman year at St. John’s University, Ryan McCormick had a lingering bad attitude from the Redmen withdrawing from a rain-delayed tournament that he was leading because they had to
Read More »By Bruce Berlet HARTFORD, Conn. (June 9, 2019) – Aimee Caligiore couldn’t have had much more of a deflating start to her final round in the fourth annual Hartford Women’s Open at wind-swept Keney Park Golf Course on Sunday. Caligiore began the
Read More »HARTFORD, Conn. (June 7, 2019) – Golf is back in Hartford. And, in a big way. It wasn’t that long ago. In fact, it was late in 2013 when the City of Hartford’s Health Department locked the doors on Keney Park’s WPA era clubhouse, effectively
Read More »Hampden, Mass. (May 21, 2019) – Today Christopher Tallman won the 2019 Spring PGA Stroke Play Championship at GREATHORSE and earned an exemption to play in the 2019 PGA TOUR Travelers Championship. Tallman and Kyle Bilodeau each finished
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