GOLFING
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May
516-683-0710 or www.communitymainstreaming.org.
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7 Thursday
Monday
The SASS Foundation Golf Outing &
Tennis Tournament, The Creek, Lattingtown, NY. for Info. Lois Lerner, 516-3657277 or [email protected]
4 Monday
Molloy College Annual Golf Classic,
9:30 am at The Seawane Club and The
Woodmere Club, Info: Cynthia Costanzo
Metzger 516-323-4701 or
[email protected]
4 & 11 Mondays
Community Mainstreaming Associates,
Inc. 21st Annual Golf & Tennis & Bike
Ride, Muttontown Country Club. East
Norwich, NY. Golfing: May 4 (Insurance)
Golfing: May 11 (Real Estate). May 11,
Tennis Tournament & Bike Ride. Info:
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The Maurer Foundation’s 20th Annual
Golf Classic Registration and brunch
will begin at 9:30 am, shotgun start at
11:30 am and dinner awards at 5:00 pm.
at the Meadow Brook Club. "Beat the
Pro" contest with John Schmitt, former
NY Jet and Superbowl Champ. For more
info: call Susan Samaroo 631-524-5151 or
[email protected].
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Wednesday
23rd Annual ELIH Golf Classic in
Memory of John Romanelli, Gardiner’s
Bay Country Club, Shelter Island, two
tee time options, 8:30 am and 1:30 pm.
Individual golfers is $295. Dinner tickets
are $100 per person. For info: call (631)
477-5164 or visit www.ELIH.org/Golf
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Just Golf
By Mike Katz
“Putting little balls into little holes with instruments very ill-adapted to the purpose”. This is how a nineteenth century Oxford logic professor described what he
called the absurd ritual of golf. To get that ball to that hole we started at the teeing
ground and used a device called a tee. When is a tee not a tee? Some are wood or
plastic or have height markers or large tops or brushes or even an opening which
supposedly will show you the direction the ball will go. The correct answer for
most of the above is, they are non-conforming tees. As in all of golf there are also
rules pertaining to tees that are sanctioned by the USGA, using a non-conforming
tee disqualifies you (see appendix IV). Tees cannot be longer than four inches, show
line of play in its design, and unduly influence movement of ball and assist the
golfer in his/her play. A common occurrence we all see on par three tee boxes is the
picking up of a tee, breaking it to a desired height and then taking our stroke. No
problem here. Keep breaking those tees without a penalty.
Has this ever happened to you? The ball you hit breaks into pieces. If this happens to you all is not lost, according to rule 20-5 your stroke is cancelled without
penalty and you’re allowed to replay it with a new ball at the same spot. This applies to any such incident on the course. Golf balls just do not show up on store
shelves, they have to be approved by the USGA. Right now there are 1,300 different
varieties from 80 separate companies hoping for that approval. Which brings me to
the next subject of how PAR on each hole is determined by the USGA. The method
used, is they take the effective playing length of a hole for a scratch golfer, then add
in the configuration of the ground and the severity of its obstacles (rule 13-3b).
USGA PAR’s are as follows---par 3 men up 250 yds., women up to 210 yds., par 4
men 271 to 471 yds., women 211 to 400 yds., par 5 men 471 to 690 yds., women 401
to 590 yds. Par 6 men 691 yds. and over, women 591 yds. and over. If a golf/country
club uses a handicap system based on the USGA par golf rules and they make a
men’s par 5 hole 330 yds. this would cause the USGA to become suspect and notify
them in writing that if they do not change the par or distance of the hole which is
well out of the guidelines their handicaps might just not be valid (rule 16)
Golf resolutions for 2015 are now in order. My suggestions: no more mulligans,
no throwing the ball out of a sand trap, no scoring miscounts, no kicking the ball
back in bounds, no gimme putts, no moving the ball away from behind obstacles,
trees, etc. The above would apply to you. If I did the recommends, I would never
score an eighty six. Now is the time to put new grips on your clubs, clean up your
golf shoes and, if needed, change the cleats. You should treat yourself to a new golf
glove and replace that old towel. This season make it a resolution to enjoy the experience of playing in at least one golf event that is sponsored by a cause you believe
in. Volunteers are also always most welcome at charity golf outings. On this page of
Networking® magazine there are always listed golf events. Feel free to contact any of
them to become a part of by either playing or volunteering.
A few random thoughts. The human brain’s storage capacity is equivalent to one
million gigabytes of hard drive space, so why is it we always forget a stroke or two
when we enter our score? If Arnold Palmer named his dog mulligan, what would
you call your pet? I would name mine provisional, but wouldn’t that create doggy
insecurity? Last year I did the Boston
Red Sox golf outing foursome photos.
This year I was invited to also photograph the Minnesota Twins foursome
photos. Both outings are in Fort Myers,
Florida, and averaged out at 180 golfers
Mike Katz, National
Charity Event Specialist
each. Maybe someone from the Mets or
[email protected]
Yankees is reading this column. You can
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be next. ■
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The History and Growth of
Golf on Long Island
STORY AND PHOTO BY PHIL CARLUCCI,
AUTHOR OF LONG ISLAND GOLF
GOLF continued from previous page
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Townwide Fund of Huntington’s Spring
Golf Outing Check in at 10:30, brunch at
11:00. Shotgun start 12:30. Huntington
Crescent Club. Contact Trish Rongo 631629-4950 or [email protected]
WWW.GOLFONLONGISLAND.COM
June
1
Monday
Helen Keller Services 25th Annual Golf
Classic Village Club of Sands Point.
Registration/brunch 10:30 am. 718-5222122 ext 2204 or [email protected]
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Monday
St. Joseph's College 25th Annual Golf
Classic Plandome Country Club, Plandome, NY, 9 am Registration, 11:15 am
Tee Off. Call 631.687.2655 or email [email protected]
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Wednesday
The Sisters of St. Joseph 20th Annual
Golf Classic, Rock Hill Country Club in
Manorville, NY, Registration at 9:30 am.
Buffet breakfast, barbeque lunch, lobster
dinner. Contact Tara Rogers 631-273-1187
x126 or at [email protected]
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Monday
17th Annual Roger Metcalf Memorial
Golf Classic, Southward Ho Golf & CC,
Bay Shore. Les Scheinfeld, [email protected] or 631-HABITAT x105
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Course: Eisenhower Park's Red Course,
formerly known as Salisbury #4
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July
9
Thursday
The Center’s Sixteenth Annual Golf
Classic. The Center for Developmental
Disabilities, Inc, Muttontown Country
Club, East Norwich, NY. Reservations:
Deborah Patey, 516 921-7650 ext. 415
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Monday
5th Annual Golfing to Help Kids presented by Marcie Mazzola Foundation at
the Village Club at Lake Success, Great
Neck, NY. Brunch, cocktails, buffet dinner,
contests, silent, live auctions. Marciemazzolafoundation.org or 631-858-1855. ❍
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ime is winding down in Uniondale, where
the New York Islanders are playing out
their final days as Nassau residents before
they head west to build on their history in Brooklyn. When the clock hits zero this spring, a longtime fixture in the county’s “Hub” will be gone
for good.
The Meadow Brook Club was an 18-hole course
that for four decades was part of a central Nassau
landscape that consisted almost entirely of airfields and golf holes.
The former Mitchel Field occupied land that
today is home to Hofstra University, Nassau Community College and the Nassau Coliseum. BorderAerial: Mitchel Field and its surrounding golf courses can be seen in
ing its runways to the east was Meadow Brook.
this 1938 aerial. (Photo courtesy of VanderbiltCupRaces.com
The club’s history dates to 1881, a time when fox
The Howard Kroplick Collection)
hunting and polo reigned supreme. Meadow
Brook had the opportunity to be remembered as
the cradle of Long Island golf, if only its members
had been quicker to come around on the European sport. A demonstration in the
late 1880s by British amateur and golf writer Horace Hutchinson left them less than
impressed, wrote William Quirin in America’s Linksland. A quarter century passed
before the club built itself a full 18-hole course. Shinnecock Hills in Southampton instead became the birthplace of local golf in 1891.
During the golf boom of the 1920s, Meadow Brook was joined by the Salisbury
Golf Club, which featured as many as five courses during its run and was located
directly across Merrick Avenue to the east. Coldstream Golf Club, built on an East
Meadow estate, was Meadow Brook’s southern neighbor.
Unfortunately, that golf-heavy landscape on the Hempstead Plains had trouble
standing up to changing times. Four of the five Salisbury courses were lost during
and after World War II – the lone survivor was Salisbury #4, where Walter Hagen
won the 1926 PGA Championship. It remains popular today as Eisenhower Park’s
Red Course. Coldstream was used as a military camp during the war.
Amid the post-war rush to suburbia, Meadow Brook found itself in a perilous position – it occupied valuable ground directly between the Northern State Parkway
and Jones Beach. By 1953 the land was in the hands of Robert Moses and New York
State, and a long-discussed extension of the Meadowbrook Parkway was built
through the heart of the property. The club was able to relocate to Jericho, where it
would go on to host LPGA and Senior Tour events on new grounds, but the original
course itself had no way to escape. ■
Monday
Winthrop-University Hospital’s, 11th
Annual Cancer Center for Kids Golf
Outing, Wind Watch Golf & Country
Club, Hauppauge, 1:30 shot gun start.
Contact: Linda Sweeney, 516-663-9400
[email protected]