Ocean State Golf

Garrett Medeiros ran away with his second 2010 RIGA amateur championship, winning the 27th Stroke Play title by five strokes at Agawam Hunt. Earlier this summer Medeiros was an easy 8 and 6 winner at the State Amateur.
Leading by two after two rounds, Medeiros birdied the first four holes of his final round and seven of [...]

New England golfer, Antonio Grillo, a junior at Harvard from Martha’s Vineyard, fired a brilliant 5 under 66 in the second round of the 36-hole U.S. Amateur Sectional Qualifying at Potowomet G.C. and tied Potowomut’s Bobby Leopold for medalist honors at 4-under 138.
Grillo carded a one over 72 in the morning round while Leopold opened [...]

Diane Wojtowicz, owner of Wyckoff Country Club in Holyoke, located just north of Sprigfield, is teaming with developers on a proposal to put a casino on the 18-hole, par 69, 100-acre site.
Should legalized gambling be approved by the Massachusetts legislature, she envisions turning the property into a hotel resort and entertainment destination.
Holyoke voters have twice [...]

For 30 years Richard “Dick” Haskell, served the Massachusetts Golf Association (est. 1903) as the dean of golf administration in the Bay State, earning respect and admiration from his peers and media at local, regional and national associations.
Haskell’s love affair with golf began as a caddie at age 10, and evolved to executive director [...]

Veteran Marissa White rallied from a four-hole deficit to defeat Westerly’s Megan Doherty 2-up in the finals of the 2010 RIWGA Championship at Crestwood C.C.
Seemingly out of contention after losing the 10th hole to fall four holes behind, White then proceeded to win the next six holes, two with birdies, to take a two up lead [...]