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Eighteen over was the cut line for match play the last time the Rhode Island Amateur was played at Wannamoisett in East Providence. That is a pair of 78s. We will see what happens on July 6 and 7 when the State Amateur qualifying takes place. A reliable source said [...]

Kids 17 and Under are Free

Family Fun Zone Features Major League Baseball World Series Trophies
Along with Other Interactive Activities

It’s a summertime tradition you don’t want to miss.  Kick off summer with a fun and [...]

A new face emerged on the RIWGA scene when young Jenna Masnyk won her first major state title capturing the 2010 RIWGA Stroke Play championship with a two over 76 at Potowomut C.C.
The Kirkbrae C.C. member and former Lincoln High All Stater, who recently finished her freshman year at Hofstra University, edged out veteran Deb [...]

Enjoy the June 2010 Edition of Ocean State Golf’s Newspaper by clicking on the Icon below…
Just click on the newspaper Icon below and it will open up in a new window in your browser with the Rhode Island Golf newspaper. If you want to read this Ocean State Golf Newspaper on a PDF, just click [...]

Ocean State Golf will be offering golf packages to Myrtle Beach beginning on September 9, 2010 with prices starting at $529.
Packages include airfare on Direct Air from Worcester Regional Airport to Myrtle Beach in 1 ¾ hours. Flights leave at 8 p.m. on Thursdays and return to Worcester at 7:27 p.m. on Sundays. (At least [...]

Potowomut’s Bobby Leopold threatened to become only the third golfer from Rhode Island to win the prestigious Northeast Amateur Championship but, in the end, the British native faltered down the stretch and California’s Josh Bramlett won it by two strokes over Brad Benjamin from Rockford, Illinois.
Bramlett, a recent Stanford grad, finished the final round [...]

The odds of an amateur golfer making a hole in one are roughly 12,500 to 1.
So what would you say the odds are for that same golfer making 3 holes in one in 24 hours in competitive golf, that would be 500 million to 1.
To put it in prospective you would be more likely to [...]

A field of 83 players teed off in the Massachusetts Golf Association’s Members Day tournament held May 25 at Crestwood Country Club in Seekonk, MA.

The MGA-sponsored event allows players with handicaps ranging from 5 – 25 to compete.

Gross honors went to Ron Amado (Pawtucket CC) and Derek Johnson (Highland [...]

North Kingstown’s Samantha Morrell chalked up a stunning regional amateur victory, capturing the 54th New England Women’s Golf Association Championship with a 54-hole total of 222 at the Green Mountain National Golf Club in Killington, Vt.
The 19 year-old Morrell, who will be a sophomore at Old Dominion University this fall, carded [...]

Potowomut’s Bobby Leopold captured his second straight RIGA Burke Memorial Championship and he did it the way he did a year ago, winning on the second playoff hole.
A year ago, the British native edged Charlie Blanchard with a birdie on their second extra hole at Shelter Harbor.
This year, Leopold knocked off Wannamoisett’s Ben Tuthill with [...]