Leslie Guenther is extremely disappointed. Her frustration stems not from her third-place finish in the Maine Women’s Golf Association Amateur Championship Aug. 28-30 during her defense of the title she won in 2014. Her regret is that she cannot represent the State of Maine next month in the U.S. Golf Association’s state teams championship next […]

A disturbing turn of events, it is not. A major concern it is not. The fact that last week’s Charlie’s Maine Open at Augusta was dominated by out of state golfers simply is a fact of Maine golf life. Tom Moffatt, operational manager of the Maine Chapter of the New England PGA, said: “What you’re […]

Chambers Bay and the U.S. Golf Association have taken it on the chin all week about what fans saw in last weekend’s U.S. Open Championship. Granted, it was difficult to follow the ball on television as it ran along the brown fairway and scooted across brown greens. For certain, fans objected to the way the […]

In Pinehurst, N.C., and in Maine at the Lake Kezar Country Club, John Derr was a legend in his own time. The fabled writer and broadcaster died eight days ago at age 97. Derr was a club treasure at Lake Kezar, where he played golf almost every day when he was healthy in a foursome […]

Golf history has an unusual way of repeating itself. A year ago, Pat Cailler of Poland, 90, shot his age with an 81, which included a hole-in-one on the eighth hole of that round at Fairlawn. That feat was equaled May 29 at Prospect Hill by Auburn’s Kervin Ray, who shot an 86 at age […]

If you have lived in Androscoggin County for any length of time, you likely have heard about the Poland Spring Resort, located off Route 26 in Poland. With its many different buildings and a golf course which dates back to 1895, the resort oozes with history. Poland Spring is the oldest resort golf course in […]