Mark Purrington, who attended Bridgton Academy, will be the Exotics Tour’s most touted new player when he competes Tuesday in the fifth event of the season at the Falmouth Country Club. A resident of Dartmouth, Mass., Purrington, 27, will be one of 40 players in the field. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, Purrington […]
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Par for the Course: Season’s not over yet
With Maine schools open, an inquiring mind asked the Maine State Golf Association and First Tee of Maine if that has impacted the organizations’ fall scheduling. Ron Bibeau, First Tee’s executive director, almost never has grass growing under his feet, so he is always busy. First Tee currently has programs in physical education classes at […]
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Par for the Course: Fourth stop for Exotics Tour on tap
The largest field in the two-year history of the Exotics Tour Pro-Am Series is projected Tuesday at Sunday River. Among those golf professionals in that field will be Jimmy Gilleon, a teaching pro at the Bethel Inn Resort. Johnny Johnston, the founder and chairman of the Exotics Tour, is excited about the fact that Gilleon […]
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Hartford officials share opinions on road issues
HARTFORD — Selectmen heard opinions from two town officials Thursday night about policies and procedures for road projects. The issues of soliciting bids for jobs costing more than $5,000 and whether to require that an engineer plan major reconstruction work have sparked heated debate among selectmen, Road Committee members and Road Commissioner Jeremy Johnson this […]
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Par for the Course: Larger holes, greater potential
Pardon the pun, but Fox Ridge is attempting to outfox the golf industry. The Auburn course, which opened in 2001, is experiencing the numbers/players shortages of many semi-private golf courses throughout the nation. The Fox Ridge answer to this problem, in part, is to expand on the standard of methods of attracting more golfers with […]
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Par for the Course: Maine golf in fine shape
On July 23, HBO Real Sports aired a show titled, “The Future of Golf,” in which host Bryant Gumbel, an avid golfer, had Jack Nicklaus and Taylor Made executive Mark King as his guests. They painted a picture of the golf industry that was not pretty. It showed closed courses and a variety of gimmicks […]
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Par for the Course: Golf humbles even the best players
At his best, Tiger Woods did not win every golf tournament in which he played. It just seemed like he always came up big in PGA majors. That is why it should come as no surprise that Emily Bouchard, who has dominated the Maine Women’s Amateur the past three years, finished seventh in this year’s […]
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Bibeau tirelessly devoted to sport, golfers
Ron Bibeau, executive director of First Tee of Maine, might be one of Maine’s most decorated golf service awards recipient, but that is far from the many reasons he is so consumed by the sport. “I don’t do what I do for honor or distinction,” said Bibeau, who was a golf course professional before he […]
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Par for the Course: Exotics Tour gaining steam
Chad Hopkins had every reason to be positive. And he was. He was speaking at Old Marsh in Wells on Thursday about the Exotics Tour Pro-Am Series, after he shot a 68 to lead his team to a 16-under-par total score in the tour’s third event of the season. With that score the Hopkins team […]
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Par for the Course: Well-deserved win for Slattery
Andrew Slattery liked his chances in the Maine State Golf Association Amateur Championship held this past week at The Woodlands, even before the calendar crept into July. He expressed as much while working at Martindale in the pro shop on June 26, as several members of the 2014 State Amateur field were there attempting to […]