Mark Plummer tees off on the 18th hole at the 2017 Maine Amateur Golf Championships at Brunswick Golf Club on Tuesday morning. There’s something fascinating about local sports legends. Maybe it’s because there is the sense that, in a way, it’s more legitimate than a national star. Or maybe more pure is a better way […]
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Maine Amateur: Grindle leads locals Kannegieser, Baker, two others after first round
Joe Baker tees off at the 17th hole on Tuesday morning on the first day of the 2017 Maine Amateur Championships at Brunswick Golf Club. BRUNSWICK — Low scores were hard to come by during the first round of the 98th Maine Amateur Golf Championship on Tuesday at Brunswick Golf Club. And the golfers who […]
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Hutchins highlights youth movement
YORK — Matt Hutchins finished the Maine Amateur Championship with a dominating round of 5-under-par 65 Thursday at York Golf & Tennis Club, winning the tournament by six strokes. His path to the championship began last fall, but he didn’t have much say in the matter. His family returned to Maine after 12 years living […]
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Maine Amateur: Matt Hutchins topples Ricky Jones, Joe Baker for title
YORK — Second-round leader Ricky Jones and first-round leader Joe Baker found themselves laughing together midway through the third and final round of the 97th Maine Amateur Golf Championship on Thursday. They knew that there was nothing they could do — first-time event participant Matt Hutchins was on a roll, and wasn’t going to stop. […]
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Maine Amateur: Joe Baker relinquishes second-round lead to Ricky Jones
Oxford native and Martindale Country Club member Joe Baker seized hold of the first-round lead after teeing off at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday. That was the same time that three-time champion Ricky Jones teed off in the second round Wednesday, and the same success followed. Jones, a native of Thomaston, shot a 2-under 68 a […]
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Maine Amateur: Joe Baker leads after unforgiving 1st round
YORK — It’s good to be under par in a round of golf. In the first round of the Maine Amateur Championship on Tuesday, just making par was good. Martindale Country Club member Joe Baker shot an early 2-under 68 and was the only player under par after day one of the three-day tournament at […]
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Maine’s best amateur golfers head south
Some of Maine’s finest amateur golfers will filter down to the southern point of the state this week for the 97th Maine Amateur Championship. York Golf & Tennis Club is this year’s host of the Maine State Golf Association-sanctioned event, which runs Tuesday through Thursday. One of the oldest courses in the state, the Donald […]