The Junior Club Championship was played over Labor Day weekend, with Evan Rutherford taking the title with an 82-90=172.  Nate and J.B. Mills came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.  Ryan Leonard won the 12 yr division, with Nate Mills being second.  Samantha Teschke won the Girls Division.  Congratulations to all who played in the event!

Photo gallery of the Junior play.

Three A-B-C-D tournaments were played over Labor Day weekend, Sunday Sept 4th’s 4-Ball Best 2 and Monday Sept 5th’s Best Ball, the Women’s 4 Ball Best Ball on Monday.

The tournament results are provided below:

Superintendent Carl Teshke would like the membership to know that the course has reduced it’s irrigation to “greens only”, and tees and fairways will likely be going brown if they aren’t already.   This is in compliance with the Town of Amherst’s Mandatory Water Use Restriction.

An interesting article on the drought prepared by the Massachusetts Golf Association is provided here.

Jesse has memorialized No. 9 through his art photography, and now has gone one step further with his ace on the hole.

Gene Klos and Deb McCulloch won the Men’s and Women’s President’s Cup tournaments, respectively, which were played on Sunday August 21st.  Deb’s round of 74 gross (64 net) flirted with the women’s course record; Deb had 6 birdies.  Gene won with 2 under and scored 4 birdies in his winning round.  David Lithgow won the Vice President’s Cup with a net 63.  Kate Hersey won the 9-Hole Women’s President Cup.

Dot Ashworth, 1922-2016

The Club regrets the passing of Dot Ashworth, who was part of the 90 yr old membership with the Club.  Her obituary is provided here.

1. The weather was ideal for the Women’s Open that was held on Saturday July 30th.  A field of 44 women played a 2 ball scramble, participated in 3 skills contests and enjoyed a delicious lunch. Check https://amherstgolfclub.org/2016-agcwa-2-ball-scramble-open/ for tournament results.  We thank Kate H. and Edith H. for the many hours they put into planning this event, as well as all our members who played on Sat. and/or assisted in many other ways: helping with the skills events; creating and printing the flyers and posters; distributing flyers at Western Mass matches; providing fresh picked Hadley corn; selling raffle tickets; taking pictures; setting up and cleaning up; and…. THANK YOU ALL! Also, a special shout out to our talented chefs – Cathy and Carl Teschke.  I’m sure everyone will agree that it’s quite an undertaking but well worth it judging by the positive feedback.
2. Our last 18 hole tournament this year is the President’s Cup on Sunday morning Aug. 21. To date, we have no volunteers to plan this event. If nobody signs up, Dave will organize the golf for us, though there will be no snacks/food provided. If you’re interested in taking this on, please contact me so I can give you the (in)famous folder!!
3. Our Twilight League putt money collector, Susan P., asked that I remind you there are only a couple weeks left to contribute. It would be great if we could surpass last year’s total.
4. Please save Sun. afternoon Sept 11 for our Over 50 Tournament. More details later.
5. Some photo galleries of various women’s events can be seen here.

The Amherst Open was played Sunday August 7th with Dennis Yarrows taking the victory with a par 70 gross score, edging out Nick Stern (with 4 birdies) and Jathan Molta who both shot 71.  Congratulations on the win Dennis!