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Steve Foehl Recognized As 2016 Iaga Distinguished Service Award Recipient
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Stephen M. “Steve” Foehl, who served as New Jersey State Golf Association executive director for 25 years, is the recipient of the International Association of Golf Administrators’ 2016 Distinguished Service Award, the IAGA has announced. The association’s highest honor was established to recognize individuals or groups whose actions have…
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Taylor Totland Reaches Final Stage Of Lpga Q-school
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Taylor Totland of Hollywood, winner of the 2014 and 2015 NJSGA Women’s Amateur and runner-up this past summer, is one stage away from earning an LPGA Tour card. Last month she tied for fourth in Stage II of the Symetra Tour and LPGA Qualifying School at the Plantation Golf Country Club in Venice, Florida, and earned full status on the Symetra…
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Ben Del Vento Top Honoree At Annual Njsga/njpga Celebration Of Golf
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The presentation of the NJSGA/NJPGA Distinguished Service Award to Ben Del Vento, Sr., former New Jersey State Golf Association president and long-time vice-chairman of the NJSGA Caddie Scholarship Foundation, highlighted the 13th annual Celebration of Golf on Thursday, Nov. 3, at Liberty House in Jersey City. Other highlights of the event, which…
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Ben Del Vento, Sr. Top Honoree At Annual Njsga/njpga Celebration Of Golf
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The presentation of the NJSGA/NJPGA Distinguished Service Award to Ben Del Vento, Sr., former New Jersey State Golf Association president and long-time vice-chairman of the NJSGA Caddie Scholarship Foundation, highlighted the 13th annual Celebration of Golf on Thursday, Nov. 3, at Liberty House in Jersey City. View the video of the 2016…
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Phillips Babcock Honored At The Celebration Of Golf
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The presentation of the NJSGA Honey Gantner Award to the late Phillips Babcock, former New Jersey State Golf Association treasurer and long-time supporter of the NJSGA Caddie Scholarship Foundation, was a featured during the 13th Annual Celebration of Golf on Thursday, November 3, at Liberty House in Jersey City. Present to accept the award on…
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Upper Montclair Awarded 2016 Club Of The Year At Celebration Of Golf
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The presentation of the New Jersey State Golf Association Caddie Scholarship Foundation 2016 Club of the Year to the Upper Montclair Country Club was a featured during the 13th Annual Celebration of Golf on Thursday, November 3, at Liberty House in Jersey City. Present to accept the award on behalf of the club was Brian Hunt, current NJSGA…
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Caliendo Winter Golf League, In 56th Season, Is Underway
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The 56th season of the John Caliendo Shore Winter Golf League began on a balmy Thursday, Nov. 3, with 130 golfers at Galloping Hill Golf Course in Kenilworth. The league will top out at about 150 members, 30 of them local PGA professionals, and play an ambitious 22-event schedule, mostly on Thursdays, at courses mainly in the Central to Southern…
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NJSGA Supports "drive Away The Pain"
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Citing references to it as “The worst pain known to man,” and “The Suicide Disease,” Frank Skoviera is making a cross-country trek called “Drive Away the Pain,” to call attention to a serious disease called Trigeminal Neuralgia, which is an intolerable facial pain condition. Skoviera took time to visit the offices of the New Jersey…
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After Long Absence, High School Coaching Clinic Is Success At Galloping Hill
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A N.J. Interscholastic Athletic Association/N.J. Scholastic Coaches Association Golf Coaches Clinic, in conjunction with the New Jersey State Golf Association, took place on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at Galloping Hill Golf Course. It was the first such clinic for high school golf coaches in New Jersey in 10 years and 50 coaches, of both boy and girls’…
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Ben Del Vento Sr. To Receive Distinguished Service Award
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Benjamin Del Vento Sr., former New Jersey State Golf Association president and long-time vice-chairman of the NJSGA Caddie Scholarship Foundation and chairman of the Caddie Scholarship Committee, is the 2016 recipient of the NJSGA/NJPGA New Jersey Golf Distinguished Service Award. The Distinguished Service Award is presented annually by the NJPGA…
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Ben Del Vento, Sr. To Receive Distinguished Service Award
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Benjamin Del Vento Sr., former New Jersey State Golf Association president and long-time vice-chairman of the NJSGA Caddie Scholarship Foundation and chairman of the Caddie Scholarship Committee, is the 2016 recipient of the NJSGA/NJPGA New Jersey Golf Distinguished Service Award. The Distinguished Service Award is presented annually by the NJPGA…
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Handicap Scores Can No Longer Be Posted As Of Monday, Oct. 31
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Golfers can no longer post scores from New Jersey and surrounding states to affect their handicaps as of Monday, Oct. 31. The active handicap posting season for NJSGA members ends Oct. 31. It will begin again on April 1. Only scores from areas that are still in active seasons can be posted for handicap record-keeping until April 1. Those areas…
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Coleen Luker Receives Prestigious Wmga Judy Bell Award
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Coleen Luker, long-time chairperson of the New Jersey State Golf Association Women’s Committee, received the prestigious Judy Bell Award, which recognizes significant contributions to women’s and junior golf in the Metropolitan area by the Women’s Metropolitan Golf Association at its annual meeting on Thursday, October 27, at Metropolis…
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Revised Celebration Of Golf On Tap For Nov. 3 At Liberty House
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For more than a decade, the Celebration of Golf as served a memorable, if unofficial conclusion to the season. A joint effort of the New Jersey State Golf Association and the New Jersey Section PGA, the event brings together the various constituencies that form the tapestry of the golf industry. This year’s gala will have a different feel…
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Steve Zychowski Wins Boff Invitational Over Top Players
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Steve Zychowski of Mendham shot three-under-par 69-70-139 to win the annual Boff Invitational by two shots at Essex County Country Club in West Orange on Thursday, Oct. 13. It was Zychowski’s biggest victory of note, considering runners-up included 2016 U.S. Mid-Amateur champion Stewart Hagestad of New York’s Deepdale and NJSGA Player of the…
