Tri County Match Play Trophy

THREE-DAY MATCH PLAY EVENT

This weekend, May 11-13, the 32nd Annual Tri-County Match Play Championship will be held at Colonie Golf & Country Club. Last year, both final matches ended on the 15th hole.

Dan Russo beat John Vaccaro in the Championship Flight and Tom Cooper topped John Donovan in the Senior Flight, each 4 & 3.

Semifinals: Russo def. Jim Welch 2 & 1; Vaccaro def. Justin Deitz in 21 holes.

May 11, 2012 Tee Times

7:30 Robby Bigley, Dave Mooradian,
7:40 Chris Comi, Chris Lyons, Steve Owens
7:50 Chad Stoffer, Rob Leonard, Chris Braman
8:00 Jim Welch, Ryan Caponera, Jeff Pachter
8:10 Stan Moore, Bob Cooper, David Arakelian
8:20 Chris Gilbert, Bill Paulsen, John Deitz
8:30 Mark Keegan, Todd Kletter, Moe Mroczkowski
8:40 Paul Hart, Mike McCarroll, Scott Hoerning
8:50 Ken Hall, Robert Couser
9:00 Bryan Barach, James Bologna, Andrew Pludrzynski
9:10 Chris Barach, Steve Quillinan Jr, Jay Gargiulo
9:20 Don Denyse, Justin Deitz, Jim Gifford
9:30 Peter Broderick, Jake Spitalny, Tom Robinson
9:40 Brandon Haase, Dave Pallas, Brad Bentley
9:50 Bill Moll, Joe Quillinan, Chuck Connolly
10:00 John Donovan, Steve Menhennitt, Jim Gardy
10:10 Jim Mannix, Ralph Maru, Mark Russ
10:20 Mike Wheeler, Tom Salmon, Mike Stefanik
10:30 David Huestis, EJ Cardish, Eric Wasserbach
10:40 Kevin Broderick, Peter Spitalny, Jim Mueller

AL MOTTAU REMEMBERED

One of the Capital Area’s longtime golf writers, Al Mottau, died April 28. He was 85. Mottau was a good player and good writer and loved the game.

A single-digit handicap, he usually played out at McGregor Links CC and Ballston Spa CC. He also loved skiing and maintained a membership with the Metropolitan PGA Golf Writers’ Association and occasionally wrote for CapitalAreaGolf.com. Here’s a sample of his work.

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CLIPS FROM THE RADIO, MAY 5

If you missed our radio show, here are some clips from our discussion. Tune in each Saturday morning on 104.5FM, The Team, ESPN Radio.

Bob Kennedy 5-5-12

Dick Bogden 5-5-12

Rob Lamy 5-5-12

Frank Michael 5-5-12

BIGLEY, BRADLEY, GLOVER, WOODS, MICKELSON IN FIELD
By Timothy S. Wyld

This week the PGA Tour returns to Quail Hollow in Charlotte, NC, site of “The Green Mile.” For Capital Area Golf fans, it will be remembered as the tournament that Bryan Bigley, the Siena graduate and local pro and greenskeeper, played. He was paired with an unknown named Keegan Bradley who went on to do great things last season.

Guess what? They are BOTH back in the field this week after Bigley shot a 64 in the Monday qualifier to get in again.

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LONG LIST OF AMATEUR SUPPORT
By Mike Collar

For 31 years, the Tri-County Golf Association has been attracting the top amateur golfers in the Capital Area.
Founded in 1980 by Peter Spitalny and Mike Bayus, Tri-County boasts about 300 members – 100 active – and 75 seniors (age 50+).

“Originally, we started this as a three-county (Rensselaer, Schenectady and Albany), two-day event with 10 golfers from each county competing in a team event,” said Spitalny, president since 1982. “We have the strongest amateur contingent.”

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CORNER OF HOLLYWOOD & TROY

By John Cooney

Okay. It’s a Tuesday night after a long day at work. Common sense tells me to enjoy a wee bit of God’s greatest gift to man; no, not golf! Wine! But I did find a way to throw a little golf into the mix… watching the Golf Channel movie of the week, “The Greatest Game Ever Played.”

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For those of us in the Capital Area, I’ll bet this weekend’s broadcast of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, the old Bing Crosby Clam Bake, got a huge rating on CBS. I’ll be the rebroadcast of CBS’s telecast each night on the Golf Channel got a huge rating. For the snowbound and those sick of the cold, for those who won’t get to have a winter golf vacation somewhere, for three hours on a Saturday or Sunday it was great escapist television on a course we know well.

We see it every year, at least once a year. Last year, I got to see it up close and personal, under my softspikes. I played Pebble Beach three weeks before the U.S. Open. The following is my account and while I didn’t score very well, it was memorable in every other way. I can’t wait to do it again. But I feel I will have to. I hope you enjoy it.     (Click on picture to view slideshow from June 2010) – J. Craig

PLAYING PEBBLE BEACH

What’s to write about a place that has had so much written about? Where so much golf history has been made? Read the rest of this entry »