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| Posted: 06 Jun 2010 07:22 AM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. June 6 June 12 The Contractors with a Cause Golf Tournament benefiting the Jimmy Fund will take place at the Tradition Golf Club in Wallingford. The fee is $145 per golfer. Registration is 9:30 a.m. with a shotgun start at 11. Contact (866) 521-4653 or www.contractorswithacause.org June 18will be held at The Tradition Club at Wallingford. Proceeds benefit The Connecticut Troopers Memorial Scholarship Fund. Shotgun Start is 10 a.m. Scramble format entry fee is $125.00 per golfer. Includes continental breakfast, deli lunch, and Italian style dinner buffet. Contact Jeff Correia at (203)410-1650 orernest_j_correia@sbcglobal.net July 26will be held at New Haven Country Club. Fee is $250. Starts with cookout lunch at 11:30 and shotgun scramble at 12:30 p.m.Includes cart, gilft package, golf shoes, tem photo, buffet duner and more. Contact ptommaselli@gnhcc.com for more information. Please send non-profit golf tournament listings to localsports@newhavenregister.com with subject golf tournament. Please send non-profit golf tournament listings to localsports@newhavenregister.com with subject golf tournament. Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Posted: 05 Jun 2010 02:16 PM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. He gave more than he took. He was universally liked and respected, and he knew that his love of golf must never exceed his love of family. It's a legacy worth noting about a life well led. Dave Barnes, a good man with a gentle soul, is gone, and I am one of the countless number of people who will miss him and remember him. Known affectionately as Barnsey, he had less than a year in the job of his dreams as general manager of Good Park when he died May 26 after a short fight with pancreatic cancer. He was just 55 and leaves behind his wife, Mary, and their daughters, Lauren and Lynn. They were his immediate family, but he had an extended family that included most people that he met in his extraordinary life in golf. ''I lost a brother. That's the best way I can say it,'' said Larry Zimmerman, a longtime friend and his predecessor as general manager at Good Park. ''He always had a smile, always had an opinion. He touched so many lives. Barnsey was just Barnsey. He would do anything for you.'' Barnsey grew up in West Akron and was a standout in basketball and golf at Buchtel High School in the early 1970s, leading the Griffins to City Series championships in both sports. He went on to play golf four years at the University of Akron and helped the Zips advance to the NCAA Division II Championships each year. As a junior in 1976, he was an All-American, the only UA golfer to earn such a distinction. After graduation, he worked in the business world before being hired by the city as assistant manager at Good Park. He worked there until 2003, when he was named the first general manager at Mud Run, a city-owned, nine-hole course that is the headquarters of First Tee of Akron. On Oct. 1, 2009, he was named general manager at Good Park, a course that he grew up playing and that held a special place in his heart. Five months later to the day — March 1 — he was told he had cancer. Less than three months later, he was dead. Repeat after me: Life is not fair. ''Everybody was happy for him when he got the job. It fulfilled his dream,'' Zimmerman said. ''Then he had no time to enjoy it.'' Terry O'Rourke grew up with Barnsey and was probably his best friend. O'Rourke remembered the modest start that the two had in golf. When they were just 9 years old, Acme had a promotion in which a $20 purchase of groceries would allow customers to buy different golf clubs each week for $5.99. Their families bought the clubs and the two would then go to Schneider Park in Akron, using trees as targets. Later, Good Park officials allowed them to clean up the grounds in exchange for a round of golf. Their first tournament was in the Good Park Junior when they were both 11. The two played together with the Zips and founded the Summit County Amateur, an event that will carry Barnsey's name starting this year. O'Rourke said he will always remember that his friend was quick to help others, whether it was plowing snow off neighbors' driveways or coaching St. Sebastian CYO teams or offering a golf tip to a friend or a stranger. He said he will also remember that Barnsey loved to cook and to entertain people at his house, especially at parties for the Masters and after the Summit County Amateur. ''When you came to the Barnes' household, you were never a stranger,'' said O'Rourke, who now lives in Elkhart, Ind., but remained close to Barnsey until the end. Personally, my dealings with Barnsey generally came in his supporting role at various golf tournaments — and I was always somewhat perplexed. He loved to work behind the scenes, helping with tee times, carts, payouts, skins games and scoring. I always wondered why a player of his ability gave up competitive golf at a young age. I honestly never remember covering a tournament that he played in, and I have been reporting on golf since Barnsey was 35. I asked him about that more than was practical or polite, but he always answered with his patented smile and shrug of the shoulders. His reasons were private and inviolate. Gradually, it came to me. Golf can be a marriage killer. I see it everywhere. It's a game that robs you of time because practice is the only way to remain competitive. Time on the golf course or on the range is time away from home. Dave Barnes had priorities and their names were Mary, Lauren and Lynn. Longtime friend Larry Horner said Barnes still liked to compete, but on a smaller scale. ''He just liked playing golf when four or eight of us guys would go out. We would have a little [money] game. That's what he enjoyed,'' Horner said. ''Then, he knew we would go out afterwards to eat and have a few cocktails or go to his house. That was his idea of a great day of golf.'' Barnsey was a member of the Summit County Sports Hall of Fame and the University of Akron's Varsity A Hall of Fame. A third one is a given: the Hall of Fame of Life. Dave Barnes, thank you for giving so much of yourself. Thank you for being Barnsey. Co-winners in ADGA Two teams tied for first place in the Three-Man Shamble tournament run by the Akron District Golf Association last weekend at Lake Forest Country Club in Hudson. The teams of Nick Lambos, Kurt Peterson and Mike Simpson and Dean Cutlip, Allen Freeman and Randy Skorman won the event with scores of 13-under 131. The team of Mike Kracker, Jeff Mallette and Dave Oates was second at 12-under 132. The format used in a shamble tournament calls for a team to select the best tee shot and then play individually the rest of the way. The best two scores out of the three players count on each hole. The next ADGA event is the Stroke-Play Championship on June 26 at Barberton Brookside and June 27 at Seven Hills. Deadline for junior June 30 is the deadline for entering the 73rd annual Good Park Junior tournament to be played July 7-9 at Good Park. Competition will be held in three boys divisions (10-and-under, 11-12 and 13-18) and two girls divisions (15-and-under and 16-18). The entry fee is $50 per player. Applications are available at most area golf courses, including Good Park. For information, call the course at 330-864-0020. Tom Gaffney can be reached at tgaffney@thebeaconjournal.com. Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Golf-Wales Open final round scores Posted: 06 Jun 2010 09:06 AM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Shot of the Day: June 5, 2010 from Muirfield Village Ricky Barnes holes-out from the fairway on the 11th hole for an eagle on his way to a 10-under-par day, during the third round of the 2010 Memorial To… Posted Jun 5 2010 More: Golf video Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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