By Bob Albright
“Grazie.”
It’s Italian for “thank you.” It also happens to be the name of the bustling Italian restaurant at Four Oaks Country Club that is becoming as much a signature at the semi-private course in Dracut as its immaculate greens and sweeping views that span as far the Prudential and Hancock on a clear day.
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By Bill Brotherton
Bill Crocker is the new clubhouse manager at Salem Country Club, succeeding Greg Cincotta
who is now at Concord CC … Lorelei Judge is the clubhouse manager at Kernwood CC … Maxine Harney, granddaughter of the late Bay State golfing legend Paul Harney and daughter of Chris Harney, is a junior member at Ferncroft CC.
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It’s too bad Bogie never starred in one
By BILL BROTHERTON
For those of us itching to hit the links, the wind, rain and snow of early March frustrated us to no end.
One day, after breaking my back shoveling about eight inches of the heavy, wet stuff I nursed a Green Head IPA,settled into my cozy chair and binge-watched a batch of golf-themed movies. There are more of them than you’d think.
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How a rock ’n’ roll writer and a man twice his age bonded over golf
By JIM SULLLIVAN
I have a group of golf friends here around Boston. But when my mother was alive, I’d often vacation in Sarasota, Florida, where she, a Maine transplant, was a snowbird. I’d play virtually every day. Most of my golf friends there were impermanent – and that’s fine, the nature of the game when joining a group – but there was one who was not.
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