Marblehead’s Tedesco Country Club hosted its 61st Tedesco Cup, a two-day member-guest tournament June 20-21. George Zolotas (Tedesco) and Chris Pollara (Boston Golf Club) were gross champions (133, -7). Zolotas won the same competition in 2024, but this year did so with a new partner in Pollara. Elias Demakes (Tedesco) and Alex Wayman (The Country […]
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Ferncroft Country Club changes hands with no plans for development
Breaking news! Ferncroft CC has new owners. Don’t worry, Robert Trent Jones Sr.’s masterpiece of a golf course is not in jeopardy. There are no plans to tear down paradise and put up a parking lot … or a bunch of Hardie Plank-sided mega-homes. In fact, the new ownership team has ambitious plans to improve […]
Steven DiLisio secures first professional win at 115th Massachusetts Open
Swampscott native Steven DiLisio secured his first professional victory — the 115th Massachusetts Open Championship no less — and in the process became only the eighth player to win both the Open and the Mass Amateur Championship. At Sacconnesset Golf Club in Falmouth, June 10 – 12, DiLisio emerged victorious, thanks in part to a […]
Joe Rocha is NEPGA’s Teacher of the Year
Joe Rocha, the lead golf instructor at Golf Country in Middleton, has this teaching thing down to a science. One would expect that to be the case, since the affable 46-year-old Lynnfield native also connects with top-50 golf instructors and researchers and shares his knowledge with students in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s science lab. […]
