The 29th annual John Calder Memorial Golf Tournament raised nearly $500,000 for youth sports programs and college scholarships, and will be held for the last time next year.
Past & Present
Guiding light!
George Page was 24 and fresh out of the Navy when he decided to do something many thought was foolish: purchase the Colonial Country Club in Lynnfield — which in 1946 was both rundown and on the verge of bankruptcy. But Page didn’t think like everybody else. He took the gamble and spent 30 years […]
Two-time winner Brozena matches LPGA star Khang’s accomplishment
It’s been quite a summer for North Reading’s Isabel Brozena. The Indian Ridge member and freshman at Ohio’s Xavier University ran away with the Ouimet Memorial Women’s Division championship, shooting 7-under 208 to win by eight shots over runner-up Morgan Smith of Vesper CC. The tournament was held at Indian Pond CC and Woodland GC […]
Wenham Country Club celebrates 125 years with journey-to-the-past tourney
Wenham CC celebrated its 125th anniversary on July 4, hosting a throwback tournament where participants played three of the holes using period clubs and specially-made gutta percha golf balls made to play like and look like those used in the early 1900s. Fifty-four members, many dressed in vintage clothing or patriotic outfits, competed in the […]
Happy 125th anniversary Wenham Country Club
Wenham Country Club celebrates its 125th anniversary this year. Legend has it that in 1847 a group of young Myopia caddies played a makeshift 5 holes on what was then Tarr’s Pasture. Two years later it opened as a 9-hole course, with help from Myopia Hunt Club principals. A second 9 was added in 1924, […]