Heading to the Links
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- May
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Tomorrow is another big day in Section 1 golf as the team championship will be held at the Links at Union Vale in LaGrangeville. Why is it so far away (I’m looking up directions as we speak)? Because Arlington had the best team scoring average in the section and thus gets to host the event.
This is a newer event put into play in the last few years, but it makes sense to have a team championship. Three teams qualify based strictly on which three squads had the best scoring average during the regular season.
The three teams are Arlington, Rye and Scarsdale. It should be a good match (9 holes like regular season matches) and I’m looking forward to it. And since I’m making the trek up there… I’m also going to play the track with a few work friends in the morning. So far I’ve heard very, very good things about this links-style course so it should be a treat.
Back to the real match… in a nine-holer, it’s really anyone’s game. All three of these teams were playing very well late. The headliners will be Arlington’s Andrew Graham, who lost in a playoff at the Section 1 championship to Mahopac’s Marisa Kamelgarn, Rye’s Mark Mumford and Sam Weiss, who are both looking to bounce back from disappointing performances at sectionals, and Scarsdale’s David Spiro, who narrowly missed qualifying for the state team. Rye is the defending Section 1 champion.
Wow. Mapquest is predicting a pretty lengthy trip. My tee time is at 9:52 a.m. so I better hit the road… back with more tomorrow.
