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Alex Myers

Alex MyersAlex Myers has been a sports reporter at The Journal News for three years. During that time, he has covered a bit of everything, but a lot of golf, ranging from the high school level to last year's U.S. Open at Winged Foot. His sports writing goes back to his college days when he attended Wake Forest University. He's excited to take over this beat for the remainder of the season.

E-mail Alex Myers at alemyers@lohud.com

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The PGA Championship is on?!

August
7

I’m almost embarrassed to admit that I actually came to that realization after being at my desk for over an hour this afternoon. The TV above my head is now turned to the action, but I’m amazed that it took that long.

I guess this is what happens when you take Tiger out of the least [...]

Posted by Alex Myers on August 7th, 2008 | Post a Comment »

The Carter Cup

August
7

For the third straight year, I got to cover the Carter Cup yesterday at Baltusrol Golf Club. The famed lower course (and lesser-known upper course for that matter) look better and better each time I go.

The event is the MGA’s junior stroke-play championship and consists of 36 holes (18 on both courses) over one day. [...]

Posted by Alex Myers on August 7th, 2008 | Post a Comment »

Lessing’s AJGA Championship

August
2

The American Junior Golf Association was in the area this past week for the Lessing’s Championship at Island Hills Golf Club on Long Island. Not surprisingly, many of the top local junior golfers were in the field for these all-important events when it comes to trying to impress college coaches.

One player who wasn’t trying to [...]

Posted by Alex Myers on August 2nd, 2008 | Post a Comment »

Home cooking

August
2

Stephen Scialo doesn’t just play well in qualifiers, he dominates them. Scialo, a recent Clarkstown North graduate, won another qualifier, this time for the Met Open, this past Thursday at Dellwood Country Club.

Yes, Dellwood is his home course, but shooting a 2-under-par 68 (really 3-under, but one of the par 5s was played as a [...]

Posted by Alex Myers on August 2nd, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Claiming the Canno Cup

August
2

I had the pleasure of participating in the 2nd Annual Canno Invitational this past Thursday. Hosted by Rye Neck golf coach Mark Canno, the event was held at Metropolis Country Club and once again featured some of the area’s top junior and college golfers and of course… me.

The weather was great and the course was [...]

Posted by Alex Myers on August 2nd, 2008 | Post a Comment »

The Arcola Cup runneth over with more Scialo success

July
28

Chris Scialo shot rounds of 68 and 70 to finish with a 6-under-par total of 138 at Arcola Country Club in Paramus, N.J., and capture the 2008 Arcola Cup.

Scialo, who will be a junior at Towson University this fall, got a last minute invite to this event which features a field of some of the [...]

Posted by Alex Myers on July 28th, 2008 | Post a Comment »

More from the world of Junior golf

July
25

There has been a lot of great golf played by area juniors this spring and summer, but there had been a bit of a drought when it came to producing big wins… until now.

Cortlandt Manor’s Jonathan Renza (Fordham Prep) turned in rounds of 68 and 70 at Pelham Bay Golf Club to finish 4-under-par and [...]

Posted by Alex Myers on July 25th, 2008 | Post a Comment »

U.S. Junior Championships

July
25

Mahopac’s Marisa Kamelgarn made it through stroke-play at the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship at the Hartford Golf Club in West Hartford, Conn., before falling to Victoria Tanco of Argentina 3 and 2 in the first round of match-play.

Kamelgarn fired rounds of 77 and 72 to finish in a tie for 39th through the first two [...]

Posted by Alex Myers on July 25th, 2008 | Post a Comment »

Milwaukee’s best

July
21

We all know where the No. 1 golfer in the FedExCup standings wasn’t this past weekend. No. 2? He wasn’t at Royal Birkdale either.

Kenny Perry made the British Open his second straight major championship that he didn’t play in. He also didn’t play in the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, saying he seldom played well [...]

Posted by Alex Myers on July 21st, 2008 | Post a Comment »

MGA Junior

July
18

Anthony Aloi of Plainsboro, N.J., captured the MGA’s 2008 Met Junior Championship at Rockaway River Country Club in Denville, N.J. On the final day, Aloi, who will play at Furman University in the fall, defeated both tournament favorite Cameron Wilson (Norwalk) and Dillon Corbo (Montville, N.J.) in the championship match. Amazingly, both matches went extra [...]

Posted by Alex Myers on July 18th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

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Journal News sports reporters share their thoughts on the local and national golf scene.
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Kevin DevaneyKevin Devaney
Kevin Devaney Jr. came to The Journal News in 1998 and worked on the sports staff through college. A Fordham University graduate, Kevin primarily reports on high school football and basketball but has experience covering college and professional events. He is married, and enjoys playing golf, video games and fantasy sports.
Mike DoughertyMike Dougherty
is the lead golf writer for The Journal News and LoHud.com and has been covering the sport locally for nearly 20 years. HeÕs chased Tiger Woods aro und Congressional C.C. followed Annika Sorenstam at DuPont C.C., and stalked the dedicated golfers that sleep in their cars at Mohansic every spring in hopes of landing a weekend tee time. Dougherty also spent a decade on the Knicks beat, which left plenty of time for golf every April.
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