Possibly, nobody ever will win as many Maine state golf championships as Mark Plummer.
That stated, Shawn Warren in all probability is the all-time golf cash winner for Trip Land. This declare in all probability would require an excessive amount of analysis, however it’s believed that no Maine golfer ever has cashed as a lot prize cash as Warren.
Invoice Kennedy, Golf Columnist
If for no different purpose, and there are lots of others, Bates School on July 28 introduced that it has acquired the companies of a probably nice golf coach in Shawn Warren. He’s scheduled to start out working at Bates on Aug. 14.
Warren was really helpful to Bates by its ladies’s golf coach, Abby Spector, whom he has identified since he was 12 years previous. Spector is without doubt one of the nice feminine golfers in Maine historical past.
One of many questions requested about his professional golf profession was whether or not or not he may proceed to play in professional tournaments? Can he mix teaching and professional event play?
“There will likely be dialogue on this,” Warren stated. “I’ll miss a couple of.”
Does Warren suppose that taking part in in professional tournaments over the previous 15 years will likely be an asset in recruiting?
“I feel it’s going to assist me to get the phrase out,” he stated.
That stated, Warren is life like. He is aware of that Bates is an NCAA Division III school with excessive admissions requirements, like all the establishments of upper studying within the New England Small School Athletic Convention.
“Clearly, the highest focus at Bates is tutorial,” Warren stated. “I simply wish to present golfers how you can succeed. This can be a problem to each coach at Bates.”
Bates will proceed to play its matches at Martindale, however an indoor facility has been created on campus, in order that golfers can get in some swings a few instances every week over the winter months between the autumn and spring schedules.
Warren, a 2003 graduate of Windham Excessive Faculty and a 2007 graduate of Marshall College, appears to have a grasp on the Bates sports activities philosophy, and he welcomes it as a take a look at.
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Andrew Slattery of Portland, previously of Martindale, is main the Maine Golf factors standings for Participant of the 12 months. James Frost of Fox Ridge is tied for seventh.
Within the senior males’s standings, Len Cole of Martindale is tied for fifth.
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Maine Golf has two tournaments scheduled through the week. The ladies will play the annual Janet Drouin Memorial Aug. 8 at Natanis. The boys have a Play Day occasion slated for Aug. 8 at Bethel Inn.
Invoice Kennedy, a retired New Jersey golf author and editor now residing on Thompson Lake in Otisfield, is in his eleventh season as Solar Journal golf columnist.
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