Hey Everyone,

I checked off course 169 this week. Drove down to Cape Cod, where it felt like summer on Thursday (in contrast to foggy, chilly Boston) to play Quashnet Valley CC. I thought it was pretty good! Very tight and a little choked out by trees, but greens were cool and it was a nice walk, especially the front nine. It was a tough course to open the season, trouble lurking everywhere.

Shoutout to all the superintendents and staff who worked to get golf courses ready to play. I hit a few balls into and around the woods at Qushnet Valley CC and it was stunning to see all the debris and trees limbs that had been moved to the edges of the course.

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RBC Heritage: Keegan Bradley shot 67 (-1) and sits T15. Michael Thorbjornsen 70 (-1) and is T44. Ludvig Aberg shot 63 and leads by one shot. Thorbjornsen got into the field because Justin Rose withdrew following another close call at Augusta National. Live Scoring

Tulum Championship: Rob Oppenheim shot 68 (-4) and is T5. Chris Francoeur returned after a brief break and shot 71; he is T35. Live Scoring

Senior PGA Championship: Jason Caron shot 73 and is T55. Four players shot 66 - Steve Allan, Bernhard Langer, Miguel Angel Jiménez, and Brian Gay. Live Scoring

JM Eagle Championship of LA: Alexa Pano shot 69 (-3) and is T34 out in Los Angeles. Megan Khang shot 72 is T35. Chizzy Iwai shot 63 and holds the lead. Live Scoring

Abarta Collegiate Invitational: Merrimack finished 12th, and Brendan Zinck (Melrose, Mass.) finished T71 for the Warriors. Lehigh’s Matthew Quinn (Holden, Mass.) finished 14th, and Drew Golden (Hingham, Mass.) competed as an individual and took 78th. Lehigh finished T4, and Lafayette won the event. Results

Wofford Invitational: Providence finished 13th. Will Spring (Concord, Mass.) and Evan Buddenhagan (Gloucester, Mass.) finished 85th. USCA won the event with a 12-under par team score. Results

Shark Invitational: Bryant won the Shark Invitational. Chad Correia (Norton, Mass.) finished 20th for the Bulldogs. Other New England teams competing: Fairfield (fifth), Sacred Heart (ninth), Holy Cross (10th), New Haven (11th), and Hartford (14th). For Holy Cross, John Scully (Winchester, Mass.) finished 41st, Ryan Scollins ( Wrentham, Mass.) finished 74th, and Brian Glennon (Hingham, Mass.) played as an individual and finished 77th. Results

Princeton Invitational: Harvard beat out Georgetown for a six-shot victory. Carson Erick (Hingham, Mass.) continued his good play with a T4 finish, and Alan Rose III (Weston, Mass.) and C.J. Winchenbaugh (Weston, Mass.) chipped in with 18th-place and 25th-place finishes respectively, for the Hoyas. Yale finished seventh, and Dartmouth finished ninth. Aidan Emmerich (Swampscott, Mass.) finished 27th for Temple.

Mossy Oaks Collegiate: Ryan Downes helped Vanderbilt to a third-place finish. He finished the week in 41st place. Results

Lewis Chitengwa Memorial: Joey Lenane finished 45th while his NC State team took 6th place. Results

2026 Huntington Bank Collegiate: Molly Smith finished 22nd and UCF notched a T8 finish. UCF entered the event the 13th ranked team in the country. Results

Women’s ACC Championship: Boston College is 13th after 36 holes of the ACC Championship. Stanford holds an 11-shot lead over SMU heading into the second day. The team will play 18 holes on Friday, and then the top 6 teams move on to match play, with the top two seeds receiving a bye into the semi-finals. Live Scoring

What’s happening this week:

Seagulls Four-Ball: The annual event finishes off this weekend, after last week’s qualifying and Round of 16 matches.

Ryan Brown and Sam Russell earned medalist honors with a 67 in qualifying at Hyannisport Club. However, they bowed out in the first round of match play on Sunday against the father-son duo of Paul and Kyle Puchol.

There are seven total flights. The final 8 in each flight will return to Hyannisport next Saturday. Results

Terra Cotta: A few New Englanders and MassGolf champions, are teeing it up in the big amateur event in Naples, Florida this week. The field includes Miles Russell, the high school junior who just finished top 10 on the Korn Ferry a couple of weeks ago. Mass Junior champion, Josiah Hakala (New Ipswich, Mass.), tied Russell with a 71 (-1). Former MassGolf Player of the Year, Nick Maccario (Atlanta, Georgia). The only player toever win the Rhode Island and Massachusetts State Amateur championships, Mike Calef (Portsmouth, R.I.), also shot 76 (+4). Bobby Leopold (Coventry, RI), the five-time Rhode Island State Amateur champion, shot 78. Guiseppa Puebla after a 64 (-8).

I decided to read the introduction to Bay State Golf: Volume 1 this week. A lighter lift, as I finish off a big project about Cape Cod that’s coming next week.

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