WNY PGA Junior Tour: 5/26 @ Lockport T & CC

Evan Gaesser and Chris Yustin battled for 18 holes, with Gaesser dispatching Yustin, 76 to 77, to win the 13-15 year old bracket at Lockport Town and Country Club. Aidan Shaw snuck by Matthew Jackson in the 9-hole bracket, again by one slim stroke (41 to 42.) Click...

WNY PGA SACH Pro-Am on 5/20

Dwayne Randall and Kirk Stauffer, two local pros with serious southern tier roots and experience, tied for 1st place at the recent Seneca Allegany Casino and Hotel pro-am on Monday, May 20th. Randall (Peek’n Peak) and Stauffer (Pine Acres) toured the Elkdale...

WNY PGA Junior Tour: 5/25 at Chautauqua Golf Club

Emily Kase, Matthew Jackson, Christine Schmidt, Wilson Lockwood and Nolan Ditcher took honors on Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, above the shore of Lake Chautauqua. The ANAdeeds junior tour began another South-North weekend (with Sunday at Lockport) across the...

Your Best 18: Joseph Kreuz

Our second, viewer-generated Buffalo’s Best 18 has a twist or two. First, the contributor (Joseph Kreuz) offered 19 holes; couldn’t make up his mind on the second hole. Next, he decided to give his version of Buffalo’s Easy 18. After you run through...

Three Bonus Tips

Tom Tucker is a World Golf Teachers and United States Golf Teacher Federation-certified golf instructor. He may be contacted via his website or at the Plum Creek driving range in Batavia, NY. Tom often includes bonus tips and buffalogolfer.com has united three of them...

Things I Know I Think

Things I know I think has been, at various times, things I think I know, think I think and know I know. The genesis of each column is the wordsmithing of other golf writers, the state of the game and the random causality of things golf. Here are my opinions and...

Williamsville North Leads Section VI Into States

The Spartans of Williamsville North placed three golfers on the nine-member team that will play 36 holes for the NYSPHSAA state championship in June. Seniors David Berkun and Mark Lesinski were joined by freshman Ben Reichert as North golfers form one-third of the...

BuffaloGolfer Weekly Report #20: 5/20/2013

Loads of new info and opportunity in this week’s newsletter. Give us your best 18 holes in Buffalo-Niagara by hole number, read up on match play and the BDGA match play champion, Michael Carrig. Press releases from major companies and much more. Click Here to...

Interview With Michael Carrig, BDGA Match Play Champion

Michael Carrig defeated 2013 WNY Open champion Dan Yustin in the final bout of the BDGA Match Play Invitational on Saturday, May 18th, at Niagara Falls Country Club. The winner defeated Mike McNulty, Brian Rajczak, John Edwards and Matt Stasiak on his way to the final...

WNY PGA AA at Brookfield

Liam Freedman clipped Jeff Urzetta by two strokes to win the second Assistants Association (AA) event of the 2013 WNY PGA schedule. The one-over 73 from the assistant pro at Orchard Park country club took the prize over his counterpart from Oak Hill in Rochester. The...

WNY PGA Junior Tour: Transit Valley

Five more winners earned their stripes today at Transit Valley country club. The WNY PGA ANAdeeds junior tour stopped in East Amherst and Molly Balbierz, Natalie Inchiosa, Joseph Tempski, Ben Reichert and Andrew Kempton led the list in their respective divisions. For...

Your Best 18: Leon Smith

Leon Smith, a member at a club north of the border, offers this 18 hole tour as his version of Buffalo’s Best. After you digest the list, read Mo’ Golf’s commentary at the bottom. 1 Sheridan 2 Crag Burn 3 Grand Niagara 4 Cherry Hill 5 Park Club 6 CCB...

Match Play: The BDGA’s Old-Fashioned Championship

You’ll read in the Buffalo News that Michael Carrig of Springville CC and Caz Park defeated Dan Yustin of Transit Valley. You’ll learn that the two met in the finals of the Buffalo District Golf Association’s Match Play championship, the first...

Penetrating Iron Shots

Tom Tucker is a World Golf Teachers and United States Golf Teacher Federation-certified golf instructor. He may be contacted via his website or at the Plum Creek driving range in Batavia, NY. I have had many students ask me why they seem to hit their irons so high and...

Eye on Fantasy – Glover Hits for the Cycle

As noted in my Bubba Watson post, it’s always fascinating when the volatile and fickle nature of golf imposes itself on the seemingly robotic professionals of the PGA Tour.  During the Sunday action at Sawgrass, Lucas Glover accomplished a feat that I...

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