04.06.2014 Sports Golf Gazette: A dream comes true for new Cedars owner When I was in seventh grade back in the 1950s, it was my dream to own a transistor radio and a new set of golf clubs. The modest earnings...
03.08.2014 Sports Golf Gazette: Another failed attempt at retirement Back in December, as I was roaming around the house looking for something to do, my better half said, “You remind me of Brett Favre.” “Huh?” I chirped. “You...
08.09.2012 Sports Golf Gazette: Peconic’s own ‘$6 million man’ has a smooth swing Some of you out there, probably mostly baby-boomers, may remember the television show from the mid 1970s starring Lee Majors, “The Six Million Dollar Man.” Majors played a former...
07.25.2012 Sports Golf Gazette: What are your pet peeves on the links? Regular readers of the Golf Gazette know I have little tolerance for cell-phone use on the golf course. Come to think of it, I’m not a big fan of...
07.12.2012 Sports Golf Gazette: Metro area offers great golf at great sites The 2012 Ike Championship, a prestigious yearly event run by the Metropolitan Golf Association, was held June 26 and 27 at Atlantic Golf Club in Bridgehampton, bringing together the...
06.26.2012 Sports Golf Gazette: Meet the two men who saved Sandy Pond “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” author Mark Twain said after learning his obituary had been published in The New York Journal in 1897. The scuttlebutt heard...
06.06.2012 Sports Golf Gazette: From Riverhead car salesman to hole-in-one machine Back in 1980, I took a job selling cars for Buzzy Chew at Kinney Chevrolet-Oldsmobile in Riverhead. Cars were really not “my thing” as evidenced by the fact that...
05.07.2012 Sports Golf Gazette: A hero for whom cell phones and golf courses don’t mix Most of us have had a few heros in our lives. It may have been an athlete. Perhaps a movie star. Maybe a political figure. Come to think of...