57 players turned in hole-by-hole cards from Saturday’s 8:30 shotgun, and every one of them was in the skins — everyone off the White tees, at 50% handicap, with no strokes on the par 3s. There were no flight prizes and no season points; the day paid out in skins and closest to the pin.

Skins. Only four of the 18 holes had an outright low net, so the $500 pool split four ways — $125 a skin. John Calcaterra birdied the par-5 6th for a net 3; Gerry Siuta birdied the 7th and took his stroke for a net 2; Will Poleway birdied the par-5 9th for a net 3; and Sean McGarvey birdied the 10th with no stroke at all. Every other hole was tied, with no carryover — the par-3 3rd had 31 players at net par.

Closest to the pin, $50 on each par 3: Jarred Lauder on the 3rd, Robert Salemo on the 5th and the 12th, Anthony Cannella JR on the 8th and Will Poleway on the 17th. That makes Poleway the only man with a skin and a pin.

Thanks to everyone who came out.

The Challenge Cup stays at Rotella. Over two days against the Spook Rock Golf Course Men’s Club, Haverstraw won 28½ to 19½ — 4½ points more than the 24 it needed to keep the Cup it won in 2025.

Saturday did most of the work. In the two-man better ball at Rotella — 90% handicap, 2 points a match — HGC won 10 of the 12 matches and went to bed ahead 20 to 4, four points short of retaining with 24 still to play. Spook Rock’s two wins came from Richard Nolte and Andy Firestone, over Bryan Hassett and Robert Salemo, and Randy Grossman and Bob Settino, over Joe Galvin and Steve Weiss.

Sunday’s singles at Spook Rock, at full handicap and a point a match, went the other way: the hosts won 15½ of the 24 points, with James Nelson’s 7&6 the widest margin of the day. HGC’s 8½ came from eight wins — Steven Hegner, Jordan Covell, Frank Cannella, Anthony Cannella JR, Paul Facciola, Joe Galvin, Bryan Hassett and Robert Jones — and Conor Lynam’s halve with Jeff Reissman.

A few lines from the card. Jordan Covell and Frank Cannella were the only HGC players to win both days: they took their better-ball match together on Saturday, then each won his single on Sunday. Conor Lynam went unbeaten, a win with Ryan Siuta and the halve. And Joe Galvin got his rematch: beaten by Grossman and Settino on Saturday, he beat Randy Grossman 2 up on Sunday. Bryan Hassett bounced back the same way, 4&3 over Joe Budnick.

It is HGC’s third straight Challenge Cup, and the all-time record on the Inter-Club Cups page now counts it. Thanks to the Spook Rock men for a great weekend at both courses — see you next October.

Match-by-match results

Match-by-match results are on the Inter-Club Cups page.

Two sign-up sheets, two sets of tees, two races. The Under 60 - Over 60 split the club by birthday: under 60 played the White tees, 60 and over played the Gold — and if you turned exactly 60, you were in the senior half. Net stroke play at 85%, $75 to each division winner and $50 to each runner-up, and with the season points race already closed at the Four-Man there was nothing on the line but pride and pro-shop credit. Thirty-six players posted scores.

The best of them was a senior. Rocco Cannella went out on the Gold sheet and came back with a 71 — one under par, the only sub-par round of the weekend and the low gross of the entire field, either division. His net 67 was the low net too. Five birdies or better and ten straight holes at par or better from the 2nd: the round of the week from any tee, and it takes Player of the Week.

Joseph Sparta chased him home at 75/68 for the 60 & Over runner-up, one behind Cannella. Anthony Pisciotta was third at 74/70, the third-best net in the field. John Ritsick (79/71) took fourth and Michael Dowen (79/72) fifth. Behind them the Gold board jammed: three men at net 73 — Alan Jacobs, Feriz Kukaj and Steve Stone — and three more at 74 — Paul Facciola, Phil Quinn and Seamus Garrity.

Under 60 came down to the cards. Darrin Sloan and Jordan Covell both signed for net 71 and could not be separated on the day, so it went to a match of cards — and Sloan had it, taking the division with Covell the runner-up. Conor Lynam was third at 75/72, and produced the shot of the division on the way: an eagle at the par-5 6th, part of a run of ten straight holes at par or better from the 2nd.

Sloan’s 73 was the low gross in the Under 60 division, built on seven straight holes at par or better from the 1st. Joe Galvin (85/74) and Mary Corretjer (85/74) shared fourth, Corretjer playing the Red tees — the women’s option inside her division.

This one awards no Challenge Cup points. It still counts as an event played, and the Season Points page’s Avg column leaves it out. Full boards — both divisions — are on the Event Results page.

The North Rockland Cup is next, Sep 19-20 — Saturday away at Patriot Hills, Sunday home at Rotella.

Four men, one card, and nowhere to hide. The Four-Man Alternate Hole asks each player to own his own holes — P1 takes 1/5/9/13/17, P2 the evens, P3 and P4 the rest — at the 85% team allowance off the White tees. Miss your hole and there is no partner to bail you out. Sixty-four players posted scores: 15 teams, plus four who played on as individuals for season points.

The title went to Jordan Silber, Anthony Pisciotta, Frank Sialiano and Steven Silber at team net 66 — five clear of the field and the only card in the sixties all weekend. It’s $50 a man in pro shop credit. Darrin Sloan, Jarred Lauder, John Calcaterra and Mike Zacchio were the only other team under 72, finishing second at net 71. Two sides shared third at 72: Cannella/Kral/Nicosia/Bulger and Vasquez/Nguyen/Solar/Manera.

The best round of the weekend, though, came from the other end of the flight sheet. Patrick McCarthy turned a 78 into a net 63 — the field-low net by three shots, the D Flight win, and Player of the Week. Nobody else in the field got closer than 66.

That 66 belonged to Jordan Silber, who also owned the gross board: a 5-under-par 67, the tournament-low gross, and the Championship flight win. His team’s winning number matched his own net exactly — when your best player carries five holes, the arithmetic gets friendly. Ryan Siuta was the only other man to break par — a 68 that his minus-1 course handicap turned into a net 69.

Elsewhere on the flight boards: Stephen Kral (73/68) led A, Bryan Hassett (84/71) led B, and C Flight produced a three-way deadlock at net 69 — Joseph Sparta (80), Seamus Garrity (85) and Vincent Solar (86) arriving at the same number from three very different directions. With no flight prize on a team event, all three simply share the points.

And with that, the season points race is over — all 16 points events are in the books, and the standings on the Season Points page are final. Your 2026 flight champions: Steven Silber (Championship, 432.5), Jordan Covell (A Flight, 480.5), Alan Jacobs (B Flight, 390), Joseph Sparta (C Flight, 502.5) and Will Poleway (D Flight, 295). Poleway’s was the tightest of the five — 12.5 points over Jack Porette — and he closed it out playing this one as an individual, with no team to lean on.

Those final standings now do one more job. The top four in each flight on season points, plus each flight’s Club Championship winner, have their tickets punched for the Challenge Cup — the Oct 3-4 rivalry against the Spook Rock Golf Course Men’s Club, home Saturday at Rotella and away Sunday at Spook Rock. The remaining spots on the team are filled by the HGC committee.

Full boards — every flight, plus the complete 15-team table — are on the Event Results page. The points are settled; the trophies are not. The North Rockland Cup is next, Sep 19-20 — Saturday away at Patriot Hills, Sunday home at Rotella.

Back to the buddy system. After a month of brackets, seeds and sudden death, Rotella exhaled into the MGA-sponsored MET/LIFE Two-Man Teams — better ball at the 85% team allowance, White tees, pick a partner and let the lower net do the talking. Fifty-nine players posted scores: 27 teams, plus five who played on as individuals for season points.

The team title went to Conor Lynam and Brian Whelan at team net 62, one clear of William Geiger and Anthony Sparta (63). It’s $75 a man to the winners, $50 to the runners-up — and the winning team advances to the MGA sectional. Three teams shared third at 65: Kukaj/Covell, Lepic/Nguyen and Facciola/Dowen.

Lynam didn’t just anchor the winning card — he owned the week. His 71/67 was the field-low net, won the Championship flight, and earned him Player of the Week. Whelan held up his end too: 85/72, 2nd in C Flight. When your team wins by one, both halves mattered.

The purest golf of the weekend, though, belonged to Ryan Siuta: a 3-under-par 69, the tournament-low gross — which, on a plus-handicap card, nets 70. That’s 2nd in the Championship flight, and his side with Michael Siuta tied for 15th at 70. The rest of the gross board’s podium: Lynam’s 71, then a 73 from Sean McGarvey, playing as an individual.

And here’s the week’s spooky coincidence: every other flight was won at net 69. Jordan Covell (77/69) took A — while also riding the T-3 team with Kukaj. Jan Lepic (79/69) won B. Paul Facciola (82/69) won C. And Steve Stone turned an 89 into a net 69 to win D — his team with Vincent Gamboli landing on… 69, naturally, tied for 10th. Four flights, four 69s, and only Lynam’s 67 beat the number all week.

Full boards — every flight, plus the complete 27-team table — are on the Event Results page. Sixteen of twenty-four events are in the books; the Four-Man Alternate Hole is up next, Sep 4. Bring three friends.

Thirty-six holes, one overall race, and it ended in a photo. Anthony Cannella JR and Mary Corretjer both finished at net 143, and the committee made the only call that felt right: co-champions of the 2026 Best of the Rest.

They got there from opposite directions. Cannella JR sat T-12 after an 82/75 opener, then closed with a 75/68 — the second-lowest net of the closing round. Corretjer’s comeback was steeper: 16th after Round 1, she signed for a 78/66 — the low net round of the entire tournament — and climbed 15 spots to the top of the board. Two players, 33 starters between them and the trophy, and not a single stroke separating them at the end.

James Monte took third at 145 — and needed extra scrutiny to get it. He and George Maltbie tied, so the finish went to the club’s card-comparison tiebreak: sudden death down the stroke-index ranking, Round 2 card first. Monte’s par at the 16th against Maltbie’s 7 settled it. The same procedure sorted 8th from 9th — Michael Dowen over Doug Nguyen at the 11th — after both finished on 149.

Darrin Sloan was fifth at 146 and takes the tournament-low gross, 150 (76+74, four matched nines of 37–38). Steve Stone finished sixth at 147 while also completing 36 holes in the Seniors Club Championship — 72 competitive holes in two weekends, and a podium over there to show for it. Anthony Pisciotta (74/74 nets, seventh) never blinked; John Aiello (10th) and Steven Silber (11th) rounded out the chase.

And a word for the wire-to-wire story that wasn’t: William Geiger’s opening 76/68 led this thing by five for a full week. Round 2 (94/86) had other plans — golf remains undefeated — and he settled 12th at 154.

15 players completed all 36 holes; 18 more posted one round and are listed on the board unranked. Full results — both rounds plus totals, every flight in one table — are on the Event Results page. This event pays the top 3 overall only and awards no season points, though it counts as an event played (the Season Points page’s Avg column leaves it out).

The 65-and-over set played 36 holes from the Gold tees for a championship of their own — and the club’s President walked off with it. Alan Jacobs opened 82/74, five back of the lead, then delivered a closing 78/70 — the low gross round of the tournament — to finish at net 144 and win by one. President by title; champion by scorecard.

Behind him, 145 needed arithmetic. Jim Barton (93/75 + 88/70) and Steve Stone (83/69 + 90/76) both got there, and the card-comparison tiebreak — sudden death from the No. 1 handicap hole, Round 2 first — split them at the 6th: Barton’s par to Stone’s bogey. Barton takes second, Stone third. Stone had led by three after his opening 69 — and, in his defense, he was moonlighting: he also completed all 36 holes of the Best of the Rest the same two weekends, finishing sixth over there.

Floyd Abrams was fourth at 146 the most Abrams way possible: 83/73 and 83/73 — identical rounds, a man in metronome form. Hollis Griffin did the same trick (83/78, twice) for seventh. Michael Manera (147) took fifth, and Bryan Hassett — whose opening 79 was the low gross until Jacobs’ Sunday 78 — held sixth at 152, ahead of Matt Burgay (159) and Phil Quinn (164).

Nine of the 13 starters completed both rounds; John Aiello, Michael Tully, Robert McLaughlin, and Michael Greenfield posted Round 1 only. The full table — both rounds and totals — lives on the Seniors tab of the Club Championship page. Like the Best of the Rest, this one pays the top three overall and awards no season points (it still counts as an event played).

Nine semifinals played, nine winners — the committee’s report was winners only, no margins — and the championship matches are set in every flight. So dim the lights, warm up the announcer with the tuxedo and the long vowels — LLLET’S GET READY TO RUMBLLLLLE! — because finals weekend at Rotella is officially a fight card: five title bouts, 108 holes of championship match play, and a belt on the line in every flight.

The Championship flight got the final the qualifier predicted: Quinlan Hood, the #1 seed, beat Conor Lynam, and Sean McGarvey, the #2 seed, eliminated Steven Silber. Hood and McGarvey — first and second in qualifying, now first and second standing — meet in the 36-hole final, Aug 22–23, from the blues. That’s your main event: in one corner, the medalist whose 73 led the qualifier; in the other, the man who signed for a 66 at the Memorial Day Classic. Thirty-six holes. No strokes. No place to hide.

In A Flight, medalist Jordan Covell defeated Feriz Kukaj, while Stephen Kral ended Frank Cannella’s run — the man who had knocked out the 2 seed in round one. Covell vs Kral for the A title.

B Flight’s final is chalk and charge: top seed John Casey — three flight wins already this season — beat Connor Tierney, and Brian Fox put out Jan Lepic. Casey vs Fox — both men 2–0 in this bracket, and as the fight game says: somebody’s 0 has got to go.

C Flight is half-set: Joseph Sparta’s improbable run as the 8 seed rolled through Joe Galvin — that’s the medalist and now a semifinalist down for C’s season points leader. The other semifinal, Seamus Garrity vs Paul Facciola, was completed ahead of finals weekend — and Paul Facciola punched the last ticket to fight night. Sparta vs Facciola for the C crown.

And in D Flight, the other 8 seed kept swinging: Angelo Balassone beat Jeff Cohen, and Anton Voltchok defeated Patrick McCarthy. Balassone vs Voltchok for the D crown.

There’s a sixth title in play the same weekend. The Seniors Club Championship — 36 holes of net stroke play at 85%, Gold tees, 65-and-over — opened its first round with 13 players, and Steve Stone grabbed the lead: 83/69, three clear of the field. Bryan Hassett sits second at 72 off the round’s low gross, a 79, with Floyd Abrams (73) and Alan Jacobs (74) next and Michael Manera and Jim Barton tied at 75 behind them. Round 2 plays the weekend of Aug 21 and crowns the Seniors Club Champion; full standings live on the Seniors tab of the Club Championship page.

The match-play finals go Aug 22–23 — 36 holes for the Championship flight, 18 for A through D. The full bracket, with dates on every remaining match, is on the Club Championship page. Six trophies, one weekend. Ding, ding.

Half the tournament is in the books. The Best of the Rest — 36 holes of net stroke play at 85%, White tees, for everyone who didn’t make the Club Championship bracket — sent 25 players out for Round 1, and one of them lapped the field. William Geiger shot 76/68, the low net and a share of the low gross of the round, to take a five-shot lead into next weekend. The scorecard tells you how: par or better on 14 of 18 holes — 13 pars and a birdie at the par-5 16th — with matched 38–38 nines. Among the other app-scored cards, Darrin Sloan’s 76 (also 38–38, and the other share of low gross) and James Monte’s 78 came in without a double bogey anywhere, and the par-5s gave up most of the day’s birdies — Rocco Cannella took both the 9th and the 13th. The course bit back late: 15 and 16 played hardest for the field, more than a stroke over par apiece.

One thing to know before reading the board: this event pays the top 3 overall only ($100 / $75 / $25) — there are no flight winners. So it’s one 25-man race, and behind Geiger it is jammed. James Monte (78/73), Thomas Bohlander (88/73) and Steve Stone (91/73) share second, and seven players sit one further back at net 74: Darrin Sloan (76 — the other share of low gross), Anthony Pisciotta, John Aiello, Michael Dowen, George Maltbie, Vincent Solar and Mark Dowen. Eleven players within six shots of the lead, 18 holes left.

Round 1 standings for the full field are on the Event Results page (positions shown are overall; this event awards no season points). Round 2 plays the weekend of Aug 21 — same tees, same 85%, your Friday handicap update applies. The Seniors Club Championship is also at its halfway turn: those standings live on the Club Championship page’s Seniors tab, where Steve Stone’s 83/69 leads by three.

One weekend of qualifying set the seeds; one weekend of match play cut the field in half. All 20 first-round matches are decided and the semifinal fields are set in every flight. The committee’s report was winners only — no margins — so the names below are the whole record.

In the Championship flight, medalist Quinlan Hood beat Brian McGarvey JR and Conor Lynam eliminated Jordan Silber to set the top-half semifinal. Below them, Sean McGarvey defeated Jarred Lauder, and Steven Silber knocked out third-seeded Greg Zamalkany. Both semifinals — Hood vs Lynam and McGarvey vs Silber — go off Saturday, Aug 15 at 8:20 AM from the blues.

A Flight ran mostly to seed: medalist Jordan Covell defeated Avery Hood and Feriz Kukaj beat James Ridge — but Frank Cannella, seeded 7th, took out second-seeded Ed Carr, and Stephen Kral defeated Ken Confrey. Semifinals Saturday, Aug 15 at 8:40 AM: Covell vs Kukaj and Cannella vs Kral.

In B Flight, top seed John Casey beat Andrew Howard, Connor Tierney defeated Tim Rotundo, Brian Fox beat John Bulger, and Jan Lepic eliminated Bryan Hassett. Semifinals Sunday, Aug 16 at 8:50 AM: Casey vs Tierney and Fox vs Lepic.

C Flight is where the bracket flipped: Joseph Sparta — the 8 seed, and still C’s season points leader — knocked out medalist Jake Rotundo. Joe Galvin defeated Robert Jones, Seamus Garrity beat Floyd Abrams, and Paul Facciola defeated Michael Zamalkany. Semifinals Sunday, Aug 16 at 8:30 AM: Sparta vs Galvin and Garrity vs Facciola.

D Flight saw the same story: Angelo Balassone, seeded 8th, beat medalist Rich Terribile — the man who won the qualifier by three. Jeff Cohen defeated Michael Manera, Patrick McCarthy beat Will Poleway, and Anton Voltchok defeated Doug Nguyen. Semifinals Sunday, Aug 16 at 8:40 AM: Balassone vs Cohen and McCarthy vs Voltchok.

The live bracket — every pairing, date and tee time — is on the Club Championship page. The finals are 36 holes, Aug 22–23. Twenty players left; win or go home.

No strokes, no cushion. The Club Championship Qualifier is the one weekend of the year the handicap stays in the bag: gross score only, pick your day — Saturday or Sunday — and the low 8 per flight walk away with a bracket seed. Forty spots, one round each, and full season points riding on it (points were earned on gross, ties sharing per the usual club rule).

In the Championship flight, from the blue tees, Quinlan Hood posted the round of the weekend: 73, the #1 seed and the score everyone else spent two days chasing. Sean McGarvey (74), Greg Zamalkany (75), Jordan Silber (76) and Conor Lynam (77) filled out the top half, with Steven Silber (79), Jarred Lauder (80) and Brian McGarvey JR (81) grabbing the last three seeds. Anthony Pisciotta (82) and James Monte (83) are the alternates.

A Flight belonged to Jordan Covell: 78, the low White-tee round of the weekend and the #1 seed. Ed Carr (79) took the second spot before a four-way logjam at 81 — Ken Confrey, Feriz Kukaj, James Ridge and Stephen Kral, seeded 3 through 6 and splitting the points evenly. Frank Cannella (83) and Avery Hood (85) close out the qualifiers; John Aiello (86) and William Geiger (88) wait as alternates. Three A-flighters — Anthony Cannella JR (84), Rocco Cannella (89) and Mike Zacchio (94) — took their shot at qualifying up into the Championship field from the blues; their rounds are recorded in the A Flight results, outside the seedings.

B Flight came back to John Casey one more time: 80, his third flight-topping score in four events, and the #1 seed. Brian Fox and Bryan Hassett shared 2nd at 82. Michael Siuta’s 83 was next — good for 4th and 35 season points — but he has withdrawn from bracket contention, so the seeds passed on: Tim Rotundo, Brian Safchik and Connor Tierney (all 84), then Jan Lepic and John Bulger (both 85) with the final two spots. Mike Zamalkany Jr. and Alan Jacobs (both 87) are the alternates.

C Flight produced the tightest finish of the weekend: a three-way tie at 86 between Jake Rotundo, Seamus Garrity and Paul Facciola — 45 points apiece, with Rotundo taking the #1 seed and Garrity and Facciola right behind. Robert Jones (87) sits 4th, another three-way group at 89 (Joe Galvin, Michael Zamalkany, Floyd Abrams) fills seeds 5–7, and Joseph Sparta (90) — C Flight’s season leader — claims the last spot. Michael Goggin and Chuck Barker (92s) are the alternates.

D Flight was never close: Rich Terribile’s 85 won it by three. Patrick McCarthy and Anton Voltchok (88s), Jeff Cohen and Michael Manera (90s), Jay Hood (91), Will Poleway (94) and Angelo Balassone (96) complete the eight; Doug Nguyen and Sean McLaughlin (97s) are next in line.

The brackets are set and posted on the Club Championship page — Round 1 goes Saturday, Aug 8 and Sunday, Aug 9, match play, no handicap, with the semifinals the following weekend. Everyone who didn’t qualify gets the Best of the Rest (36 holes, Aug 14–21) to stay in the money. Fourteen of twenty-four events complete. Now the real tournament starts.

Pick five clubs, add the putter, and figure out the rest on the way — that was the assignment at Rotella on Friday. Everybody chose their five before the round; the Championship flight got just three. Half-bag golf has a way of exposing who actually knows their yardages, and the numbers it produced were better than anyone had a right to expect.

The best of them belonged to Joe Quinn: 85/70, the low net of the day, good for C Flight by three and Player of the Week (more below). Floyd Abrams (85/73) was next in C, with Jake Rotundo (88/74) third and Seamus Garrity and Anthony Sparta sharing 4th at net 75.

One number behind Quinn came the day’s busiest scorecard: Jim Barton’s 92/71, which won the Gold pool and stood as the low net in D Flight for the full 50 season points. With Barton taking the Gold prize, the D Flight prize went to Matt Burgay (97/72), who also chased Barton home in the Gold pool at 72, a stroke ahead of Abrams’ 73 there. Behind them in D: Jack Porette (98/75) third, Jeff Cohen (93/76) fourth, and Robert McLaughlin and Michael Tully tied at net 77.

A Flight needed the cards. Frank Cannella (82/74) and John Aiello (83/74) finished level, and the match of cards broke Cannella’s way for the flight. Behind the top two, a three-way tie at net 76: Ed Carr, William Geiger and Stephen Kral, with Feriz Kukaj (87/78) and Jordan Covell (86/79) filling out the placings.

In the three-club Championship flight, Steven Hegner played the format as well as anyone all day — 84/77 to take the flight — while Anthony Cannella’s 81 was the low gross of the entire tournament, three clubs and all, landing him 2nd at net 78.

B Flight belonged to John Casey again: 82/73, his second B-Flight win this month after the Stableford. Tournament Director Andrew Howard (85/74) made him earn it, one back, with Tim Rotundo (85/75) another stroke behind.

A 70 on five clubs, a Barton double, and a match of cards to sort out A Flight. Thirteen of twenty-four events are in the books. On to the next one.

Five clubs and a putter were all Joe Quinn needed. His 85/70 was the low net of the day across every flight — it won C Flight by three shots and makes him Player of the Week. On a day the whole club played with half a bag, nobody managed the limitation better.

PoW rule: best net across all flights for the tournament. Ties broken by going back to the #1 handicap hole and forward as needed.

Some tournaments hand out pro-shop credit. This one handed out a plane ticket. The Vegas Two-Man is our club qualifier for the Vegas Golf Series — a 70% two-man best ball where the low two teams plus ties advance to the regional at Engineers Country Club, one step from the national finals at Revere Golf Club in Las Vegas this October.

Brian Fox and Patrick McCarthy were the class of the field. Their net 66 was the low team on the property — the only side to break into the sixties — and it books them a trip to Engineers CC. Behind them came a four-team logjam at net 67, and because the qualifier advances the low two and ties, all four of those teams earn the option to compete at Engineers CC as well: Silber–Sialiano, Lauder–Calcaterra, Tierney–Kukaj and Safchik–Covell. A match of cards sorted the order among them — Jordan Silber and Frank Sialiano took the card for the official 2nd — but every one of those net-67 teams can make the trip.

Underneath the team race, every man’s card was also scored at full handicap for season points (the 70% applies only to the best-ball), and one number stood above the rest: Feriz Kukaj’s 77/68, the lowest net in the entire field. It won him A Flight and Player of the Week in a single stroke. Here’s how the flights fell:

· Championship — Conor Lynam, 76/71, the class of the flight by two. Frank Sialiano (75/73) was 2nd — a busy day for him, between this and that qualifying team card — and the Silbers — Steven (80/74) and son Jordan (74/74) — shared 3rd. Note the man who signed for the day’s low gross: Sean McGarvey, a 72 off a plus-handicap card (net 77).
· A Flight — Feriz Kukaj, 77/68, the field low. John Calcaterra and Hollis Griffin tied at net 70, two back.
· B Flight — a dead heat at the top: Brian Fox (80/69) and Connor Tierney (79/69) shared low net at 69, the two of them a stroke clear of Tim Rotundo’s 70.
· C Flight — Seamus Garrity, 84/70, alone at the top, one ahead of a three-way tie at 71 (Floyd Abrams, Robert Jones, Joseph Sparta).
· D Flight — Patrick McCarthy, 87/71 — the other half of the winning team, taking his own flight on top of the trip. Will Poleway (92/72) was next.

As many as five teams Vegas-bound, a field-low 68 for Kukaj, a gross 72 for McGarvey, and a Fox–McCarthy pairing that gets to say they won a trip to Las Vegas at a golf tournament in Rockland County. Twelve of twenty-four events are in the books. On to the next one.

On a day built around teams, the best individual number belonged to Feriz Kukaj: A Flight, 77/68 — the lowest net in the entire field, clear of every flight. It wins him A Flight and Player of the Week in the same stroke.

PoW rule: best net across all flights for the tournament. Ties broken by going back to the #1 handicap hole and forward as needed.

Points golf came to Rotella, and for one day the scoreboard read a little differently. In Stableford you’re paid by the hole — eagle 5, birdie 3, par 2, bogey 1, blow-up 0 — and the biggest pile of points wins, net be damned. The biggest pile of all belonged to John Casey: 42 points (78/68), the highest total in any flight. It was also a day for the match of cards — four separate trophies came down to hole-by-hole tiebreakers, and one man landed on both ends of it.

Championship. Quinlan Hood and Kristian O’Grady tied at the top on 39 and — wouldn’t you know it — each signed for net 70. Back to the cards, and Hood’s came out on top (71/70 to O’Grady’s 74/70). Jarred Lauder and Steven Silber shared 3rd on 38, Darrin Sloan was next at 36, and Greg Zamalkany (35) edged in ahead of a Hegner–Sean McGarvey tie at 34.

A Flight. Chris Napolitano made it a non-issue — 41 points (77/68), clear of the field and enough to add Player of the Week to his afternoon (more below). Behind him, a three-way logjam at 38: Brian Bohlander, Jordan Covell and Feriz Kukaj, with William Geiger (37) a single point back.

B Flight. Casey’s 42 led the way, but club president Alan Jacobs kept it honest at 40 (and carried his card into the Gold pool — more below). John Bulger and Tim Rotundo tied for 3rd on 37, Brian Fox and John Mari a step back at 36.

C Flight. Paul Facciola topped it with 39 (83/69), four clear of a two-way tie at 35 between Joseph Sparta and Michael Zamalkany. Mary Corretjer and James Martello shared 4th on 34.

D Flight. The day’s other card-off. Will Poleway and Steve Stone both reached 40; Poleway’s card was the better one (89/68 to Stone’s 87/70), so Poleway takes the flight and Stone settles for 2nd — though Stone wasn’t finished yet. Jay Hood (39) and Thomas Bohlander (38) filled out the top four, with Patrick McCarthy (37) fifth.

Gold pool. Stone got his trophy after all. He and Alan Jacobs tied on 40, and this time Stone’s card won — Jacobs’ net 69 was a stroke better than Stone’s 70, but in Stableford it’s the points that count, and the cards broke Stone’s way.

Player of the Week. Three flight winners walked in at net 68: Napolitano (A), Casey (B) and Poleway (D). Back to the #1 handicap hole and forward, and Napolitano’s card prevailed — an A-Flight win and PoW in one afternoon.

Low-gross honors were shared: Hood and Sean McGarvey each toured Rotella in 71, the two lowest gross rounds of the day. Eleven of twenty-four events are in the books. On to the next one.

Three flight winners, one number at the bottom of the card: net 68.

Chris Napolitano (A, 77/68). John Casey (B, 78/68). Will Poleway (D, 89/68). Each had already locked up his own flight on the Stableford points — and each walked in at the same net number, so Player of the Week came down to the match of cards.

Back to the #1 handicap hole and forward, and Napolitano’s card came out on top. It caps a clean afternoon for him: the A-Flight win on a field-best-in-his-flight 41 points, and now the week’s biggest individual honor to go with it. Casey (whose 42 points were the day’s highest total anywhere) and Poleway settle for the flight trophies they’d already earned.

PoW rule: best net across all flights for the tournament. Ties broken by going back to the #1 handicap hole and forward as needed.

Some weekends the golf just feels bigger — and this one had a flag on it. Rotella hosted the Four-Man Best Ball over the weekend the country turned 250 years old: the semiquincentennial, Independence Day, stars and stripes on every mailbox from here to Stony Point. The field apparently decided the fireworks ought to start early — and on the scorecard.

Nobody lit a bigger one than Sean McGarvey. On America’s 250th birthday weekend he declared his own independence from par: a gross 62, the lowest round we’ve recorded all season — clear of his own 66 from Memorial Day. On a plus-handicap card it netted 65 and 2nd in Championship, but the number they’ll be toasting at the bar is that 62. Star-spangled stuff.

If McGarvey brought the rockets, Anthony Cannella brought the whole show. His 66/62 was the lowest net in the entire field — Championship win and Player of the Week — and then he anchored the winning four-man team alongside Nick King, Rocco Cannella and Anthony Cannella Jr. A Cannella on the individual trophy and three more on the team trophy: a proper founding-family weekend.

The team race, fittingly, came down to a standoff. Two teams tied at team net 58 — the Cannella/King four and the Silbers — Steven and his son Jordan — with Mike Negri and Frank Sialiano. Neither side blinked, so it went to a match of cards — and it took a second playoff hole (#11) before the Cannella card finally raised the flag. $50 a man and bragging rights that’ll outlast the leftovers. Third went to the McGarvey / Ridge four at 59, a pair of teams tied at 61 right behind.

The round of the day for pure theater? Jordan Silber holed out for an eagle 2 on the opening par 4 — a deuce on a hole most of us are thrilled to par — and rode it to a gross 70 (net 69) and 3rd in Championship. One swing, one story he gets to tell forever.

Every man’s net still counted toward season points (scored at full handicap — the 70% is only for the team best-ball), so the flight boards stayed busy:
· Championship — Anthony Cannella, 66/62.
· A Flight — Jordan Covell, 77/68. The Covell machine does not observe holidays — he cleared a three-way tie at net 70 (Brian McGarvey, Stephen Kral, Brian Bohlander).
· B Flight — Jan Lepic, 80/69, one clear of Alan Jacobs and Connor Tierney.
· C Flight — Joe Galvin, 80/66 — two clear of the flight and the lowest net anywhere outside the Championship flight, a win that finally lifts him to the top of the C-Flight standings, out from behind Joseph Sparta.
· D Flight — Anton Voltchok, 88/68, four clear of the D field.

And a note for the season race: club President Alan Jacobs quietly took over the top of B, while Brian McGarvey holds A — a McGarvey atop a flight and a McGarvey atop the low-gross board on the same weekend. Ten of twenty-four events down. Happy 250th, America — the golf showed up dressed for the occasion. On to the next one.

On the weekend the country turned 250, the lowest number in the field belonged to Anthony Cannella.

Championship, 66/62 — the lowest net anywhere on the property. It wins Championship and Player of the Week outright, no cards required — and he wasn’t finished, anchoring the winning four-man team on top of it.

For the record, Sean McGarvey owned the gross headlines with a 62 — the season’s low round — and Joe Galvin’s 66 in C was the lowest net outside the Championship flight.

PoW rule: best net across all flights for the tournament. Ties broken by going back to the #1 handicap hole and forward as needed.

No gimmicks this time — just the President’s Cup, straight 100% Singles net stroke play, six flights, $50 a flight and the Gold pool on the side. And one man left no doubt. Joe Galvin went out and shot 80/64, the lowest net in the entire field by three, to win C Flight and walk off with Player of the Week.

The rest of the board was a knife fight. Quinlan Hood won Championship at 69/68 — and that 69 was the low gross of the tournament — holding off Brian McGarvey Jr. and Steven Silber, tied a stroke back at 70. William Geiger took A Flight at net 67, two clear of a Calcaterra–Kukaj tie at 68.

B Flight needed the cards to settle it: John Bulger, Jordan Covell, and Alan Jacobs all posted net 67, and Bulger won the match of cards for the flight. Which leaves us with the day’s richest bit of irony: the one man in the entire field who could not win the President’s Cup was the actual club President. Alan Jacobs called the event, signed off on the format, and then watched the cards hand his own namesake trophy to someone else — proof that the gavel carries exactly zero authority once you reach the #1 handicap hole. There’s always next year, great round Mr. President! The day’s quirkiest finish came in D. Jim Barton’s net 67 was the low number in the flight — but it won him the Gold pool (again on a card-off, this time over Jacobs), so the D Flight prize slid to Anton Voltchok, who edged a three-way logjam at 69 with Kevin Dowd and Will Poleway.

As always, every net fed the season-long points race toward the North Rockland Cup and Challenge Cup. Barton’s 67 still banks him first-place D points for the year, Galvin’s win pulls him to within a whisker of Joseph Sparta atop C, and Steven Silber stretched his Championship lead. Nine of twenty-four events down — and the flights are only getting tighter.

Joe Galvin — C Flight, 80/64 — posted the lowest net in the field, three clear of the nearest number anywhere on the property. It wins him C Flight and Player of the Week in one swing.

PoW rule: best net across all flights for the tournament. Ties broken by going back to the #1 handicap hole and forward as needed.

For one weekend a year, Haverstraw borrows a little major-championship gravity. While Wyndham Clark ground out a wire-to-wire U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills, our field played its own version — the Pair-with-a-Pro tournament, where your net plus a real U.S. Open pro’s Sunday score makes your total, and the lowest in each flight wins.

And this year one pro tilted the whole board: Peter Uihlein’s closing 66 was the lowest Sunday round of anyone we’d handed out, and it turned into a golden ticket. Both members who drew him won their flights — Joseph Sparta (C Flight, net 72 + 66 = 138, the lowest total in the entire field) and Christopher Napolitano (A Flight, 73 + 66 = 139).

The rest of the flags got planted around them. Sean McGarvey won Championship at 142 — the hard way, too, since his pro Maverick McNealy handed him only a 73; McGarvey carried that pairing himself. And in a nice bit of family business, his father Brian McGarvey took B Flight at 141 (net 74 + Ben James’s 67). Will Poleway won D at 141, and in the Gold pairing Matt Burgay edged it at 142 on that same Ben James 67. The draw giveth and the draw taketh away — just ask anyone who pulled William Mouw’s 80.

As we do at every event, each member’s net score was also ranked for season points — the running tally that builds toward the year-end interclub matches, the North Rockland Cup and Challenge Cup. One number towered over the net board: John Aiello’s 76/67, the lowest net in the entire field, which earned him Player of the Week. Sean McGarvey posted the day’s low gross (a 68 on a plus-handicap card, net 69), and Steven Silber’s net 72 nudged him to the top of the Championship season-points standings.

One event, plenty of stories: a pro on your card, a flag in every flight, a McGarvey or two on the trophy board, and a fresh batch of season points headed toward the Cups. Eight of twenty-four events down — and somewhere, Peter Uihlein has no idea he just won Haverstraw two flights.

No pro’s Sunday score required. John Aiello — A Flight, 76/67 — carded the lowest net in the entire field, clear of everyone in every flight. It wins him A Flight and Player of the Week in the same stroke.

PoW rule: best net across all flights for the tournament. Ties broken by going back to the #1 handicap hole and forward as needed.

The name says it all — no team gimmicks, no alternate holes, no asterisks, just eighteen holes and a scorecard. There was, however, one complication: the Knicks won the NBA championship the night before the Sunday wave teed off. So a good chunk of the field rolled up Sunday morning running on zero sleep, a wrecked voice, and the lingering glow of an all-night celebration. “Just Golf” quietly became “just try to keep your eyes open.” Somehow, a few of them still went low.

None lower than Joseph Sparta, who posted the round of the day — an 80/66 to win C Flight and walk off with Player of the Week. After sitting out Bones, he didn’t just rejoin the C-Flight race; he took back the top of it.

Behind Sparta’s 66, the other four flight winners packed into a tight three-shot window — net 68 to 70.

Championship went to Steven Silber (77/68), a stroke clear of Ryan Siuta’s even-par 70 for net 69. A Flight came down to a match of cards: John Calcaterra and Mike Zacchio both signed for net 70, and Calcaterra (78/70) had the better card. And here’s the kicker — by his own admission Calcaterra was up half the night watching the Knicks lift the trophy, then dragged himself to the first tee on fumes and won his flight anyway. Some guys handle a championship hangover better than others. In B Flight, the Jordan Covell machine rolled on — 78/68 for his third win of the season, stretching the biggest single-flight lead in the club.

D Flight gave us the day’s best traffic jam. Angelo Balassone (86/69) won it, with a three-way tie at net 70 right behind — Vincent Gamboli, Steve Weiss, and Steve Stone, a brand-new member who picked an excellent week to introduce himself. Welcome aboard; that’ll be 40 points, please.

Over in the Gold pool, Robert Salemo took it at net 69 — the same number that earned him 2nd in C Flight on the day.

And a word for Mike Zacchio, 2nd in A Flight (79/70): not a new face at all, but a longtime member back in the mix after knee surgery. The knee, for the record, appears to be working just fine.

Seven of twenty-four events down. The flights are separating, a few names are running away with their races, and the Knicks are champions — not a bad weekend. On to the next one.

On a day when the whole field seemed to find net 68, one man went one better.

Joseph Sparta — C Flight, 80/66. The lowest net in the entire field, clear of the pack by a full stroke. No playoff, no match of cards, no drama required.

It’s his second Player of the Week of the season, and it comes with a bonus: the win rockets him back to the top of the C-Flight standings, a spot he’d ceded to Floyd Abrams while sitting out the Bones Jones Memorial. Lesson learned — don’t give Sparta a reason to come back hungry.

PoW rule: best net across all flights for the tournament. Ties broken by going back to the #1 handicap hole and forward as needed.

Somebody upstairs pulled a few strings. A couple of weeks after the Two-Man weekend tried to freeze us all into lawn ornaments, the Bones Jones weekend rolled in absolutely gorgeous — all three days of it — blue skies, soft breezes, the kind of weather that reminds you why you fell for this game in the first place. Call it coincidence if you must, but on the one weekend the club plays in Charlie “Bones” Jones’ honor, the sky showed up in its Sunday best. We’d like to think the old boy was leaning over a cloud, took one look at the forecast, and waved the gray stuff off with a grin: not on my weekend, fellas.

And the course was dressed for the occasion too. Take a bow, superintendent Chris Dyroff and the grounds crew — Rotella was immaculate: fairways like carpet, greens rolling pure, and scoring conditions so generous that par itself was in danger. Thanks, Bones. Thanks, Chris.

And sure enough, par took the hit: Sean McGarvey went out and carded a 66 gross — six under, the low round of the tournament. But on this particular weekend, the number everyone will remember wasn’t 66. It was 68.

The Bones Jones Memorial is the club’s biggest single-day payout — $200 / $150 / $50 to the three lowest nets in the entire field, flights be damned. And this year it came down to a match of cards, because three men signed for net 68: Sean McGarvey (Champ, 66/68), Jarred Lauder (A, 72/68), and Brian McGarvey Sr. (B, 76/68). Two McGarveys and a Lauder — sounds like a law firm, played like one too. (For the record, a third McGarvey, Brian Jr., posted 74/70 up in Championship. Three McGarveys on one property; the tee sheet has filed for hazard pay.)

On a three-day event there’s no marching back out for a playoff — the tie goes to the cards, comparing scores at the #1 handicap hole (Hole 6) and working forward. McGarvey’s card was best there, and that was that: $200 and Player of the Week, thank you and good night. At the next hole (#4), Lauder’s card edged Brian McGarvey Sr. for 2nd and $150; McGarvey Sr. settled for 3rd and $50. Spare a thought for John Facciola (A, 78/69), who missed the entire party by a single stroke at net 69. One shot. He will be reminded of this often, and lovingly.

And here’s the kicker: each of the three money men also won his own flight. Efficient work, gentlemen.

Championship was Sean McGarvey’s 68, clear of a net-70 tie between Brian McGarvey Jr. and Greg Zamalkany. A Flight went to Lauder, with Facciola a heartbeat behind. B Flight belonged to Brian McGarvey Sr. (68), trailed by James Ridge (72) and Tim Rotundo (73).

C Flight was the heist of the day. With points leader Joseph Sparta taking the week off, the vault was left unguarded — and Andrew Salemo (86/72) strolled right in, holding off Paul Facciola (85/73) and Floyd Abrams (90/76). Abrams’ 40 points were enough to quietly swipe the top of the C standings while Sparta’s back was turned. He’ll want to read this paragraph twice.

D Flight was a wire-to-wire clinic from Sean McLaughlin (85/70), with Patrick McCarthy (86/71) shadowing him the whole way. Behind them, gridlock: Jack Porette and Joe Savignano jammed at 77, and a six-deep pileup at net 78 — Balassone, Barton, T. Bohlander, Goggin, Nguyen, and Poleway, 17.5 points apiece. Parking was a nightmare.

Six of twenty-four events in the books, the leaderboards are bunching up, and the weather’s officially forgiven for May. On to the next one — and thanks again, Bones. We owe you one.

One number sat at the bottom of three different scorecards: net 68.

Sean McGarvey (Champ, 66/68). Jarred Lauder (A, 72/68). Brian McGarvey Sr. (B, 76/68). On the club’s biggest stage of the year, the three lowest nets in the entire field were separated by nothing at all.

On a three-day event, you don’t replay it — you settle it on the cards. The tiebreaker compares scores at the #1 handicap hole (Hole 6) and works forward, and McGarvey’s card was best. That earned him the $200 top prize and Player of the Week; Lauder’s card took $150, McGarvey Sr. $50.

Sean’s 66 gross on a plus-handicap card was the low gross of the tournament, too — six under par on a day the course was giving. A clean afternoon’s work.

PoW rule: best net across all flights for the tournament. Ties broken by going back to the #1 handicap hole and forward as needed.

First, the weather — because a few of these scorecards deserve an asterisk shaped like a snowflake. Saturday was freezing cold and howling: the kind of wind that adds two clubs to every shot and removes all feeling from your hands somewhere around the 3rd tee. Pars felt like birdies, putts broke uphill, and keeping the ball on the property counted as a quality swing. If you drew a Friday or Sunday tee time, congratulations — you won the only lottery that mattered this weekend, and you owe the Saturday crew a beer (and maybe a space blanket). For everyone who toughed it out Saturday: that wasn’t a round, it was a survival story — go ahead and count every number on your card as worth double.

Now, the golf.

Five teams walked in tied at net 73. Five. In an alternate-hole format that punishes every loose swing, half the field still bunched at the top, and the only way out was a playoff.

Jordan and Steven Silber came out of it as team champions, sealing it on the second extra hole on a match of cards — $75 each in pro-shop credit. Conor Lynam and Feriz Kukaj went the distance for 2nd ($50 each) — their card didn’t settle until the fifth playoff hole. The other three teams in the pileup — Ryan & Michael Siuta, Anthony Cannella JR & Rocco Cannella, and James Ridge & Brian McGarvey — all carded 73 and simply ran out of playoff holes.

On the individual boards, the flight races stayed just as tight.

Darrin Sloan posted the low gross of the tournament — 73 — and a net 71 to win Championship outright. Michael Manera matched that net 71 to take D Flight wire-to-wire.

The day’s lowest net was 69, and three players got there: Mike Negri (A, 77/69), Feriz Kukaj (A, 79/69), and Jordan Covell (B, 80/69). Negri and Kukaj split A Flight at the top (T-1, 47.5 each); Covell took B Flight on his own. The PoW tie went to a playoff — see the separate write-up.

C Flight needed a calculator. Jake Rotundo, Floyd Abrams, and Chuck Barker all signed for net 72, a clean three-way share of 1st at 45 points apiece.

A few more lines off the boards:
· Champ T-2: a five-deep knot at net 75 — Ryan Siuta, Anthony Pisciotta, Rocco Cannella, Ken Confrey, and Greg Zamalkany, 35 each.
· B Flight 2nd: Brian McGarvey and Andrew Howard, both 72 net.
· Welcome aboard: new members Avery Hood (T-3 in A at net 75), Justin Ottman (D), and the returning Jason Lieberman (Championship) all got into the mix.

Five of twenty-four events complete. Bones Jones Memorial is next — and after Saturday, everyone’s hoping for a calmer forecast.

Three players, three flights’ worth of grit, one number at the bottom of the card: net 69.

Mike Negri (A, 77/69). Feriz Kukaj (A, 79/69). Jordan Covell (B, 80/69). On a weekend where the wind made 69 feel like something closer to 60, all three found it.

The Player of the Week tie went to sudden death, and it ran four holes deep before it broke. On the 4th extra hole — the 16th — Negri made par, and that was the cleanest answer anyone could give.

Three terrific cards in nasty conditions. One trophy. Negri’s your Player of the Week.

PoW rule: best net across all flights for the tournament. Ties broken by going back to the #1 handicap hole and forward as needed.

Some weekends the course gives nothing back. This one gave plenty.

Mark Dowen walked off 18 with a number nobody else came within five strokes of. 94/61. Twenty-nine point nine handicap, gross 94, net sixty-one. The next-best score on the day was Jim Barton’s 66 from the gold tees. Five strokes clear. The PoW vote took about a second.

And that wasn’t even the wildest card of the day.

In Championship, Sean McGarvey shot a 66. Six under par, gross, full conditions, no asterisks. With his plus-handicap card his net rounded to 67 — second-lowest of the day — but the gross is what people will remember. It’s the lowest gross at HGC this season and quite possibly the round of the year. McGarvey doesn’t talk much. The card spoke plenty.

The match-of-cards stayed busy. Down in B Flight, Brian McGarvey (father of Champ-flight Sean, who carded the day’s 66) shot 79/68. So did James Ridge. Hole-by-hole on the cards, McGarvey had the edge. Solo 1st by the slimmest of margins.

Three-way tie at net 78 in B for the next bracket — Clochessy, Jacobs, and Maltbie split T-3 at 35 points each.

Joseph Sparta keeps writing the same story. C Flight, 82/67, wire-to-wire win, his second of the season. He’s now sitting on 172.5 season points in C — a 50-point lead over Joe Galvin in second. The C Flight race that was a three-way tie last week is no longer a race.

And in A Flight, Christopher Napolitano finally cashed in. After three top-5 finishes to start the year, he posted 78/68 for his first outright A win of the season. He now leads Lauder by 30 points.

The Gold pool was a tight 4-player field with a familiar storyline:
· Jim Barton — 92/66 (Gold winner; solo 2nd in D Flight)
· Jack Porette — 93/72 (5th in D)
· Matt Burgay — 103/79 (7th in D)
· Stephen Hittman (walk-up) — 110/91

Around the rest of the boards:
· A Flight T-7: Carr, Casey, and Lepic all at 87 (or 85) gross / 77 net — 15 points each.
· D Flight depth: Vincent Gamboli (89/68) finished 3rd; Doug Nguyen (94/70) 4th.
· C Flight: Robert Jones (91/74) and Jack Vasquez (91/75) rounded out the top three behind Sparta.

Four of twenty-four events complete. Spring is finished. On to June.

Some weeks you grind. This week, Mark Dowen flew.

94 gross. 33 strokes. Net 61. Eleven under par on his net card. The kind of round where you stop counting and start hoping the scorecard doesn’t evaporate before you turn it in.

How clean was it? The next-best net of the entire tournament was Jim Barton’s 66 in the Gold pool — five strokes back. After that, four players tied at net 67 (Joseph Sparta and Sean McGarvey leading them). Net 68 had another seven players. Dowen was on his own at 61, in a tier nobody else reached today.

D Flight win, going away. Player of the Week, going away. Sometimes the math just works.

PoW rule: best net across all flights for the tournament. Ties broken by going back to the #1 handicap hole and forward as needed.

Some weeks the wind talks. This one whispered.

Jarred Lauder shot the round of his life. Even par. Seventy-two. No asterisks, no give-me putts, no friendly bounces — just 72 honest strokes around Rotella. The man fixes pipes for a living, and on Sunday he drained every one of them — not a single putt leaked all afternoon. His best round ever at HGC and the kind of card you keep in a drawer. Net? 64. A Flight win and the lowest gross of the day all at once.

Plot twist: he had to share the net 64.

All the way down in D Flight, Steve Weiss walked in with a 99/64. Same net, four flights apart. Weiss took D, no argument. But Player of the Week only fits one trophy on the mantle. The tiebreaker rule: match-of-cards. Hole by hole, allocation in hand, the officials worked it out. Lauder's card had the edge. PoW is his. Weiss took D Flight and a story he'll tell for the rest of the season.

And Lauder's wasn't even the only tie of the day.

In Championship, four players all walked off the 18th green with the same number: net 74. Anthony Cannella (78/74), Steven Hegner (81/74), Anthony Pisciotta (80/74), and Darrin Sloan (77/74). No 3-hole playoff this time — back to the cards. Sloan had the better scorecard count, and the trophy is his.

The Jordan Covell train keeps rolling. Three events in 2026, three top finishes. 83/72 for the B Flight win, his second outright victory of the season. He now sits on 145 points — 60 points clear of second in B and the highest single-flight total in the entire club. He's not playing the same game as the rest of B Flight right now.

Joseph Sparta ran away with C at 83/68, the best net of the tournament across all flights below Champ. He, Joe Galvin, and Floyd Abrams are now in a three-way tie at the top of C-Flight standings — Sparta and Galvin at 122.5, Abrams at 120. Closest battle in the club.

Around the rest of the day:
· D Flight: Weiss's 64 led; Jack Porette took the Gold pool prize (93/72) and finished 2nd in D. Thomas Bohlander, Anton Voltchok, and a host of others packed the top.
· Gold pool: 9 entries. Porette took the prize.
· A Flight depth: Richard Stpierre (78/69) and John J Calcaterra (77/70) right behind Lauder.
· B Flight runner-up: Seamus Garrity at 87/74, 2nd in B.

The weather held, the greens were honest, and a few unlikely names slipped onto the scorecards. On to the next one.

Two players. Four flights apart. The same number at the bottom of the card.

Jarred Lauder in A Flight: 72/64. Even par. The lowest gross of the day, and his best round ever at HGC. The kind of card members frame.

Steve Weiss in D Flight: 99/64. Different game, same net. The kind of high-handicap heater that wins tournaments.

Both took their respective flight wins. PoW only goes to one. Tiebreaker rule for PoW skips the hardest hole and goes straight to match-of-cards — comparing hole-by-hole scores under handicap allocation. Lauder's card had the edge.

Lauder is your PoW. Weiss took D Flight and a story.

PoW rule: best net across all flights for the tournament. Ties broken by match-of-cards (hole-by-hole comparison under handicap allocation).

Some weekends the course gives nothing back. This was not one of those weekends.

Kristian O'Grady and John Casey did the thing every two-man partner dreams about: low score every hole, team net 61. $75 each in pro shop credit and the kind of result that holds up at the bar all summer.

Two teams tied behind them at 62. The Cannella tandem — Rocco and Anthony Cannella JR — won 2nd via match-of-cards over Mike Negri & Anthony Pisciotta. The card said Cannellas.

Three players carded the tournament's lowest individual net of 66:
· Kristian O'Grady — 69/66
· Jarred Lauder — 74/66 (A Flight)
· Mike Negri — 75/66 (A Flight)

Three-way tie, Player of the Week tiebreaker triggered, back to the #1 handicap hole. Negri birdied it. PoW is his.

And Kristian O'Grady's 69/66 deserves its own line. We checked: it's his first sub-70 round in HGC history. The man shot 69 and then won a team event. Some weeks you should just buy lottery tickets.

Two stories worth their own paragraph:

Jordan Covell is having a moment. Two events, two top-2 finishes, sitting on 95 season points — the highest single-flight total in the entire club. Through seven weeks of golf, he's been the most consistent player in the building regardless of flight. B Flight has a Player of the Season frontrunner already.

Mary Corretjer's C Flight debut. First event in her new flight assignment, opens with 86/72 to win it outright. Her net 72 was 3 strokes clear of the rest of the flight. Some debuts speak for themselves.

Around the rest of the flights:
· Champ: O'Grady's 66 won it. Anthony Cannella JR and Anthony Pisciotta tied for 2nd at 71.
· A: T-1st Lauder & Negri (66). A five-way logjam at net 73 — Aiello, Napolitano, Facciola, Fox, Griffin.
· D: Doug Nguyen 96/72, no drama. Phil Quinn & Jack Porette tied for third at 81.

130 golfers on the boards. Standings are tight. On to the next one.

Three players walked in with the same number at the bottom of the card: net 66.

Kristian O'Grady (Champ, 69/66 — his first sub-70 ever at HGC). Jarred Lauder (A, 74/66 — a clean low round). Mike Negri (A, 75/66 — the loud one).

Tiebreaker rule sends it back to the #1 handicap hole. The #1 handicap at Rotella is Hole 6 — the one most members bogey and move on. Negri made birdie. Cleanest possible answer to a three-way tie.

Three excellent scores. One trophy. Take that, #6.

PoW rule: best net across all flights for the weekend. Ties broken by going back to the #1 handicap hole and forward as needed.

First event of the season is in the books. Anthony Cannella led wire-to-wire in Championship at 78/74. James Monte matched the 78 gross in A Flight and netted 71 for the win — also picking up Golfer of the Week. Tim Rotundo took B Flight at 82/71. C Flight produced co-champions: Joe Galvin and Floyd Abrams both at net 73, sharing the place-1 points. Galvin took the regular C-flight prize while Abrams (G) collected the Gold pool prize. Sean McLaughlin closed it out in D Flight with another 73 net. 76 members posted scores on a soft course.