Category Archives: Golf Culture

Indoor Golf: 5 Places to Play Around Boston

Indoor Golf: 5 Places to Play Around Boston
Boston has experienced the worst winter in history in 2015. As a result, the golf market has suffered given its non-existence with so much snow on the ground. Over the last couple weeks our team has been getting the itch to swing a club so we decided to explore indoor golf opportunities in and around...
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Club Golf Academy: The Provisional Ball

Club Golf Academy: The Provisional Ball

Each week, I will cover a rule that frequently comes into question during amateur golf tournaments. This weekly Club Golf Academy segment will be covering rules that I believe all NCCGA players should know and understand.

Why play a provisional ball? 

This week’s USGA Rule of the Week is Rule 27; concerning provisional balls. A provisional...

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Chip In For Chad and Help a PGA Pro Get Back on Course

Chip In For Chad and Help a PGA Pro Get Back on Course
On July 9, Chad Dailey, the Associate Golf Professional at the Bayside Golf Resort, sustained a serious brain injury while conducting a children's golf clinic. After hospitalization and numerous tests, the doctors are still at a loss to determine the reason for Chad's continuing seizures and his prognosis is uncertain. For the foreseeable future, Chad...
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#GolfStache Power Rankings

#GolfStache Power Rankings
In partnership with the Testicular Cancer Foundation, Nextgengolf and the NCCGA will donate $1 for every tweet or Instagram post with the hashtag #GolfStache. Testicular cancer is a curable disease and is the most common cancer among men ages 15 to 35. With the NCCGA Fall 2014 National Championship just 10 days away, the anticipation of who...
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Francis Ouimet: America’s First Golfing Hero, Part 5

Francis Ouimet: America’s First Golfing Hero, Part 5
With a miniature American flag placed on his bag of clubs, Francis made his way around the hallowed fairways of the Country Club like the general of an army. From the outset of the 18-hole playoff at the 1913 U.S. Open, there was no question that Boston's boy would take home the title. Francis maintained...
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#GolfStache Power Rankings

#GolfStache Power Rankings
In partnership with the Testicular Cancer Foundation, Nextgengolf and the NCCGA will donate $1 for every tweet or Instagram post with the hashtag #GolfStache. Testicular cancer is a curable disease and is the most common cancer among men ages 15 to 35. There's now just one week remaining in the NCCGA fall 2014 regular season, and 22...
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Francis Ouimet: America’s Golfing Hero, Part 4

Francis Ouimet: America’s Golfing Hero, Part 4
The big news of the second round was not Francis Ouimet, Harry Vardon, or any of the American players. Instead, over 6,000 folks surrounded one big, burly, long-hitting giant named Ted Ray who broke the Country Club's then scoring record of 71 with a 70 in U.S. Open conditions.  Read more

#GolfStache Power Rankings

#GolfStache Power Rankings
In partnership with the Testicular Cancer Foundation, Nextgengolf and the NCCGA will donate $1 for every tweet or Instagram post with the hashtag #GolfStache. Testicular cancer is a curable disease and is the most common cancer among men ages 15 to 35. As the NCCGA Fall 2014 National Championship picture starts to develop, so do many mustaches...
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Francis Ouimet: America’s First Golfing Hero, Part 3

Francis Ouimet: America’s First Golfing Hero, Part 3
Francis Ouimet had to earn his way by qualifying for the US Open at the The Brookline Country Club, a devilish test of a course that then measured 6,200 yards with undulating, small greens. In the early 1900's, golfers did not routinely break par as they do today. It therefore came as a surprise when...
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