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Gil Hanse's team completed renovation on the 12th and 13th holes at TPC Boston in 2017, completing a 10-plus-year project in which Hanse's team attempted to reestablish a New England-type style to the course. The course, which sits about 45 minutes from downtown Boston, was the longtime host of a FedEx Cup Playoff event on the PGA Tour.

Best in State: Ranked 10th, 2011-'12, 2015-'18. Ranked 11th, 2013-'14, 2023-'24. Ranked 13th, 2019-'20. Ranked 14th, 2021-'22. Ranked inside the top 15, 2009.

Current ranking: 11th.

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“TPC is a bit of a bipolar course - one part Arnold Palmer championship course designed to host PGA tournaments and one part more whimsical, fun Gil Hanse redesign. Between the two designers, the course still plays more on the challenging side that demands particular shots in certain places and doesn't necessarily have the start to finish shot options of some other Hanse renovations of classic, golden era courses. However, the new 17th hole is a particular stand out. Definitely worth playing if you are invited; probably not worth a dedicated trip just to see and play."

“TPC Boston is a long and demanding course from the back tees, with a variety of long/short par 3s and 4s. Scoreable par 5s with some forced carries. Great conditions with firm and fast greens. The new 12th hole adds challenge and design variety (played in 2018 before the redesign and again 2021 & 2023 after). Great to play a New England course that has hosted the PGA Tour's best. Very playable from the appropriate tees, and a great test of golf from the tips. Conditions and practice facilities will wow you."

“The changes to the course by Gil Hanse from the original Arnold Palmer design have really produced a solid championship, PGA tour course in the Boston area. While it is not like the classic design Hanse incorporated into nearby Boston Golf Club, it is an interesting take on a modern course with several looks of a classic course. While the course is not overly challenging, it is certainly not a pushover."

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The Amateur Golf Tour of New England (AGTNE) is the successor organization to both the Rhode Island and Massachusetts divisions of “The Boston Amateur Golf Society” (B.A.G.S.).  

Our mission is to provide an outlet for golfers of all abilities (for golfers that can keep pace) to participate in well-organized, regularly scheduled golf tournaments played on a wide variety of area courses, both public and private.  The Amateur Golf Tour of New England is a Non Real Estate golf club. We are committed to providing a high level of service and value and an experience that you the golfer deserves. All who play AGTNE tournament golf will apply all the rules of the game and standards of player conduct. About 80 events will be scheduled from early April to late October. Members may participate in as few or as many events as suit their schedule.

Here's what New Englanders thought about LIV Golf compared to the U.S. Open in Brookline

BOLTON — Two different tournaments. Two different vibes.

This year, Massachusetts hosted a pair of golf events that featured the top professional male players from around the world: The 122nd U.S. Open and fourth-ever LIV Golf Invitational .

The former took place from June 16-19 at The Country Club in Brookline while the latter wrapped up last week at The International in Bolton. Although golfers like Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau and Phil Mickelson played in both tournaments – the only other real similarity between the two events was that they both were played in the commonwealth.

“They’re just two different animals,” said Mark Barber, a former member at The International who lives in Millis.

“It’s night and day,” said Mike Proulx, a current member at The International who attended both the U.S. Open and LIV Golf Invitational.

What is LIV Golf?

LIV Golf is a new series that aims to “reinvigorate golf through a structure that adds value to the entire sport while helping to bring new audiences to the game” according to its website.

LIV Golf’s slogan is “golf, but louder” as it features music, players wearing shorts and a fan village with games, food trucks and entertainment for kids. 

“It was cool how they were playing music and stuff,” said Jack Fruh, a freshman golfer at Newburyport High. “(LIV is) more chill. I like to see the players be more comfortable.”

“The fan zone is a great experience,” Proulx said. “I love the music and it’s a really great atmosphere.”

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A few wrinkles to the LIV Golf format – as opposed to the U.S. Open – is it’s a 54-hole tournament that features a shotgun start (when all players tee off at the same time each day on different holes). The three-day tourney also boasts just 48 players (whereas the Open and PGA Tour host four-day events with usually 132 players or more) who are drafted into 12 different teams. The eight-event series includes $255 million for prize money for individual and team winners.  

“That was one of the coolest things I’ve ever been to,” said Logan Barber , a senior golfer at Millis High who attended the LIV Golf Invitational on Friday. “You can get a lot closer to the players, there was music playing, there was a band after and it’s much more interesting because it’s a team thing and you have to watch everything.”

What were the prices like for LIV Golf vs. U.S. Open?

Prices between the two events were pretty comparable for food and merchandise. The same can’t be said for tickets, though.  

LIV                                                      OPEN

                                Drinks

16 oz Bud light: $7                           Bud light: $10

12 oz water: $3                                Canned water: $3.50

Wine: $9                                          Canned wine: $12

                                Food                                                   

Hot dog: $5                                      Kayem All Beef Hot dog: $7

Cookies: $3                                      Cookie: $3.50

                              Merchandise

Hat: $39                                         Hat: $40

                               Tickets

$49 (kids under 15 free)                  $390 (kids under 12 free)

Comparing the two events (and its ticket prices), however, may not be fair. Especially given the novelty of LIV Golf and the longstanding popularity of the Open.  

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“It’s kind of apples and oranges,” said Proulx, who brought his 14-year-old son to both events. “(LIV) is a party and (the Open) is, I don’t know if serious is the right word, but it’s a different level.”

“It was still the Open,” said Logan Barber, who attended both golf events in Massachusetts this year. “So it was still fun.”

No matter the differences, players at both events still signed autographs, fans still cheered (and heckled) and a champion was still crowned.

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“It’s pretty cool seeing all the big names over here in our backyard like this,” said Hudson High senior Brendan O’Brien, who attended the LIV Golf event on Sunday. “Not many big events over here so to have (two) is pretty cool.”

LIV Golf has won some fans over, but not everybody

Following the final round on Sunday, the energy was palpable around the grounds of The International for the new golf tour, which is financed by the Public Investment Fund – the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia.

Fans stuck around to see Johnson win in dramatic fashion on the 18th green in a three-person playoff. The former No. 1 golfer in the world then sprayed champagne all over his teammates, who also won the LIV Golf team event, before world-famous DJ Diplo hosted an after-party.

“It’s more for fan experience,” said Logan Barber.

Some golf fans aren’t jumping on the LIV Golf bandwagon just yet, however. The new tour has created a bit of a divide with the PGA Tour – and golf fans and players across the world.

“I want to like (LIV),” Hopedale junior golfer Lucas Levasseur said, “I’m just a PGA guy.”

But with the PGA Tour not scheduled to come back to Massachusetts in 2023, would local golf fans head to Bolton to watch the LIV Golf Invitational next year?

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“One hundred percent,” O’Brien said.

Said Proulx: “I think they have a three-year contract, so as a member I can’t wait until they come back next year. To be able to bring my kids to this and it’s the access that’s the major difference from the Open. To bring my kids to the Open is trying to lift them up over people but (at LIV) you’re on the ropes and 10 feet away from some of the best players in the world.”

“It’s attracting a wider range of golfers and sports fans,” said Mark Barber, Logan’s father. “It was one of the better sporting events I’ve been to in a while. I rate it 10-out-of-10. I had a blast.”

Tommy Cassell is a senior multimedia journalist for the Daily News. He can be reached at [email protected] . Follow him on Twitter @tommycassell44 .

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Originally designed by legendary player/designer Arnold Palmer, TPC Boston’s award-winning layout was re-designed in 2007 by Gil Hanse , with PGA TOUR player Brad Faxon serving as a consultant. The result earned TPC Boston the “Best Private Remodel of 2007” honor by Golf Digest.

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Golf, Gover go Back-to-Back at MCLA Invitational

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.— For the second straight year the MCLA Golf team and Mat Gover walked away victorious at the MCLA Invitational capturing both the team and individual titles. The single-day tournament featured a six-team, thirty-player field and was held at the par 71 Waubeeka Golf Links in neighboring Williamstown.

Gover posted a new career best 4-under 67 earning the sophomore his second individual title of the season and leading the MCLA A team (415) to the championship. Teammates Cody White (74, +3) and Paul Roeder (83, +12) finished second and fifth place respectively.

In the team competition, Norwich University (334) finished second, Albertus Magnus (342) third, SUNY Poly (358) fourth, Westfield State (366) fifth and MCLA B (395) sixth.

Norwich sophomore Cooper Bertrand and Albertus Magnus senior Charles Kristofak (79, +8) finished tied for third.

The Trailblazers return to Williamstown this weekend as they'll compete in the two-round Williams Invitational at the Taconic Golf Club.

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TPC Boston Presents Unique Challenge For 113th Massachusetts Open Championship

NORTON, Massachusetts – When plans for building TPC Boston were released in 1999, the leader of Arnold Palmer’s design company Ed Seay said of the future course “you have to build ’em long for these young studs.”

That certainly holds true today. Set up at more than 7,200 yards from the tips, the course was built with championship golf in mind. And now for the first time, the Mass Open championship is set to take place at TPC Boston from June 12-14. The course, which will be set up at nearly 7,000 yards next week, has seen champions the likes of Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas, Steve Stricker, and many more in the 17 PGA Tour events it has hosted dating back to 2003. 

The entire field, consisting largely of club and mini-tour professionals plus local amateurs, will compete in 36-holes of stroke play over the first two days of competition, with the low 50 and ties advancing to the final 18-hole round of stroke play June 14.

“This is a nice tournament; we feel comfortable with tournament golf,” said Kyle Elliott , the golf course superintendent at TPC Boston. “It’s a cool event because it seems like everybody who knows about golf locally knows about it and is excited about it.”

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Elliott learned the insides and outs of the course from more than a decade working alongside longtime superintendent Tom Brodeur. Elliott said while the conditions have been dry due to minimal winter snow and spring rain, it’s playing firm and fast.

“It makes it fun to play,” Elliott said. “Our greens are tricky but they’re true. Guys are going to make a lot of putts. I don’t take that as an insult. I like to see good golfers make putts. When the pros are making putts, the greens are good.”

Because it’s designed for championship golf in mind, golfers will be faced with several risk-reward decisions, including the par-5 2nd with water along the right side that leaves the door open for reaching the green in two. Frankly, any hole could be a scoring hole or double digits. The rough and native areas can be penal, but they’re not jail. The length of its par-4s, including the 473-yard 14th — widely considered the club’s most difficult — will force many golfers to use mid-irons or more into the greens depending where they are.

Since 2007, Gil Hanse has been tasked with upgrading the course layout. Among the most recent changes was to the 12th. In addition to lengthening the hole and expanding the fairway (it’ll play as a 510-yard, par-5), the landing area was raised and the green was pushed back. Hanse also adjusted the 13th, tying in the left side and rebuilding the bunkers and greens.

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“We wanted to give the last seven holes more of a links feel where you see 2-3 holes at a time,” Elliott said. “It has more of a championship feel, instead of standard wood-lined hole after wood-lined hole.”

Based on years of watching the world’s best play the course, Elliott predicts, “A good golfer wants to be around 2-under thru 2.” But he acknowledges that golfers are likely to face their fair share of both trouble and lucky bounces out there.

“It has a really good way of bringing random into play,” Elliott said. “It’s something we’ve always wanted to accomplish from a maintenance standpoint.”

Over the years, TPC Boston saw plenty of final rounds that came down to the 18th hole and even beyond that on the final day. The same might go for this year’s Mass Open, as past four champions have won the title by exactly one stroke.

Last year, Florida native Michael Kartrude overcome a one-stroke deficit on the 18th to take home the title. The past two years has nearly seen an amateur prevail for the first time since Kevin Quinn in 1999. Massachusetts amateurs Matthew Naumec (GreatHorse) and Ethan Whitney (Oak Hill Country Club) both played in the final group last year, and Naumec held the lead on the 18th hole (54th of competition).

Kartrude will be back to defend his title this year and will be joined by fellow past champions Michael Marte l (2019), Jason Thresher (2016, 17, 18), Joe Harney (2015), Ian Thimble (2014), Kyle Gallo (2011), Jim Renner (2008), Fran Quinn (1990), and Andy Morse (1989, 1992). A Holden resident, Quinn played in the U.S. Open last year at age 57 and most recently played in the Mass Open two years ago. He still occasionally plays on the PGA Tour Champions. Renner, who played last year’s Mass Open, advanced to U.S. Open Final Qualifying, while Thresher has been in the mix in every Mass Open since first winning in 2016.

In addition to Naumec and Whitney, there will be plenty of young talent on display at the Mass Open. Vanderbilt commit Ryan Downes (GreatHorse) followed up last year’s runner-up performance in the Mass Amateur with a win in the Ouimet Memorial Tournament and this spring won the AJGA Justin Thomas Junior Championship. His future college teammate John Broderick (Dedham Country & Polo Club) is also in the field following up his Mass Junior Amateur victory last summer.

Rutgers’ Weston Jones (Charter Oak Country Club), who finished T12 last year, and Joey Lenane (George Wright Golf Course), a young phenom at North Carolina State, are also likely to bid for the title. Georgetown’s Jacob Finard (Pine Brook Country Club), St. Thomas Aquinas’ Nolan Skaggs (Plymouth Country Club) and USC graduate Jack Boulger (TPC Boston) also placed in the top 20 last year. The youngest player in the field is 16-year-old Matthew Olivera , who at 14 became the youngest-ever men’s club champion at Country Club of New Bedford. This fall, he lead Bishop Stang’s boys golf team to an MIAA Division 2 state title.

Young professionals Peter French (Maplegate Country Club) and Brendan Hunter (Red Tail Golf Club) had strong finishes last year, placing 7th and T12, respectively. They’ll be joined by mini tour players from all over, including Joey Lane and Brandon Berry, both from Great Falls, Virginia. Berry earned his first two pro wins earlier this winter.

The field will also feature several area golf professionals such as TPC Boston’s Don Baldassare , Christopher Tallman (GreatHorse); Thomas Sennett (Country Club of Pittsfield), and Fran Dully II , who has served as Kernwood Country Club’s head professional for the past 26 years and played in the first two rounds of the 2006 Deutsche Bank Classic at TPC Boston. Tallman recently played in U.S. Open Final Qualifying, while Sennett was the Assistant Pro of the Year for the Northeastern New York PGA.

Aside from offering live scoring updates on its website, Mass Golf will provide Mass Open updates via its social media outlets as well as photos of the competitors. Follow @PlayMassGolf on Twitter and Instagram and use the hashtag #MassOpen when posting.

The Mass Open is open to all media. For more information, contact Steve Derderian, Mass Golf Manager of Communications at 774-265-9130 or via email at [email protected].

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TPC Boston will be set up at approximately 6,992 yards and will play to a par of 36-36–-72.

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PLAYER NOTES

A collection of notable players in the 2023 Mass Open:

a-JACK BOULGER, 23, a Walpole native and member of both TPC Boston and Walpole Country Club, recently graduated from University of Southern California. He finished in the top 20 in the past two Mass Open championships (11th, 2011; 17th 2022) and placed fourth in the 2022 Porter Cup, an elite amateur event in Niagara Falls. He will hit the first tee shot from Hole 1 on Monday.

FRAN QUINN , 58, a Holden resident and member of Worcester Country Club, is coming off a historic 2022 season when he qualified for the U.S. Open at The Country Club. Quinn still plays in PGA Tour Champions events, competing last weekend in the Principal Charity Classic in Iowa. Quinn won the 1990 Mass Open at Vesper Country Club.

JIM RENNER , 38, of Wrentham,  won the Mass Open at Stockbridge Golf Club in 2008. He tallied the best finish of his touring career by placing T2 at the 2014 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. This year, he played in U.S. Open Final Qualifying in New Jersey.

MICHAEL KARTRUDE, 33, of West Palm Beach, Florida, won the Mass Open by one stroke last year and will look to become the first person since Jason Thresher (2017, 2018) to win consecutive titles. In last year’s championship he tied the course record with an opening-round 64 at Longmeadow Country Club.

a-MATTHEW NAUMEC, 26, a Wilbraham native and member at GreatHorse, returned to the Mass Open last year, playing in the final group and finishing as the low amateur with scores of 65-67-69–201. Naumec, who regained his amateur status last year, made it to the quarterfinals of the 2022 Mass Amateur Championship.

MORGAN EGLOFF, 26, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, is a Division II Rollins College graduate and Maryland state amateur champion who has attracted a decent-sized following on social media. Egloff will try to to follow in his uncle’s footsteps. Back in 2005, Eric Egloff won the Mass Open at Vesper Country Club, prevailing in a 6-hole playoff.

RICH BERBERIAN ,  32, a Hooksett, New Hampshire, resident and a member of Vesper Country Club,  has won three NEPGA events this year including the opening 6,6,6 Format Tournament with James Scales at TPC Boston. Berberian has finished inside the top 25 in his last two Mass Open appearances (2019, 2021). His caddy will be Nik Kroisi, who caddied for Zac Blair when The Northern Trust was played at TPC Boston in 2020.

a-RYAN DOWNES, 17, a Longmeadow native and member at GreatHorse, is coming off a signature 2022 season. Downes, a Vanderbilt University commit, won the Ouimet Memorial Tournament and played in the final match of the Mass Amateur Championship, becoming the youngest player to do so. In April he won the AJGA Justin Thomas Junior Championship in Goshen, Kentucky.

a-JOSEPH LENANE , 19, a Dedham native and member at George Wright Golf Course,  earned a spot in the starting lineup in his first year at North Carolina State. He made his Mass Open debut last year, shooting 1-under 69 in the opening round and finishing 38th.

FRANK DULLY II, 56, a Salem native and head golf professional at Kernwood Country Club, will make his 30th appearance all-time in the Mass Open. Dully played in the first two rounds of the 2006 Deutsche Bank Classic at TPC Boston, won by Tiger Woods. Dully, who has served as Kernwood’s head pro for over 25 years, has played in the last seven Mass Open championships. His son, Sean Dully, will also compete.

JASON THRESHER, 34, of West Suffield, Connecticut, won three consecutive Mass Open titles between 2016 and 2018. Since then he has finished in the top 11 each of the past three championships, included a T2 finish in 2021 at Oak Hill. He also won the Western Mass Open last year.

a-ETHAN WHITNEY, 20, a Westminster native and member of Oak Hill Country Club , matched the course record of 64 at Longmeadow Country Club in the first round of last year’s Mass Open. Playing in the final group, Whitney finished fourth overall, his best-ever finish in the event. The rising junior at Temple University also made it into the Round of 16 at the Mass Amateur Championship, later caddying for eventual champion Conner Willett.

a-CONNER WILLETT, 20, a Wellesley native and member of Charles River Country Club, captured an emotional victory in the 2022 Massachusetts Amateur Championship, just days after his father passed away unexpectedly. A rising junior at Georgetown, Willett caddied for Whitney in last year’s Mass Open.

MIKE VAN SICKLE , 36, a professional golf instructor from Wexford, Pennsylvania, has finished in the top 20 of the Mass Open each of the past three years. Last year was his best finish (T5) as he tied the course record of 6-under 64 in the final round. Known for his colorful pants, Van Sickle placed T15 in 2021 at Oak Hill that included a round of 66. He also played in U.S. Open Final Qualifying this week.

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