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Article: Tourney leaving Fox Ridge Maine Open will merge and relocate to Riverside
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- Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
- Article date:
- January 28, 2009
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AUBURN - The Maine Open, one of the larger golf tournaments in
New England and the crown jewel on the golf schedule at Fox Ridge
Golf Club in Auburn, will merge with another tournament and relocate
to Riverside Municipal Golf Course in Portland, effective this year.
"It's purely an economically driven decision," Maine State Golf
Association Executive Director Nancy Storey said. "We really want to
stress how Fox Ridge is definitely a quality golf course, and a true
championship golf course, and how much we enjoyed being there. We
love it, and we're going to work to get the Maine Amateur there as
soon as we can."
The Maine Open, sponsored every year by Charlie's Motor Mall in
Augusta, will ...