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Article: Exciting times at South Shore Country Club
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- September 28, 2009
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SOUTH SHORE GOLF NOTES
Some golf courses balk at hosting outside tournaments, lest they
interfere with member play or cause them to lose valuable weekend
tee times. Hingham's South Shore Country Club, however, didn't balk
at hosting the final round of the 50th annual Southeastern Amateur
Championship.
"We were thrilled to be even considered," said Jay McGrail, who's
the town-owned course's superintendent and director of operations.
So thrilled was South Shore that it openly rooted for Cohasset
Golf Club, the tournament's traditional final-round site, to approve
its renovation project, which forced it to forego hosting for at
least a year.
"We were telling any Cohasset member who would listen ...