Darrell Pardy chips his ball out of a sand trap on the first hole at the Waterville Country Club in Oakland on June 2. The course will be hosting the Maine Event golf tournament on August 13 and 13. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel
The Maine Event tournament is on for next week, Aug. 12-13, but with a change. Day two of the two-day tournament will be played at Waterville Country Club. Day one of the tournament is still set for Wednesday at Augusta Country Club.
Waterville was asked by the Maine State Golf Association to host the second day when Augusta had a scheduling conflict. Waterville pro Don Roberts said he agreed to host the tournament at the request of MSGA executive director Brian Bickford.
“(Bickford) called me up. We’ve helped them in the past. You’ve got to help them out,” Roberts said.
The Maine Event was created this summer to serve as a replacement to the Maine Open, which was scheduled for Augusta Country Club on June 30 and July 1. The Maine Event is unique in that it will feature the state’s top golfers, regardless of gender. Many of the state’s top players, amateur and professional are registered to play.
As of Wednesday afternoon, 114 players were registered for the tournament.
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The Janet Drouin Memorial tournament was held in Vassalboro at Natanis on Tuesday, with Bailey Plourde taking the win. Plourde, the 2018 Maine Women’s Amateur champion, shot a minus-4 68 to beat Elizabeth Wiltshire and Jordan Laplume, who tied for second place, by five strokes.
The tournament began in 2009 to honor Drouin, a longtime volunteer with the Women’s Maine State Golf Association and an avid supporter of junior golf. Registrations for the 2020 tournament raised $1,600 for the Janet Drouin Fund, which offers financial support to female members of the Maine State Golf Association.
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