07.11.2020 Sports It’s official — the Menantic Yacht Club racing for real The Menantic Yacht Club (MYC) held its first official series of Sunfish races this past Sunday in near perfect conditions. Similar to last week, it was hot and humid...
07.05.2020 Sports Practice racing at Menantic Yacht Club The Menantic Yacht Club (MYC) is back and held its first and only practice race of the 2020 season this past Sunday, June 27, in West Neck Harbor in...
06.29.2020 Sports News from Goat Hill: Drought brings challenges Brown is the new green it seems. Fairways on Goat Hill normally turn their summer hue in July, but dry weather debuted early this season. Rainfall for the month...
06.29.2020 Sports Eye on the Ball: Gardiner’s Bay course record broken Last Saturday afternoon, June 26, I called Rick Southwick in Florida to give him the news. His long-standing Gardiner’s Bay Country Club (GBCC) course record of shooting 62 was...
06.22.2020 Sports News from Goat Hill: Shelter Island Golf Club swinging away It’s fitting that one of the last tasks of the town’s major renovation of the clubhouse porch was raising the Shelter Island Country Club banner and the American flag...
06.21.2020 Sports Menantic Yacht Club comes sailing back At the end of May I wasn’t sure that the Menantic Yacht Club (MYC) would be holding any Sunfish racing this summer. However, I’m happy to say that in...
06.21.2020 Sports Run for life: Why race? Come on, why hassle with applying, paying, then showing up for organized races? You can run it any time with a stopwatch and a set course. The roads are...
06.15.2020 Sports New summer league to start at Goat Hill Shelter Island Country Club (SICC) debuts a new league for members — The Tuesday Twosome 9-hole Summer League — beginning June 30. Golfers can form their own twosomes every...
06.14.2020 Columns Gimme Shelter: Rewards For many of us, no baseball is more than an annoyance, but a feeling of genuine loss. This column was published last summer, about the love of a sport...
06.05.2020 Sports Run For Your Life: Can old runners and societies improve? The answer to the headline is “yes,” when the change is essential and worth the required price. New tricks for old runners and for changing our society’s values are...
06.01.2020 Sports News from Goat Hill: Sponsors keep course humming Shelter Island has many worthy organizations that rely on donations and other financial support to keep their missions moving forward. Shelter Is-land Country Club (SICC) is no exception. As...
05.27.2020 Sports Update: Shelter Island Country Club annual meeting postponed; tournament canceled UPDATE: The Shelter Island Country Club (SICC) announced that starting today, Friday, May 29.the club has “been given the green light to allow two people from the same household...
05.21.2020 Sports Shelter Island Sports Column: How golf carts hurt the game When Mr. Clancy, our Shelter Island Reporter editor, asked me to pen another column regarding golf, I was reticent. The last time I placed quill on parchment and waxed...
05.15.2020 Sports Easing the rules for golfers at Shelter Island Country Club The door is opening just a crack, but we’ll take it as a sign of better days ahead. Golfers 65 and older and golfers 18 and older who have...
05.11.2020 Sports Column: Remembering Shelter Island’s ‘Iron Man’ Early on the morning of Saturday, May 9, I got a call I had been dreading for a long time. It was from Father Peter, saying, ”Sid Beckwith passed...
