Coach Doug DeBettencourt's high school golf team finished seventh on Monday at the Division III state tournament. It was the latest success in a career that mixed algebraic equations with fairway splendors.
Charles Harff sits at table in the Farm Neck Golf Club Cafe dressed to the nines - the back nines. He’s wearing a Martha’s Vineyard Hospital 2004 golf tournament polo, white shorts and a pair of semi-dress loafers. Tan from day on the links, with gray hair and an air of congeniality, he’s soft-spoken and unassuming.
Golfers from on and off the Island will hit the links this weekend for the 23rd annual Children’s Benefit Golf Tournament, hosted by the Farm Neck Golf Club.
The first full day of President Obama's Vineyard vacation was a quiet one, and included one of the president's favorite Vineyard pastimes: a round of golf.
After the Storm, Sledding Is Fine Sport from Farm Neck Fairways to
Tashmoo
By MAX HART
The snowdrifts near the tee box on the third hole at Farm Neck Golf
Club in Oak Bluffs are deep, very deep.
So deep, in fact, that they rise up past the waist of an
average-sized adult, a good three to four feet of snow. Trying to wade
through them is an exercise in absurdity; it's nearly impossible
to navigate without falling on your face.
As soon as you meet Jim Cornwell, the adoration he has for his
border collies is readily apparent. The baseball cap he wears is
decorated by a lively looking border collie, while his denim shirt bears
the insignia of Tash and Tama, the names of his two dogs.
