APPLE CORE GOLF OUTING HUGE SUCCESS
   

LIDO BEACH, NY---The NY Apple Core held it's inaugural AC Junior Golf outing at Lido Beach and it was successful beyond original expectations. At the end of the day, every golfer and friend of AC had a great time and the Junior program raised a lot of money to help defer the costs of running the best College Development Junior program on LI. Alumni, parents, players and guests all had some great weather for a change, well, the sun always shines on the 'Core, we know that, and included in the alumni were many players from the 1996 National Championship team. Included were Steve Cavallaro, Sean McQuade and Billy "The Hacker" Acker. With all the rain, the course was wet, but it dried up as the day went on. Included in the group were notables, Anthony Bitetto, the latest AC D1 signing Northeastern, Dan Bedard- AC Goaltending coach, and Nunzio Alborea one of the Brooklyn boys. Nunzio will handle AC collections this year. Golf highlights included Anthony Bitetto's Longest Drive, Dima Dubro's Closest to the hole, and Ryan Cruthers lowest score ---80. Now I had Ryan as a player, so his "80" is under investigation. Other highlights included Larry Nastasi actually shooting a 120, John Mascaro with the shot of the day --an 80 ft. chip into the hole---the ball has to land somewhere, and my LEGITIMATE Birdie 2 on the 17th hole. Steve Santini and the Brewster crew were caught moving balls all day and Steve's 110 should have been higher. Erik Nates from "Euro Hockey" camps, took a day off from " I won't say scamming" let's call it running his camps, to join us. Erik and his wife are expecting their first child --maybe today.

Tim "The Spy" Quinlan was in a foursome with Chris Cosentino, but we couldn't find him all day on the course. Chris had a great time, but his hockey hands are no better in golf, balls were flying into the water, bushes, into people's back yards, everywhere but the fairways. Chris lost at least (10) balls in the round and stopped keeping score. No one came close to winning the car on the hole in one hole. Par three--215 yards, --right.....The mosquitos had a lot to be thankful for, plenty of customers. Mike Lazzarera's "Downey drier fresheners" theory did not work, ask Larry Nastasi. Larry was a "big target" all day. The Kavanaghs were golfing as a family. Fortunately, they were near my group and we were entertained all day. Kevin Sr. carried on all day after bad shots. Now we all know how quiet Kevin Sr. is when watching his sons play, so it was totally out of character to see him carry on during Golf. Mary Kavanagh is the best out of the bunch anyway. Dylan Scarpato and Matt Scarpato played. Dylan is a caddy during the summer, the rest of the year plays hockey and goes to Chaminade. He is a very good student there, but when he needed all that math to figure out angles and distance, all that Geometry and Calculus studying was rendered useless. He should have gone to St. Mary's like Cruthers. Cruthers who used to mix Kool-Aid in the test tubes in Chemistry class easily figured out the angles and geometry needed to get the lowest score. Dylan's first application of Chaminade's education received an F. We still don't know who Dima Dubro is. John Mascaro had the best shot of the day, but used up the entire Golf cart battery chasing his lousy shots all over the course. John was able to see almost all the other foursomes as his ball was always on the other fairways. Matt Davie Sr. claimed he was a "top golfer" before the event, after the event, he will be a healthy scratch at the next outing. His play caused all 18 foursomes to back up an extra 1 hour. What a stiff.....Big Ed Shinnick hit some 300 yr drives, but couldn't make a 2 ft. putt. Talk about creative score-keeping, John Mascaro is the only golfer who can lose 2 balls, putt 4 times, get a 10 on a hole and claim a 5. But, that's how he does his accounting at his Deli too. Instead of tees he should have driven off some of those stale bagels he sells. AC owner Bob Santini's only concern was "where's the Beer"? During the raffle, Matt Davie Jr,

Nunzio Alborea, Dima Dubro and yours truly schemed to rack up the prizes. The Brooklyn boys went home with half the prizes. Sean McQuade "Matty's Toy Stop", weaseled one of the Rob Scuderi signed jerseys. He will probably sell the jersey on E-Bay as a "Game worn Stanley Cup Jersey".

All in all, it was a fun day and we have already reserved the same first Monday in August for next year's event. I want to thank the Golf Committee of Mary Ellen Fosso, Phyllis Gill, Pina Nastasi, Tom Carroll, Chris Cosentino, Bob Santini, Ron Scall, Kathy Scarpato, Larry Nastasi, Steve Cavallaro and John Mascaro for all they did. We want to thank all the people that donated prizes for the raffle, there were (60) of them, but we especially want to thank all of you for making it a great day for the "Core. See you at the rink and next year. Mark it on your calendar, the mosquitoes have!!!!

August 2010 Golf Outing  is currently being planNed
details will be available soon.