Keith Mahaney of Bangor is one of six people who will be inducted into the Maine Golf Hall of Fame on Sept. 11 in a ceremony at Val Halla Golf Course in Cumberland.
Mahaney, who among his accomplishments coached the Husson University golf team to five New England titles, will be joined by President George H.W. Bush, Dave Mazzeo of Norway, Ferdinand (Nundi) Romano of Parsonsfield, Joe Williamson of Westbrook and Tom Winston of Saco.
The entry fee for the 18-hole tournament earlier in the day is $320 for a foursome, which includes the banquet. The price for attending only the banquet is $40 per person.
The reception begins at 5 p,m, followed by the banquet. Deadline for entries is Sept. 4.
For more info, call Maine Golf Hall of Fame executive director Gary Rees at 368-4907 or go to the hall Web site, www.mainegolfhalloffame.com. Click on Applications for the form for the tournament and banquet.
Mahaney is a former club champion at four different clubs and was the medalist in qualifying for the match play portion of the 1971 Maine Amateur Golf Championship.
The 1957 University of Maine graduate coached at Boothbay Region High School before taking the Husson post.
Bush, 85, has continued a family history of promoting golf. For more than 20 years, he has donated his time and effort to promote the Gary Pike Foundation. He remains an avid golfer and is a member at Cape Arundel Golf Club in Kennebunkport.
Mazzeo was the pro and superintendent at Norway Country Club for more than 30 years, and he was one of the first people to start an open junior tournament in Maine.
Romano, a longtime pro at Province Lake Country Club in Parsonsfield and Prouts Neck Golf Club in Scarborough, promoted high school golf in Maine. He conducted the state high school team championship for many years. He also was renowned for his club repair and refinishing.
Williamson won the Maine Amateur in 1941. After he was elected president of the Maine State Golf Association in 1950, he helped start the MSGA scholarship program.
In 1968, Winston founded and chaired the Tri-City Golf Classic, covering Biddeford, Saco and Old Orchard Beach. He was also the golf coach at St. Francis College in the 1970s and was Maine Seniors champ in 1984, and he held free youth golf clinics in the Biddeford-Saco area.
Leavitt tourney update
Entries for the Bud and Barbara Leavitt Memorial Golf Tournament have been going well, organizer Doug Quagliaroli said Thursday.
“We have 21 or 22 teams now, about 88 people,” he said. “We had three more people sign up today.”
The tournament, a fundraiser for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Jimmy Fund, is Monday at Penobscot Valley Country Club in Orono.
The tournament has a 12:30 p.m. shotgun start followed by a lobster bake and an auction.
The entry fee is $115 per person, $460 for a team of four. The goal is to get between 24 and 30 teams.
For more info, go to www.jimmyfundbangor.com.
GBO chip shots
A few snippets from last week’s 43rd Greater Bangor Open golf tournament, sponsored by Hollywood Slots of Bangor:
ä Winner Marc Hurtubise of Chambly, Quebec, admitted that something besides his hole-in-one and strong putting may have to get credit for his victory.
“I’m very superstitious. I used to be a hockey goalie and played at quite a high level,” he said.
On July 22, the night before the opening round, “I went to the Chinese buffet, and the next day I shot 64,” he said.
That night he ate at a different restaurant and the second round was washed out.
“Friday night I ate at the Chinese buffet. I wasn’t changing anything,” he said with a laugh.
— Hurtusbise is not the only golfer of note in his family.
Laurent, his brother, is the world champion one-armed golfer.
The 6-handicapper will defend his title next month.
— Hurtubise’s injured rib cage earlier this month wasn’t his most serious mishap.
In 1991 he went through PGA Tour qualifying school and earned a spot on the Ben Hogan Tour (now Nationwide) for 1992.
That tour didn’t start until March, so in February he went to the Monday qualifier for the Doral Open in Miami. He shot 67 and made the field, but he never got to play in the tournament.
“On my way home, I got in a car wreck,” he said. “My neck was fractured in three places, and I was paralyzed for 27 days.”
It was a long recovery.
“I didn’t play golf for five years,” said the 45-year-old.
He regained his amateur status for 1996 and ‘97, but joined the Canadian PGA in 1998.
“I’ve been a club pro ever since,” he said, emphasizing that point by saying that he had to make the 5½-hour drive home after Saturday’s victory because he had to help run a ladies tournament at his club starting Sunday morning.
ä Pro Dan St. Louis of Royal Palm Beach, Fla., who comes up with his family each year to visit family in the Orono area as well as play in the GBO, had to face facts Saturday.
His daughter Tovie, a 21-year-old amateur, pulled off a feat that he probably had to see coming eventually. She shot a 5-over-par 74 in Saturday’s final round, one stroke better than her father.
“That’s the first time she beat me,” he said.