We live for this!!

The excitement in the air this morning at Weston Golf Club is palpable! We have about a half-hour until the final round of the 105th Massachusetts Open Championship tees off. This has been such a fantastic few days and the history around both this event and venue makes everything feel a little more special.

Weston Golf Club was one of the first 100 golf courses built in America - it pre-dates the MGA by 9 years and is a vintage metro-Boston club. Being on the property, we are reminded how spoiled we are in Massachusetts with the old-school courses like Weston, Brae Burn, The Country Club, Woodland...just to name a few - you're not going to find a place like this in many other places in this country! Part of what is great about golf is the rich history of the game, and we are swimming in it here in Mass!

We have the potential of an amateur winning this Championship for the first time in 15 years - in fact, this has only happened six times in the history of the Mass Open. Matt Parziale was the low amateur and runner-up in 2009 behind Rob Oppenheim, who has already teed off at Pinehurst in round 1 of the U.S. Open this morning.

We have a former MGA Player of the Year making his professional debut - Colin Brennan turned pro last November and is looking for his first big professional win. Brennan was the 2012 MGA Player of the Year and was born and raised in Andover.

We also have a Cape Codder in the final pairing - Eric Dugas of The Captains GC in Brewster finished T4 last year and is looking for a big win today in his home state.

And rounding out the leaders is Tim Ailes, who hails from Lewis Center, Ohio - a suburb of Columbus. He is a 15-time winner on the Dakotas Tour and impressed everyone with a blistering 7-under on Tuesday.

We also have something very special going on - thanks to Bob Beach and Golf For All's Fred Corcoran, we will have military veterans tending the flagstick on the 18th hole. Just a very small token of our appreciation for what these veterans have done for us. Working in sports, we get so caught up in the excitement of our events that we sometimes forget that there's a real world out there - so this is a small way for us to say thank you.

I'm sure it's going to be a fun and exciting day! Stay tuned...