Written by Jack Cutone
The Boston Evening Globe on Saturday May 20, 1922, ran the following announcement on page two under the heading: "MARLBOROUGH": "The golf course of the Marlborough Country Club will be formally opened Saturday, June 3, 1922. Among those who will be present are Governor Cox, Mayor Curley of Boston, and Mayor Simoneau of Marlborough. One of the feature events will be an 18 hole contest between Ouimet and Guilford.
THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF THE MARLBOROUGH CLASSIC
The story behind the PGA Senior Tour event that was first hosted by the city in 1981 and was squeezed out three years later
(reprinted with permission from Main Street Journal, July 23, 2005)
By Bob Kane, Guest Columnist
In the summer of 1980, I saw an advertisement for a Golf Tournament in Newport RI, featuring Senior PGA Tour Players, hosted by Golf Digest. Being a golfer and working as Director of Marlborough Community Development at the time and also being involved with the annual Labor Day Festival, I thought that I would investigate the possibility of having an event such as this in Marlborough around Labor Day.