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News Release

For Immediate Release: October 8, 1998

Kenneth Lewis of Dennis Pines Golf Course is the 1998 recipient of the Christopher Cutler Rich Junior Player of the Year Award presented by the Massachusetts Golf Association. Lewis, a junior at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School, was medalist in United States Junior Amateur Local Qualifying and a Semi-finalist at the Championship proper. He edged out Dennis Pines club-mates Brent Wanner and Michael Carbone to win the award for the second time (1996, 1998).

Other highlights of Lewis' season include third place finishes at the Big "I" Championship and the AJGA Tucker Anthony Championship, and a sixth place finish at the Massachusetts Junior Championship.

Lewis will be honored along with Richard D. Haskell MGA Player of the Year Justin Peters, MGA Senior Player of the Year Edward Fletcher, and the winners of all 1998 MGA Championships at a Champions Dinner in January.

The Christopher Cutler Rich Trophy is presented each year to the MGA Junior Player of the Year in memory of Christopher Rich, the junior club champion at Myopia Hunt Club who was tragically killed in 1997.