Keeping score around New England

NHL star Jeremy Roenick has stepped in and purchased Pembroke Country Club and already has plans in place to upgrade the facility. Roenick, who grew up in Marshfield, starred at Thayer Academy in Braintree, and currently plays for the San Jose Sharks, swooped in after the property foreclosed and purchased it for $4.4 million from Norwood Cooperative Bank, which held the mortgage. "It was sad that the bank had it, not knowing what would happen to it," Roenick told Globe reporter Emily Sweeney. "Pembroke Country Club was one of my favorite courses. It's not a generic public course. It's a beautiful layout." Work is being done on the course and banquet hall, with hopes of opening April 1.

The MGA's 2009 tournament schedule is highlighted by a return to The Country Club for the state amateur and the 100th playing of the Mass. Open. The state four-ball championship kicks things off May 4-5 at Crestwood CC and Ledgemont CC. The state open (June 22-24) is at Belmont CC for the first time since 1962, with Plainville's James Renner expected to defend his title. The amateur will be held at The Country Club for the 10th time, from July 13-17. Other MGA events of note include the junior amateur (Framingham CC, July 27-29), mid-amateur (Haverhill CC, Sept. 15-17), and senior amateur (Salem CC, Sept. 29-30). For a complete list of tournaments visit www.mgalinks.org.

Tickets are available for the 60th Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund banquet April 27 at the Marriott Copley Place. Tom Watson will be the 14th recipient of the Francis Ouimet Award for lifelong contributions to golf. For information, call 774-430-9090 or visit www.ouimet.org.

The Callaway Golf NEPGA Junior Tour, which features dozens of summer tournaments for juniors at least 12 years old, has added a graduate division, open to ages 18-21. For information, visit www.nepga.com . . . Three Mass. club pros - Brian Bain, Nick Crovetti, and Drew Kayser - have been recognized by US Kids Golf for their work with juniors. Crovetti, a former assistant at Salem CC, and Kayser, the head pro at Belmont and assistant golf coach at Boston College, were included in the list of US Kids Golf's top-50 teachers in America. Bain, the pro at Lynch Municipal GC in Brookline who made the list the previous four years, was designated by the organization as a master kids' teacher.

Red Tail GC in Devens, which will host the US Women's Amateur Public Links Championship in June, has been selected by Golfweek magazine as the best public course in Massachusetts. Crumpin-Fox in Bernardston was second, followed by Cape Cod National in Brewster, Farm's Neck on Martha's Vineyard, both of the Pinehills courses in Plymouth (Nicklaus fifth, Jones sixth), The Ranch in Southwick, George Wright in Hyde Park, Shaker Hills in Harvard, and Dennis Pines.

The game suffered a heavy loss with the recent death of Janice Gannon Vance, the first executive director of the Women's Golf Association of Massachusetts. A longtime member of Gannon GC in Lynn, named after her father, Gannon Vance played in a number of WGAM events before joining its staff in 1991 as executive secretary. The position was renamed executive director in 1994, and Gannon Vance held the title until 2005. She died March 13 at age 65 . . . The Executive Women's Golf Association will host a kickoff brunch Saturday at the Westin Waltham Hotel. EWGA provides educational and playing opportunities for women of all skill levels. For more information about EWGA or to register for the brunch (10 a.m.-2 p.m.), visit www.ewgaboston.org.

Matt Adams and Justin Peters have earned victories this year on the Minor League Golf Tour, a low-cost developmental tour based in Jupiter, Fla. Adams, from Walpole, shot a 6-under-par 66, then beat Justin Goodhue of Connecticut on the second playoff hole, to win the one-day event March 16 in Lake Worth, Fla. Adams earned $1,000 for his first tour victory. Peters, a Boston native of "Big Break I" fame and the 1998 Mass. Player of the Year, shot 66 and won the Ocean Hammock Open in January in his only tour appearance this year. Frank Dully of Salem, who now lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., has eight top-10 finishes in March, climbing to sixth on the tour's money list. Kirk Hanefeld, the director of golf at The International in Bolton who is prepping for another run at this year's Champions Tour, has played nine MLGT events this year, never finishing out of the top 10.

Michael Whitmer can be reached at mwhitmer@globe.com