St. Rays Golf Team Announces Fundraiser
The St. Raphael Academy golf team announced a fundraiser ahead of the 2025 high school golf season.
As GolfNewsRI wrote about, St. Rays re-launched a golf team in 2022 and last season (just 2 years later) won their division.
“I am reaching out to family and friends asking for your help. Our program the St. Raphael Academy Golf team is raising money for the upcoming season and we need your help. In our efforts to raise money we are offering supporters, FOUR great ways to help our program. 1. Direct ship bags of popcorn . 2. Direct ship coffee & tea 3. Voyager snacks or simply donate to our program!! Items will ship to the address you provide within 10 days of the fundraisers completion,” reads the description on the fundraising page.
History of Golf at St. Rays
In 2022, Nick Emery played a key role in bringing a golf team back to the school and is now in the midst of his freshman season of playing college golf at Saint Anselm.
Prior to the team being brought back, the school has a good history.
As GolfNewsRI wrote in 2022, In its history, St. Rays has won two team State Championships and four individual State Championships.
The first Individual title was won by Francis Partridge in 1940.
Following that, Stan Koslowski won back-to-back Individual State Championships in 1941 and 1942, while also leading the Saints to a Team Championship in 1942.
Ten years later, St. Rays would add their second Team Championship in 1952.
That team was helped by James Noonan.
In 1954, Noonan qualified for the National Junior Golf Tournament out in California at LA Country Club, where he played a 15-year-old kid named Jack Nicklaus.
Noonan went on to play golf at Brown University and was inducted into the St. Rays Hall of Fame in 2020, though the ceremony was postponed due to Covid. It will take place this year.
Other notable players to come out of St. Rays include Jack McDonaugh, Justin Fagan and Kim Augusta.
Augusta graduated from St. Rays and made three U.S. Junior and three U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship tournaments.
Starting in 1992, she won the RI Women’s Amateur three straight years and went on to play on the LPGA Tour for four years.
Augusta retired from competitive golf in 2011.
She currently is the Head Professional at Frenchman’s Creek Beach & Country Club in Florida.
St. Rays last State Championship came in the form of another individual title, won by Greg Sampson in 2000.
Following the 2010-11 season, the St. Rays golf team was no more.