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Ballo Jr. keeping busy on the links
Posted on 08/25/2010
By JOE RYAN Times Correspondent STAMFORD -- Most college kids head to a beach and try to run away after graduating but not Mike Ballo Jr. The recent graduate of St. John's has had a busy summer as he moves into the next stage of his golf career. He is playing this week in the Met Open at Bethpage and will be logging some heavy air travel in the fall. Ballo will be a member of the Connecticut USGA State team which will play in a tournament out in California in September and then he is going to France with the Metropolitan Golf Association (MGA) in October. Ballo has already had a successful summer. The Stamford native defended his title in the Ike Championship on Long Island and before that had finished second in the Connecticut Amateur held at the Yale Course and third in the Northeast Amateur, which was played in Rumsford, R.I. Then he traveled down to South Carolina for the Players Amateur before coming back home and making the quarterfinals of the Met Open. Ballo was captain of the Red Storm team his senior year and was named All-Big East and to the Ping Division I All-Northeast team. Ballo also received recognition as the Big East Golfer of the Month for October. Ballo's rise through the ranks of the local amateurs has been a steady ascent. The former Trinity Catholic standout won the State High School championship in 2005 and 2006. He added the Connecticut Junior Amateur title in 2006 as well. His plans after Europe are not set in stone yet, according to his mother, Page, although golf will remain his focus as it has been since high school. So unlike most of his fellow graduates, the last thing Ballo wants to see in his future is sand, as in a sand trap.
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