Muttuntown Country Club pros play 201 holes in one day for charity

It was a brutally hot day with temperatures in the 90s, but that didn’t stop two professionals at the Muttontown Country Club from playing 201 holes for charity on Tuesday.

Wayne Leal, director of golf for Concert Golf, which runs Muttontown, and head pro Sean Sanders teed off in the dark at 4:50 a.m. and finished in the dark at 11:57 p.m. Their efforts raised at least $30,000 for the American Cancer Society.

"We made some good money for them, the club loved it and overall was a good experience for everybody," Leal said. The two pros used flashlights and glowing golf balls for play in the dark. Members Mike Pau, Rob Senatore and Sean Carroll helped clear the way for them with groups out ahead, including a ladies member-member .

"We drank a lot of Gatorade and took a quick shower around 5 p.m., a 15-minute break," Leal said.

Leal said women members at the club asked him to get involved. It is one of several such marathons planned this year on Long Island to raise money, according to June Ingraham of the New York Society.

Leal and Sanders set out to better the mark of 200 holes in a day accomplished last year by Brittany Ferrante, a 23-year-old teaching pro at the Village Club of Sands Point, which also raised money for the cancer society.