Nick Faldo confirms for Bear Mountain golf tourney

To Sir with love, from Bear Mountain.
Sir Nick Faldo, England’s greatest golfer and knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2009, is the latest competitor to confirm he will play in the Pacific Links Bear Mountain Championship from Sept. 11-17.
Faldo’s impressive list of accomplishments includes three Masters championships and three British Open titles for six majors in total. The unflappable six-foot-three native of Hertfordshire also won nine times on the PGA Tour and 30 times on the European Tour.
The 60-year-old is still receiving exposure as a commentator for the Golf Channel and CBS.

“Sir Nick is a true golf legend . . . he is an impactful addition to an already strong field,” said Pacific Links International president Rudy Anderson, in a statement. Announced last week for the Bear Mountain tournament was John Daly, among the most bombastic figures in golf history.
The $1.8 million US stop on the PGA Tour Champions, which is for players 50 and over, is in its second year. Colin Montgomerie from Scotland outlasted Scott McCarron in extra holes to win the inaugural Pacific Links Bear Mountain tournament last year.
Confirmed for this year’s tournament are Faldo, Daly, Montgomerie, Charles Schwab money leader Bernhard Langer of Germany, Canadian Golf Hall of Famer Stephen Ames, and former PGA Tour regulars such as McCarron, Mark Calcavecchia, Fred Funk, Jay Haas and Paul Goydos.

Bear Mountain

Near the head of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, the Chamberlain Lake ecological reserve lies on the Bear Mountain peninsula in Chamberlain Lake. Nearly all of the reserve was classified as regulated timberland, and less than 5% is wetland (mostly coniferous wetland). Many locations sampled during the Ecological Reserves Inventory and later monitoring efforts indicate past selective harvesting, but harvesting has apparently not occurred within the last 50 years, based on ages of stumps and old logging roads. Several areas of matrix-forming natural communities are in outstanding condition.

The most noteworthy stands are mixed hardwood-conifer stands supporting trees over 200 years old. Interestingly, charcoal pellets were found in all stands sampled, although the dominance of mid to late-successional stand types suggests that fires in most locations occurred long ago. Other intact forest types include a large black spruce bog and swamp just north of Lock Dam and a small, stunted spruce slope forest on top of Bear Mountain. The northern part of the Reserve includes the Tramway, remnants of an old logging railway that transferred logs from Chamberlain to Eagle Lake over a century ago.