52 | JULY 27 • 2023 

quick hits
BY STEVE STEIN 

 GARY KLINGER

Rain was predicted for the day of 
the 32nd annual Hank Greenberg 
Memorial Golf, Tennis and Pickleball 
Invitational. It didn’t happen.
What did happen was 126 golfers, 
and 16 tennis and pickleball players 
competed June 12 at Franklin Hills 
Country Club in Farmington Hills. They 
were joined by 70 additional people 
for dinner and the always popular 
sports panel, moderated once again 
by radio and television personality 
Mike Stone.
Seven-time Cy Young Award winner 
Roger Clemens, ESPN senior NFL 
insider Adam Schefter and ESPN’s 
Jeremy Schaap, an 11-time Emmy 
Awards winner, made up the sports 
panel.
Clemens was presented the 
Hank Greenberg Memorial Lifetime 
Achievement Award by Steve 

Greenberg, Hank Greenberg’s son, 
and Schefter was the recipient of 
the Dick Schaap Memorial Award 
for Media Excellence, presented by 
Jeremy Schapp, Dick Schaap’s son.
The late 44th District Court Judge 
Jamie Wittenberg was the recipient of 
the Barry Bremen Memorial Inspiration 
Award. Wittenberg died Nov. 20, 
2022, at age 48 at his Berkley home 

after a three-year battle with gioblas-
toma, an aggressive form of brain 
cancer.
Wittenberg’s family attended the 
invitational. His award was accepted 
by his wife Staci.
The invitational is a fundraiser for 
the Lawrence & Idell Weisberg Cancer 
Treatment Center at the Karmanos 
Cancer Institute. 

Stuart Raider, president of the Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation, visits with sports panelists 
Roger Clemens, Adam Schefter and Jeremy Schaap. 

MASSERMAN PHOTOGRAPHY

This is the 11th season for the weekly 
B’nai B’rith golf league.
It’s the first season that the team 
championship will be decided in a 
showdown match between the win-
ners of the first and second halves, a 
new setup.
If one of the league’s 12 two-man 
teams (one team has a three-man 
rotation) wins both halves, that team 
will be the league champion. It will 
play a match Aug. 10, but it won’t be 
for the championship.
All the Aug. 10 matches will be 
determined by the standings of the 
two halves, similar to a position night 
in a bowling league. Matches Aug. 17, 
the final day of the 17-week season 
that began April 20, will be for fun.
“We’re trying something new this 
season, changing things up,” said 
league organizer Gary Klinger.
The first half of the league season 
was won by the brother combina-
tion of Adam and Ryan Vieder. They 

scored 100 points in the league’s 
point system, which is based on holes 
and matches won and tied.
Mitch Lefton and Stu Zorn were 
second with 93 points, followed by 
David Swimmer and Jody Mendelson 
with 88 points, Jeff Novick and Marc 
Rustin with 83 points, Steve Kay 
and Bert Green with 80 points, and 
Larry Shapiro/Bob Shapiro/Chuck 
Houmaian with 79 points.
The league’s individual champion 
will continue to be determined by 
season-long performance.
Ryan Vieder was in front in the indi-
vidual standings at the end of the first 
half with 49 points. Zorn was second 
with 47 1/2 points, Ruskin was third 
with 44 1/2 points, Novick was fourth 
with 44 points, and Swimmer and Kay 
each had 43 points and tied for fifth 
place.
This is the 10th season that the 
Thursday league has played its 
matches at the Links of Novi. 

Oh, Brother! Sibling Team Wins First-Half Title in B’nai B’rith Golf League

There’s No Raining on the 
Greenberg Invitational 
Parade

Adam and Ryan Vieder.

