Mt. Pleasant Golf Club head pro Mike Mullavey is retiring after 40-plus years at the club. SUN/DAVID H. BROW Sun staff photos can be ordered by visiting our MyCapture site.
LOWELL -- Mike Mullavey has been head pro and a respected gentleman at Mt. Pleasant Golf Club for 40 years. Come December, though, Mullavey will shed his "club pro" title and finally get to play some golf.
Mullavey is "retiring" as club pro, though plans to remain on as club manager for a few more years.
"Right now, I play about five rounds of golf a year," says Mullavey, 66. "I'm looking forward to playing five rounds a week ... and fishing."
Mullavey, 66, grew up in Portsmouth, N.H., where he caddied at Portsmouth Country Club. Among those he caddied for during pro-ams there was Peter Hanscom, then the pro at Mt. Pleasant. Mullavey at 24 became Hanscom's assistant. Two years later, he succeeded Hanscom as the head pro at Mt. Pleasant.
Mullavey has always loved teaching golf and soaking in the surroundings on a course. He says as a young player he easily became distracted admiring course layouts. He played golf at St. Thomas Aquinas High in Dover, N.H., and at the University of New Hampshire.
Mullavey from 1971-76 gave lessons at King's Bay Yacht & Country Club in Miami during the winter, and later did so at Lehigh Acres in Florida. But home has been Mt. Pleasant, where Mullavey has watched four generations of local families tee it up.
Mt. Pleasant prides itself on its family atmosphere. The kindly Mullavey has nurtured that. He is proud also that the club for 20 years has provided golf lessons for students from the Perkins School
for the Blind."Mt. Pleasant is a pretty special place," says Mullavey. "I've found it to be very rewarding. We have squabbles like any family. But when it comes to the important stuff, everybody stands behind you."
As for his real family, Mullavey's son, Mike Jr., 25, is a law student at the University of Florida, who played golf at St. John's Prep and Emory University. Mike Jr. has been a club champ at Mt. Pleasant and is a City Tournament regular.
Mullavey's wife Sarah is a non-golfer who is principal at the Rita Edwards Miller School in Westford. Their daughter, Jaclyn, 32, teaches seventh-grade in Dracut. She is a former Celtics dancer who has a 2008 championship ring.
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