Golf

Golfer with a criminal past sues to get back on the green

A golf champion with a long rap sheet and a penchant for ripping officials is suing to get back on the fairway after his second banishment.

Christopher Demenna, 42, has a 4 handicap and won the Staten Island Amateur three times and the Staten Island Classic twice — while racking up an equally impressive criminal resume.

In 2006, he was convicted of dealing oxycodone and served time in prison.

He violated parole in 2010 and pleaded guilty to witness tampering and petty larceny in a 2012 attack on one woman and the theft of checks from another.

He was first booted by the Staten Island Golf Association in 2007, after cursing out an official.

Demenna sued and reached a settlement in 2009 allowing him to compete again. But his 2012 criminal charges earned him a second ban.

When Demenna’s entry into this year’s Amateur Championship at the Richmond County Country Club was rejected, he sued again in Staten Island Supreme Court.

He argues his suspension should have ended when his 2012 criminal case was resolved.

The association slammed Demenna’s latest legal play as “frivolous.”