Bob Edelblut The M-PMGA and the SMGA battle every year for ownership of the Javelina Cup. It is two days of team competition with each association hosting a day at their own home courses. The format of play and scoring was the same for both days as each club hosted two nine hole matches, a…
Bob Edelblut The second annual Mars vs. Venus Tournament was played at the Preserve Golf Club on May 5 and 7. The M-PWGA was this year’s coordinator and as such they made the choices of games to be played. Challenging is a nice way to describe them all. Thirty-eight two person teams or seventy-six players…
Bob Edelblut On Wednesday, April 1 ninety four golfers arrived at the Preserve Golf Club eager to compete in this year’s President’s Cup Tournament. Like the previous year they were grouped into nine flights and, in spite of a forecast of high winds for most of the day, expectations were high. This major event is…
Bob Edelblut For the better part of five weeks 52 two man teams competed in our Member-Member Match Play Championship. The field was divided into seven flights and by the time it was over 68 individual matches, including playoffs, were played. Ours is a single elimination tournament with a slight twist. First round losers form…
Bob Edelblut On March 2, three two-man teams of M-PMGA players were scheduled to do battle with teams representing The Oro Valley Country Club in Pima Cup competition at the SaddleBrooke Golf Club. Once again Mother Nature intervened and the match was postponed. Finally, on March 30, the match was able to be played and…
Bob Edelblut For those of you who are still searching for that perfect something to jump start your New Year you might want to contact Bob Heaps. On Friday, January 5 Bob Heaps walked up to the tee on the 17th hole at the MountainView Golf Course at approximately 12:45 p.m. The sun was shining,…
Dan Schroeder The MountainView-Preserve Men’s Golf Association competed in the first match of the 2014/15 Pima Cup at La Paloma on Tuesday, December 2. The Pima Cup is a friendly competition where six players from each of eight different local golf clubs play a series of matches against each other at their respective home courses…
Dan Schroeder The MountainView–Preserve Men’s Golf Association Club Championship was held over two days on November 12 at MountainView and November 13 at The Preserve with 96 members participating. Course conditions were excellent and the weather was great all leading to a very competitive tournament. There were nine flights, three of which were competing for…
Dan Schroeder and Bob Eder This year’s M-PMGA Member Guest which was held over four days (April 2 through 5), began with a team putting and chipping contest followed by a BBQ where the 70 participants had some fun and got to know each other a little better. Art Wieda and Bob Galusha won the…
Dan Schroeder Between February 27 and March 27, 106 players completed 70 matches to decide the winners of the 2014 Member-Member Match Play Competition. This year’s event turned out to be very competitive with 56% of the matches going 18 holes or further and 83% going 17 holes or more. With seven flights the flight…