Ellen Avenoso Over the course of three days, 45 women played 54 holes on all three of our courses for our annual Club Championship tournament. This is a gross score tournament, which was divided into three flights: Championship, Seniors (65+), and Legends (80+). On the last day of the tournament, they encountered high winds, gusting…
Tag: SBWGA
Sports, February 2023
SBWGA—Off and Running for 2023
Ellen Avenoso We started our new season with the induction of the new board. We also “adopted” a new community endeavor to sponsor: Girls Golf of Tucson. The first event we assisted with was a clinic at Omni Golf Course. We honored our tournament winners, new members, and hole-in-one achievements at our first meeting of…
Sports, October 2022
Tournaments, Tournaments!
Shirley Hamann Several SaddleBrooke Women’s Golf Association (SBWGA) ladies have been participating in events outside of SaddleBrooke, sharing what SaddleBrooke ladies are all about. Arizona State Senior Championship On Sept. 7-9, 11 members of SBWGA-18 participated in the Arizona State Senior Championship Tournament. This was a 54-hole stroke play event held at Tonto Verde Golf…
Sports, September 2022
President Anne Shares Her Talents
Shirley Hamann Anne Stonecipher, 2022 SaddleBrooke Women’s Golf Association (SBWGA) President, started sewing when she was just 10 years old, making doll clothes for her younger sister. She has loved sewing ever since. She was lucky enough to have a wonderful junior high school sewing teacher. The 8th grade girls made shirtwaist dresses with a…
Sports, October 2020
Mulligan’s Island Revisited at SaddleBrooke
Fred Pilster and Jane Chanik The SaddleBrooke Women’s Golf Association (SBWGA) and the SaddleBrooke Men’s Golf Association (SBMGA) got together for a Summer Classic Golf Tournament called Mulligan’s Island. Forty men and 40 women formed two-person teams to compete in a fun golf tournament using the old Gilligan’s Island theme but renamed as Mulligan’s Island. Of…
Clubs & Classes, November 2019
SBWGA hosts its first scramble of the season
Marsha H. Camp On Oct. 15, SaddleBrooke Women’s Golf Association (SBWGA) hosted a tournament and luncheon honoring past members and those who have given so much in support of our organization. Seventeen honorees joined us for this inaugural event. I hope that the members who missed it will get a chance to be a part…
Sports, September 2019
Bee-Cuz We Care Golf Tournament pulls out all the stops
Ret Convey Anyone can tell the ladies of the SaddleBrooke Women’s Golf Association (SBWGA) and Niners are up to something… the question is, What? Let’s face it, they’re handing us this year’s Bee-Cuz We Care Cancer tournament on a silver platter— making it so easy and cheap, we’d be nuts to pass it up! For…
Sports, June 2019
SBWGA update
Marsha Camp I’ve been saving the Ace Day winners for a special occasion, today. January’s winners are Shawna Janson with a gross score of 80. Nancy Wylie shot 61 net. You may remember February was frozen out. For March, Debbie Green shot 78 gross and Ann Running scored 63 net. April’s winners were: Kerry Crowell…
Sports, December 2018
SBWGA honors new net champion
Ret Convey Three cheers go to Judy Melo for her resounding over-all victory in our 2018 net championship, the Cactus Classic. Not only did Judy astonish with her three-day net score of 197, but she managed to pull it off from her position in the first flight (aka The Bonker Hedgehogs). Well done and congratulations,…
Sports, November 2018
Cooling weather warms up the SBWGA
Ret Convey Our courses have been successfully reseeded and are in beautiful condition. Our winter visitors are trickling back and taking their rightful places among us. Our delicious luncheons and meetings have resumed, giving us the chance to get together again at long last. Everything is as it should be at the SBWGA…if only Mother…