Ann Lange Where beautiful souls have gone before, memories live on. And so, each year the MountainView/Preserve Women’s Golf Association (MPWGA) remembers Mary Sturgeon Canfield and her daughter Nancy, by carrying on the tradition of designating the Most Improved Player (MIP) award. The award was established by Mary in tribute to Nancy, who showed how…
Alan Doan The member-member match play tournament was held on Jan. 18, 21, and 28. The 48 two-man teams were separated into six flights and seeded 1 through 8 in each flight, according to each team’s combined course handicap. Following are the winning teams from each flight: Flight 1: Alan Mansker and Kelly Paxton Flight…
Ann Lange Many moons before Earth landed on Mars or Venus, Martians and Venusians landed on Earth to explore evidence of extinct or fossilized microbial life, and to determine if it had ever been a living planet. The extraterrestrials arriving from both sides of Earth found that it is indeed a living planet, and that…
Fred Pilster We had nearly 70 golf cars join in for the fun-filled parade and tour of many of the SaddleBrooke lighted homes. Most of the golf cars and many of the participants wore costumes and decorated their golf cars with lights in the Christmas spirit. The winner for the best golf car was the…
Eileen J. Snearly Maggie came from Santa Fe, N.M., where she lived with her husband David for four years. The couple lived for 22 years in San Diego. They have a daughter who lives in Santa Fe and another daughter who lives in San Diego. She and her husband worked in the DC area. They…
Wanda Ross The SaddleBrooke Lady Niners are very grateful to June Hill and Liz Carlson who founded this organization in 1990. Thanks to them over 30 years later we continue to enjoy our many golf games and events. Our annual Founders Cup in January was in honor of them. On a warm and sunny Arizona…
Eileen J. Snearly MountainView Preserve Lady Niner (MPLN) is Deb Bunker. An Indiana Hoosier by birth, Deb has enjoyed a varied work career spent in Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, as well as Chicago. Her career path followed areas of law, medicine, and real estate. She took early retirement at the age of 44. After being widowed,…
James Wetegrove, Publication Chairman This week the new slate of officers and committee chairs for the 2021 SB Men’s Nine Hole Golf League were introduced at the general meeting in the SaddleBrooke One Clubhouse. We have an exciting year of golf planned. Visit our golf schedule on the Niner’s website at www.sites.google.com/site/sbmens9ers/home for all the complete…
Eileen J. Snearly On Dec. 1, 2020, gratefully there was no snow, but had extraordinarily strong winds. The lady niners showed up in great numbers and played their best despite the winds. The chairpersons and their committee had many challenging decisions because of COVID-19. There was no luncheon or gatherings of any kind, which included…
Matt Kambic Each year, 15 members from the SaddleBrooke Men’s Golf Association (SMGA) along with one of their PGA members play a competition against the MountainView Preserve Men’s Association (MPMGA) with its 15 members and a PGA golf professional. This year’s competition was hosted by the SMGA. The first day of competition was conducted on…