Tag: Golf

Meet the Winners of MPMGA’s Member-Member Match Play

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…

2021 Mars/Venus Tournament

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…

MPLN January 2021 Calendar Girl: Maggie Brown

Maggie Brown

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…

Lady Niners Give Tribute to Their Founders

Terri Tindal winner Founders Day 2021

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…

MPLN February 2021 Calendar Girl: Deb Bunker

Deb Bunker

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,…

SaddleBrooke Men’s Nine Hole Golf League Elects New Officers

Left to right: Dick Cook, website chair; Gary Beeler, handicap/rules chair; Richard Spitzer, technical advisor; James Wetegrove, publicity chair; Dennis Holt, social chair; Jay Love, president; Gary Brunelle, secretary/treasurer; Dick Ashwood, membership chair; Calvin Saulsbury, tournament chair; Paul Belanger, assistant tournament chair; and Tom Dowell, vice president (Missing: Bob Auld, assistant handicap/rules)

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…

MountainView Preserve Lady Niners Present “Let It Snow”

Left to right: Barbara Bloch (co-chairperson), Becky Lima, Diane Mazzarella (co-chairperson), Kathy Turner, and Loralee Horwedel; not pictured: Eileen Snearly (photographer)

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…

2020 Ryder Competition: SMGA vs. MPMGA

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…

SBWGA-18’s January 2021 Outlook

Gail Plimpton (left), November Net Ace and Takeyo Eakin, November Gross Ace

Venetia Hobson Lewis After the holiday season of 2020, SaddleBrooke Women’s Golf Association-18 (SBWGA-18) welcomes in the new year of 2021 with a new series of weekly games on Tuesday mornings, our regularly scheduled event and meeting days. The Tuesday Play Day Committee already has a full complement of games planned. Our Special Tournaments Chair,…