Diane Mazzarella The MountainView/Preserve Lady Niners (MPLN) once again won the Robson Challenge Trophy. PebbleCreek hosted this year’s tournament that included golfers and pros from the Robson Communities of SaddleBrooke, PebbleCreek and Quail Creek. SaddleBrooke and PebbleCreek fielded two teams each for a total of five teams competing on March 9, 2016. SaddleBrooke’s two teams…
Elaine Kienitz The SaddleBrooke Lady Niners three day Club Championship is over. The 2016 Club Champion is Mary Crooks. Congratulations, Mary! Mary had the low gross total for the three courses. Flight winners were determined using the Stableford scoring system which is a challenge in itself. Prickly Pear Flight: 1st Sharon Mikolitis, 2nd Janet Rasmusson;…
Karen Wilson and Janey Clausen represented MPWGA at State Medallion on Saturday, January 16. The tournament was held at PebbleCreek Golf Resort in Phoenix. With Karen’s net score of 70 and Janey’s gross score of 86, they placed second in their flight. Congratulations!
Bob Edelblut and Dan Schroeder The Dennis Marchand era officially ended in December at the Men’s Club Winter Bash when the slate of 2016 Board Members was approved by the membership. As was said that day by Bob Eder, President Elect, “You will be a tough act to follow.” Many others who served with you…
Bob Edelblut On Sunday, January 31 Dan Schroeder became the sixth M-PMGA active member to record a hole-in-one in January. No one questioned could remember that many aces occurring in that short a time frame—unbelievable. Dan’s hole-in-one was special for several reasons. It was his first ever in a career that began some fifty years…
Barbara Johnson The weather in February was sometimes frightful and sometimes delightful, but the SaddleBrooke Lady Niners managed to enjoy every bit of it! The festivities started on February 9 with our annual Across the Brooke Tournament, where the SaddleBrooke Lady Niners join their sisters from MountainView/Preserve Lady Niners. This year the MVP Lady Niners…
Bob Edelblut On Monday, January 25 Mark Wood recorded his second hole-in-one at the MountainView Golf Course. His first occurred in March of 2014 at The Preserve Golf Club and many of you may remember that Mark proudly admitted at that time that his first ever was made after his 80th birthday. We can only…
At our MPWGA kick-off dinner on Tuesday, January 26, Pilar Borm was presented with the 2015 Most Improved Golfer Award. Pilar’s GHIN determining factor was 1.227, 4/1000ths of a point better than the second place finisher, Holly Lyon. Congratulations, Pilar!
Bob Edelblut This year’s Ryder Cup was played on February 18 and 19. On day one The Preserve Golf Club took on the field and on day two The SaddleBrooke Golf Club was the host. Each club loaded its team with sixteen low handicap players. As you can imagine they all play the game quite…
At the January Partner’s Event luncheon, Rob Malik, Handicap Chair, announced the 2015 SMGA Most Improved Player winner. Based on the handicap indexes as of January 1, 2016, compared to the indexes from January 1, 2015, our 2015 most improved golfer is Clarance Johnson. On January 1, 2015, Clarance was playing to an index of…