Alan Doan The MountainView Preserve Men’s Golf Association (MPMGA) Tournament of Champions was held at the Preserve on Jan. 13. Participants in this tournament are selected based on the number of points accumulated in MPMGA events held throughout the previous year. They must achieve four points to be eligible. That means winning an individual event…
Matt Kambic 2020 has been a most challenging year for all of us, including the members of the MountainView-Preserve Men’s Golf Association (MPMGA). Early in the year, the MPMGA Board decided to postpone its annual President’s Cup Tournament scheduled for March and move it to December. When December finally arrived, 96 players signed up to…
Bob Edelblut Everyone knows by now that when I say “the train,” I am making reference to the MPMGA’s hole-in-one train. Believe me every member wants his seat on this train! Don Plapinger recorded his third hole-in-one on December 4, 2016. It was the 17th ace recorded by a member in that historic year.…
Tim Morsani The MountainView-Preserve Men’s 9-Hole League is in the midst of its eighth year. All golfers have collected their winnings and now begin 2017 with a clean slate. Most of the big money (pro-shop credit) is awarded by way of a spring and a fall tournament. Special congratulations go to 2016 leaders Mike Reale,…
Dennis Marchand In case you haven’t noticed, this has been a banner year for holes-in-one in the MountainView Preserve Men’s Club and it has been the envious honor of our Publicity Director Bob Edelblut to document and be the scribe for all these great successes. Ironically, our honorable publicity director has never had one himself,…
Bob Edelblut This year’s event was played at the Saddlebrooke Ranch and the Preserve Golf Club courses on May 20 and 21. Day one at the Ranch the format was a Modified Chapman and day two at the Preserve the game changed to a Best Net Stableford Score between the two partners. Flight winners and…
Bob Edelblut On Friday, June 12 at The Preserve Golf Club, Dick Stanley had his seventh hole-in-one. This is not a misprint. It really was his seventh. It occurred on the sixth hole and Dick’s best guess was that the shot was about 140 yards. He chose his trusty eight iron. Dick and his playing…
On Thursday, January 9 the MountainView Preserve Men’s Golf Association had its first member luncheon of 2015. Typical SaddleBrooke winter weather prevailed but over 100 members revved their engines and stood on their assigned tees for the 8:00 a.m. shotgun start. This year the membership was challenged with a par three tournament. Dick Helms, the…