What could be better than free golf, free lunch, and free beer? Well, how about $1,000+ in prize money to top things off? That’s what members of the MountainView-Preserve Men’s Golf Association were treated to on June 9 in the annual Summer Bash, a scramble format held at The Preserve. Prize money was awarded to…
Alan Doan The MountainView-Preserve Men’s Golf Association (MPMGA) 2022 Member-Guest Tournament was held April 28 through 30 at the MountainView and Preserve golf courses. This was the club’s first three-day member-guest event since 2019. Thankfully, our out-of-town guests were able to travel with fewer restrictions. Member-guest teams were divided into three flights of 10 teams each, based…
Alan Doan Ninety-two—that’s how many MountainView Preserve Men’s Golf Association (MPMGA) golfers teed it up in the annual Stampede, a (normally) two-day, four-man team event. Day one was held on Feb. 21 at the Preserve. Day two was scheduled for the 24th, but was canceled due to weather. (In the words of MPMGA President Dick…
Alan Doan The MountainView-Preserve Men’s Golf Association (MPMGA) Member-Member Match Play Tournament was held on Jan. 17, 20, and 27 at the MountainView and Preserve golf courses. Multiple flights of eight two-man teams were established based on each team’s combined course handicap, with purple tee players and green tee players placed in separate brackets. A…
Alan Doan The Tournament of Champions, held this year on Jan. 13 at the Preserve, is an annual event for qualifying members of the MountainView-Preserve Men’s Golf Association (MPMGA). Participants are selected based on the number of points accumulated in MPMGA events throughout the previous year. Winning your flight in an individual event earns four…
Alan Doan The men’s golf clubs of both SaddleBrooke One and SaddleBrooke TWO just competed in the annual Javelina Cup that pits members of both 18-hole golf clubs in a two-day match play tournament played at the courses of both the MountainView Preserve Men’s Golf Association (MPMGA) and the SaddleBrooke Men’s Golf Association (SMGA). The Javelina Cup was played…
Joe Sieverding Scores an Ace in MPMGA Event Alan Doan If you play golf at MountainView or The Preserve, you’ve surely seen Joe Sieverding’s friendly, smiling face. Sometimes he greets you on the first tee as the starter. Other times, he keeps an eye on things out on the course as a marshall. But maybe…
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…
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…
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…