CMSGA is an SCGA affiliate club, with membership consisting of local seniors. Tournaments are held on alternate Thursdays of each month, on either Mesa Linda or Los Lagos - the two 18 hole courses at the Costa Mesa Country Club.
Our tournament originally scheduled for April 10th on Mesa Linda got bumped by a large tournament. We were given a block of time to play Thursday, April 3rd on Los Lagos. The team format is a four player team scoring two best balls net. We will also have individual stroke play competitions (gross, net, skins).
One tee time is reserved for third round President's Cup matches. Dan Hudgins is the tournament director. Please add your name to the waitlist, if you don't see an opening that you can take. The sign up list opens on Friday, March 21st, at 8 AM at this location.
We had unusually good weather and course conditions for play. The team of Jim and Sherry Howard won with a best ball net 59. 22 out of 34 teams were under par. Sixth place got congested with a five way tie.
The lowest gross scores by flight were posted by Marty Burns (73 blue tees), Dennis Lyons & John Carroll (tied at 79 blue tees), Wayne Rowell (82 white tees) and Robert Ou (white tees) & Gerry Schomberg (silver tees) (tied at 90). The lowest nets by flight were Marty Burns (69), John Carroll (67), Bruce Green (68) and Sherry Howard (68). 26 skins were earned in the four flights. Jim Howard won 3 and Shirley Skirvin won 2. The rest were solos.
The remainder of second round President's Cup matches were also completed and are posted on the brackets link on that section.
Thanks to Peter Cary for setting up and scoring this tournament.
The 2025 President's Cup is our only match play event of the year. The draw and brackets have been completed. Matches and results may be viewed through the "brackets" link below. We have 32 players. All players should have received an email (sent Jan 21st) regarding pre-scheduled match times in February. Additional signups may be alternates for first round withdrawals.
Not the easiest day to play, but we had 74 golfers take a chance. We found a window between storms, endured a bit of wind and got her done.
We had 68 players in the shamble. We usually pay the top 20% of the field in each category, but we expanded the payout to the top 33% in the absence of the individual competitions. The last payout tier was split between 5 teams, which expanded the winners list to the top 50%, but the payout amount was very diluted. Three second round President's Cup matches were completed, with results on the website.
The best team of soggy turf wind players were Joe Mohney and Don Spreeman (at 9 under par). Followed by a two way tie for second, a four way tie for fourth, a four way tie for eighth and a five way tie for twelfth. An very tight finish which included a wide mix of handicap indexes.
A new competition of team skins using the total net of both balls was also scored, with the hope that it might spread the wealth, but the shamble winners dominated the category, with a few exceptions. The team of Joe Willis and Pete deBoer garnered a pair of skins. Kent Pfeiffer threw a pair of darts to earn two CTP's.
Thanks to Peter Cary for setting up and scoring this tournament. Thanks to you members for keeping us informed and showing up. With weather on both ends of the tournament, this was a great turnout.
The day brightened after a foggy beginning for the early starters, who lead in the low gross category despite that. This was a big field today. We ultimately had 75 players in stroke play. The President's Cup had nine first round matches decided. The second round is now underway. Those results are posted on the website entry for PC brackets.
The teams of (Bob Baker / Conrad Wilson), (Rich Swingle / Arnie Aparicio) and (Kent Pfeiffer / Tim Schilling) tied for first at 6 under par.
Our lowest gross scores of the day by flight are Steve Keith (70), Ron Plummer (80), Sean McGroarty (83) and Joe Mohney (89). The net leaders were Steve Lyons (67), Ron Plummer & Burnie Presho (tied at 72), Christie Whittemore, King LIng Wong & Don Walls (tied at 69), and Conrad Wilson (68).
Overall, 23 skins were awarded. Claiming a pair each were Ryan Haeger, Burnie Presho and Gerry Schomberg. Todd Danly captured two CTP's (#10 & #17).
Thanks to Bret Bauer for setting up and scoring this tournament. Thanks to everyone for playing and to those who let us know when they couldn't. We were able to offer slots to everyone who had been hanging on the waiting list until the end. Don Wall just made it in the day before and played quite well.
The weather
kept a few people home today, but I'd say it was a bad decision on
their part because the rain was minimal and early. The rest of the
day was fine.
We had 13 no-shows after the cards
were printed, so there was a little shuffling around of a few teams and
players, but when it was all reassembled to create complete 2 person
teams, we ended up 58 golfers and 29 teams. I did have to place 3
golfers randomly to fill in a few holes even though
these teams did not play together; Tom Kennedy was teamed with Anthony
Baccaro, Bob Angel was teamed with Gary Bennett, and Conrad Wilson was
teamed with Ed Chavez. Below are some of results.
Stableford 2 person teams
Flight 1 team winners were John Jurczak and yours truly
Flight 2 team winners were John Westermeyer and Doug Kramer
Stableford Individual
Flight 1 winner: Mike Mclanahan
Flight 2 winner: Jim Meyer and Dan Hudgins tied for first place
Flight 3 winner: Todd Danly
Flight 4 winner: John Westermeyer
Skins
Flight 1 Peter Cary won 2 skins, with 4 others awarded
Flight 2 Jim Meyer won 2 skins, with 3 others awarded
Flight 3 Todd Danly won 2 skins, with 3 others awarded
Flight 4 had 9 skins awarded
Thanks to all who braved the weather today and made the effort to make
our tournament another success! And a special thanks to Ron for his
assistance!
Dan Hudgins, Tournament Director
And thanks to Dan for setting up and scoring this tournament. We just added results for the low gross Stableford winners in each flight: Mike Clanahan (32), John Jurczak (27), Todd Danly (23) and John Westermeyer (19).
