CMSGA is an SCGA affiliate club, with membership consisting of local seniors. Tournaments are held on the first and third Thursday of each month, on either Mesa Linda or Los Lagos - the two 18 hole courses at the Costa Mesa Country Club.
Thanks to the 70 players that took a chance on the weather and participated in yesterday’s tournament. Considering the potential for more cancellations, I was pleased that we only had 17 players absent! It seems the team format is popular, I hope everyone enjoyed the day despite some early showers.
The winning team was Steve Keith / Jerry Vinland / Joseph Chien / Scott Pickard with a -15 / 129 total (Scott was added to complete their foursome, as their original fourth player had to withdraw early. Scott was assigned from another tee group with only two players). Congrats guys, that’s a very good number!
Individual Low Net winners were:
Flight 1 - Per Jensen with a -3 / 69
Flight 2 - Bart Greenberg with a -1 / 71
Flight 3 - Joseph Chien with a -10 / 62 (that will be lowering your index Joseph!)
Flight 4 - Doug Kramer with a +2 / 74
There were many skins winners across all 4 flights, with Bart Greenberg being the only multiple winner with 2 in flight 2. There were 4 CTP winners, with Joseph Chien taking 2 on holes 4 & 17.
Thanks again to all participants, and congrats to all winners.Dan Hudgins, Tournament DirectorFull Data with Hole by Hole Results *Here*
Our 2024 tournament schedule is now on the website (tab above this).
Our December 7th, First Thursday Tournament was played on Mesa Linda. Tied for first place in the team competition were David Basile/Tom Ebert/Bill McCrea/Mike Supple and Don Walls/John Westermeyer/Tony Baccaro/Doug Kramer (net 127 -- 13 below par).
Flight winners from the four respective flights were Mike Meissenburg and Pete de Boer (both net 69), Harlan Andersen (68), King Ling Wong (67) and Kevin Dreiling (69).
Conrad Wilson and Shirley Skirvin were the winners of multiple skins.
Thanks to David Basile for setting up and scoring this tournament (and pushing his team to a victory).
Thanks to all who competed in our annual Skee Memorial Member Member. Although the course was damp, we had no rain and plenty of sun. Early groups finished in 3.5 hours. Ned Whittemore managed a Hole in One on #10. An enjoyable day all around.
Bret Bauer, Tournament Director
Adding their name to our website's Hall of Champions are the winners of the two team flights, all with net 61's. Dave Basile and Bill McCrea handily won Flight 1. Flight 2 went to Wayne Rowell and Eric Gastineau over Bob Colclough and Jim Ortale in a scorecard tiebreaker (back 9 by 1).
Eric and Bill also claimed multiple skins.
Individual flight winners were Steve Keith (67), John Jurczak (66), Tom Ebert (65) and Jim Ortale (66). Great scores despite some pins that were in extremely difficult places.
Joseph Chien, playing in our earliest group, put the CTP placards so tight on #2 and #6 that they were never bested.
Skee Gutmacher was a beloved member, who knew every worker at the course. He had been our CMSGA treasurer for about 20 years, until 2017, when he passed a few days shy of his 94th birthday.
Thanks to Bret Bauer for setting up and scoring this tournament. This was his first. One of the most difficult issues is trying to score and reshape teams when little or no notice is given regarding withdrawals. Please let us know with as much notice as possible if your plans to play must change.
Results with Hole by Hole Data *Here*
I'm not sure that we came up with a fixed solution, but the USGA will implement a rules update in January that changes the requirements for posting incomplete rounds. There is a nice summary in the last issue of SCGA's Fore Magazine.
Rather than restate the current rules, the new rules state that if less than 9 holes are played, no score can be posted. If 9 holes are played, then a 9 hole score is posted if the 9 holes have a separate rating. That 9 hole score will be used to update the player's index the day after posting, without waiting for it to be combined with another 9 hole score.
If 10 to 17 holes are played, then the hole by hole score must be entered when posting. The GHIN posting program with then calculate an adjusted 18 hole score. Posting net pars on any unplayed holes will no longer be the practice.
If any member is interested in taking one of the SCGA rules courses, there are in person and online offerings. There is much to learn. Let us know if you would like to pursue that.
Summary Results *Here* for our away tournament at the Talega Golf Club
Thanks to the 39 members who supported our away tournament. Flight winners were Ryan Haeger (net 70) and Tom Kennedy (net 75). Ryan also scored the lowest gross of the day (76). Hoyt Etter was our only winner of multiple skins. Players were offered the option of playing the forward tees. 33 players stuck with the white tees. The weather cooperated and the predicted winds never materialized. The course offered a number of challenging holes, reflected by more double digit holes entries than usual. Thanks to Mike Drennen for making the arrangements. We can help if any members wants to take the lead in another away event.
We had 15 Member Guest teams. The winning team was John Carroll and his guest, Matt Chavez, combining for a 9 under par net 61.
We had 32 teams in our members without guests division. The lowest scoring team was Sharon Thiedemann and Eric Gastineau, also with a net 61. Payout was to the top 20% in each division.
All members and guests were pooled together and placed in flights for the overall net and net skins prizes. Our total low net winners by respective flights were Pete de Boer (net 69), John Carroll (net 63), Rich Miller (net 68) and Sean McGroarty & Joe Willis (tied at net 67). Net skins varied by flight. Flight 1 had 8 skins with Steve Hess & Steve Gibbs each taking a pair. Flight 2 had only 4 skins. Flight 3 had 9 skins with Leon Tomasyan, Bruce Green and Russ Barrett taking pairs. Flight 4 had only 3 skins, topping the double skins in value.
The weather was great, crossing several climate zones if you started early enough. Thanks to Peter Cary for directing and scoring this complicated tournament. The communication from members on guest information and notice on the few cancellations was most helpful.
Complete Hole by Hole Data Here
Problems in flight assignments were noted after the initial results were posted on Oct 20th. Corrections have been made. This resulted in some changes in skins results. Most results were not affected. These links are to the corrected versions as of Oct 21st. Sorry for the confusion. Let us know if you have any questions.
The day was a mixed bag of weather to be sure. The early groups had to make sure to hit the ball straight for the first hour or so due to the fog that must have hampered their ability to see the ball after it was hit! Eventually the sun broke through, as it usually does, and the rest of the day was typically sunny and nice.
I think everyone enjoyed the alternate scoring format, but especially the winners of the the 2 team flights! Flight 1 winners with a net 89 team score (beating the nearest competition by 7 strokes!) were Bret Bauer / Mark Thomas / Steve Hess / Russ Barrett. Flight 2 winners with a team score of 94 were Jim Rossman / Alonzo Monk / Bill Walker / (Bill McCrea was randomly chosen as the blind to round out the team scoring format.) Congrats to both teams!
Individual Net winners were:
Flight 1 - Mike Supple with a net 66
Flight 2 - Doug Peterson with a net 68
Flight 3 - Russell Barrett with a net 61
Flight 4 - Sharon Thiedemann with a net 69
There
were 28 skins won across the 4 flights, with Doug Peterson, Burnie Presho, Russ
Barrett, Butch May, and Sherry Howard winning 2 skins each!
We had a total of 80 golfers today, thanks for a good turnout. I hope everyone enjoyed the day!
Thanks, Dan Hudgins and Bret Bauer, Tournament Directors
Summary Results *Here*
As always check the results for obvious errors. I don’’t know where to start in my description of today’s play.
I think that the great weather brought out the best in our club. Before I get to the winners let me recap a few things. We had 19 members shoot gross scores in the 70s with the lowest being 72 shot by both Alex Cruz and Greg Prough, good job. There were 9 net scores in the 60’s with the low being 66 by yours truly. 9 of our members got a natural birdie on #8 and 4 got a natural birdie on #9.
The team indexes ranged from a low of 32 to a high of 130 so I split the team contest into 2 flights. The winners of Flight 1 were Plummer, Stranak, Willis, and Kim with 106 Stableford Points, and Flight 2 winners were Arnold, Dague, Kennedy, and Rostrum with 105 points. The difference in first and last in Flight 1 was only 20 points and Flight 2 it was 27 points. These were close contests.
The individual Flight winners were Plummer, Flight 1, Presho Flight 2, Rostrum Flight 3, and Schomberg Flight 4. As you can see the winners in the individual flights helped their teams.
Many Skins were won today, Flight 1 (4) Fitzgibbons, Haeger, Walker, Wittemore; Flight 2 (5) Greenberg(2), Stranak, Presho, Andersen; Flight 3 (12) Rostrum(3), Green(2), McCrea, Baccaro, Kramer, Miller, Aasland, Wittemore, Howard J; Flight 4 (4) Rossman, Nevins, Thiedemann, Howard S. CTPs were wn by Fitzgibbons, Ludlow, Arnold Green, Thiedemann, and Gastineau.
Everyone should be proud of the way the group played today. I know that some feel they should have won a skin on a certain hole but everyone played so well that you probably were tied by someone else. I personally had 4 birdies and won none.
Great playing!!
On a clean up note. I know that it said on the sign up sheet that we were using 100% of your index for the team event, that was a typo. We use 85% of your indexes as recommended by the USGA when we have this type of a team competition. So today we used 85% for team play and 100% for individual play.
Off to Hawaii, Ron Plummer, Tournament Director
Complete Hole by Hole Results *Here*
Our membership voted to limit our membership at our annual membership meeting on September 21st.
The SCGA will continue to send renewal notices to existing members and process credit card renewals for us. Membership will not be available to new members through the SCGA unless we ask them to change that setting. Our club will no longer be visible through SCGA's Club Finder or "Find a Club" search.
It is a sad move to exclude ourselves from new members, as that is the source for our continued existence. Our bimonthly tournaments at the Costa Mesa courses are our main purpose. For the last year, we have filled every tournament that wasn't impacted by the wet season. Members have been frustrated by the difficulty in entering events.
The course has been generous in providing the access to the times that we do get for our tournaments. It is important that we use this resource wisely and play when we commit to play.
Officers for next year were also elected at this meeting. Serving through September 2024 are Bill Cloud, President; Rich Clause, Membership; Jim Meyer, Treasurer; Gerry Schomberg, Handicaps; Jeff MacCarter, Communications; Ron Plummer, Peter Cary, Dave Basile, Dan Hudgins and Bret Bauer, Tournaments. Bret is new to the Board this year. Retiring from the Board was Ken Otsubo.
September Club Championships
2023 Club Champion --- Alex Cruz
2023 Club Champion (net) --- Burnie Presho
2023 Flight 1 Champion --- Per Jensen
2023 Flight 2 Champion --- Burnie Presho
2023 Flight 3 Champion --- Bruce Green
2023 Flight 4 Champion --- Conrad Wilson
Congratulations to all!
Alex won a tiebreaker over Tim Bjelland, both had 146 totals from competition rounds on Los Lagos on September 20th and Mesa Linda on September 21st.
Burnie posted the lowest two day net total of the four flights with a 135 (5 under par) using his best tournament score on Mesa Linda since July plus his September 21st score.
Both are eligible to compete in the SCGA Tournament of Club Champions held on December 4th.
Two Day Scores and Round One Hole by Hole Data of the Gross Competition
Two Day Totals for the Net Competition
We announced our Club Championship winners at the annual membership meeting after the tournament at the Newport Rib Company.
These are the winners of the single day tournament. Our four flight winners are Ryan Haeger (net 67), Steven Johnson (net 65), Don Walls (net 65) and Butch May (net 67). The lowest gross of the day (71) honors were shared by Ryan Haeger, Tom McCafferty and Alex Cruz.
Ed Chavez, Gene Ramirez and Butch May each claimed two skins from the 24 skins won among the four flights. Gene also threw darts at #8 and #12, earning two CTPs.
Thanks to everyone playing in this event that somehow ended up on schedule, despite the chaos at the start. We only try something this complicated once a year.
Complete Hole by Hole Data *Here*
Round 1 Leaderboard
Round 1 was just completed for our 2023 Club Champion (gross). The first round was on Wednesday, September 20th, from the Los Lagos white tees. The second round is on Thursday, September 21st, from the Mesa Linda white tees. The second round is played as part of our regular Thursday tournament. No handicaps are used for this competition. Handicaps will be used for the other competitions taking place on Thursday.
The gross score from this event will be combined with the gross score from Mesa Linda on September 21st to decide our Club Champion (Gross). Members must have played in 5 events since 10/1/2022. Priority for play is given to eligible players with the lowest handicap indexes who sign up by 9/13/2023. Otherwise, play is open to all members as space allows.
A separate $12 entry fee will be collected for a prize pool to be distributed to the top 20% of competitors in this two round event.
Sign Up for Round One of our Club Championship (gross) *Here*
Winners in our four flights today were Tim Bjelland and Don Spreeman (tied net 70), Burnie Presho (net 67), Bruce Green (net 67) and Doug Kramer (net 66). Our lowest overall gross scores were 70, by both Tim Bjelland and Don Spreeman.
Steve Stranak and Robert May each came away with two skins out of 16 skins spread across the flights.
Thanks to Ken Otsubo for setting up and scoring this large tournament. Ken is retiring as a tournament director after this tournament.
92 players were signed up and 89 played. Please let us know when you can't make it.
We had a large turnout of 92 players for this tournament. It took some time, but eventually every player on the waiting list was given a place. Our respective net flight winners were John Ludlow (66), Ed Chavez (68), Bob Colclough (69) and Kevin Dreiling (68). Tim Bjelland shot a gross even par 70. Steve Stranak and Leon Tomasyan each won a pair of skins.
Thanks to Ken Otsubo for setting up and scoring this tournament.
Hole by Hole Data Results *Here*
The course was in prime shape, as it was being prepared for the Costa Mesa City Championships this weekend.
We have a few members entered into that tournament and wish them well.
The flight winners of our August 3rd tournament were Tim Bjelland and Pete de Boer (both net 69's) in Flight 1, Bill Cloud and Burnie Presho (also net 69's in Flight 2, Chris Aasland (net 68) in Flight 3, and Keving Dreiling (net 67) in Flight 4. Tim also had the lowest gross of the day, shooting even par (70).
Multiple skins winners were Ryan Haegar and Shirley Skirvin.
Thanks to Ken Otsubo for setting up and scoring this tournament.
Summary Results *Here*
Many four-somes produced some very good scores, on a very warm day.
The
lowest scoring team was King Ling Wong, Robert Ou, Robert May and Robert
Wilson won their flight with a net -19 under par. The team of George
Fitzgibbons, John Ludlow, Tim Schilling and Jim Thornton won Flight one with a net
-15.
The best individual net scores by flight: Flight 1, John Ludlow net 65;
Flight 2, Dan Hudgins net 68; Flight 3, King Ling Wong net 66; and Flight
4, Russell Barrett net 67.
Multiple Skins winners were,in Flight 2, Steve Stranak with birdies on # 11 and # 18; Jim Meyer with a
birdie on # 2 and Eagle on # 7. Flight 3, Sean McGroarty with Birdies
on #'s 2 and 13; and in Flight 4, Robert (Butch) May had 4 skins, with
Birdies on hole #'s 11, 13, 15 and 17! Also, Jim Ortale (#14, #16) and Kent Cowgur (#2, #7)
Thank
you all for playing and making this a fun tournament. Just a reminder,
the final group must pick up all the CTP pins and place them on top of
the locker in the men's locker room.
And again, many thanks to Bill Cloud and Ron Plummer for helping me with this tournament.
Regards, Peter Cary, Tournament Director
Summary Results *Here*
July 6th was the first tournament which was eligible as a score to be included for our September Club Championship (net) competition. Our Club Championships final round will be Thursday, September 21st. Like last year, that day will begin with an early shotgun start and be followed by our annual membership meeting and banquet at Newport Rib. More to follow on that. To be eligible for Club Champion (net), a member must have played in 5 CMSGA events since October 2022. The Club Champion (net) is determined by the combined score from the lowest score on July 6th, August 3rd, August 17th or September 7th and your September 21st score.
Thanks to Ken Otsubo for setting up and scoring this tournament. We had 86 players compete in four flights. The lowest gross score of 70 (which was also his net) was posted by Tim Bjelland. The winners of the four net flights were Per Jensen (67), a tie by John Carroll and Dan Hudgins (66), King LIng Wong (66) and Karen Hudgins (65). Each are off to a good start for September.
Per Jensen and Hoyt Etter were both multiple skins winners.
Welcome New Members!
July
- Darren Goodman, 7/6/23
- Richard Munroe, 7/1/23
June
- Michael Hochman, 6/29/23
- Frank Gomez, 6/6/23
May
- Bob Wilson, 5/30/23
- Robert OConner, 5/27/23
- Steven Johnson, 5/17/23
- Lawrence Boeck, 5/16/23
April
- Johnny Kim, 4/27/23
- Mark Digiambattista, 4/27/23
- Michael Ross, 4/26/23
- Damian Wilkerson, 4/25/23
- Vu Le, 4/23/23
- Greg Prough, 4/22/23
- Nick Cousyn, 4/1/23
- John Carroll, 4/1/23
Membership as of 7/2/23: 202
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Post contains current month and prior month new members.
Update may include returning members whose membership had lapsed.
It
was a great day to be playing golf in SoCal. We had 5 players who scored in the 70s with Tim Bjelland
carding a 71 gross. Two of these low rounds helped their teams
come in 1st and 2nd in the A Flight, with McClanahan and
Hess winning over Bjelland and Carroll. The B flight
winners were Stranak and Willis as they took their time
playing their game to shoot 10 under par net. Low Flight
winners were again Bjelland, McClanahan, Mohney, and Willis.
There were only two players with multiple skins today
George Fitzgibbons with 3 and yours truly with 2. Hope
everyone had a good time today.
Ron Plummer, Tournament Director
Complete Hole by Hole Results *Here*
Mesa Linda was in about as good a condition to play as ever, with 7 out of 82 players coming in below net par.
The lowest handicap flight played the blue tees, and was won by Ned Whittemore with a net 68. Ned's 76 was also the lowest gross of the day. Flight 2 produced a 4 way tie for first between John Carroll, Doug Peterson, Arnie Aparicaio and Dan Kim, all with net 70's. Robert Simpson led flight 3 with a net 67. Sherry Howard won overall low net honors in flight 4, with her net 64!
Kevin Dreiling was our only winner of multiple skins, outscoring the others in flight 4 on holes 12, 15 and 18.
Thanks to Dave Basile for setting up and scoring this tournament.
Complete Hole by Hole Data *Here*
Memorial Service on Saturday, June 3rd at 11AM, Orange County Buddhist Church, 909 Date St., Anaheim, CA 92804
Don Miyada 1925 to 2023
Don Miyada passed on Friday, April 21st at home. a month shy of his 98th birthday. He was a member of the CMSGA since 1986. He was still golfing with us less than a year ago. He has been recognized on the CMSGA Hall of Champions many times. Don's life and persona were remarkable. He will be missed.
2014 OC Register - Newport Harbor High honors
2014 LA Times - Newport Harbor High honors
2019 LA Japanese News - WWII commendation
We had a total of 61 golfers. Not the typical number we see on tournament days, but I think those that attended enjoyed themselves, despite it staying cool all day and the sun not showing itself once!
Thanks, Dan Hudgins, Tournament Director
Playing with four clubs changes the game, but it is a fun exercise on occasion. Bob Baker clearly has more clubs in his bag than he really needs, as he posted the lowest net of the day (65). There were only two other sub par nets. Jim Ortale had a 67, finishing second in flight to Bob. Larry Newman won his flight with a 69. Bill Walker won Flight 1 with a 70. Tim Bjeiland took low gross honors at 75.
Larry Newman, Dan Hudgins, Bob Baker, Robert May, Jim Ortale and Sharon Theidemann each won a pair of skins from the 23 awarded overall.
Thanks to those who played and to Dan Hudgins for directing and scoring this tournament.
Summary Tournament Results Here.
Thanks to all who braved the unpredictable weather yesterday. It turned out to be a very nice day overall after some early rain and a brief shower mid-morning!
Of the 90 that were scheduled to play, we we ended up with 83 players. Despite the moisture we still had some low team scores and low net individual scores as well.
Congrats to the team of Rustrum/Kennedy/Haeger/Cruz for taking first place in flight 1 with a -16 team score, and Baccaro/Kramer/Walls,/Westermeyer for first place in flight 2 with a team score of -12.
In individual net play, flight 1 we had 4 players (Mike Supple, Pete deBoer, Joe Kelly and Alex Cruz) tie for first with net 67's (hats off to Alex Cruz for a gross 67!). The flight 2 winner, Steve Stranak, also shot 67. Flight 3 ended in a 3 way tie at the top between Robert Simpson, Damian Wilkerson and Tom Kennedy. In flight 4, Jim Ortale won with the lowest individual net of the day (64).
There were a total of 22 skins won across 4 flights. Jim Ortale and Hoyt Etter were our only winners of more than one skin.
All in all, a fun day for everyone I hope.
Dan Hudgins, Tournament Director
Full Results with Hole by Hole Data Here
Maybe it's a good problem to have, but CMSGA is about to hit 200 members. It wouldn't necessarily be an issue, but a high percentage of our members want to play in our tournaments. We have been able to accommodate most up to now, but we are very close to no longer being able to make that claim. We have always welcomed new members. I think I know what the most likely response is going to be to this question. Do you think we should cap our membership at 200? Please comment (respectfully).
We played on Los Lagos. The team format was 2 player teams, counting one best ball net. Playing handicaps for the team competition were 85% of the course handicap. Two singles were combined across tee times to form one of the teams. We also had individual overall net and net skins by flight, using 100% of course handicap, although skin's handicaps are adjusted to play off the low in each flight. Ron Plummer was the tournament director.
The first place team in the A Flight was Pete deBoer and Gene Ramirez. Their best ball net score was a 12 under par 60, winning by a margin of 7 strokes. The B Flight had a tie for first between Ryan Haeger / Eric Brady and Sean McGroarty / Russ Barrett. Ryan and Eric didn't realize they would be a team, as they were playing as singles in their tee group. Both teams scored a net 66.
Individual low net winners by flight were Pete deBour, with a net 68; Burnie Presho and Eric Gastineau tied, with net 71's; Leon Tomasyan won, with a net 69; Bruce Green and Russ Barrett tied with net 72's.
We had 21 skins distributed among four flights. Winners of two skins were Pete deBour, Paul Hennessy and Eric Brady.
The last Presidents Cup match was played, with Tom Ebert winning the B Flight 6+4 over the other finalist, Joe Willis. The tournament was extended about 6 weeks more than expected, due to many rain related postponements. One wish of Jeff MacCarter, who organized the tournament, is that the two flight winners, Dave Wilson and Tom Ebert, will have an ultimate grand playoff match. If that does happen, we will keep you posted. Thanks to our many participants.
Also thanks to Ron Plummer for setting up and scoring this tournament. Only two or three years ago we might only get 40 members to play on Los Lagos. We had 82 players on the course yesterday.
Results showing all hole by hole data here.
April 6th First Thursday Tournament Results *Here*
Finally, after a very wet year so far, we had a glorious day for golf. It was wonderful to see 91 players in our largest tournament this year. Here is a breakdown of the winning scores in the team event, individual scores and skins:
There were two flights for the team's two best
ball nets. In Flight 1, the winning team was Tom Ebert, Jim Thornton,
Mike Brennen and Rob Kirchgessner with a combined net of 19 under par.
In Flight 2, the winners were Ron Plummer, Doug Kramer, John Westermeyer
and Jim Rossman with a combined net score of 24 under par.
The
individual net scores were divided into four Flights: In Flight 1, the
winner was Jerry Vinland with a net 65; Flight 2, the winner was Tom
Ebert with a net 61.(Tom had a gross score of 72!). Flight 3 was won by
Bruce Green with a net of 67, and Flight 4 was won by John Westermeyer,
also with a net 67.
Joe Willis and Robert Simpson competed in a President's Cup semifinal match. Joe was the winner by a 5 and 4 margin. Congratulations! Joe will face Tom Ebert in the final.
There
were four Skins Flights: In Skins Flight 1, Mike Drennen had 3 skins
with birdies on holes 4 and 13, and an Eagle on 14. John Ludlow had a
double-eagle (an Albatross!) on hole # 11. This is one better than a
hole-in-one on a par 3! That was amazing. In Skins Flight 2, there were
a total of four skins. In Skins Flight 3 there were three skins, and in
Skins Flight 4, Shirley Skirvin won three skins with an eagle on hole
#2, and birdies on holes 6 and 10.
Thank you to everyone who
played, congratulations to the winners, and my sincere thanks to our
president, Bill Cloud, for all the help he gave me in running this
tournament.
Sincerely, Peter Cary, Tournament Director
And thanks to Peter for directing and scoring this tournament. Despite the recent green maintenance, we had 18 players score net par or better, close to our usual percentage. Jerry Vinland set the bar early in the lead group placing his ball about a foot from the hole on #2. Jerry also had the lowest gross of the day (71). Tom Ebert gave notice he was having a good day as most players got to see his CTP on #17 about 2" above the hole, a near miss ace, halting in a punch mark.
Bill
Our March 16th Third Thursday Tournament was played in wet conditions. The field was reduced to walkers only, as no carts were allowed. We had 47 players in the stroke play competitions. We divided the tournament purse equally between team results, individual total net and net skins. The Shamble format, along with a lift, clean and place rule and good weather, produced some amazing numbers.
The finals match of one President's Cup bracket was completed. Dave Wilson is our 2023 A Flight Champion, defeating Jim Meyer 5 & 3.
Our lowest gross was a 69 shot by Mike Edles. In the low handicap flight 18 out of 23 players shot below 80. Even the high handicap flight had 8 out of 24 players below 80 gross.
The team of Walker, Kramer, Westermeyer and Chien were 32 strokes under par, using two best ball net scores and 85% handicaps. Kelly, Myers, Whittemore and Whittemore were second at 24 under par.
Doug Kramer had the lowest net of the day at 51 using full handicaps. Second in his flight was a tie at 57 by John Westermeyer and Russ Barrett. The other flight was led by a net 63 from Burnie Presho, followed by Mike Edles with a net 64. Burnie and Russ were also winners of two skins apiece.
These scores will not be posted because of the format. If they were posted they could wreck a few handicaps.
Thanks to Dan Hudgins for directing this tournament. Team events like this are fun. We appreciate the communication from members that allowed us to reorganize and still have so many full teams.
Yesterday, we played with a reduced field of only walkers. We can verify that the course was much too wet for carts. Wetness aside, the playing conditions were good (if you avoided bunkers) and there were a number of low scores.
Congratulations to Mike Edles with a net 61 as the winner from the blue tees. Jerry Vinlaand, Don Spreeman and Peter de Boer tied for second with net 61's. Lon Monk and Russ Barrett tied for first, playing from the white tees, with net 68's. Steve Stranak, Sean McGroarty and Joe Mohney took third, fourth and fifth. Mike McClanahan was our only winner of multiple skins. There were 6 skins in each flight.
The low handicap flight of the President's Cup was played. Jim Meyer and Dave Wilson are the finalists. The other flight semifinals have had to be rescheduled.
Thanks to Dave for directing this tournament. It was more complicated than most. He had to prepare two sets of scorecards (for with carts and without) and a set of CTP markings, which we did not use. With two versions of tee times, the flights and tee assignments were tricky. Dave achieved a new level of proficiency in using the Golf Genius tournament app.
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Mesa Linda has a new scorecard circulating and Los Lagos will have one soon.
The scorecard now states: no relief from flower beds, which is the rule for city sponsored tournaments.
We will update our local rules to comply. A flower bed is no longer considered equivalent to ground under repair. Relief with a one stroke penalty may allowed per USGA rules for an unplayable lie, if that applies, permitting a drop within two club lengths from the location of the ball, no closer to the hole.
Another rule update deals with hole # 8 on Mesa Linda. As yellow stakes are no longer being placed, the water will be played as a red penalty area. When a ball enters the red penalty area from the green side of the hole, this now allows the option of dropping a ball, with a one stroke penalty, within two club lengths of where the ball entered the penalty area, no closer to the hole.
Both Mesa Linda and Los Lagos were recently re-rated by the SCGA. The new rating changes are small and will not have much effect on handicaps. We will begin using the new ratings once they are implemented in the GHIN and Golf Genius apps.
February 16th Results
An error in Flight assignments has resulted in a correction from what was posted initially.
Flights were assigned by Course Handicap, not Handicap Index. For this tournament, Flight 1 had course handicaps from +1 to 9, Flight 2 was 10 to 17, and Flight 3 was 18 to 38. Sorry for the confusion.
Tournament Summary Results *Here*
We had a slight delay due to a frost alert. The weather, although a little cool to start, really turned into a
beautiful day to play golf. Some very good scores were recorded, and the results in the three Stableford Flights are:
In
Flight 1, Joe Kelly won with a total of 42 points, one point ahead of
second place Mike McClanahan (41). Third and fourth place went to Mike Edles and Jon Borchert. Ed Chavez and Ned Whittemore tied for fifth.
Flight 2 had a first place tie between Bob Kirchgessner and Mark Spreeman with 43 points. Rich Miller, King Wong and Steve Stranak took third, fourth and fifth.
Our Flight
3 winner was Bob Baker with 47 points, best of the day! Second was tied between Conrad Wilson and John Westermeyer with 46
points. Joe Mohney and Shirley Skirvin placed fourth and fifth.
Skins were plentiful, with 6 skins in Flight 2 and 9 skins in Flight 3. Jim Ortale and Conrad Wilson each pocketed multiple skins.
We had 87 players, out of 92 originally scheduled. Eight President's Cup matches have now advanced to their flight semifinals.
Thank you to all for playing. Looking forward to seeing you at our next tournament on March 2nd.
Peter Cary, Tournament Director
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