Flight 1 Mixer Tournament, First Place Winners, left to right: Grant Moorhead, Bruce Hulbert, Paul Metivier and George Clark
PCMGA AND PCM9GA Executive Board Members, left to right: Bill Schaffer, Bill Gainer, Jerry Treece, Randy Prinz, Ray Clements, Chuck Gustafson, Bob Caldwell, John Krasnan, John Stergulz, Paul Metivier, Dave Eckert and Bruce Hulbert
Erv Stein
PebbleCreek’s two sanctioned golf organizations, the PCMGA 18 hole group and the PCM9GA 9 hole group conducted their first ever joint mixer tournament teeing off early Thursday morning at 7:30 a.m. on June 11 utilizing both the front nine and back nine Eagle’s Nest Courses.
Thanks to the excellent efforts of the PCMGA executive board members, including Jerry Treece and Chuck Gustafson and also the coordination efforts from Ray Clements and the rest of the PCM9GA board members, a total of approximately 120 PCMGA and PCM9GA members, 20 five-somes, participated and simply had great fun utilizing the Step-Aside variation of the standard Scramble format in which each team member tees off with his own ball and from there on until the final putt shot, for successive shots the team member with the best drive, iron or putt stroke steps aside and the other team members use the same golf ball position for the next shot.
Hats off to the pairing efforts which contributed greatly towards keeping the competition on an even playing field since just a few strokes or fractions of strokes separated the winners from the also-rans. In addition, the net scores for each team were further adjusted based upon the prevailing AGA handicaps of each team member. The first, second, third and fourth place teams received cash prizes and kudos to the winners as follows (listed by place, team score, and winning team members):
Flight 1
1st Place, 39.3, George Clark, Paul Metivier, George Marley, Grant Moorhead and Bruce Hulbert
2nd Place/3rd Place Tie, 40.2, Bill Armstrong, Dave Willison, Jerry Fox, Connie Neeley and Ken Gangl; Stan Smith, Keith Tingelhoff, Jerry White, Doug Wainwright and Bart Ventura
Flight 2
1st Place, 36.7, Jim Bundschuh, Bruce Ruder, Terry Johnson, Ed Force and Walter Hohlstein
2nd Place, 38, William Gainer, Arnold Lawrence, Fred Schwartz, Bjarne Kaer and Stan Fuller
3rd Place, 38.2, Paul Ysteboe, Jim Wolfe, Mitch Lincoln, Mike D’Onofrio and Erv Stein
Flight 3
1st Place, 32.4, Richard Roth, Barry Stauffer, Steffen Jacobson, Greg McKenzie and Christopher Jeans
2nd Place, 37.2, Jim Stack, Danner Danner, Thomas Rico, Josh Rabinowitz and Robert Cowan
3rd Place, 37.9, Dennis Howell, James Seith, Nelson Shahon, Jim Sheard and Larry Blackburn
Your author’s five-some was among many groups which produced some truly incredibly colossal if not titanic drives close to 300 yards or perhaps more and I was privileged to observe several such drives from both Paul Ysteboe and likewise from Mike D’Onofrio.
Again much thanks to the PCMGA for coordinating this outstanding Mixer Event and also to our PCM9GA President Ray Clements and his board for organizing the second PCMGA/PCMGA Mixer Event conducted on July 23 which likewise was truly an awesome success.