July 14 Mixer Tournament Winners, left to right: Jim Beyers, Lee McDonnell, Bill Schaefer, Ron Shrum, Jim Seth, B. Ruder, Dave Baseheart, Rene Lefebvre, Ray Measles and Stan Smith
Erv Stein
On the morning of July 14, close to 100 PCM9GA/PCMGA members participated in still another Mixer Tournament, playing a full 18 holes at our Eagle’s Nest Course. In the last year or so, the PCM9GA and PCMGA groups have teamed up for several of these mixer events which have accomplished really great cooperation and fostered further increased comradeship between our two PebbleCreek sanctioned men’s golfing groups.
The foursome teams were organized with two each PCM9GA/PCMGA members and further broken down into Flights A and B. In addition, the most commonly deployed Scramble Format was deployed in which the location of the best ball for each stroke was utilized from the initial drive though each succeeding stroke through the final putting stroke. Each team member was required to have at least four of their drives utilized for the entire 18 hole event and invariably, the errant initial drives which must be counted made the big difference in either winning or being at the bottom of the pack. Nevertheless, while perhaps a few of our PCM9GA members may have been awestruck being paired up with some PCMGA participants which astounded us with titanic long drives and so forth, once again this proved to be a fun filled enjoyable event for us all.
The net team scores were compiled on the basis of strokes below PAR, with PAR of course being 72 and with the typically ultra-tight competition, the winning team scores ranged from -21 to -25. Kudos to the Flight 1 and Flight 2 and Closest to the Pin Winners as follows:
Rank Team Score Team Members
Flight 1
First Place -25 Bill Schaffer, D. Goodin, B. Quarantino, Randy Prinz
Second Place -22 B. Armstrong, B. Williams, B. Hedien, S. Butkiewicz
Third Place -20 S. Smith, R, Measles, M. Lincoln, B. Taschner
Flight 2
First Place -23 S. Pirner, J. Seth, D, Baseheart, R. Lefebvre
Second Place -23 R. Shrum, L. McDonnell, B. Ruder, J. Beyers
Third Place -21 G. Clark, R. Catalano, M. D’Onofrio, G. Butson
Closest to the L. Haiflich, Jim Wolfe, K. Jolinski, Dave Gasch
Pin Winners
Our annual Summer Club Sizzler Tournament, with members from all four PebbleCreek golf club members participating, was just conducted on August 25 and our annual Summer Survivor Tournament will be held on September 28. With the annual closure of our PebbleCreek Courses for reseeding in October, four off-campus events are scheduled at local area courses to include Falcon Dunes, Sundance, Coyote Lakes and Coldwater. Our current membership role is at 348 members and we highly urge new interested members to join our truly outstanding fun-loving group which welcomes golfers at all skill levels. The $50 annual cost includes dues for the AGA membership which is essential for handicap reporting. Please visit the PebbleCreek PCM9GA website at www.PCM9GA.org or you may contact our current PCM9GA Membership Chairman Bruce Hulbert at 623-535-8761.