All Winners – PCM9GA January 8 Tournament
Closest to the Pin Winners, left to right: Bruce Ruder, Tom Pizzello and Rob Risden; not in photo Greg Edwards, Greg McKenzie, Bill O’Riley and Ray Clements
First Place Team Winners, left to right: Tom Pizzello, Don Drummond, Rudy Merriweather, Bjarne Kaer, Jack Tulaba, Ron Dickerson and Ken Knox; not in photo Greg McKenzie
Erv Stein
Our PCM9GA group, with our membership role soaring at the 300 plus level, held our first tournament of the New Year on a nippy yet pleasant January 8 afternoon utilizing our Tuscany Lakes and Falls Golf Courses.
Our pairing committee which is never asleep at the wheel with their tournament selection and, this time, simply settled on a still quite intriguing Two Corner Format in which each team member’s individual strokes for each hole were utilized to determine the net score for each hole. However, for holes one and nine, the three lowest team member net scores were utilized to compute the net team score and conversely for hole two through eight the best two team member scores are utilized. Depending upon the prevailing team member AGA handicap, a handicap credit anywhere from zero strokes to two or more stroke credit is applied on select holes. Sure enough, on the par three Lakes Course hole seven, Jack Tulaba’s Birdie became a net zero which equates to a virtual Eagle. Likewise, Bjarne Kaer is to be congratulated for a phenomenal gross 35 on the Lakes Course.
One further interesting variation for this tournament was that our beloved PCM9GA Secretary Bob Caldwell, who absolutely does an awesome job with the Adopt the Hole program and more recently assuming control for the PCM9GA website, expanded our Closest to the Pin Contest with awards for both first and second place.
Congratulations to our winners as follows:
Falls Course Score Team Member
First Place 61 Don Drummond, Greg McKenzie, Tom Pizzello, Rudy Merriweather
Second Place 68 Dave Gasch, Bob Carlson, Ken Laychak, Verne Duncan
Third Place 73 Gary havens, John Mumme, Pat Sherlock, John Banker
Lakes Course Score Team Member
First Place 61 Bjarne Kaer, Ken Knox, Jack Tulaba, Ron Dickerson
Second Place 71 Pete Pederson, Tom Tomtan, Mark Brown, Joe Pariseau
Third Place 72 Ray Clements, Rob Risden, Russ Leidigh, Bill McLindon
Closest To the Pin Winners
First Place: Rob Risden (Closest to Pin for two holes), Greg McKenzie, Bruce Ruder
Second Place: Greg Edwards, Tom Pizzello, Bill O’Riley, Ray Clements
As we start our new year, in addition to our bi-monthly tournaments and weekly events, our full and exciting event schedule includes the Turf Paradise outing conducted on January 19, our first annual 9’ers Member-Guest Invitational Tournament on February 26, our annual PCM9GA Championship Flight Tournament series in March followed by our annual all member meeting and our annual Awards Banquet in April.
Our PCM9GA highly encourages prospective new members to join our fun loving group which welcomes golfers at all skill levels. The annual $50 cost includes dues for the AGA membership which is essential for handicap reporting. Please visit the PebbleCreek PCM9GA website at www.PCM9GA.com or you may contact our current PCM9GA Membership Chairman Bruce Hulbert at 623-535-8761.