PCM9GA Four Club Scramble Tournament First Place Winners, left to right: Erv Stein, Casey Jones, Randy McConaughey, Grant Moorehead, Steve Smeedley, Chuck Hendrickson, Dick McCurdy and Monti Page
Closest to Pin
Erv Stein
On a warm but pleasant April 23 afternoon, close to 100 PCM9GA ever enthusiastic golfers teed off utilizing both our Eagle’s Nest front and back nine courses.
For this event, a quite fascinating and intriguing Four Club Scramble format was utilized which mandated that golfers could bring no more than four clubs in their bag, period or face a forfeit elimination prior to teeing off. It was quite amazing to see just how many four club combinations were utilized. Most golfers brought along their putter (a few used a hybrid for putting) and some golfers elected to utilize a number 3 or 4 hybrid in lieu of a driver and a wide variety of irons were utilized. Likewise most of our PCM9GA golfers brought along a sand wedge or pitching wedge as part of their four club combination. Other than the four club rule, all aspects of the Scramble format prevailed including the requirement for two drives to be used from each golfer and, of course, the best team member drive from each golfer was utilized as well as succeeding shots through the final putt stroke. One interesting benefit of the four club format is that it typically sped up the play with fewer clubs to make a selection choice for each stroke.
As incredible as it may seem, for the Eagle’s Nest back nine, three foursomes came in with identical net 36 scores and likewise for the front nine, two teams attained a net 35 and the runner-up two foursomes scored a net 36.
Kudos to the winning teams as follows:
Eagles Nest Team Net Team Members
Course/Rank Score
Front Nine
1st Tie 35 Monti Page, Randy McConaughey, Chuck Hendrickson,
Erv Stein
1st Tie 35 Willard Bradshaw, Randy Prinz, Don Soesbe, Joe Pariseau
2nd 36 Gary Havens, Bob Cowan, Dave Kennedy, Ken Bergstrom
3rd 36 Bjorne Kaer, Greg McKenzie, Frank Hylton, Russ Leidigh
Back Nine
1st 36 Dick McCurdy, Grant Moorhead, Steve Smedley, Casey Jones
2nd 36 B. Hill, Bill Schroeder, Ladd Martin, Josh Rabinowitz
3rd 36 Dave Thompson, Abe Porter, Jim Halbmaier, Frank Rodgers
Closest To Pin Jim Sheard, Frank Hilton, Dave Thompson, B. Hill
Winners
The PCM9GA current membership role now exceeds 300 members and effective May 21 our Thursday tee times revert back to 7:30 a.m. which works real well in escaping from the searing Arizona summer heat. For the past few months we have had a myriad of PCM9GA events including the just completed joint PCM9GA and Sun City Grand Tournament on May 11 and 14. As always, we urge new interested members to join our fun loving group which welcomes golfers at all skill levels. The annual $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.