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HANDICAPS

The MGA Board has taken on the task to review and police all member handicaps! Please remember to post ALL 9 and 18 hole scores as well as 'away' scores. Failure to do so will eliminate your eligibility to play in future events. We will be watching....

........... Thank You.

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If you have comments and/or suggestions on any of the MGA tournaments, let us know. We want your honest feedback - really!

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YOU ARE VISITOR #

NEW BOARD FORMED

Because our ultimate vision is to have fun and create fair competition, this year we have formed a Handicap Committee to oversee MGA members' handicaps. The MGA sub-committee will assess existing handicaps for accuracy and bring any perceived "violations" to the Board to make recommendations for changes. The new panel consists of the following:

· Jim Gould (Chairman)

· Erik Rosengren

Remember, Jim & Erik are working for the MGA membership and will promote fair and consistent handicap reporting and entry. Please welcome them and wish them luck in their new endeavor. Thanks.

NOTE: If you suspect anyone of having an "invalid" handicap and feel that they need to be put under review, please send an email to the Handicap Committee and they will determine if further action is required.

Eagle Watch

MEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION

MGA Sponsored Calcutta for the

EW Member/Member Tournament

MGA “Crème of the Crop” Results

MGA Shamrock Shuffle Results

GOLD TEE PLAYERS		GROSS ONLY
1^st Place	Gary Janos Alex Lucco	111	* Won on a match of cards
2^nd Place	John Otto John Heath	111
BLUE TEE PLAYERS		GROSS
1^st Place	Alan Squires Mike Putnam	116
2^nd Place	Tony Jones Billy Morrow	118
3^rd Place	Mark Cullen Bruce Worthington	119	* Won on a match of cards
4^th Place	Sergio Silva Russ Silva	119

BLUE TEE PLAYERS

NET

1^st Place

Tony Jones

Billy Morrow

102

2^nd Place

Sergio Silva

Russ Silva

104

3^rd Place

Howard Beasley

Kevin Hosmer

105

WHITE TEE PLAYERS

GROSS

1^st Place

Lew Fishman

John Leonard

123

2^nd Place

Steve Rainey

Jim Macurak

124

3^rd Place

Philip Litril

Richard Stacy

125

WHITE TEE PLAYERS

NET

1^st Place	Lew Fishman John Leonard	101
2^nd Place	Steve Rainey Jim Macurak	102	* Won on a match of cards
3^rd Place	Philip Litril Richard Stacey	102

GROSS SKINS		$65 Each
#1 #2 #5 #9 #10 #12 #13	Lew Fishman Mike Fortney Mark Cullen Billy Morrow John Heath John Heath Alex Lucco

LONGEST PUTT		MGA Cooler
#9 #18	Billy Morrow Gary Janos

MGA 4-Man Dog Fight Results

First Place

$120 in Pro Shop Credits Each

Jim Gould

Andrew Markich

Bill Perkett

Robert Smith

Second Place

$90 in Pro Shop Credits Each

Steve Boaz

Dom Carpentieri

Wayne Currie

George Van Leuven

Third Place

$60 in Pro Shop Credits Each

Greg Lebanowski

David Mossige

Frank Peters

Tom Vipond

Fourth Place (2-Way Tie)

$17.50 in Pro Shop Credits Each

Kim Blasko

Mark Cullen

Larry Terry

Bruce Worthington

Fourth Place (2-Way Tie)

$17.50 in Pro Shop Credits Each

Danny Daniels

Joseph Gibbons

Dennis Mueller

Marc Reinecke

MGA Sponsored Bloody Mary Open Golf Tournament

Eagle Watch Member / Member Golf Tournament

First off, this tournament is an Eagle Watch event, NOT an MGA event. The MGA sponsored the Calcutta and Skins game but did not control the rules of the tournament itself. For the Calcutta held on Friday night, here are all the final results:

SKINS “POT”

Thank you all for a great 2008 Men's Golf Association season, it was definitely packed with some good competitive tournaments and good overall camaraderie. Besides running the slate of MGA tournaments, we like to assist the club in running their events and will often support them and other charitable events taking place at the club whenever called upon. We support the club by providing food and beverages for a good portion of events and conduct Skins games whenever the format permits. Did you know that we tip the bag drop guys for all of our major events? Yes, because the guys outside work hard to make our event successful, we want to make sure they get the gratuity they deserve. We generally budget about $1/bag and often deduct that money from tournament intake or Skins money so that the numbers round out correctly.

First off, I want to start by apologizing for the current delay in getting an accurate listing of Skins winners from the EW Member/Member golf tournament. Eagle Watch ran the Member/Member tournament and the MGA stepped in to run the Friday night Calcutta as well as the weekend skins game just like we have done in the past. To simply the entire process, Skins envelopes are created so that individuals can enter into the Skins game at their leisure (up until 9:00 a.m. the following morning) and alleviate long lines or even worse, disruption of the ongoing Calcutta.

Unfortunately, there was a miscommunication between how the club was inputting scores versus how the MGA was calculating skins and the Skins were inadvertently posted incorrectly. As you can see by the envelopes that we handed out (above), the format of the Skins game was simply NET, GROSS and BOTH - those who got in both NET and GROSS pots. The pot was not divided in half; Skin money was allocated based on the money collected from each category. This is how the Member/Member was run for many years, keeping it simple and giving the members a choice.

The confusion stemmed from the tees that we played. Because we had players playing from the WHITE and the BLUE tees, additional "buckets" of Skin money were created, very similar to how we have run our Big Kahuna skins game in the past. There were pots created from:

Blue Tees GROSS

Blue Tees NET

Blue Tees GROSS & NET (Both)

White Tees NET

White Tees GROSS & NET (Both)

This is wrong. This does not correspond to the envelopes we handed out that Friday nor were there instructions saying that the Skins were being done by tees. Unfortunately, the error was on our part and we posted the Skins and advised winners that they could pick up their Skins at the Pro Shop. As soon as we discovered the error, we immediately froze the handout process and began to recalculate the skins correctly, going through the scorecards one by one. The correct Skins have now been calculated and are posted above.

Please understand that by recalculating the Skins the proper way, it changed the results of some of the winners (and winnings). If you have "picked up" your winnings from the golf shop already, we ask that you please notify us immediately and return it to any MGA Board member. Some players will find out they have won bigger Skins, some smaller and some not at all. All envelopes are up in the Pro Shop, please pick up at your convenience. Thanks.

MGA Sponsored Match Play Event

Earlier this afternoon, on what was a beautiful Saturday afternoon, the Four Flight Champions of the MGA-sponsored Match Play Championship gathered on the 10^th Tee Box at Eagle Watch Golf Club in order to compete in the Finals of the event. Caddies and a handful of fans were in attendance, as well, to watch David Duckworth, Mike Smithson, Dave Mossige, and Joe Schepers go head-to-head-to-head against one another over 18 Holes in what has become a unique Eagle Watch Event.

Over the course of the round, numerous lead changes took place such that three of the four Contestants led the event at one time or another, and all were separated by a total of only one (1) point with but four holes to play. Needless to say, those in attendance saw quite a show of competitive golf. When the match concluded on the final hole – Number 9 – two Players were tied for the lead with one another and one other Player was but one-half (1/2) point from being tied, as well. The final results – before the Sudden Death Playoff – were as follows:

David Duckworth ~ 28 Points

Mike Smithson ~ 28 Points

Dave Mossige ~ 27.5 Points

Joe Schepers ~ 24.5 Points

While Dave Mossige and Joe Schepers retired to the Clubhouse to reflect upon how their fortunes may have turned out differently had the results of but one shot (or two) been altered ever so slightly, David Duckworth and Mike Smithson continued forth to the pre-selected starting hole for the Sudden Death Playoff – Hole 16 – in order to determine their final fate.

At the completion of just one Sudden Death Playoff Hole, whereupon play concluded for the day well before darkness set in, the Champion of the 2008 MGA-sponsored Match Play Championship, whose name will appear on the plaque housed in the trophy case situated to the right of the fireplace in the Eagle Watch Clubhouse immediately beneath the names of the 2006 and 2007 Champions, John Leonard and Randy Lane, respectively, was decided.

Thus, the 2008 MGA Board of Directors thank all of its Members who participated in this year’s Match Play event and hope that you enjoyed yourself and that you will decide to join us again in 2009 so that you too can see your name engraved immediately beneath this year’s Champion; who is…

Mike Smithson

Please join us in offering our heartiest congratulations to Mike Smithson and each of the other three Flight Champions; they all played well and richly deserve our applause for their efforts!

Come out and join us on Thursday nights for Men's League,

it's a GREAT time!

Play starts back up March 26th!

"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile."
Vince Lombardi

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MGA

Thursday Night

MEN'S LEAGUE!

Was a BLAST!

We will unofficially start the Thursday Night Men's League on Thursday, March 12th but will not officially kick it off until March 26th with a Season Opener!

$20/Man

Format TBD

BE THERE !

2009 MGA BOARD

President

of the E.W. Men's Golf Association

for the 2009 golf season

Gary Janos