Judy Onken Our winners of the Member/Member Tournament this year are Pat Shouse and Rita Healy. Zara Logan contributed pictures of each twosome, which can be reviewed on the CLGA website. These two epitomize the partnership required to win this event. Many cliches describe how well they played together: They ham and egged it, they…
Club Championship Final Results Playing from the blue tees, Bruce Pape won the MOGA Club Championship by a nine-point margin, and Bill Lewis won the Super Senior Championship by a whopping 15-stroke lead! Placing first in their flights for the three-week tournament were: Flight 2: Steve Engler, Flight 3: Daniel Kiska, Flight 4: Bruce McCorkle,…
Susan Lamb The results are in, and Tracy Rice is our 2023 Club Champion. She had to beat last year’s winner Mary Nelson in a play-off. Congratulations to Tracy and all the flight winners. Here are the results: Flight 1: 1st Mary Nelson; 2nd (tie) Paddy Newton, Terry Gaube, and Val Verbeck Flight 2: 1st Tracy Thornock;…
Sheila Barton Karen is teeing up on a par 4 and is not feeling confident at all, so she gets out one of her old balls. As she is teeing up, she hears a voice, “Karen,” it says, “use the good ball.” Karen looks around, thinks for a minute, then decides to go with her…
The annual Cottonwood Lady Niners Member/Guest tournament was held on March 16 with a field of 120 golfers. Prior to play of a fun-filled scramble, ladies could view (and hope to win) an array of beautiful gift baskets. They also had a chance to bid on an opportunity to play 18 holes of golf with each…
Susan Gottschalk The spring luncheon was held April 7 at Cottonwood. Lunch was enjoyed, and raffle tickets sold highlighted the afternoon. Raffle drawings support our donations to local charities. We seem to have gone from winter to summer temps without having many spring temps to enjoy on the putting course. Monday Flight: March 13: Shauna…
President’s Cup Garry Loncon persevered and pulled out a narrow one-point victory over Jeffery Cohen in the three-week MOGA President’s Cup Tournament (216 vs. 217). While Jeffery stood alone in second place and Lee Smith was the only third place winner, fourth place was shared with Rodger Brandt, Eddie Cauffman, Kirwan Flannery, Gary Leath, James…
Susan Lamb March 7 was the second week of the Presidents Cup competition (net score). Diane Kruse won the overall championship with a two-day low net of 118. She was not the only winner, as five ladies in each of the four flights also won honors and some chits. Flight 1: 1st Paddy Newton, 2nd…
Hole-in-One Club: It was a very cold but sunny day on Dec. 13, and Bob Love made a perfect swing with his 12-year-old pitching wedge into a slight breeze on the 115-yard 4th hole at Ironwood and made a hole-in-one! Lightning struck twice on the same day when 82-year-old Chuck Goodwin made his first hole-in-one…
If you met an industrial engineer, attorney, information technology manager, biker who survived a 400-mile ride, husband of 54 years, father of three, grandfather of four, and golfer who has scored a 4 under par 63 at Ironwood, you have partially described the IMGA Golfer of the Month, Dick Boscombe. Dick was born in Swansea,…