The MGA had another fun and successful tournament for the year on Friday, May 1st. The format for the tournament was best ball for the men playing the blue tees and best ball for the men playing the white tees. There were twenty teams of four players, where two players from each team played from the blue tees and two players played from the white tees. The team of Bill Guwang, Don Karrer, Hugh Whelan and Gary McEntee (pictured) were the winners with a score of 123. Lew Andersen, Al Frangipane, Ken Miller and Dave Marble came in second place with a score of 126. There were three teams that came in with a score of 127, so there was a scorecard playoff to determine third, fourth and fifth place. Rich Pruchnik, David Taylor, Ken Fein and Steve Huepper came out on top in the scorecard playoff to get third place. The team of Richard Brown, Ralph Martin, Dick Philbin and Paul Garver ended up in fourth place and the team of Ted Breuer, Jack Hooper, John Stevens and Rosi Lomas came in fifth place. Sixth and seventh place also had to go to a scorecard playoff between the teams of Fred Heins, Ron Elder, Tom Magyar and Dick McNamara, and the team of Glen McGivney, Dale Roberts, Dale Johnson, and Scott Schilz. Finishing in the money at 8th place was the team of Ron Carhart, Neal Jensen, Dean Thorndike and Mel Cunningham. There was closest to the pin (CTP) contests on the par 3’s during the tournament. Ed Colwell was the CTP winner on hole #6 hitting to 10’4”. On hole #8 with the distance of 8’5” from the hole was Dale Johnson. Also on hole #13 Gene Pasztor hit it to 6’7”. Ken Fein was the closest to the pin winner for hole # 15 with a distance of 26’3”.
