August 11, 2012 - Weekend Group - Individual Net and NCGA Net Amateur Qualifying

Bob Benefiel congratulating Mark Edgar, the NCGA Net Am Qualifer

On Saturday, August 11th, everyone prepared for a warm, hotly-competitive day. The temperature was 105*, and Mark Edgar was even hotter than that! In fact, on the back nine, he was on fire! Yes, Mark Edgar blew away the field in the NCGA Net Amateur Qualifier “fire-ing” a second-best-ever 74 from the Gold Tees, which included a sub-par 34 on the back nine!! Mark’s net score was a scorching 61!! After the round, Mark’s playing partners; Lonnie Podgorny, Wayne Urbani and George Yanez were complaining more about losing their regular “Rabbit” game to Mark than they were about the heat! Mark now goes on to Sectional Qualifying on September 13. Good luck Mark! By the way, Mark credits much of his recent success on the acquisition of an old, late ‘40’s early ‘50’s sand wedge. Have him show it to you sometime!

Bryan Springer, Dave Spring and Greg Taca

Mark’s closest competitor in the regular net competition was Greg Taca who shot an 81 (net 66) for second place. Third place went to Greg Leuterio with an 83 (net 68). Fourth place went to new member Tim Ramirez who shot 80 (net 72). Welcome to the club, Tim! Considering the number of birdie opportunities you had, I suspect that next time you’ll enter our side skins game! There was a tie for fifth place between Bryan Springer with a 91 (net 73) and Dick Jones 87 (net 73), however, Bryan’s lower back nine net score proved to be the tie-breaker. Bryan, by the way, is our Player of the Year point leader with 1,930 points-to-date.

Dick Jones, Rim ramirez, Bob Benefield and Greg Leuterio

Other tournament results:

Closest to Pin #8 – Greg Taca @ 12’7”
Closest to Pin #17 – Lonny Podgorny @ 10’5”


Lonnie Podgorny chasing Rabbits

Our next tournament is scheduled for Saturday, September 8th. Format will be Front-nine Net, Back-nine Net, and Total Putts. Prizes will be awarded for each category. Player-of-the-year points will be awarded based on a total of all three categories. Hope to see you all there on the 8th of September,

Bob Benefiel

Weekend Tournament Chair

July 18, 2012 - Midweek - Net Tournament

Our Wednesday, July 18th tournament was held under clear, calm skies and mild temperatures. The Bartley Cavanaugh course was in great shape, the best this year. Fairways were responding to added water and punching the dry spots, most of which have greened up. The greens were fast and true. A great day for golf!

Marie Hart led the women with a net 69, followed by Jean Chong (71) and Barbara Conely (75). Doug Swann shot his lowest tournament round ever, a beautiful 42-36/78 (net 64) to win the men's A flight. He was chased by Haruo Makimoto (69) and Richard Carlsen (71).

Finally, Bob Thomas led the Men's B flight with a net 62 ahead of Ron McKenna's net 65 and Glen Kinion's 68. This was Bob's best ever tournament round also.

In the optional skins game, 6 contestants scored 9 skins as follows: McKenna, 3; Thomas and Hart, 2 each; and Kinion and Schutt, 2 apiece.

Looking ahead, the next event for the midweek group is scheduled for 8:03 am on the 15th of August. I hope to see a big crowd out there for another flighted, individual stroke play tournament.

Bob Thomas
Midweek Tournament Chair

July 7, 2012 - Weekend Group - 7-5-3-1

Even though we played early enough to beat most of the heat, Saturday, July 7 was a hot day and a number of BCGC players were “HOT” as well! The tournament format was 7-5-3-1 (played within the foursome), with 7 points awarded on an individual basis to the low net score per hole, 5 points for second, 3 points for third, etc. A total of 15 players participated in the tournament which was comprised of three foursomes and one threesome.

The player who most dominated their foursome was Bob Volk, who shot a gross 79 and scored 93 points! Other winners within their respective groups were: Dave Springer, who posted consistent nines of 44/44 and earned 80 points; new member Greg Taca who shot his best-round-ever at Bartley with a gross 79! Welcome to BCGC Greg!; and Greg Leuterio, who shot a sizzling 78 gross (29 net on the front nine) and is coming off an outstanding win in Monterey in the Sacramento Zone with his teammates (Dave Schutt, Bob Ruff & Shawn Breakey).

I also want to pass along a Weekend welcome to Jean Chong! Jean normally plays in the BCGC Weekday events and decided to play with us on Saturday. I hope to see Jean at future Weekend tournaments. FYI –Jean is deadly on any putt outside of 10 feet!

I don’t typically report on our results from our side Skins game, however, on Saturday there was a “first”! Yes, I have been running the Skins game for six months now and, for the first time, I won a Skin! Lookout folks, I’m no longer just donating to the pot!! My financial advisor, Michael DePhilippis, (who happens to be my son-in-law, and is a fellow BCGC member) would tell me that I have not had a very good return on investment!

Other tournament results:

Closest to Pin #5 – Kim Volk @ 25’6”. Kim, by the way, is one of four semi-finalists in the Club’s Match Play Championship. Word is going around the club that she may be the one to beat!

Closest to Pin #12 – Lonny Podgorny @ 15’7”. Lonny beat out yours truly by one foot, six-and-a-half inches. I demand a re-measure!!

Our next tournament is scheduled for Saturday, August 11. Format will be Individual Stroke Play, Net. The NCGA Net Amateur qualifier is that day as well. Entry into the qualifier is optional. Hope to see you on the 11th!

Bob Benefiel

Weekend Tournament Chair

June 23, 2012 - Bartley WINS the 11th Annual Freeport Cup!

The 2012 Barley Cavanuagh Freeport Cup Champs!!

Team BCGC Wins the Freeport Cup for the fouth time on June 23, 2012 by 5 Points. The 11th Annual Freeport Cup was held at Bartley Cavanaugh Golf Club. With months of planning behind, the Team from Bartley arrived in Blue Shirts (thanks to the fashion suggestion of the Springer Brothers) and was ready to take down Land Park, Bing Maloney and Grips Fast.


The scoring results are: Bartley: 38, Land: 33, Grips: 24.5, Bing: 23.5 After four groups had been scored, Bartley (13.5) was up 2.5 points over Land (11) followed by Grips (8) and Bing (7.5). After 8 groups had been totaled, Land Park caught Bartley and were tied with (24) points each with Bing and Grips tied at (16). Bartley finished strong bringing in an additional 14 points with the 4 remaining teams to finish with 38 points.


Hal Dasinger from Grips Fast hands over the Cup to BCGC Team Captain Mark Edgar



The morning was set for a fantastic day of golf, the weather was ideal and the course looked great. Natural birdies started to fly at the hands of Lonnie Podgorny, who fired off 3 natural birdies at holes 3, 9 & 13. But Lonnie was not the only BCGC Team Mate knocking off birdies, Bobby Nand birdied hole 13, Wayne Urbani birdied hole 11, Greg Lueterio birdied hole 2 and John Hawck birdied hole 7. It should be noted; Mike "The Ace" Moraes from Land Park also had 3 birdies on holes 1, 3 & 6, nice job Mike.


Low Gross for BCGC was Lonnie Podgorny shooting smooth 75, and Low Net was Mike McKenna with a 68 (-3), closely followed by Lonnie Podgorny, Bryan Spring, Will Hart and John Hawck all shooting a nice round of 69 (-2). Shooting net even par 71's were Greg Lueterio and Dave Springer.

For the first time ever, BCGC had gained 2 point or higher in all their individual matches. Leading the way with 4 points were Will Hart, Lonnie Podgorny and Bobby Nand. Both Wayne Urbani and Bryan Springer earned 3.5 points, and Greg Lueterio, Dave Springer, Mike McKenna and John Hawck each earned 3 points. Mark Edgar and George Yanez brought in 2.5 points followed by Haruo Makimoto with 2.

Nice to have the CUP back home!!!

Other Tournament Results:

Low Gross
1 David Ainsworth 85- 21 = 64  (Land)
1 Steve Hartzell 80- 16 = 64 (Land)


3 Mike McKenna 93 - 25 = 68 (Bartley)
3 Glen Kinion 91 - 23 = 68 (Bing)
3 Michael R Bissing 87 - 19 = 68 (Grips)

Closest to Pin
#5 Mike (ACE) Moraes 21' - 3"  (Land)
#8 Brian McMonagle 7' - 10"  (Grips)
#12 Bob Eberle 14' - 6"  (Bing)
#17 Hal Dasinger 6' - 7.5"  (Grips)

Lond Drive:
Neil McIntire (Grips)

Overall Freeport Cup Standings:

Grip Fast - 5 Wins

Bartley Cavanaugh - 4 Wins

Land Park - 1 Win

Bing Maloney - 1 Win

June 20, 2012 - Midweek Group - Skins

Wildlife on the Course

The Midweek June Skins Tournament was played under beautiful conditions, clear skies on a warm and calm day. Three threesomes competed in net skins with carry-overs inside their own group. Leon Taylor (79/65 net) made the most skins (11) in his group, while Bob Thomas (95/68 net, 9skins) and Will Hart (94/72 net, 8 skins) were tops in their respective groups. Dave Springer made 4 of the 9 total skins in the optional side game waged by four competitors.

With such a small group, there was only one flight for P.O.Y. points, all based on net scores as usual. Doug Swann came in first with a beautiful 79/64 net round. After a back-nine tiebreaker, Leon Taylor beat out Haruo Makimoto (82/65 net) for second place. Fourth went to Bob Thomas and fifth place in P.O.Y. points went to Roy Fukushima with a 94/69 net.

Thanks to all who played. Our next tournament is set for July 18th, starting at 8:03 am. Format for July and August will be individual stroke play, flighted as usual.

Hope to see you all there.

Bob Thomas

Midweek Tournament Chair

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June 12, 2012 - NCGA Sacramento Zone Champs!!!

Sacramento Zone Champs!!!

Dave Schutt and Greg Leuterio

Shawn Breakey and Robert "Slim" Ruff

Representing Bartley Cavanaugh GC at the 2012 NCGA Sacramento Zone on June 12, 20012 was the team of Shawn Breakey, Greg Leuterio, Robert Ruff and Dave Schutt.  The BCGC team posted a tournament net score of 255, 31-under par to sent them to the Zone Championship on August 27-28, 2012 where they will play at Poppy Hills GC and Spyglass Hill GC.

Day 1 - Our team was tied with Reserve at Spanos Park GC for second place, with a first round score of 128, 16-under par.  They were two shots off the leader Bass Lake GC who finished the day with a net 18-under par.

Day 2 - BCGC had a quiet front side, and then they caught on FIRE, with six net eagles on the final nine holes.  Haggin Oaks finished on Second Place was a a tournament net score of 259, 27-under par.  They will join Bartley in the Finals on August 27-28, 2012.  Bass Lake finished in Third Place with a 261, 25-under par.


Follow this link for view the full story from the NCGA Website:  http://www.ncga.org/2012/06/11/ncga-sacramento-zone-2/

GOOD LUCK TO THE BCGC TEAM!!!!

May 16, 2012 - Midweek Group - Individual Stroke

The Midweek Group dodged a weather bullet again as we experienced beautiful weather for our May tournament. Warm but not oppressive, slight breeze and dry humidity when some forecasters were saying to expect a high of 94.

Twenty-one members 15 men and a high of 6 ladies, thank you) came out for a medal play, individual net score competition. Trina Millett fired a beautiful 43-38-81, net 69, to win the women's flight, followed by Jeri Fong (70) and Barbara Conerly (74). Men's "A" Flight was won by Jim Coombs with a neat 46-39-85, net 67, trailed by a pair of 71's by Haruo Makimoto, and Myron Dahl. Haruo placed second by virtue of a "back nine" tie-breaker. In the Men's "B" Flight, Willard Hart out-classed the field shooting a beautiful 43-43-86, net 64. John Hawck continued his comeback scoring a nice round of 94, net 65 and Roy Fukushima (66), Don Sperling (66) and Mike McKenna (67) rounded out the prize winning positions, also using the same tie-breaker.

Closest to pin at #12 was Jim Coombs at 16'10" and also at #17 at 2'2". Congratulations to all of our winners and thanks to all for coming out to play. Our next tournament is June 20th starting at 8:03 AM. This will be a skins game played inside each foursome with carry-overs.

 

Bob Thomas

Midweek Tournament Chair

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