The 1st tournament of the 2003 winter tour was held at Kings Island on a cold breezy day. The winners are as follows:

1st Place @ $160 @ team - 60

Mark Mattingly – Terry McGuire

2nd Place @ $120 @ team - 63

Jeff Young – Steve Witt

3rd Place @ $70 @ team - 65

Russ Yenser – Larry Lawson

3rd Place @ $70 @ team – 65

Jim Strohman – Ken Parker

5th Place @ $20 @ team – 66

TJ Cope – Herley Hatfield

5th Place @ $20 @ team – 66

Doug Powell – Gary Moore

5th Place @ $20 @ team – 66

Steve Goertemiller – Herb Holmes

Closest To The Pins @ $20

#5  Larry Lawson

#8  No Marker

#12 Rick Headings

#18 Terry Halderman

Skins @ $33

#1    Aaron Donelson 

#11  Aaron Donelson

#12  Ken Parker

#13  Roger Campbell

#16  Jeff Taylor

#17  Mark Augspurger

#18  Terry Halderman

Low Gross

1st Place - $14

Aaron Donelson - 73

2nd Place - $6

Mark Augspurger - 73

Low Net

1st Place – $96

Steve Witt

2nd Place - $48

Mark Mattingly

3rd Place - $16

Larry Lawson

In an effort to get information to the members TJ Cope has developed a website with information about past and future tournaments. Log on if you have internet and check it out. We will try to use more of this in the year 2003. The web page site is:

MAGA.TJCOPE.NET

Anyone who has chosen the internet option will not receive anymore paper material from MAGA. All information is located on the above website. Anything that has a line under the heading can be printed.

The next tournament will be held at Shaker Run. This will be the most expensive of all our tournaments during the year. The cost for this tournament will be $57. Included in this price will be golf, cart and tournament prize fund.  The GPS System tells you the yardage you have left from your ball location to the pin.

The date of this tournament will be April 19th with tee times not starting until 11:30 PM. The format of this tourney is a 4  MAN TRIPLE BEST BALL. Sign up as a twosome and we will blind draw teams. Like all our remaining tourneys full handicap will be used. If new players have not yet established a handicap by tournament time, I will figure it. Scores must be posted at your respective courses.

For the new members there are optional side pots that consist of:

$5 Low Gross

$5  Low Net

$5  Skins

These side jackpots can be sent in with your entry fee if you know that you are going to get into them. This will help free up time for the people running the tournament to also hit some balls. All players should check in at the table or designated location so the tournament committee knows they are at the course and also to see if they are interested in getting into the side jackpots.

The deadline for the Shaker tournament will be Thursday April 3rd. This date is a little quick notice but the course must know how many players we are going to have by Friday morning. So let me know if you plan on playing so Shaker will hold enough tee times for our group. This deadline is quick and we need to know the number of players early.

We had a number of new players that played in the first tournament of the year. I hope we continue to recruit new players for  MAGA.  One of the players has dethrowned the perennial power and taken over the reign as champion. His name is Aaron Donelson who shot a round of 73 at Kings Island.

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