In my haste to pay as many golfers as possible before everyone left a small mistake was made and anyone who won a skin should have got $11 instead of the $22 I paid. With 9 skins out the kitty came up a little short since there was only $100 in the pot. Anyone who owes me the $11 can either pay me when you see me or mail it to the Post Office Box 1232.

 With the end of 2017 here our goal for next year is to recruit a few more members for 2018. It would be nice to get about 32 players per tournament so we can play some 4 man teams.

Here are the tournament winners      at Wildwood Saturday

1^st Place  $100 @ 57

Jim Drury – Rich Mealey

2^nd Place  $50 @ 62

Don Hartness – Richard May

Steve Harrison – Larry Lawson

Closest To The Pin @ $20

#2           Barry Wills

#9           Herb Holmes

#10        Don Hartness

#16        Herb Holmes

#18        Rich Mealey

Skins @ $11

#1           Mark Mattingly

#4           Jeff Young

#5           Jim Drury

#6           Rich Mealey

#9           Herb Holmes

#12        Roger Campbell

#14        Jim Drury

#17        Dave Lainhart

#18        Don Hartness

Low Net

1^st Place - $60

Don Hartness – 67

2^nd Place - $30

Jim Drury  - 68

3^rd Place - $5

Rich Mealey - 70

Larry Lawson - 70

The final year end winners were:

Side Money

Mark Willenbrink   - $60 @  $249

Jeff Young               - $40 @  $167

Dick Freeman          - $20 @  $152

Net Points

Mark Willenbrink   - $60 @  188

Herb Holmes          - $40  @  166

Dick Freeman         - $20  @  164

Money Leaders

Mark Willenbrink-  $60 @  $250   

Steve Goertemiller-  $40 @  $200

Don Hartness       -  $20 @  $195

This concludes the schedule for the 2017 season. Hope to see all of you next year in the MAGA. The tournaments will run from April through October in the year 2018.

After auditing the handicaps I found out that there are many of you who don’t post your MAGA scores at all. Some of you don’t post hardly any scores. I will be getting in touch with some of you if I do not have your current ghin number to log it in our records.

A big issue for me this year was getting your scores posted on your USGA. By not putting in all your scores you may be cheating partners in the blind draw. Some people were penalized for not submitting their scores from MAGA Tournaments.  These can be put in on the internet from home with your name and GHIN number. It only takes a minute or two. There were a few scores recorded in an individual’s GHIN. If you failed to put in a high score I did nothing. You must supply your current GHIN before playing a MAGA Tourney next year. If you switch location of your GHIN handicap take your current number with you and have that transferred.

Hope to see you next year and bring a friend to increase the number of members.

Like always there is a group of guys headed this year by Dennis Daley & Mark Mattingly going to Florida in late February. If you have any interest in going contact me and I will be able to give you the information. A downpayment of $200 is due ASAP and the remainder is due before the end of the year. Usually there are 16 who go.