Harry Gaither takes 1st place in the 2026 MGA Birdie Challange

Harry Gaither completed his 2026 MGA birdie challenge yesterday. He birdied #4 to complete the challenge. Harry is the 1st golfer in the upper division to do so and he was awarded the 1st place prize. There are several golfers that just need a birdie on one more hole to claim the 2nd place finish.

No one in the lower division has completed their challenge but there are several that just need to record a birdie one or two more holes.

The birdie challenge is to record a birdie on each of the 18 holes while participating in a MGA dogfight. The challenge began with our season premier MGA dogfight in mid February.

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2026 Memorial Day Yellow Ball Recap

2026 Memorial Day Yellow Ball Recap

We had 72 golfers to sign up for the Yellow Ball dogfight. The forecast was doom and gloom but 71 of the golfers still showed up. The rain held off until very late in the round and overall it turned out to be a fun day on the course.

Prior to the start, we held a bell ringing ceremony for Mary Palmer. Mary has completed her radiation and chemo treatment for breast cancer and she wanted to ring the bell on the #1 green. We are all so proud for her and admire her for her great attitude and tenacity while fighting this cancer.

We had 18 teams in the field and 15 teams returned to the clubhouse with the Yellow Ball. We had a four way tie for 1st place with a dogfight score of +4 with the Yellow Ball. They split all the Yellow Ball prize money ($720.00) 16 ways .  They were team 16a (Steve Giddens, Rae Clayton, Chuck Daugherty & Mike Gardner). Team 13 ( Rodney Guy, Tommy Griffin, Ryan Smith & Vaughn Wahl). Team 7 ( Blake Woo, Cory Baird, Brian Proctor & Helen Spradley) and Team 3b ( Mike Griffin, Ray Lineberry, Pramad Bhatia & Jamie Kimberly).

In the regular dogfight portion of the tournament, Rodney Guy’s team finished at +25 points above their quota to take 1 st place and the $380.00 prize. Steve Giddens’ team finished 2nd at +22 for 2nd and $240.00. Blake Woo’s team finished 3rd at +18 (160.00)and we had a tie for 4th place at +15 between team 6 (R D McDonald, Steve Dean, Hunter Payant & David Gaston) and team 16b ( Mike Sweatman, Chris Palmer, Mark Richard and Sandra Brown. They split the $80.00 4th place prize.

The individual most over points award went to Ryan Smith who finished +12 above his quota. Chuck Daugherty was 11 points above his quota for 2nd and Helen Spradley was +10. The two closest to the pins went to Hole #4 at 6’10”to team 12(Brandon Fincher, Hippie Cleckler, Steven Powell & Missy Bullen) Hole #17 (3’8”) went to team 9a (Cooper Dean, Andy Payant, Lee Clark & Jeff Kimbrel).

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