| 2026 Tentative Tournament Schedule
(all dates are subject to change) |
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| 1 | Saturday July 4 (Yellow Ball Dogfight) 9am |
| 2 | Monday July 6 (Aerate Greens) |
| 3 | Friday July 10 Pell City Touchdown Club Charity Scramble (4 golfer teams) |
| 4 | Friday, July 31 Childersburg Baseball benefit Scramble 1pm |
| 5 | Saturday/Sunday July 25 & 26 (Clear Creek Classic) |
| 6 | Friday August 14 Renfroe Fire Dept (2 golfer teams) |
| 7 | Saturday/Sunday August 22/23 2026 Club Championship (Men & Ladies) |
| 8 | Monday Sept 7 Labor Day Yellow Ball |
| 9 | Saturday & Sunday Sept 26 & Sept 27 Member/Guest |
| 10 | Wednesday Oct 14 St. Clair Realtors Fund Raiser |
| 11 | Saturday Nov 21 Season ending MGA meeting and dogfight |
| 12 | Friday Nov 27 Black Friday Bubba Dogfight 9am |
| 13 | Saturday, December 12 (Pinsetters Revenge) |
We have a field of 46 teams that played in our 2026 Member/Member tournament this past weekend. Both days were typical June weather, hot and muggy but at least we did not have any storms.
The Men’s Golf Association provided breakfast both days prior to the beginning of play. A Bar bq rib plate was provided prior to the start of the Calcutta on Saturday. The rib plates were fantastic and they were prepared by Bulldog Bar Bq in Sylacauga. Ray Lineberry and Papa John’s Pizza provided pizzas after Sunday’s round.
All of the scores were based on net results except for the one prize of the low gross score. We had a tie for that prize between the teams of Nathan Fernandez/Myles Fincher and B G Simmons/Harry Gaither. Both teams posted a gross total of 123. We held a shootout on #18 and the team of Fernandez/Fincher won it on the second attempt.
Championship Flight 1st place Simmons/Gaither net score (122) $1000.00, 2nd place Frenandez/Fincher (123) $700, 3rd place Paul Woo/Steve Giddens (124) $500.00. Calcutta Results Tie for 1st between David Donahoo/Mike Sweatman and Giddens/Woo posting a net (61) they split the $2583.00 amount for 1st & 2nd. We also had a tie for 2nd place between Simmons/Gaither and Jeff Bullen/Shane Cleckler both teams posting a (62) and they split the 3rd place prize of $738.00
1st Flight Winning team was Moses Ngirailab/Bryan Smith. They finished in 1st place in the tournament and the Calcutta, winning $800 and $1010. Their tournament total was (121) and their Calcutta net was a (60). Tournament 2nd place went to the team of David Mills/Bob Whitmire (124) for $600 and 3rd place was a tie between the teams of Skeet Harper/Jimmy Ray and Wayne Mitchell/Chuck Woodard. Both teams posting a net score of (125) for the $400 prize money. Woodard/Mitchell also won the 2nd place prize in the Calcutta with a net (62) for the $757 prize. We had a 3 way tie for 3rd place Calcutta money with Harper/Ray, Whitmire/mills and Chris Robertson/Hondo Galloway all posting a net (63) to split the $504 3rd place prize.
2nd Flight tournament winners were Anthony Isbell/Derrick Helms. They posted a net (122) to take the $800 prize. 2nd place went to Landry Bradford/Landon Smith with a (127) $600 and 3rd went Cory Baird/Steven powell with a (128) for the $400 prize. Calcutta results were Bradford/Smith (62) for 1st place $952. 2nd place was Isbell/Helms (65) $714 and 3rd place went to Baird/Powell (66) $476.
3rd Flight was a three way tie with all three teams posting a net (129) and they split the $1800.00 tournament money. Those teams were Rae Clayton/Lee Clark, Joseph Wood/Holly Wood and Mathu Travis/Amy Travis. The team of Mike Gardner /Terry Brown took 1st place in the Calcutta with a Sunday score of (64) to win the $641 prize. There was a three way tie for 2nd between Wood/Wood, Ryan Hay/Braden Hay and Travis/travis all posting a (66) to split the remaining $641.
4th Flight Winners in the tournament was Tommy and Brenda Vines with a (129) for $800. 2nd place went to Jim and Sandra Brown (135) for $500 and 3rd was Steve Willingham and Helen Spradley (137) for $300. In the Calcutta Jim and Sandra Brown posted a net (66) to win 1st place prize of $515. 2nd place went to the team of Missy Bullen/Jamie Kimberly (68) for $309 and 3rd went to Vines/Vines (70) for $206.
A special thanks to all the members that participated in the tournament and especially to the staff here at Alpine Bay. I also want to thank the volunteers that help us out.
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.
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).
Recap of the 2026 MGA Premier Dogfight held on Feb 14, 2026
We had 50 MGA members to participate in our 2026 season premier dogfight. The lord blessed us with a great February day for golf. The field was randomly drawn into 25 two man teams. The results are listed below. The MGA furnished a breakfast buffet prior to the start of the dogfight.
The team of Mike Pinson and Hondo Galloway posted a score of +7 points above their quota to claim the $300.00 1st place award. Jeff Bullen and Cooper Dean finished in 2nd place at +5 for the $240.00 2nd place award. We had a four team tie for 3rd place and they split the 3rd,4th,5th & 6th place prize totaling $460.00. All four teams were +4 points above their quota. Those were the teams of Mike Griffin/Doug MacMurdo, Sam Cooper/Pramad Bhatia, Chris Robertson/Terry Pruet and Steven Powell/Jeff Kimbrel.
Hondo Galloway won the individual most over his point’s prize of $50.00. Hondo was +9. We had $250.00 in the skins pot and we had 5 skins . Mike Griffin had the only birdie on holes 1 & 15, Blake Woo eagled #9, Larry Hardwick had the only birdie on #10 and Gary Burchette eagled #18. Each skin was worth $50.00ea.
There was a $50.00/$15 Papa John’s gift card for closest to the pin award on all four par 3s. Rodney Guy was closest on #4, Skeet Harper was closest on #8 and #14, Ray Ferguson was closest on #17.
Thanks to all the golfers that participated and we hope that you enjoyed the tournament. We look forward to an exciting year with our dogfights. We would like for you members of Alpine Bay to consider joining the MGA and play with us in some of the dogfights. The more participation we have the more lucrative our special tournaments can be.
The cost to join the MGA is $25.00 and we have dogfights on Tuesdays & Thursdays at noon. Friday and Saturday mornings at 9am and Sunday morning at 10am. The Tuesday and Thursday dogfights are in conjunction with the afternoon matches. You have to be in the match to be in the dogfight. It is $10 to play and the Fri, Sat & Sun dogfights are $20.
We are covering our greens today and we will be closed for the next few days due to the extreme cold weather.
Congratulations to Mike Griffin for his hole in one while playing in our Tuesday Afternoon Match. Mike aced the 128yd hole #14.
2025 Alpine Bay Member/Guest Recap
We had a full field of 54 teams to compete this year. The weather was perfect on both days. It was a shotgun start and the pace of play was pretty good. Thanks to all the teams for moving along nicely.
The Alpine Bay (Men’s Golf Association) provided breakfast both mornings and the afternoon meals were provided by Carpanetti’s Italian in Moody (Saturday) and PapaJohns in Pell City (Sunday).
The field was divided into Five Flights after the scores were posted from Saturday’s Shamble round of golf. We held our Calcutta on Saturday afternoon and it was for Sunday’s round (Scramble format) only.
The Championship Flight results
Tournament Calcutta
1st C Dean/ J Otwell 63/60 123 $940.00 1st & 2nd tie (60) Dean/Otwell Guy/Ganser $936.00 ea
2nd Guy/Ganser 66/60 126 $550.00 3rd J Williams/J McCullars (62) $468.00
3rd K Roe/G Jenkins 66/64 130 $380.00
1st Flight Calcutta
1st Whitfield/Whitfield 69/63 132 $770.00 1st Whitfield/Whitfield (63) $990.00
2nd P Teal/Graham 69/64 133 $460.00 2nd P Teal/Graham (64) $595.00
3rd J Bullen/Gamble 70/65 135 $300.00 3rd J Bullen/Gamble (65) $397.00
2nd Flight Calcutta
1st Robertson/Johnson 72/64 136 $900.00 1st Robertson/Johnson (64) $880.00
2nd S Cooper/M Cooper 72/67 139 $550.00 2nd Shirley/Pender (65) $660.00
2nd Shirley/Pender 74/65 139 $550.00 3rd J Ray/M Power (66) $440.00
4th J Ray/M Power 74/66 140 $220.00 4th Cooper/Cooper Lineberry/Shuey (67) $110.00ea
3rd Flight Calcutta
1st Bauder/Argent 75/66 141 $840.00 1st Bauder/Argent (66) $780.00
2nd Edge/Edge 75/70 145 $500.00 2nd S Cleckler/Mashon (68) $590.00
2nd Haynes/Haynes 75/70 145 $500.00 3rd tie Edge/Edge Haynes/Haynes $292.50ea
4th Cleckler/Mashon 78/68 146 $200.00
4th Flight Calcutta
1st D Hopton-Jones/Ferguson 80/71 151 $770.00 1st H-Jones/Ferguson (71) $350.00
2nd Gardner/Bethune 81/75 156 $460.00 2nd Gardner/Bethune (75) $210.00
3rd Powell/Hyde 81/76 157 $300.00 3rd Powell/Hyde & B H-Jones/Glass (76) $70.00ea
We had a $50.00 closest to the pin prize on all four par 3s each day. Mike Cooper was closest on #4 on day 1 at 2’3”. Andy Payant was 6”6” on #8, Max Bauder was 5”1” on #14 and Ray was 3’3” on #17.
On Day 2 Kerry Cochran was 4” away on #4, Casey Snow was 18” on #8. Helen Spradley was 3”8” on #14 and Hunter Payant was 4’2” on #17. Congratulations to all of these golfers for such good shots.
I want to thank all of our regular staff and our volunteers for their hard work and dedication to making our 2025 Member/Guest another successful outing for all the golfers involved. Thanks to all of our sponsors for their continued support of Alpine Bay Golf. We look forward to doing it again in 2026.
Congratulations to Ernie Shields. Ernie aced #14 this past Thursday, Sept 4. Ernie is in our hole in one club which added $990.00 to his excitement.
2025 Alpine Bay Golf Club Championship Recap
We had 80 members to participate in this year’s club championship. That is an excellent turnout. The weather cooperated with us for most of the two days. It was not extremely hot but we did have about a half hour rain delay during Sunday’s round.
Congratulations to Nathan Fernandez as he maintained his title of Club Champion in the men’s division. Nathan posted a two day score of 144 (even par) to edge out Myles Fincher’s 145. Finishing in 3rd place was B G Simmons with a 148. Matt Hardin finished in 1st place in the net with a 130. 2nd & 3rd place in the net went to Cooper Dean with a net 140 and Cory Baird with a net score of 141.
Piper Teal is the new Ladies club champion at Alpine Bay. Piper outlasted Mary Pomroy who finished in 2nd in the ladies championship flight. 1st place in the net division was Michele Whisman followed by Patti Wilcox and Amy Travis who tied for 2nd in the net.
Chris Robertson is the champion of the 1st flight. He had to win it in a shootout on hole #18 against Foo Dorsett. They both posted a two day total of 150. Chris won the shootout over Foo. Foo was awarded 2nd place. Brandon Fincher finished in 3rd place. In the net portion of the 1st flight, Brian Proctor finished in 1st place followed by Randy Burnham 2nd and Cameron Edge finished 3rd.
Moe Bassett reclaimed his title as the Senior Champion by posting a 145 (+1). 2nd place in the senior flight went to Ken Roe (147) and Moses Ngirailab finished in 3rd. In the net portion of the Senior Flight, Steven Powell took 1st place with a net 135 followed by a tie between Andy Payant and Kevin Carpenter who posted 141s.
In the Super Senior Division, Bobby Denty maintained his status as the Super Senior champion. Bobby shot a two day score of 148. Hippie Cleckler finished in 2nd place with a 151. Paul Woo also posted a 151 but Hippie won the call back with a par on #18. In the net portion of the Super Seniors we had a tie for 1st place between Larry Hardwick and Vaughn Wahl. Both golfers posted scores of 137. There was also a tie for 3rd between Don Hopton-Jones and Sam Cooper with net scores of 138.
The winner of the Ladies Open division was Missy Bullen. Finishing in 2nd place was a tie between Donya Barker and Carol Kilgroe. In the Open division, Holly Wood came in 1st place followed by Mary Palmer.
Our lunch on Saturday was prepared by Russell Howard and it was wonderful. Our staff in the kitchen prepared the lunch on Sunday. It was Crawfish Etouffee. It seemed to be a big hit also.
A special thanks to all of our wonderful staff. The maintenance crew had the course in great condition and the clubhouse staff kept everything working smoothly all weekend. Thanks to all of our sponsors that make these events possible. Our total payback was $13,900.00. We look forward to next year’s club championship and hopefully it will be bigger and better.