2024 July 4, Fireball Results

Mathu tried to save the Fireball but had no luck.

2024 July 4 Fireball Results

There were 11 teams in our Fireball dogfight on the morning of July 4. Eleven Fireballs went out but only eight returned to the clubhouse. When a team loses their designated ball, they are eliminated from the Fireball portion of the dogfight.

The team of David Donahoo, Ray Lineberry, Don Hopton Jones and Jamie Kimberly took 1st place in the Fireball event. Their team was +10 over their quota of 22pts for the Fireball. 2nd place went to the taem of Shane Cleckler, Brian Galloway, Kimberly Stubbs and Rae Clayton. They were + 8.5 and 3rd went to Corey Baird, Jan Sweatman, Jeremy Cooper and Matthew Whisman at +3.5.

In the regular dogfight, 1st place was Corey Baird’s team at +21. 2nd place went to the team of Ken Roe, Jason Berry, Mathu Travis and Jimmy Berning at + 20 and 3rd went to Hippie Cleckler, Daniel Leverton, Michele Whisman and Ryan Smith at +14.

Congratulations to all the winners and we look forward to doing it again next year on July 4.

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2024 Alpine Bay’s Member/Member Tournament Wrap Up

2024 Alpine Bay Golf – Member/Member Results

We had 42 teams to sign up and play in our Member/Member Tournament. That is a great turnout and we appreciate all of you for playing. The weather was sunny and hot for both days but that is normal for late June.

The festivities began on Friday night as we fed the teams a wonderful catfish dinner provided by Russell Howard. Immediately after the dinner we held our Calcutta. After all the teams were auctioned, we had just over $30,000.00 in the Calcutta.

The tournament and Calcutta was paid back to the top team’s net scores except the Championship flight. There were no handicaps involved in the Championship flight. The tournament format was a Scramble on day 1 and a Shamble on day 2.

We had a tie for 1st place in the Championship flight with scores of 123. That resulted in a sudden death shootout that took place on #18. Moses Ngirailab and Rodney Guy were tied with B G Simmons and Moe Bassett.  The shootout was a continuation of the shamble format just like the day 2 format. Both teams made birdie in the 1st round. They both made pars in rounds 2 & 3. Moses and Rodney recorded a birdie again in the 4th round to clinch the shootout and 1st place in the tournament. 3rd place in the Championship flight went to the team of Jeff Bullen and Max Whitfield with a score of 124.

Taking 1st place in the 1st flight was the team of Shane Harris and D W McKay with a net score of 123. 2nd & 3rd was a tie with net score of 124. That was the teams of Hippie & Shane Cleckler and Randy & Austin Burnham.

1st place in the 2nd flight went to the team of Abby Cerwich and Jinks Marlowe with a net score of 118. 2nd place went to Chris Robertson and Hondo Galloway with a 120. Brandon Fincher and Jan Parton finished in 3rd with a score of 122.

The 3rd flight winners with a score of 124 went to Chris Palmer and Steve Willingham. We had a tie for 2nd & 3rd between the teams of Bob & Don Hopton-Jones and Brian Proctor & Don Carroll. Both teams posted a 124.

The 4th flight winner was the team of Kimberly Stubbs and Steven Powell with a net total of 116. Ryan & Brian Smith finished in 2nd with a 122. There was a tie for 3rd place between Matthew & Michelle Whisman and Amy & Mathu Travis. Both of those teams posted a 123.

The teams got to enjoy lunch provided by  PaPa John’s Pizza while they watched the shootout and during the awards presentations.  Thanks again to all of our loyal hole sponsors. These tournaments couldn’t be near as successful with our sponsors.

I want to thank all of our employees and volunteers for all of the hard work that they provide during these busy events.

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2024 Tentative Tournament Schedule

Remaining 2024 Tentative Tournament Schedule 

(all dates are subject to change)
1 Thursday July 4, Fire Ball Dogfight
2 Friday July 19 Victory Christian Scramble
3 July 27 & 28 (Clear Creek Classic)
4 August 24/25  2024 Club Championship
5 Monday Sept 2, Labor Day Yellow Ball
6 Saturday & Sunday Sept 20 &21 Member Guest
7 Saturday Nov 16 Season ending MGA meeting & dogfight
8 Saturday Dec 14  Pinsetter’s Revenge
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2024 Memorial Day Yellow Ball Results

The morning started off with some high winds and heavy rain right at daybreak. The course got .63inches of much needed rain. By the 9am shotgun start the course was dry enough to allow carts to drive in the fairways.

There were 13 teams that started with a yellow ball and eleven teams returned to the clubhouse with their ball. The tournament is divided into two divisions. One is a regular dogfight and the second is the Yellow Ball division. If a team loses its Yellow ball they are eliminated from this division but they are still competing in the regular dogfight. The entry fee was $30 per golfer above the cost of golf. Each captain establishes a rotation for the Yellow Ball prior to the start of the tournament. Each golfer has to play with the Yellow ball on every fourth hole. Ie (1,5,9,13,17), (2,6,10,14,18), (3,7,11,15) and (4,8,12 ,16).

The skins payout and the closest to the pins are rewarded to the Yellow Ball score only.

The regular dogfight winning teams were as follows. The teams of (Brandon Fincher, Steve Dean, Corey Dailey and David Gaston) tied for 1st place with the team of (Ray Ferguson, R D McDonald, Chris Palmer and Kimberly Stubbs). Both teams were +16 points above their quota. They split the $440 for 1st&2nd place Finishing in 3rd place was the team of (Cooper Dean, John Harris, Hondo Galloway and Jan Parton) they were +12 points above their quota. 3rd place won $100.00

The Yellow Ball division was won by the team of Fincher, Dean, Dailey and Gaston. They were +7.75 points above their quota. 1st place won $300.00 2nd place went to the team of (Mike Sweatman, Doug MacMurdo, Caeman Jernigan and Steve Sorrell).2nd place paid $200. They finished at + 6.75 above their quota and finishing in 3rd at + 4.75 and taking the $100.00 prize was the team  (Mike Griffin, Ray Lineberry, Daniel Leverton and Jeff Kimbrel).

We had six skins awarded. Cooper Deans team won a skin with an Eagle 2 on hole #5. Eric Smith’s team had the only birdie on #8 and they also won a skin with the only birdie in #17. Mike Sweatman’s team scored a birdie on #10. Mike Griffin’s team scored the only par on #15 and Brandon Fincher’s team had the only Yellow Ball birdie on #16. Each skin paid $43.

Kimberly Stubbs won the individual most over. Kimberly was +8 above her quota for the $60 pay out.

Stan Elliott was the closest Yellow Ball on #4 (10’2”). Jason Berry was closest on #8 (7’2”), Mike Sweatman was 9”10” on #14 and Chris Anelo was 9’9” on #17. Closest to the Pin paid $24 each.

A special thanks to Ray Lineberry and PaPa John’s Pizza for furnishing the pizza lunch that everyone enjoyed during the awards ceremony.

We hope to do it again at some time in the future.

Thanks again

Tony Parton

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2024 MGA Season Premier Dogfight Results

2024 Season Premier MGA Dogfight Wrap Up
The decision to go ahead and have the MGA Season Premier this Saturday turned out to be the correct thing to do. We did not get the 1 to 3 inches of rain that was forecast for Friday and the course was in good condition for golf.
The MGA provided a breakfast buffet and a hotdog lunch for all the golfers and the Alpine staff. The girls in the grille did a wonderful job.
We had 12 (4 man teams) teams to compete. The golfers were divided into four divisions depending on their handicap and then the names were drawn randomly to determine the teams. There was also a Yellow Ball competition within the dogfight.
Immediately after the results were in, we took the five golfers that were most over their dogfight points in the tournament and had a shootout. There was a tie for 5th so we had six golfers in the shootout.
Results:
DOGFIGHT RESULTS: We had a tie for 1st place at +11 points between the teams of (Ray Ferguson, Cory Baird, Jimbo Williams & Mathu Travis) and ( Harry Gaither, Jim Gorman, John Harris & Chris Palmer). These two teams split 1st & 2nd place money. 3rd place went to the team of Moses Ngirailab, Mike Sweatman, Andy Payant & Steven Powell. Their team finished at +9 above their point quota.
YELLOW BALL RESULTS: Yellow Ball winning teams were 1st place (Gaither, Gorman, Harris & Palmer) 2nd place (Jeff Bullen, Jimmy Ray, Craig Herrod & Jamie Kimberly) and 3rd place was (Ngirailab, Sweatman, Payant & Powell).
The shootout was between (Moses Ngirailab, Mike Sweatman, Doug MacMurdo, JImbo Williams, Harry Gaither and Skeet Harper). The shootout takes place exclusively on hole #18 so that the gallery on the porch can watch and cheer. Skeet and Moses were eliminated in the 1st round. Doug was out on the 2nd round and Sweaty was eliminated in the 3rd round. Jimbo and Harry had to play two additional rounds before Harry was able to take the overall shootout championship. Harry received $300 for 1st and Jimbo received the $200 2nd prize.
The entry fees totaled $940.00. Our payback total was $1820.00. That is a 193% payback. Thanks to the MGA, we are able to have these tournaments at the beginning and at the end of the year as well as provide financial relief and assistance to some local charities or families.
If you are a member of Alpine Bay, we would like for you to join our MGA (Men’s Golf Association) and take part in our tournaments and dogfights. The cost to join is $25 annually.

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Season Ending MGA dogfight

2023 MGA SEASON ENDING DOGFIGHT WRAP UP

We had 48 members to play in our year end MGA dogfight. The weather cooperated and we had a really nice December day to play.

The MGA provided a breakfast buffet before the MGA meeting and dogfight. The meeting brought about a couple of proposed rule changes and two new persons on the tournament committee. Max Whitfield and Bobby Denty were the members added.

The winners in the dogfight were as follows. 1st place went to Tony Evans. Tony was 6 points above his quota. 2nd place went to Moses Ngirailab at +5. There was a tie for 3rd place all at +4. They were Jimmy Brasher, David Mills, Steven Powell and Eric Smith. Cory Baird and Jim Gorman finished at +3 each to get in the pay back. Finishing out the pay back was Ray Ferguson, Terry Pruet, Brian Galloway, Harry Gaither and Jim Brown all finishing +2 above their quota.

We had a closest to the pin on all four par 3s. Andy Payant was closest on #4 (1’6”), Moses on #8 (8ft), Jeff Ingram on #14 (5”8”) and Terry Brown on #17 (1” 7”).

The top six dogfight finishers advanced to the $1000.00 ($500 cash/$500 Charity) shoot out that took place exclusively on hole #18. Two were eliminated during the 1st two rounds and it came down to Moses and Steven Powell. Moses outlasted Steven after a couple of rounds to take the 1st place prize in the shoot out.

This dogfight and shootout paid out a total of $1960.00. That is a very impressive pay back for a $20 entry fee. The only way we can continue this is through each of you participating in our regular dogfights whenever you have an opportunity. Two dollars from each dogfight participant goes to the MGA. This amount along with the $25.00 annual dues is how we hold these events as well as make contributions to local charities.

Congratulations to all the prize winners and thanks to all the 48 members that participated. A special thanks to the staff here at Alpine for their effort to assure that this event was enjoyed by all that participated.

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Randy Burnham wins the Members Only Match Play

Randy Burnham is the 2023 (Members Only, Autumn Match play) champion

We wrapped up our Autumn match play on Dec 9. Randy Burnham defeated Jimmy Ray 1&0 to go through the double elimination format undefeated. Congratulations to Randy. Randy’s win was rewarded with the $400 cash/$400 club credit 1st place prize. Jimmy Ray played his way through the loser’s bracket to win the $240/$240 2nd place prize. Jimmy eliminated Rodney Guy and Rodney won the $160/$160 3rd place prize.

We will begin another (2024 Winter/Spring) match play sign up in early January 2024.

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2023 Black Friday Yellow Ball Results

We had 36 golfers compete in our Black Friday Yellow Ball Dogfight. Nine Yellow Balls went out and only Seven made it back to the clubhouse. The weather was perfect and the course is in good shape considering the lack of rainfall in our area. If a team loses the Yellow Ball, they are eliminated from the Yellow Ball portion of the dogfight.

The winning team in the Yellow Ball portion was the team of Ken Roe, Eric Smith, Kevin Carpenter and Chuck Daugherty. They scored 28 points with the Yellow Ball and that was 5.5 points above their team quota of 22.5. 2nd Place went to Ray Ferguson, Jason Berry, Steven Powell and Button Johnson. They finished with 25 Yellow Ball point which was 3.75 above their quota.

The dogfight winners were the team of Mike Sweatman, Mike Griffin. Steve Dean and Jimmy Berning. They had a total of 96 dogfight points and that was 5 points above their quota of 91. 2nd place went to the team of Hippie Cleckler, Tony Parton, Ray Lineberry and Michele Whisman. They finished 1 point above their quota of 94.

R D McDonald won the closest to the pin on #4, Ray Lineberry and Cooper Dean were both 13’6” on #8. Tony Parton was closest on #14 and Ken Roe was closest on #17.

Congratulations to all the winners and we hope to do it again soon.

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2023 Renfroe Volunteer Fire Department Fund Raising Scramble Results

2023 Renfroe Volunteer Fire Department Fund Raising Scramble Results

We had 32 teams to compete in the scramble. The weather was fantastic and it turned out to be a great day for golf. The 32 teams were divided up into four flights of eight teams in each flight. The flighting process took place after the score cards were turned in and their final scores were posted.

Winners in the 3rd flight were the teams of David Baughton and Steve Willingham in 2nd place and Allen Crawford /Don Carroll came in 1st place. Both teams posted a 77. Allen and Don made par on #18 to get the decision. In the 2nd flight we had three teams tied with a score of 73. Kane Estes/ Jackson Week were eliminated with a par on #17 and the team of Steve McClellen/ David Lane came in 2nd place with a birdie on #17. The 2nd flight winners were Stuart Rice/Glenn Heathcock. They won the call back with a par on #18. The 1st flight winners were 2nd place Josh Reeves/Justin O’Dell with a score of 70. They edged three other teams that shot 70 also but they won the call back. The call back had to go all the way back to hole #10 where they posted a birdie and the team of Brandon Fincher/Jan Parton posted a par. The 1st place prize went to the team of Hippie Cleckler/Moses Ngirailab. They posted a 69 to take the prize. The overall Champion was the team of Chance Haywood/Tyler Romine. They posted an impressive 59 to win the Championship flight. 2nd place went to the team of Josh Jones/Roxy Basalo with a score of 63. Jones/Basalo won a call against with Paul Woo/Mike Sweatman. The call back went all the way back to hole #13 where Jones/Basalo posted a birdie.

The Closest to the pin winners were as follows: #4 Don Carroll. Don hit the flag stick and had the ball dropped in he would have won the $20,000.00 hole in one prize furnished by Toyota of Sylacauga. Chris Robertson won on hole #8, Teri Daugherty won on hole #14 and Steve McClellen won on #17. Jeremy McCullars won the longest drive on hole #9.

Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all the other teams that chose to compete in this very worthwhile event. Hopefully we will do it again next year.

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2023 Club Championship Wrap Up

 

2023 Ladies Club Champion

2023 Alpine Bay Golf          Club Champion                  (Chris Robertson)

2023 Club Championship Wrap Up

We have officially completed our (2023 Summer Season Tournament Series) with the Alpine Bay Golf, Club Championship.

We had an amazing 64 members to compete. The weather was beautiful on both days although it was pretty warm on up into the day, but that’s what you expect in August in Alabama.

The course was in great shape with lots of grass in the fairways.   That seemed to have limited some of the distance on most of the golfers shots. The greens were in good shape and rolling at a fair speed.

The MGA (Men’s Golf Association) furnished breakfast on Saturday morning and fresh donuts on Sunday morning. A catfish lunch was prepared by the food truck, Traffic Jam on Saturday.  PaPa John’s furnished pizza for all the golfers and workers on Sunday afternoon.

We had 10 members to move back to the Blue tees and compete for the ultimate prize of 2023 Club Champion. Congratulations to Chris Robertson for capturing the title. Chris shot a 73 on the final day to move ahead of the field. He had a two day total score of 153.   He finished two strokes ahead of Jeff Bullen.  Chris was awarded with the $1000.00 check and his name on the Club Champion trophy. In the net division of the Championship Flight Max Whitfield finished in 1st place with a net total 144. Cory Baird came in 2nd with a net 146

The 2023 Ladies Champion is Michele Whisman. Michele finished three strokes ahead of Patti Wilcox to take the title. Patti came in 1st place on the Net portion of play. We had seven ladies to compete for the title. We want to see that number grow before next year’s event,

Shane Harris was the winner in the 1st Flight. Shane shot a two day score of 159 to distance himself from the remaining 11 members that were in his flight. Eric Smith finished in 2nd place. On the Net score the 1st place title went to Steven Powell with a net total of 136 and 2nd place went to Andy Payant with a net 139.

There were 16 members in the Senior Division. Moe Bassett successfully reclaimed the title of Senior Division Champion. Moe fired a two day total of 144 to edge out Harry Gaither by one shot. On the net side, Tony Parton finished in 1st place with a net of 136 and 2nd place went to Ken Roe with a net score of 142.

In the Super Senior Division, Bobby Denty edged out Mike Sweatman on a call back to take the Super Senior title.  Both golfers finished with a two day total of 149. We had 19 members in the Super Senior division. Third place went to Tony Evans. On the net side, John Harris came in 1st place with a net score of 135. Doug Macmurdo finished in 2nd and Jim Gorman took 3rd. Doug netted a 143 and Jim also had a 143. Doug won the callback on #18 to take 2nd.

The proximity prizes for closest to the pin on all par 3s were as follows. Day 1 #4 went to Mike Gardner. #8 went to Moses Ngirailab, #14 Chuck Daugherty and #17 went to Jim Gorman. Day 2, #4 Mike Sweatman, #8 Max Whitfield, #14 R D McDonald and #17 went to Mike Sweatman.

Dirk Walker professional art gallery donated three magnificent paintings and Ace Hardware in Pell City donated a pellet grille.   They were given away during the awards ceremony. Shane Cleckler, Bill Cotney and Jimmy Ray each won a painting and Andy Payant won the pellet grill.

We had $3160.00 in the MGA bonus pot. Each member that had competed in a minimum of 24 dogfights this year was awarded a portion of the total. If you are one of the eligible members, it was added to your club credit at the course. We had 36 golfers in the club championship that qualified.

Once again, thanks to all the staff in the clubhouse and on the grounds crew for all that you do for  Alpine Bay. We are blessed to have a fantastic staff. Thanks to the volunteers that help out in any way that we ask. You all are very special to us and we really do appreciate each one of you.

 

 

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