Lacey Golf Association

Visit our web site and view our pictures.

This week our event will be flights by age. Can you be the top player in your age group?

Our attendance is very low. We have had one week since May 30 with 100 players, We have a number of players with health issues and we wish you the best in dealing with those issues.About a third of our membership is out every week.We still have some members who are no shows. Just do not take the time to let Jay know they are not playing. I will never understand.

Low attendance will impact our prize money and food budget. Good we have a 50-50. Keep on playing and some of you who do not play please start playing.

Hope to see you Thursday if you are not playing please contact:

jay@gambleridge.com

732-267-4899 (text)

Aug 22 Semi finals

Posted on August 26, 2019 by J Nickelsen

WOW! A 24 hole match to decide our final eight for our 2019 Championship. Yes, Mike Ziobro and Bob Ragusa went 15 holes to decide thier match. Mike Ziobro ended this match on the 15th hole.Congratulations to Mike and Bob for a great match.

Here is your final eight:

Gene Wawer v John Dazzo

Mike Ziobro v Frank Ernest

Ed Lavelle v Blair Buck

Frank Merrill v Bob Egelhoff

Our best to these players and thanks to all of our players who participated in the 2019 event.

Here are your links to the portal:

https://lga-nonmatchplayplayers822.golfgenius.com

Also visit our web site at :

The event this week will be a team event followed by lunch after the round. Our menu sounds good. Pulled Pork,mac & cheese and beans. With all the fixings

Please plan to attend this event and the remainder of our 2019 events. Our attendance has been very poor recently. Summer vacations and health issues has impacted our recent attendance.

Another week with double digits skins. 13 skins on 8-22. This includes an Eagle on 16 by Bob Reilly.

This weeks players scoring in the 70″s:

Bob Reilly 72 That is one over par

Haddie Lee 74

Ray Dibenedetti 75

Ed Kelleher 77

Don Lee 78

Andy Ducsak 79

How about those low 80’s players:

Gary Sher 80

Troy Nikola 80

Jim Longmuir 82

Ken Flatt 82

Rich Petrosino 83

Tony Giordano 85

Jim Obrien 85

Our members are playing good golf.

Hope to see you Thursday.

732-267-4899 (text)

August 15 Championship 1/4 finals

Posted on August 16, 2019 by J Nickelsen

Congratulations to our sweet 16! These players have reached the semi finals in our 2019 match play championship. Here is the line up for August 22.

Chico Iapicco v Gene Wawer

John Dazzo v Jeff Conner

Jeff Billie v Frank Ernest

Bob Ragusa v Mike Ziobro

Ed Lavelle v Frank Blozen

Rich Kulaszewski v Blair Buck

Mike Kozar v Bob Egelhoff

Cap Boehm v Frank Merrill

Again, congratulations and we hope you play good this week.

This is the link to the match play event.

This is our web site:

https://lga-nonmatchplayplayers815.golfgenius.com

One of our year end awards is our most improved golfer for the 2019 season.You must be an active member on April 1.. Here are some of our golfers in the running for this award.Kubilewicz,Lerro,Low.Schembari,Hall and Blozen. Check out the plaque in the Hall of Champs

This is your link for this weeks event:

SKINS: Wow 14 skins this week. Must be a weekly record.

We had four rounds in the 70’s this week:

Troy Nikola 74

Ed Kelleher 74

Ray Dibenedetti 74

Haddie Lee 78

Nice playing!

These players were almost in the 70’s

Andy Ducsak 81

Bob Reilly 82

Jim Longmuir 82

This is a look at our net leaderboard:

Neil Petermann 62

Ed Kelleher 64

John Brancato 66

Ralph Caruso 66

John Barnable 67

Tom Smith 67

Mike Lagorga 67

Ernie Leta 67

These players are hitting their target score.

I will post the 8-15 handicap revision on our board this week

Be sure to visit our portal and check out the results in our 3 Flights.

If you are not playing this Thursday please contact asap:

732-267-4899 (text)

Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday.

August 8th Round 1 of Match play Complete

Posted on August 9, 2019 by J Nickelsen

What a beautiful Sunday afternoon. It was a great morning to play golf and I did.

Here are the links:

This is our web site:

https://lga-nonmatchplaypeople.golfgenius.com

On our portal go to results and you will select a date drop down. You can review August 1,8 & 15 for results and matches on the 15th.

Congratulations to our final 8 players in each flight. We had some great matches on Thursday and a number of the matches went to extra holes.

Sramowicz v Iapicco

Wawer v Kengeter

Dazzo v Woody

Conner v Sher

Billie v Covino

Ernest v Hoban

Ragusa v Carnes

Lamorte v Ziobro

Lavelle v Filipek

R Tholen v Blozen

Kulaszewski v Kelly

Blair v Czepizak

Kozar v Ott

Mueller v Egelhoff

C Boehm v D Lee

Merrill v D Starkey

Again congratulation and we are looking forward to some great matches this week.

Our non match play players can go to this link to see your results.

If you are in to watching golf on tv it is a great afternoon to watch. The first round of the Fed Ex Cup playoff is being played at Liberty National Golf Course in Jersey City. You will see some great golf and also some great shots of Lower Manhattan and the NY Harbor.

The US Women’s Amateur Championship will be on FS1 from 2 to 5. This is a match play event.

Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday. Please check with the rangers for your starting hole.

As always if you will not play Thursday please contact:

732-267-4899 (text)

Aug 1 Beginning of match Play

Posted on August 2, 2019 by J Nickelsen

First here is your links to our portal and web site.

Go to results and see a select a date drop down. Select qualifer Thu Aug 1. This will show you all of the results on 8-1.The Aug 8 date will show the brackets and seeds but no names. At this time I do not why this is incomplete. We are working on this. I am going to list the matches now:

Championship Flight

Sramowicz v Dazzo, Kasubinski v Lashley, Dibenedetti v Bjornson, Kengeter v Sher, Lerro v Conner, Traier v Chico, F Mele v Wawer, Cerino v Lacey

First Flight

Billie v Hanos, Italiano v Covino, Ernest v Fasano, Parascand v Hoban, Ragusa v Lamorte, Carnes v Suveg, Schembari v Digiglio, Ziobro v Giordano

Second Flight

Lavelle v Low, Filipek v J Starkey, Roache v R Tholen, Blozen v F Gingerelli, Smith v Kulaszewski, Leta v Kelly, Blair v Iglio, Czepizak v Dove

Super Seniors

Kozar v Thievon, Ott v Gusler, Longmuir v Egelhoff, Labik v Sampieri, C Boehm v Etzel, Doeren v D Lee, Merrill v Mueller,Roper v D Starkey

Congratulations to the number one seeds in each flight. They are Sramowicz 62, Billie 60, Lavelle 63 and Kozar 60. Those are net scores.

On the Gross Leaderboard are:

Ray Dibenedetti 70 one under par round

Bob Reilly 70 another one under par round

Larry Sramowicz 75

Troy Nikola 76

Gary Lerro 77

Jim Longmuir 78

Here is a look at the net board

Jeff Billie 60

Mike Kozar 60

Bob Ragusa 61

Cap Boehm 62

Larry Sramowicz 62

Go to our portal to see your results and the results of all our members.. Looks like we had a total of 12 skins last week.Are you a skin winner?

Looking forward to the next four weeks. Make sure you check with the ranger in the parking lot for your starting hole.

This is a hot dog and beverage week. I enjoyed our lunch and we have some great pictures of our players. They will be on the web site.

See you Thursday

https://lga-bridgemanteamevent.golfgenius.com

jay@gambleridge.com

732-267-4899 (text)

July 25 Round of Golf

Posted on July 27, 2019 by J Nickelsen

Good Morning! I hope you are enjoying this beautiful morning. I hope all our Monmouth County members are back to normal after a powerful storm hit the area on Monday.

We played golf on Thursday, What a beautiful morning to play golf. We cancelled our lunch but we are having lunch this Thursday. Make plans to stay for lunch. We are having steak,chicken,mashed potatoes and a salad. Still sounds good.

This is your link to our portal this week.

Go to results to see how you did and how your team performed in the event? One team in the Palmer Flight had a score of 129. 17 under par. Check out your results

Also visit our web site.

Check out LGA stats

Haddie Lee was on top of our gross leaderboard with a 2 over par 73. Very good round. Haddie was followed by:

Bob Reilly 75

Troy Nikola 76

Ray Dibenedetti 77

Ed Kelleher 78

Ken Bjornson 79

Ken Flatt and Andy Ducak shot 11 over par 82 to lead our low 80’s members.

You can see all the results on our portal. Check it out!

Frank Blozen is on top of our net leaderboard with a -12 score of 59.

We would like to have more members. If you have a friend,cousin or neighbor who likes to play golf invite them to give us a chance.We have not had over 100 players playing on Thursday since May 30. Make every effort to play every week.We need players.

Our Club Championship starts this week with our qualfying round. We will have four flights and 16 golfers will qualify in each flight.Match play will start August 8. This Thursday you will be in your regular pairing. Plan to play.Lots of fun.

Remember we assume you are playing every Thursday unless you tell us differently.Contact one of the following if you can not play this week.ASAP.

https://lga-individualgrossscoresflighted.golfgenius.com

jay@gambleridge.com

732-267-4899

See you Thursday

July 18 Round of Golf

Posted on July 20, 2019 by J Nickelsen

Hope you are in a very cool place and staying out of this heat. Did you watch The Open?

Here is your link to our portal this week.

Visit the portal to see your results and the results of other LGA members.

Also visit our web site. The web site has our calendar showing our 2019 season. Also visit LGA stats on the web site.

July 25 is the last Thursday in July. So we are having a team tournament and lunch. How does steak ,chicken,mashed potatoes and a salad sound. I am ready to eat! Also plan to have your “regular group” playing on Thursday. The tournament will be a fun event.

We had nine skins on Thursday. One of our members had two skins. Go to the portal to see who won skins.Here are the results for our low handicap players:

Troy Nikola 73

Bob Reilly 76

Ray Dibenedetti 76

Andy Ducsak 79

Larry Sramowicz 79

Some more love for our very low 80’s players:

Ken Bjornson 80

Don Lee 80

Ed Kelleher 81

Gene Wawer 81

Haddie Lee 82

66 of 94 players were able to shoot under 100 this week.

Here is a look at the top of our net leaderboard.

Dan Starkey 60

Rusty Arnold 63

Tom Morrissey 63

Erik Hall 64

Gene Wawer 64

Ken Bjornson 64

Did you hit your target score? From the white tees the target score is 67 and 65 from the gold tees 18 of our players had a net score of 67 or less.

Please visit the portal to see how you did in your flight based on gross scores.Winners will be announced on Thursday.

The long range weather forecast for Thursday appears to be a delightful day for golf and a nice lunch. Plan to play.

If you can not play this Thursday please contact one of the following ASAP.

https://lga-indstrokenetflighted.golfgenius.com

732-267-4899 (text)

Hope you plan to play in our Club Championship. Match play is a very exciting game and winners win money and prizes.

See you Thursday.

July 11

Posted on July 11, 2019 by J Nickelsen

Good Morning! Hope you are enjoying your weekend. Does it include a round of golf?

Here is your link to our portal this week. Check it out and review your results.

Also visit our website. The website has our 2019 schedule.

How did our 70 shooters do this week after we moved back to our regular tees?

Bob Reilly 73

Gary Sher 76

Troy Nikola 76

Ray Dibenedetti 78

Ed Kelleher 79

Not Bad!

Need to show more love for our low 80 players.

Jim Longmuir 80

Larry Sramowicz 81

Steve Salisbury 82

Gary Lerro 82

Don Lee 83

Rich Petrosino 83.

Gary Sher 61 and Mike Lagorga 62 are on top of the net board. Go to our portal and see all the results.

We had 7 skin winners this week. There was no skin winner on #3. 40 of our players had par on this hole.

You can see the results of our event this week on our portal. Your net score needs to be in the 60’s to win a prize.

MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP

Our qualifying round will be held on August 1 and the matches will be on August 8,15,22 and 29.Trophy,cash and prizes go to the winners and runner ups.Our players compete in four flights. More details to follow.

Our event this week will be individual gross scores flighted. Are you ready to play?

If you can not play please contact us ASAP @

https://lga-redwhiteandbluetournament74.golfgenius.com

732-267-4899 (text)

See you Thursday

PS Match Play is very exciting. Plan to play.

JULY 4th

Posted on July 4, 2019 by J Nickelsen

Patriotic music and flags on every tee box was how we started our Red,White and Blue Tournament. Thanks to Jay for these and our course set up.

Thanks to our members for bringing guest and I hope our guest had a good morning and maybe some day will be members of the LGA.

Here are your links to this weeks portal and our web site.

Visit the portal to see your results and your team results.

How did our low handicap players do in this format? Here are some results:

Haddie Lee 74

Troy Nikola 74

Don Lee 77

Ray Dibenedetti 77

Gary Sher 78

Gary Lerro 78

Andy Ducsak 79

How did the numbers look on the net board?

Jack Gallagher 59 “WOW”

Lou Costa 60

Buck Blair 60

Don Lee 62

Jim Starkey 62

Mike Ziobro 62

Did these players help their teams win one of the four flights?

Check out our portal for the results.

This Thursday is a hot dog and beverage day. Our event will be individual net scores by flights

Note: The scores this week will not be posted to the GHIN system.

We assume you are going to play every Thursday and it is your duty to let us know in a timely manner if you do not plan to play.

Here are the contacts:

https://lga-4manteamstableford1.golfgenius.com

732-267-4899 (text)

See you Thursaday

June 27th Golf

Posted on July 1, 2019 by J Nickelsen

What a beautiful day to play golf. Sun,dry and no cart restrictions. Followed by a very good lunch. Hope you enjoyed.

Please visit our portal and blog. Here are your links.

Looking forward to our July 4 event.It will be a RED-GOLD-BLUE event. The par 5’s will be played from the red tees, all par 4’s from the gold tees for all ages and all par 3’s from the blue tees.Looking forward to the tee shot on #3.

This will be a team event. The average score of all four balls will be your team score. You will be flighted.If some of your team members are not playing this week bring a guest. This will be a fun event.

How about our 70’s players. Week after week in the 70’s.

Troy Nikola 74

Ed Kelleher 76

Ray Dibenedetti 76

Bob Reilly 77

How about some love for our players in the low 80’s.

Gary Sher 81

Andy Ducsak 81

Jim Longmuir 81

Larry Sramowicz 82

Don Lee 83

Week after week these players hit these scores.

Low net this week belongs to John Kubilewicz with a net score of 60.Did you hit your target score? Go to our portal and check out your net score.

You can also check out the team event on our portal. Visit the portal.

Jay and I have been receiving a number of complaints about the pace of play. Here are some pace of play guidelines.

Groups should focus on playing each hole in under or at 15 minutes.

15 minutes per hole =4 hours 30 minute round of golf ” Off the course @ noon”

keep up with the group in front of you at all times

If there is a hole open in front of your group

First Notification-GRGC Staff will alert you to the problem and ask your group to speed up and catch up

Second Notification-GRGC Staff will ask each member of the group to pick up and head to next hole

Pace of Play Tips:

Keep an eye on your ball and everyone else’s ball in the group

Limit ball searches to 3 minutes This is USGA rule

Be prepared to putt when it is your turn and finish out as opposed to marking your ball and waiting for for others to putt

We want all our players to enjoy playing golf and pace of play plays a big role . Keep up with the group in front of you.Enjoy

Thanks to Erik Hall and Steven Kengeter for those beautiful words about Rich Ritchie.

Some of you stll owe for our mandatory hole in one fee. The fee is $5.

If you are not playing this week please contact Jay ASAP @