Lacey Golf Association

https://lga-20190926lga.golfgenius.com

Our main event on Thursday was Mystery Teams. Go to our portal and find your name and your mystery team. Are you a winner? Prizes will be awarded on 11-21.

We had 7 Skins on Thursday. Did your birdie hold up? We had birdie winners on 2 of the 3 par 5.

Haddie Lee was on top of the gross leaderboard with a 3 over par 74.On his heels was:

Ed Kelleher 75

Ray Dibenedetti 75

Larry Sramowicz 78.

These players have been in the 70’s all season. Are you on that team?

Pete Covino was on top of the net Leader Board with 11 under par 60. Were you on Pete’s team?

The scoring for the team event was the average score of all 4 scores on each hole.Example if all 4 players made a 4 on hole 1 the average score was a 4.

This was a handicap event . It was 80% handicap event.

We thank you for your participation in the LGA. We hope you plan to return for the 2020 season. It will be our 27th year. Ask a friend to join us.

No change in the weekly fee for our 2020 season. It will be $40.00.

Our winter meeting is Thursday,November 21 2019. We will serve breakfast at 9. Golf later if the weather permits.

Thank you again and look forward to seeing you on 11-21.

9-26 2nd to last, how quick it went

Posted on October 3, 2019 by J Nickelsen

Here are your links to visit our portal or web site.

Portal:

Web Site

Our single digit handicap players continue to post good rounds. Six of our players had rounds in the 70’s. They are:

Troy Nikola 73

Bob Reilly 75

Ray Dibenedetti 77

Haddie Lee 78

Steve Salisbury 79

Larry Sramowicz 79

60 of our players had scores under 100.

Jim Kelly and Steve Carnes are on top of our net leaderboard with net scores of 61. 21 of our players had net scores of 67 or less.3 Super Seniors had net scores of 65 or less.

Cap Boehm 63

Vinny Abbuzzesse 64

Dan Starkey 65

Nine Skins this week. You can go to our portal and review your results. Check it out.

Our event this week will be a team event and the pay out will be at our winter meeting on November 21. Mark your calendar now and plan to attend.

Our final Thursday will be followed by our lunch and awards banquet.Please plan to attend and stay for the awards ceremony. Our menu will be:

Prime Rib

mashed potatoes

green beans

garden salad

Really sounds good.

See you Thursday

https://lga-september19lgatournament.golfgenius.com

732-267-4899 (Text)

9-21 Fall is here

Posted on September 23, 2019 by J Nickelsen

Can you believe we only have two weeks remaining on our 2019 schedule? Please make plans to play on 9-26 and 10-3. On 10-3 after the round attend our luncheon and awards banquet. Our menu will be Prime Rib with all the trimmimngs.

Here are the links to our portal and web site.

laceygolfssociation@gmail.com

Go to our portal and review your results in this weeks event.

This is a look at the top 7 on our gross leaderboard.

Bob Reilly Jones Flight 75

Troy Nikola Jones Flight 77

Larry Sramowicz Hogan Flight 77

Don Lee Hogan Flight78

Jim Longmuir Hogan Flight 79

Steven Kengeter Palmer Flight 81

Haddie Lee Jones Flight 82

16 of our players had net score of 67 or less. Here are your top 6.

Steven Kengeter 62

Lou Costa 63

Jim Schembari 63

Larry Sramowicz 64

Ed Andzeski 64

Don Lee 65

Our portal will show you your position on our low net leaderboard. Go to the portal.

58 of our players had scores under 100 this week.

SKINS: 8 skins this week.Did you make a birdie this week?

Our event this week was based on gross score and the field was placed in six flights based on your course handicap.Here are the flights and handicap range.

Jones 5-9

Hogan 12-16

Palmer 17-21

Nicklaus 22-25

Floyd 26-31

Woods 32-36

Go to our portal and check out your results.

The event this week will be six flights by course handicap. Results will be based on gross score using the stableford scoring system.

Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday. Your contacts are:

jay@gambleridge.con

732-267-4899

9-12 What A day!!!!

Posted on September 13, 2019 by J Nickelsen

It was a beautiful day for golf. Yet 36 of our members were not there to enjoy a round of golf. Six of the 36 were no shows. A no show is a player who does not bother to let us know he will not be playing.This is our attendance policy. When you join the LGA we assume you will play every week.If you are not playing it is your responsibilty to let us know. Long range forecast has this Thursday looking good. Hope you are playing.

Here is your link to our portal and web site. Check it out.

https://lga-lga190912.golfgenius.com

It was Jim Longmuir Thursday.He was on top of the gross leaderboard with a 76,tied for first on the net side with a 62, tied for first in his age group with 45 stableford points,had one skin and shot his age. Jim, a very good Thursday.

Here is a look at our gross leaderboard:

Ed Kelleher 77

Ray Dibenedetti 77

Andy Ducsak 80

Larry Sramowicz 81

Ken Bjornson 81

Haddie Lee 82

Rich Petrosino 82

23 of our players had net scores of 67 or less. Here is your top 7:

Jim Longmuir 62

Bob Egelhoff 62

Neil Petermann 63

Ralph Caruso 63

Vinny Fairchild 64

Bill Low 64

Vinny Abbuzzesse 64

Nine skins this week including an Eagle on 5 by Steven Kengeter. The foursome starting on Hole # 3 had 3 birdies and one par on hole # 13. Costa,Fairchild,Kelleher and Low. Too bad it was not a team event.

Our final Thursday is 10-3. We will have a prime rib lunch to honor our 2019 award winners. Please plan to attend and stay for the presentation of awards.

Our event this week will be gross scores by flights.

See you on Thursday and if you are not playing here are your contacts:

https://lga-lacey190905.golfgenius.com

732-267-4899 (Text)

9-5 Dorian Storm avoided

Posted on September 5, 2019 by J Nickelsen

Dorian has passed and we are going to have a very nice weekend along the Jersey Shore. Hope you enjoy.Our prayers are with the people in the Bahamas.

We have four weeks remaining in our 2019 season. The 2019 season will end on October 3 with a round of golf and a lunch for our 2019 champions. Mark your calendar now.

Our winter meeting will be Thursday,November 21. Mark your calendar now and plan to attend this event as we prepare for our 2020 season.

Here are your links to our portal and web site.

Check out the portal and review all the results for the event on 9-5.

Around 85% of our members are opening the weekly email and going to the portal. Very good results. Keep it up.

There was excellent golf played on Thursday. On the gross side Ed Kelleher was the leader for the second week with a 2 over par 73. Ed told me his putter is very hot. Keep it hot. We had the following players in the 70’s

Troy Nikola 77

Haddie Lee 78

Jim Longmuir 78

How about those low 80 scores.

Gary Sher 80

Frank Fresca 80 “Guest”

Larry Sramowicz 81

Don Lee 81

Andy Ducsak 82

Go to our portal and you can review all the gross scores.

On the net side. Our goal is to have a net 67 from the white tees and a 65 from the gold tees. This is your gross score minus your course handicap.We had 36 players this week at 67 or less.Your leader was Cap Boehm with a 61.Cap has his best round of the 2019 season.

Frank Ernest 62

Paul Ott 62

Lou Costa 63

Jim Kelly 63

Rolf Doeren 63

You can review your net score on the portal. Check out the portal

SKINS: 8 skins last week 4 on the gross side and 4 on the net side.

Last week we were in five flights by age. You can see those results on the portal. This week our event will be flights by age using stableford scoring.

Thursday is Hot Dog and beverage day.

We had 101 players last week and are hoping to exceed that number this week Fall is a great time to play golf.

See you Thursday. If you can not attend please contact us asap.

https://lga-nonmatchplayers829.golfgenius.com

732-267-4899 (Text)

8-29 Champions revealed

Posted on September 1, 2019 by J Nickelsen

Good Morning! Looks like the weather is going to be perfect for this Labor Day weekend. Hope you enjoy.

Congratulations to our match play champions!

John Dazzo

Frank Ernest

Ed Lavelle

Bob Egelhoff

We will honor these players at our final luncheon on October 3. Make plans now to play and have lunch on 10-3.

Six of our players had scores in the 70’s on Thursday.The leader of this group was Ed Kelleher with a one over par round 72.Nice round Ed!

Bob Reilly 73

Gary Lerro 78

Andy Ducsak 79

Haddie Lee 79

Troy Nikola 79

Jim Longmuir 80 and Larry Sramowicz 81 were the leaders of our low 80 group.

Steve Carnes and John Filipek are our leaders on the net score leaderboard. Both players had a 61. Steve shot 82 and John 89. Congratulations! 25 of our players had a net score of 67 or lower. Our target score from the white tees is 67 and 65 from the gold tees.

Here are your links this week. Go to our portal and see your results.

https://lga-matchplaychampionship1.golfgenius.com

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:

https://lga-matchplaychampionship1.golfgenius.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.

https://lga-matchplaychampionship1.golfgenius.com

jay@gamblerridge.com

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: