Recognition!

At the MCPLA meeting Brian Pederson was recognized for his leadership and sportsmanship in serving as the MCPLA Team Match director from 2012-2022 and Secretary from 2017-2024.

We all really appreciate Brian's time, dedication and efforts in both of these roles.

Glen Barkow was voted in as the next MCPLA Secretary. We are really glad to have Glen rejoin the Board.

Kurt Beronja
MCPLA Treasurer

Club Event at Wanaki Golf Course - Results

Sunday at Wanaki was fun. The course was in nice shape and the greens rolled great!!

3 players broke 80 gross. Phil Levin shot 76 and John Dobroski and Steve Wolter shot 79.

But the event was an individual net event split into 2 flights!!

Phil Levin shot 6 under par net to win A Flight and Bob Kettler shot 7 under par net to win B Flight. Great job boys!!! They both won $45.

In A Flight Glen Barkow was 2nd ($30), Tom Condella was 3rd($20) and Steve Wolter was 4th($10)

In B Flight Ben Sevener was 2nd($30), Doug Schafer finished 3rd ($20) and Steve Amble and Jim Sauceda tied for 4th, they will get $5 each.

There were 3 skins for the day and Phil Levin had a day!! He had 2 skins and Steve Amble had the other skin.

Link to Full Results

Congrats to all!!!

Steve Wolter
VP and Event Coordinator

Currie / Hon-E-Kor Challenge - Results

We had beautiful weather for golf this weekend!!

The greens were in great shape and rolled beautifully!!

No good news from Hon-E-Kor except that is was a lot of fun playing Ryder cup format. We got spanked pretty bad but I am thinking those who played had a good time!! We will get them next year!!

After 11 years (events), Hon-E-Kor now leads Currie in this Challenge 8 - 3.

Steve Wolter

VP and Event Coordinator

MCPLA County Championship at Brown Deer Park Golf Course - Results

 MCPLA Members:

AWC RECAP:  This past weekend, 90 Milwaukee County golfers -- mostly MCPLA members -- participated in our flagship event, the 64th Annual Arnold Walker Milwaukee County Championship.  We had fabulous weather, reasonable pace of play, a challenging and competitive format and setup, and most of all, great golf on the fabulous Brown Deer Park golf course.   Special thanks to our tournament director, Bob Freuck and starter Glenn Jaeger, for running the tournament without a hitch and Brown Deer PGA Pro, Scott Walecki, and his staff, for assisting and creating a great course setup. 

The complete results are available at https://bgtma.bluegolf.com/bluegolfw/bgtmamcpla24/event/bgtmamcpla243/index.htm.   

Championship Flight: The Championship Flight probably had one of our deepest and most talented fields ever.   The winner came down to a sudden death playoff between Dylan Karvala and Micheal Addie, who both finished  at -2.  Dylan finally won after 4 exciting sudden death holes.

Championship Flight (27 players)

1st Dylan Karvala 74-66---140** $175 & Plaque

2nd Michael Addie 69-71---140 $140

3rd Ryan Maloney 67-74---141 $110

4th Ryonen Faris 70-72---142 $95

5th Tyler Leis         68-76—144 $85

6th Garrett Schultz         71-74—145 $70

7th Michael Masik Jr. 71-74—145 $70

T-8th Daniel Benedum 77-69---146 $30

T-8th Nicholas Zellmer 72-74—146 $30

A Flight: John Dobroski came from 6 strokes back after the first day and shot his age (76) to win by one stroke over Ted Krotts and Jim Babin.  Only 2 strokes separated the top 5 finishers in A flight.  Congrats to John and the other top 5 finishers:  

A Flight (17 players)

1st John Dobroski 82-76—158 $175 & Plaque

2nd Jim Babin         85-74---159 $125

2nd Ted Krotts 78-81---159 $125

4th Robert Salamone 81-79---160 $90

5th Peter Clemency 77-83—160 $90

B Flight: Steve Jaeger won B Flight wire-to-wire with a very solid 78-80 to win by 4 strokes over iconic sports announcer Steve "the Homer" True who made his tournament debut this weekend.  Congrats to the top 5 finishers: 

B Flight (17 players)

1st Steve Jaeger 78-80—158 $175 & Plaque

2nd Steve "Homer " True 83-79—162 $140

3rd Rufus Evans Ill 88-78—166 $110

4th Ed Brennan 82-87—169 $95

5th Abul Azad 87-83---170 $85

C Flight (net):  Congrats to Matt Kusala who came from 3 strokes back to shoot a net 65 and his lowest score ever to win C Flight, by 2 strokes over Joe Maiorelle.

C Flight (26 players)

1st Matt Kulasa 74-65---139 (net) $175 & Plaque

2nd Joe Maiorelle 74-67---141 $140

T-3rd Glen Barkow 75-70—145 $105

T-3rd Doug Bowring 72-73---145 $105

5th Kenny Collins 71-75—146 $85

6th Jack Bruss 76-72—148 $75

7th Doug Wruck 75-74---149 $66

8th Rich Saks 72-77—149 $60

In sum, thanks to all the participants for a weekend of great golf, tough competition, and most important, outstanding sportsmanship and camaraderie in the great tradition of our tournament honoree and namesake, Arnold Walker.  Next year, the 2025 Arnold Walker Championship will be held at Dretzka Park, an outstanding course layout which has just completed $1.8 million in course improvements, including new tee boxes and cart paths.  Hopefully, our field can continue to grow and produce great county champions.   

Two other brief matters. 

Currie Wins 2024 Team Match Championship Trophy:  Congrats to the Currie Park Men's Club and their team captain Jack Bruss for prevailing in the final MCPLA Team Match at Grant Park on Saturday, August 17, and winning their 12th championship in the last 16 years.   And congratulations to the Grant Park Men's Club on a very solid 2nd place finish.  I would like to personally thank our outgoing Director Tony Puglielli for his outstanding three years of service in running Team Matches and also extend a warm welcome to Pat Garvens, who will serve as our incoming Director for the 2025 season.  Welcome Pat.  The 2024 season results are below:  

2024 MCPLA TEAM RESULTS
Standings	Whitnall 5-26-24	Oakwood 6-9-24	Greenfield 6-30-24	Brown Deer 7-27-24	Grant 8-17-24	YTD
Currie	138	119	123	133	153	666
Grant	82	117	131	120	126	576
Greenfield	118	121	128	108	88	563
Brown Deer	99	112	96	131	119	557
Whitnall	145	104	92	107	107	555
Oakwood	102	122	102	97	88	511
Dretzka	72	61	84	60	69	346
	756	756	756	756	750

NIMAGA-MCPLA CHALLENGE MATCH:  As a final matter, I want to remind everyone of the opportunity to play in the 49th Annual MCPLA-NIMAGA Challenge pitting Milwaukee area golfers against Chicago area golfers.  This year's Challenge Match will  be on Sept. 21st, at an outstanding course, Oak Grove Golf Club in Harvard Illinois (about 20 minutes south of Lake Geneva).  Please either sign up on the MCPLA website or contact our Captain John Haeflinger directly to inquire or sign up. Cost is $75 which includes green fees, tee prizes, and lunch.

Thanks, and see you all on the links. 

Rich Saks

MCPLA Prez

MCPLA Team Match at Grant Park Golf Course - Results

Gentlemen –

The Currie team dominated at Grant Park today, winning the event by a large margin, and taking the Team Match Championship by 90 points over second place Grant Park. We won 153 points today, and Greenfield managed only 88, thus finishing in third place for the season.

We were solid up and down the lineup, with 10 of our 12 players scoring 11 or more points and 7 of us shooting in the 70s. John Hirsch and Dominic Carini took the max 18 points each, Steve Jaeger took 16, your humble captain took 15, and Doub Bowring won 14. Carini tied for low score in the whole field with a sizzling 72. Dave Ullenberg shot 75, Steve Jaeger 77, Brian Pederson and yours truly 78, and Bowring and Phil Levin 79. In individual awards, Chuck Garbers took a skin with a birdie on number 7, and I took closest to the pin on number 5.

Our point leader for the season is Steve Jaeger with 72 points. Rich Saks took 71, Carini 66, Pederson 65, and Bowring 63.

This was our 12th championship in the past 16 years, a remarkable run. Thanks to everyone who played for the team this year and to everyone in the Currie club for their support and for being such a great bunch of guys. We have a wonderful thing going with our club, and I trust everyone appreciates it as much as I do.

Thanks,
Jack

Grant Results
Player	Score	Hcp	Net	Points
Garbers, Chuck	84	20	64	13
Hirsch, John	88	15	73	18
Tarantino, Pete S.	83	12	71	4
Bruss, Jack	78	12	66	15
Bowring, Douglas	79	11	68	14
Saks, Richard	82	11	71	11
Amble, Steve	81	10	71	11
Pederson, Brian S.	78	9	69	11
Levin, Phil	79	8	71	13
Jaeger, Steve	77	7	70	16
Carini, Dominic	72	4	68	18
Ullenberg, Dave	75	2	73	9
				153

 

2024 MCPLA TEAM RESULTS
Standings	Whitnall 5-26-24	Oakwood 6-9-24	Greenfield 6-30-24	Brown Deer 7-27-24	Grant 8-17-24	YTD
Currie	138	119	123	133	153	666
Grant	82	117	131	120	126	576
Greenfield	118	121	128	108	88	563
Brown Deer	99	112	96	131	119	557
Whitnall	145	104	92	107	107	555
Oakwood	102	122	102	97	88	511
Dretzka	72	61	84	60	69	346
	756	756	756	756	750
Currie Points	Whitnall 5-26-24	Oakwood 6-9-24	Greenfield 6-30-24	Brown Deer 7-27-24	Grant 8-17-24	YTD	Avg Points
Jaeger	18	13	10	15	16	72	14.4
Saks	18	16	14	12	11	71	14.2
Carini	17	13	14	4	18	66	13.2
Pederson	12	9	16	17	11	65	13.0
Bowring	10	16	18	5	14	63	12.6
Hirsch	4	7		16	18	45	11.3
Bruss	4	0	17	7	15	43	8.6
Tarantino	12	14	1	11	4	42	8.4
Cuthbert	13	13	11			37	12.3
Schaefer		11	9	12		32	10.7
Ullenberg				18	9	27	13.5
Camosy	15		6			21	10.5
Frenzel	14		3	1		18	6.0
Olen				15		15	15.0
Garbers					13	13	13.0
Levin					13	13	13.0
Amble	1				11	12	6.0
Sweeney		4				4	4.0
Sauceda			4			4	4.0
Brandt, Scott		3				3	3.0