Steve Pettigrew As amateur golfers, we know how rare it is to shoot a hole-in-one. For some it can happen multiple times in a golfing career, while others may never experience a single hole-in-one. In the Men’s Golf Association there is an annual pool of the members who participate in the hole-in-one contest. Of those…
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Sports, March 2016
Spring softball update
Johnny Blecher and Bill Johansson Spring is just around the corner, and the Robson Ranch Softball Association (RRSA) has completed the registration process and filled rosters for seven teams. These teams will compete in the 2016 Spring season here at the Robson Ranch Field of Dreams. The crack (ping?) of the bat can already be…
Sports, March 2016
Tennis Club news
Edward Baarnett The Robson Ranch Tennis Club held its annual holiday party in December and met for its annual meeting on February 17 to elect new officers for the coming year. The officers elected were as follows: President Linda Grandfield; Vice President Mike Welton; Secretary Klaus Fanterberg and Treasurer Don Skokan. The new officers are…
Sports, March 2016
MGA9 membership Profiles in Discouragement numero uno
John Burkholder, MGA9 Publicity In 1955 then Massachusetts junior senator, John F Kennedy, wrote Profiles in Courage, the inspiring true accounts of eight unsung heroic acts by American patriots at different junctures in our nation’s history. With that tome as our literary model, over the next two years MGA9 will publish, in these hallowed Pioneer Press pages,…
Sports, March 2016
Welcome to spring golf
Stephen Shepard With the daylight savings time change and warmer weather, spring golf is here. With an unusually warm winter, the golf course continues to improve and show its colors. The Pro Shop will switch to summer hours on March 15 and be open 6:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Please note that the ball machine has been…