John Burkholder, Communications Director 9MGA I met with Wildhorse Golf Club’s new Director of Golf Operations/Service, Roger Martinez, on Tuesday, October 30 for a get acquainted interview in preparation for an introducing Wildhorse’s new Head Golf Professional article for this newspaper. Fortunately, I discovered that Virginia Wheeless and Steve Shepard of the WGA and MGA…
John Burkholder, Communications Director 9MGA Although delayed a week and shortened to a single day of 9-holes instead of the traditional two back-to-back 9-hole days, 9MGA’s 2018 Tournament Club Championship was enjoyably played on Monday, October 22, under partially cloudy skies, perfect golf temperatures and soft (for Texas) pleasant breezes. Four flights of competitively grouped…
John Burkholder Hey all you new Robson Ranch resident male golfers, and based on all the new houses in our fantastic golf course community, that’s quite a few, the 9-Hole Men’s Golfing Association (9MGA) wants you! And a separate but equal shout out to all other male Robson Ranch resident golfers not currently enjoying…
John Burkholder, 9MGA Communications Director What do Simon & Garfunkel, the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, Elton John, Eric Burdon and the Animals and Queen have in common with 9MGA golfers? A whole lot, it seems. First, our 2017 plaque of Appreciation award to RR 9MGA outgoing president, Wesson (Wes) Gage. What better blast from the…
John Burkholder, 9MGA Communications You’ve been look’n for fun in all the wrong places if you haven’t joined the fun on Dave Bowles Golf Par 3 Tour. The tour tees off every other Wednesday (almost) evening between 4:30 and 5 p.m. as a shotgun start from challenging Wildhorse or Mustang par 3 only tee locations…
John Burkholder On Friday, September 16 of last year, Wildhorse Golf Club’s 9MGA annual member, Bill Vokes, sunk his third, yes third, lifetime hole-in-one. Bill’s first two holes-in-one date back to the last century, sometime in the late 1980s, at Vista Hills Country Club in El Paso, TX. So this one was a long time…
John Burkholder, 9MGA Communications This probably sounds like an often heard story, but 9MGA’s go-to website guy, Gary Geiser, didn’t volunteer for the position. Gary was drafted by Frank Rigerrio when he joined 9MGA a couple of years ago. Frank was looking for volunteers, Gary said OK, saw what the website job entailed, thought he’d…
John Burkholder, 9MGA Communications What do you get when you combine a Council Bluffs, Iowa upbringing, 50 years in wholesale paper and plastic products management, City Councilman and Mayor of Council Bluffs public service time, 40 years mastering golf evidenced by a one-time 18 handicap and a respectable current 24, a proud playing member of…
John Burkholder In August 2013 a group of RR Denton MGA golfers decided that playing nine-hole rounds of golf was a pretty good idea. So to that end the 9MGA was established as a separate men’s golfing association here at the Ranch. By the end of 2014 that new group totaled 86 members, of which…