Member – Guest Invitational October 16th – 18th, 2024
When Mother Nature throws you a 50mph curveball, who is better to send to the plate than Scott "Thor" Thordarson, the Norse hammer-wielding god associated with lightning, thunder and storms?
On Friday, the final day of the Member/Guest Invitational, the 56-team field was greeted by a freak windstorm with 40mph winds and gusts up to 50mph. Scott Thordarson and his partner, Don Sanders, calmly replied, "Hold my 7-iron" as they stood up to the elements and took the top prize in a very competitive field to be declared the overall winners of the 2024 MGI tournament.
PUTTING CONTEST
The event began on Wednesday with morning practice rounds and culminated that day with a trip around Dan Carter's diabolical 9-hole putting course. Jim Hayek prevailed with a sizzling score of 22 on the par 27 course to edge out Bill Oprish, David Box, Mike Oprish and Mark Stine by one stroke.
HORSE RACE RESULTS
Following the Day One Quota game, players were treated to a hearty lunch before heading back out to the highly anticipated alternate shot Horse Race. At the conclusion of each flight's competition, the flight winners convened on hole #9 to determine the overall winners. The Thordarson/Sanders pairing produced a double bogey to grab 4th place and the Andy Bolland/Dave McKelvie team carded a bogey for 3rd place honors. Recording pars to tie the hole were the father/son teams of Rick and Christian Merritt and Mike and Chris Schuster.
A chip-off ensued and the Merritt/Merritt team prevailed to grab the top prize and the admiration of the large attending crowd.
When the dust settled after 2 grueling days of competition, the flight winners were left standing.
OVERALL QUOTA GAME WINNERS
Player flight: Scott Thordarson/Don Sanders -2.5
Nicklaus flight: Dan Anderson/Dan Condie -11.5
Palmer flight: Tony Wells/Todd Wells -12
Hogan flight: Marvin Soskil/Joseph Ed -12.5
When Mother Nature throws you a 50mph curveball, who is better to send to the plate than Scott "Thor" Thordarson, the Norse hammer-wielding god associated with lightning, thunder and storms?
On Friday, the final day of the Member/Guest Invitational, the 56-team field was greeted by a freak windstorm with 40mph winds and gusts up to 50mph. Scott Thordarson and his partner, Don Sanders, calmly replied, "Hold my 7-iron" as they stood up to the elements and took the top prize in a very competitive field to be declared the overall winners of the 2024 MGI tournament.
PUTTING CONTEST
The event began on Wednesday with morning practice rounds and culminated that day with a trip around Dan Carter's diabolical 9-hole putting course. Jim Hayek prevailed with a sizzling score of 22 on the par 27 course to edge out Bill Oprish, David Box, Mike Oprish and Mark Stine by one stroke.
HORSE RACE RESULTS
Following the Day One Quota game, players were treated to a hearty lunch before heading back out to the highly anticipated alternate shot Horse Race. At the conclusion of each flight's competition, the flight winners convened on hole #9 to determine the overall winners. The Thordarson/Sanders pairing produced a double bogey to grab 4th place and the Andy Bolland/Dave McKelvie team carded a bogey for 3rd place honors. Recording pars to tie the hole were the father/son teams of Rick and Christian Merritt and Mike and Chris Schuster.
A chip-off ensued and the Merritt/Merritt team prevailed to grab the top prize and the admiration of the large attending crowd.
When the dust settled after 2 grueling days of competition, the flight winners were left standing.
OVERALL QUOTA GAME WINNERS
Player flight: Scott Thordarson/Don Sanders -2.5
Nicklaus flight: Dan Anderson/Dan Condie -11.5
Palmer flight: Tony Wells/Todd Wells -12
Hogan flight: Marvin Soskil/Joseph Ed -12.5
Member/Guest Invitational winners, left to right: Dan Condie, Dan Anderson, Don Sanders, Scott Thordarson, Todd Wells, Tony Wells, Marvin Soskil, Joseph Ed