The women's spring league began play on Tuesday evening, May 12 with 20 teams participating. Their league is nine holes each evening using a two-person scramble handicapped adjusted format. Here's the teams and scores from week one:
Nalea Nothwehr/Lindsay Sonksen 34
Nicole Wenstrand/Lori Carlson 35
Nancy Maher/Marcia Beecher 36
Cheryl Mulligan/Melissa Gibson 36
Mindy Stripe/Amanda Adams 36
Eleanor Shirley/Teresa Graham 36
Anna Cabbage/Ciara Burnison 36
Ashlee Dinges/Rachel Jones 36
Kim Giles/Kim Brake 37
Sydney Prather/Julie Mount 37
Karyee Gonder/Kelli Kline 37
Deb Finlay/Shelly Hutchinson 37
Genene Fienup/Susan Lantz 37
Angela Dinges/Annie Moores 37
Jenni Martin/Amy Zwickel 38
Demi Schoonover/Andrea Lorimor 39
Terri Ward/Sarah Hall 39
Kate Coghlan/Tristyn Smith 40
Rachel Hoyt/Jessica Snyder 41
Chelsey Annan/Mack Cerven 42
The Monday evening men's spring league standings after two weeks of action are below.
McHenry/Jensen 32 points
Blank/Annan 31.5
Tom Foutch/Hammons 31
Zwickel/Zwickel 31
West/G Graham 30.5
Regan/Ehlers 30.5
Moores/Michaelson 30
Liebsack/Crowley 30
Wilson/Denton 29.5
Rogers/McBride 29
Grant/Bowden 28
Rigby/Peterson 28
Allumbaugh/Swane 28
Laughlin/Martin 28
Dinges/Blackman 27.5
Todd Foutch/C Foutch 27.5
Pease/Mann 27.5
Rice/Dinges 27.5
Mulligan/Waite 27
Soderberg/Newberg 26.5
Carlson/Swanson 26.5
Davis/Miller 26
Stewart/Brown 25.5
Griffith/Laumann 25.5
Coghlan/Dailey 24.5
Bartley/Wiebold 23.5
Lundgren/Lyman 23.5
Gray/B Graham 23
Hughes/Lyman 22.5
Blane/O'Neil 22.5
Schoonover/Meier 22.5
Mahler/Hudson 21
The Southwest Iowa Seniors, known as the Wobblies, had 88 golfers participate in their event here on Monday morning, May 11.
Golf course superintendent Craig Connell's 2026 staff includes Leroy Whitehill, Gary Faulk, Joe Connell, Greg Scott, John Connell, Brian Larson, Michael Blane, Ayden Johnson, and Logan Twyman. The course is in great shape and with this team we know it will only get better. Thanks for all of your hard work, guys!
Upcoming events at the SGC include: 1) Memorial Day Monday, May 25th – Flag prizes all day. 2) Shenandoah Fire Department's 2nd Annual Golf Tournament Fundraiser on Saturday, May 30. Entry fee is $200 for a four-person team with proceeds going to the Brush Truck Fund. Registration and lunch start at 10 a.m. with a shotgun start at 11. To register, call (712) 246-2300 or email shenfiredept@yahoo.com. 3) First Wednesday of month men's stag on June 3. 4) Shenandoah Medical Center's Annual Golf Outing on Thursday, June 4.
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This week's golf slang dictionary term is “He's So Fat When He Steps on a Scale it Reads One at a Time Please.” And the definition is “Obese Golfer.”
This week's golf quote from famous people is compliments of the late great Seve Ballesteros. “To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.”
This week's “In Years Gone By” notable event comes from almost 20 years ago on May 30, 2006. Dennis Grebert had a hole-in-one on the par three 12th hole.
This week's attempt at golf humor – The more I stink at golf, the more I drink. The more I drink, the better I think I am. The better I think I am, the more I play. It's a vicious beautiful cycle.
The answer to last week's trivia question – What was the first year the annual Shenandoah Masters golf tournament was played and who was the scratch champion? The correct answer is 1984 and the scratch champion was my high school classmate and friend, Van Brownson. This week's trivia question – Who was the initial 1984 Shenandoah Masters handicap champion? The answer to this week's trivia question will be in the next FTTG column.
