The Metro Seniors league is made up of 14 teams from around the Twin Cities metro area. The BMGA sponsors two of the teams – The Golden team captained by @Roger-Hamm and the Valley team captained by @Sheldon-Silberman. Weekly, 18-hole match play competition is on Friday mornings with each team hosting a match through the season. For more info on the league visit the Metro Seniors web site.
The first week was hosted by Gross National on what passes for a spring day this year – at least it didn’t rain! With temps in the 40’s all golfers were layered up to defeat the cold and the wind. The course was in good early spring conditions and the new #3 green is a good improvement – still a tough hole uphill into the wind, however!
The Golden team played the University team (last years champion’s) and nearly managed a split. In a block-buster trade over the winter, the Valley team picked up @Ramiro-Sifuentes from the Golden team and Ramiro went out and took all 6 points in the A match with a slick net 74. In the B match @Steve-Slivken squeaked a win on the front nine but lost the match on 18 to gain only 2 points on the day. @Chuck-Bernardy had a solid round but couldn’t catch a break and was shut out in the C match and captain @Sheldon-Silberman split the D match for 3 points with a decent net 75 including a chip-in birdie. The end result was an 11-13 loss good for 7th place in the standings.
@Stan-Hop and @Dan-Olson both swept their matches for the Golden squad winning all 6 points each. Metro Senior rookie @Mark-Steinhauser had a tough day in the cold and wind and got blanked but fellow rookie @Gary-Scharmer had a more productive day matching his opponent all the way for a 3 point split. The team total of 15 points was enough to land in 4th place, only 5 points behind the leaders.
The league matches continue next week at Bunker Hills where the two Brookview teams play head-to-head.
To find out more on the league, see Sheldon or Roger.
