A Final Post about the SMGA 2025 Season

The final week of the 2025 SMGA Season provided lots of excitement and good times.  First, SMGA and MGA member Jerry Matthews won the coveted MGA Woodmont Cup with a hard fought 2&1 victory!
Congratulations Jerry!  Well done!
 
Two days later we held the 2025 SMGA Invitational.  Each year the SMGA Invitational is held to recognize the members who throughout the year participated the most and performed the best in our SMGA tournaments. 
                 

This year we had a playing field comprised of 32 of the top golfers in Player-of-the-Year points led by 2025 SMGA Player of the Year Jeff Moore, and in the Most Improved Player category (as measured by GHIN calculations). The group competed in a Dogfight / Stableford points game, in which each golfer plays against their own points quota target. 
 
The Final results for the 2025 SMGA Invitational are:
 
Overall Winners:          1st Place:            Bill Wall
                                    2nd Place:           Bruce Rockwell
                                    3rd Place:            Gary Kaneshiro 

Top 3 in each Flight:
Flight 1                         1st Place:              Kory Krucher
                                    2nd Place:             Larry Clausen
                                    3rd Place:              Jim Banta
 
Flight 2                         1st Place:              Bill Wall
                                    2nd Place:             Bruce Rockwell
                                    3rd Place:              Ken Harlan
 
Flight 3                         1st Place:              Bill Lam
                                    2nd Place:             Chuck Currin
                                    3rd Place:              Paolo Leardini
 
Flight 4                         1st Place:              Gary Kaneshiro
                                    2nd Place:             Allen Stover
                                    3rd Place:              Ray Krawiec

Most Improved Players:
                                    1st Place:              Tom Guthrie
                                    2nd Place:             Ed Rish
 
On behalf of the SMGA Board we want to thank all the members for being a part of this great group we have here at Woodmont, and for their participation in this year’s events that made it such an awesome season!  We are excited for what the 2026 season will bring!
 

Congratulations to the Overall Winners of the 2025 SMGA Stroke Play Championship

Jeff Ross and Bill Wall !

51 players competed in the SMGA Stroke Play Championship held over two awesome days.  The competition was tight across 7 flights, and after 36 holes the overall winners were Jeff Ross for the Overall Gross, and Bill Wall for the Overall Net.  Congratulations Gentlemen!

Mother Nature provided two picture perfect days, and the Woodmont staff and grounds crews made sure to provide us with a course in great condition.  Following play, the entire field was welcomed into Marana’s for pizza and refreshments while all the flight winners and champions were announced.

Thank you to everyone that participated in this event and to those who made it happen behind the scenes.

The final results were:

Flight 1                 

1st Place             Jeff Ross

2nd Place           John Glassford

3rd Place            Thomas Achilles

Flight 2

1st Place             Bob Norman

2nd Place           Jim Banta

3rd Place            Tom Guthrie

Flight 3  

1st Place             Kevin Ahrens

2nd Place           Jon Thompson

3rd Place            Ken Harlan

Flight 4  

1st Place             Bill Wall

2nd Place           Wayne Judy

3rd Place            Bruce Rockwell

Flight 5  

1st Place             Chuck Currin

2nd Place           Jeff Moore

3rd Place            Dennis Branch

Flight 6   

1st Place             Mike Connaway

2nd Place           Gary Kaneshiro

3rd Place            Tom Gambeski

Flight 7   

1st Place             Raymond Krawiec

2nd Place           Gene Olsten

3rd Place            Bill Kell

Congratulations to all the winners!