Ok, after getting frustrated that none of the newspapers were printing the results, I got fed up and simply called La Quintero Golf and Country Club (where the event took place) and got some answers myself! Here is what I could dig up…
According to someone in the golf shop at Quintero, there were 90 total participants – but this doesn’t add up. That would make 22.5 foursomes, but who knows…
The Mariners apparently sent 44 players to the golf tournament, making the two squads pretty evenly split. One thing that wasn’t evenly split, however, was the leaderboard!
In the scramble-style tournament, the top three teams were…
3) M’s manager Mike Hargrove, M’s bench coach Ron Hassey, M’s third-base coach, Jeff Newman, and M’s bullpen coach Jim Slaton (58)
2) Jeff Nelson, Ryan Franklin, conditioning coach Allen Wirtala, and Shigetoshi Hasegawa (57)
1) James Clifford, who was an M’s minor leaguer and is now the minor league strength coordinator, Peoria manager Scott Steinmann, Inland Empire’s pitching coach, Scott Budner, and Scott Atchison (56)
Some of the other contest winners include:
Longest drive: Brad Baker
Closest to the pin: Jeff Nelson (hole #6), Gary Thurman (#9),
Rick Guttormson | (#13) and Jeff Kingston (#16)