Hospice Mazatlán Announces 8th Annual Golf Tournament

by Murry Page

11 Nov 14 

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The largest and most prestigious amateur golf tournament in Mazatlán was announced today by Gordon Wainwright, Hospice Mazatlán Board Member and Chairman of its Annual Golf Tournament.

As in the past, the 8^th annual golf tournament will be held at the Estrella del Mar golf course. This is the same golf course where the Latinoamérica Professional Golf Association held its golf tournament last month.

This year the Hospice Mazatlán golf tournament will accept 144 golfers for a day of competition and fun. Participants do not have to be star players, as the form of tournament play will be four person teams, “no handicap,” “best ball” and “scramble.” About 30 volunteers will be available to ensure the participants have a day of fun, while supporting one of Mazatlán’s worthy charities.

The tee time for the golf tournament is set for January 10, 2015, with a 9:30 a.m. shotgun start. The entrance fee is 1,500 pesos per golfer, the same as last year.

Special prizes will await the golfers on various holes around the golf course, including a “hole in one” prize on each of the golf course’s 3-par holes. One such prize is a new Volkswagen automobile.

Holders of winning raffle numbers will find a host of gifts, such as a Weber grill, Golf Gift Basket, and many more.

Before starting their day of golf the participants will be served a buffet breakfast and when they finish their round a Bar-B-Que lunch provided by Mazatlán’s famous restaurateur Diego Becerra, owner and operator of El Presidio and the adjacent and newly opened Companía Minera will be waiting for them.

Prizes and trophies will be presented following the luncheon.

The entrance fee includes 18 holes of golf, golf cart, buffet breakfast, prizes, raffles, and Bar-B-Que luncheon. Sign up early to guarantee your day of fun.

For additional information or to register for the tournament, please contact one of the following volunteers:

Gordon Wainwright – Phone: 913-3683 or Email: gwainwright@aol.com

Jack Sieber – Phone: 985-2346 or Email: jack.sieber@yahoo.com

Dave Croly – Phone: 982-5472 or Email: dcroly2424@gmail.com

Terry Topf – Phone: 176-6364 or Email: terryt204@gmail.com

Orphanage wins big in marlin tourney

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Casa Hogar's big fish.WESTERN OUTDOOR NEWS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mexico News Daily | Monday, November 3, 2014

The hurricane is history as far as the fishing is concerned in Baja California Sur.

Hurricane Odile left a huge mess after it struck Cabo San Lucas on September 14, but it wasn’t enough to prevent its richest sportsfishing tournaments from going ahead. The richest, Bisbee’s Black & Blue, drew 125 teams that competed for US $2.14 million in prize money.

While some anglers did well in picking up a share of the prize money, the biggest winner might not have been an angler at all, but Casa Hogar, a local orphanage for boys. The team that drew one of the “give-away” entries, and was fishing on behalf of the orphanage, was the event’s top winner after Omar Castaneda landed the biggest qualifying fish, a 385-pound bue marlin.

Casa Hogar was the beneficiary of the team’s $258,325 in winnings.

The biggest cash winner of the tournament was the team Sporty Game when Carlos Cervantes landed a 337-pound blue marlin on the event’s final day, for a payout of $1.68 million.

The tournament also succeded in helping local fishermen get back to work through a program in which a private benefactor donated a number of the $5,000 entry fees on behalf of those fishermen who booked a local charter boat at a fixed fee.

Fifty teams took up the offer and helped local fishermen recover from the damages inflicted by Odile.

Source: Western Outdoor News (en)

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Paintball “Gotcha” Tournament Comes to Stone Island

by Maureen Dietrich

 7 Mar 14 

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With the participation of 15 States and the Distrito Federal, for the first time in history a national “Gotcha” paintball tournament will be held in Mazatlán on Stone Island March 15 and 16.

Liesser Rodríguez Sandoval, coordinator of the event, said a total of 600 competitors divided into 16 teams will take part in the tournament to be played out on the island´s beaches and among the mangroves. He told media he has coordinated with representatives from the army, navy and municipal sports department to ensure a quality, family recreational event.

Competitors will be divided into two armies with six different missions. The army completing the most missions will be declared winners.

(from Noroeste)