{"id":376936,"date":"2025-12-30T08:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/376936\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:45:09","slug":"golf-horseshoes-play-through-winter-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/376936\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf, horseshoes play through winter holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t       <a href=\"\" class=\"thickbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thumb image\" class=\"wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sp-BillMacMillan-687x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bill MacMillan shows off the ball he hit Dec. 19 for a hole-in-one at the 132-yard third hole at the Key Royale Club. Islander Photo: Courtesy KRC<\/p>\n<p>\t   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islander.org\/2025\/12\/golf-horseshoes-play-through-winter-holidays\/\" title=\"\" class=\"thickbox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sp-horseshoes-3.jpg\" style=\"max-height: 800px;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bob Mason, left, and Adin Shank show off the horseshoe trophy after winning the Dec. 27 games at the Anna Maria City Hall pits. Islander Photo: Courtesy AMI Pitchers<\/p>\n<p>With Christmas on the horizon, it was a short week of golf action at the Key Royale Club in Holmes Beach.<\/p>\n<p>The men played their weekly modified-Stableford system match Dec. 22. Quentin Talbert and Steve Vasbinder shared first on matching plus-4s.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Comer was the winner of the skins game with 2.<\/p>\n<p>The women played their usual nine-hole individual-low-net match Dec. 23. Susan VanOrsdel grabbed clubhouse bragging rights with a 2-under-par 30 to edge second-place finisher Jana Samuels by one stroke. Margrit Layh was alone in third-place with a 1-over-par 33.<\/p>\n<p>To top off his month, Bill MacMillan hit his second career hole-in-one Dec. 19 at the KRC course. MacMillan aced the 132-yard third hole with his 5-wood. Following the round, MacMillan treated members to the traditional beverage at the clubhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Horseshoe action Dec. 24 at the Anna Maria City Hall pits saw Tim Sofran and Bob Lee post the lone 3-0 record to be Christmas Eve\u2019s undisputed champs.<\/p>\n<p>Action Dec. 27 saw two teams advance to a playoff. The team of Bob Mason and Adin Shank defeated Sofran and Lee 22-11 to earn bragging rights.<\/p>\n<p>Play gets underway at 9 a.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays at the Anna Maria City Hall. Warmups begin at 8:45 a.m., followed by random team selection.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s free to play and everyone is welcome.<\/p>\n<p>More from The Islander:\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill MacMillan shows off the ball he hit Dec. 19 for a hole-in-one at the 132-yard third hole&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-376936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}