It was golf, it was fun, and it was different, as in, real different.
Monday's Mesa Verde Charity Golf Classic & Awards Banquet was a benefit tournament for Costa Mesa United, the group that, along with Monday's golf fest, has doled out some $500,000 to youth sports programs around the city and played a critical role in getting Jim Scott Stadium at Estancia High School and the Olympic pool at Costa Mesa High School built.
There were Costa Mesa luminaries at every turn, including, but not limited to, Mayor Gary Monahan, Mayor Pro Tem Jim Righeimer, Planning Commissioners Sam Clark, Jim Fitzpatrick and Colin McCarthy, Newport-Mesa Board of Education President Walt Davenport and members Katrina Foley and Judy Franco, former Mayor Mary Hornbuckle, soon-to-be City Manager Tom Hatch and soon-to-be-former City Manager Allan Roeder, who was in danger of a record round, but the danger passed quickly.