Pat Bangasser is the other half of the league's founding pair. Where Jeff Johnson handled the mailing address and the calendar, Pat handled the rules debates, the post-round summaries, and a quiet, ruthless tournament game. He has the most championships of any player in the league's first decade — Match Play titles in 2002 and 2017, Green Jackets in 2005 and 2008 — and at age sixty-something he is still inside the 2026 top five.
He's the only player who has finished in the top ten in 2026 from the over-60 demographic. The leaderboard does not get explained more simply than that.
The kind of game that doesn't lose strokes. A driver that stays in play. A wedge game that does not panic. The institutional memory of every shot that mattered between 1997 and 2010, including a few that probably didn't. If you want to know how to play a particular hole at Maplewood, ask Pat. If you want to argue about the ruling on it, also ask Pat — but bring evidence.
"You can't out-play him. You have to wait for the course to do something unusual, and even then you have to wait twice." — A long-time competitor
"The game gives you a number every Saturday. It doesn't care what you wanted it to be. You just write it down." — Pat Bangasser
Players in the same conversation, on the same boards, chasing the same trophies.