The NCGA mourns the recent losses of former President Robert Moore and former Director of Communications Ted Blofsky.
Moore, who died at the age of 96, served as NCGA president in 1988 and served on the NCGA Board of Directors for 12 years.
A longtime member at Monterey Peninsula CC and Sharon Heights GC, he received the NCGA’s Distinguished Service Award in 1996. In 2022, MPCC presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award (pictured above).
During Moore’s presidency, the NCGA at the time experienced its highest all-time growth rate in membership.
He also would serve on the Poppy Holding Inc. Board of Directors, playing a key role in the opening of Poppy Hills in 1986. At the time, the NCGA became the first Allied Golf Association to own and operate its own course.
“I remember the decision to make the final call on the purchase contract for Poppy Hills Golf Course,” Moore once told NCGA Golf Magazine. “We had to make a payment that would make the deal irrevocable and binding. We were still waiting for the final okay from the Coastal Commission. It was ‘go or no and breath-holding time…We thought we could make it a go.”
The final permit allowing for the construction of Poppy Hills would pass by one vote.
Moore also served on the California Golf Association Board of Directors from 1985-1989 and represented the NCGA as a trustee on the Pacific Coast Golf Association board from 1984-1989, where he also served as president in 1989. Poppy Hills later hosted the Pacific Coast Amateur in 1996.
Moore too was a founding member of Spyglass Hill when the NCGA originally moved its offices there from San Francisco in 1966.
Blofsky, who died at the age of 87 in his hometown of Chico, was the Director of Communications for the NCGA from 1987-2004.
It was during Blofsky’s tenure that the NCGA Golf Magazine went from being a single annual Bluebook edition to a quarterly publication (Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall). Renowned for his golf knowledge, Blofsky for years also served as an in-house expert for the media during the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
In 2004, on the heels of his retirement, Blofsky received a special award from the California Golf Writers Association for his longtime service to the game.
Prior to his arrival at the NCGA, he was the sports editor at the Chico-Enterprise Record for 25 years.
Among those surviving Blofsky is his wife of 70 years, Jeanette.
