From The Tournament Chairs' Desk

April

Yay, we finally got one in!  Weather was a bit overcast but plenty warm.  Despite much belly-aching about potentially catastrophic early season play, only a couple of us truly suffered.  Congrats to Jean and Soo-Mi for their chip ins.  Soo-Mi’s chip-in was for EAGLE on #7!  A perfect drive down the middle and then a hole-out from about 140 yards.  It was a beautiful thing! 

Happy birthday to Monica today - much to her dismay we did serenade her by the first tee before we started.  Congrats again to Louise for her HOLE IN ONE (counts as a chip in too) on Tuesday.  Congrats to Monica and Meg for their chip ins today as well.  And Mary Gardner will be putting her Scotty Cameron in timeout for at least a few days, he behaved very badly!

May

Lovely day today!  Course is in pretty good shape, you can actually tell the fairway from rough now and they actually have rakes in the bunkers (woohoo!).  Congrats to those with chip-ins this week:  Rhoda, Judy, SooMi and me (boy has it been a long time since my last one of those!!). I don’t normally shout out to birdies but Megan actually had two today and a beautiful round of 86.

OMG!  The wind/pollen combo today was BRUTAL.  Tuesday’s round was canceled due to rain and we only had one chip-in - congrats to Monica for that. She also gets a special thanks from me for finding my ball on the 17th hole.  We all saw it land just short in front of the green but couldn’t find it.  Finally, she looked in this random hole that was about 5 inches across and 8 inches deep and saw it.  Not sure what made the hole but nothing bit me when I reached in to get it - small victories!

Summer is almost upon us, hard to believe.  We are slowly adjusting to not adjusting outside our own fairways, always a bit of challenge early in the season.  Congrats to those with chip-ins this week:  Ro, Lynda and Soo Mi.

Um, who ordered the March weather for the round today??  We were back to multiple layers of clothes.  No chip ins this week, nor birdies for that matter, which is unusual.

June

Congrats to Monica on her EAGLE on #1 today!  Also, the ladies were making up for lack of chip ins last week.  Kudos to Nancy, Rhoda, Mary, Monica and Condo for their chip ins this week.

Welcome to summer!  Tuesday’s round was wet and today’s was steamy!  Only one chip-in, congrats to Beth.  

Looks like we had some great playing this week, despite the brutal weather on Tuesday.  Kudos to Cathy Bo with the only chip-in this week.  Shout outs to  Mary, Louise, Mami and Patty (NT Rd) for their net sub-par rounds too.  And Mary had a brilliant 78 yesterday, first sub-80 for the club this year! AND and both Louise and Meg had 29 putts, very impressive.

July

 Kudos to Brenda and Mary for their chip-ins.  And I don’t normally give shout outs for birdies but NICE ELLEN finishing birdie, birdie.  That will definitely make you come back.

The dog days of summer are upon us for sure!  Kudos to those with chip-ins this week:  Patti, Beth, Louise, Condo and me.  Woo hoo!  

We only had two players with chip ins this week - congrats to Rhoda and Ellen (she had TWO).

August

Well the four ladies that went out on Tuesday deserve to have their heads examined given the temperature but today was quite pleasant!  Kudos to the gals with chip-ins today:  Ellen, Connie and Deb - well done, Connie’s was from 50+ yards out too.

 Beautiful day today, we want more!  Kudos to the ladies with chip ins today:  SooMi, Deb, Patti and Monica.