Today is the Eleni Ponting Better Ball. So that everyone is playing under the same rules, you are allowed to lift, clean, and place the ball within one club length not nearer the hole on your own fairway and in a bunker. Play well and have fun!

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Now this takes talent, to hit the ball that close to your playing partner!! Diane Saunders in the picture and Laura Roberge was the photographer and the other golfer.

From Games Captain Anne Parks

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP 2020 - Aug 22, 23

Overall - Jeanne Beaith

Senior - Janet Hull

Diamond - Joan Hayward

Double Diamond - Dale Hodge

A Flight - Su Morrow

B Flight - Tracey Bodashefsky

C Flight - Annabel Thorpe

Low Net - Tracey Bodashefsky

Some of our participants in the Club Championship, enjoying the post round camaraderie.

Thanks to Brad and Craig who made the Championship possible and to all the women who enthusiastically participated. 

Great weekend at the club!

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Don't forget to sign up for the Eleni Ponting Better Ball on Sept 1.

So.....since it's almost mid-August, we thought we would give you a celebration update on our 2020DC (during COVID) golf season......

Ariane has joined the break 90 Club!

Jane, Gail, Barb, and Susan got their games together and broke 100 for the first, and hopefully not last, time!

Ann H aced the 17th hole and hopefully has since joined the Hole in One Club.

Some other notable “bests”.....

Laurie had her best game, finishing in the rain. With nowhere to congregate, she headed home and proceeded to give the dog the hole by hole story. She thinks he even rolled his eyes, but was smart enough to know who feeds him!

Bridget scored a 51 on the front on her way to her best game!

Sandy Y had her best game on a Saturday, capturing 3 skins!

Dale’s best score beat her previous one by 4 shots! Wow!

Laura E had her best game with no max scores, no penalty strokes, no water, and only 1 bunker. Her comment...”Maybe it is not such a stupid game after all.”

So ladies, please keep these happy stories coming......we all like to hear what our fellow golfers are doing, especially as we are missing our times as a group.

Email your tales to bpemberton3@cogeco.ca or catch Barb around the club.

Enjoy the rest of the summer and may your bogeys be more plentiful than the higher scores!

Anne and Barb

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The middle part of this sign was given to Dalewood. We look forward to seeing it displayed.

Don't forget to sign up for the Club Championship on August 22 & 23. You will play with similar handicaps. There will be an overall champion, 50+, 60+ and 70+ trophy winners. Depending on how many sign up, there will also be flight champions.

The cost is $25 and since there will be no dinner all money will be returned as pro shop certificates for the champs.

Let the pro shop know before Thursday, Aug 20.

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Spotted by one of the GO rules officials last week, near the 8th pond.

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Sharon our "two fisted drinker" - a Vodka Smash with a beer chaser!

If you haven't been to the club this week, here's what our driveway looks like. It's a really nice acknowledgement of Past Champions.

Some past Amateur Champions whose names you may recognize:

Member of the Ontario and Canadian Halls of Fame and Founder of Ladies Golf Club of Toronto Ada Mackenzie.

Member of the Ontario, Canadian, and World Golf Halls of Fame Marlene Stewart Streit.

LPGA player and Canadian Golf Olympian Alena Sharp.

The Amateur and Mid-Amateur hardware they are playing for:

STABLEFORD – Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Here is how it will work:

1.     Please use your most recent handicap to fill out your cards. You are responsible for figuring out your handicap strokes/hole. Just as a reminder and to repeat the instructions from the note you received earlier:

Handicap net score works as follows:

Strokes are allowed for each handicap over par based on Women’s Stroke per hole. This is found at the bottom of the score card based on the hardest hole (1) to the easiest hole (18).  For instance, a handicap of 30 would give a player one (1) stroke on every hole and two (2) strokes on the twelve hardest holes. 

2.     Please check Chronogolf, as you do for your regular Tuesday tee-off time, for your designated foursome and tee time. As mentioned earlier, every effort will be made to put Stableford participants together but there is no guarantee.

3.     The starter at the front door will have a box for your ‘toonie’. PLEASE, PLEASE have the correct amount. Change will be problematic. 

4.     The starter will also have another box for your completed cards at the end of your round. The cards will be collected by Dale Hodge and Anne Parks, who will, after copious amounts of beer determine scores and winners.

This is Marianne Heslin who will be playing in the Tuesday league for the remainder of the summer. Say hello and make her feel welcome.

Don't forget that we are playing a Stableford game next Tuesday - you need a toonie!

The on-course washrooms are now open.

Sad news. Tammy was one of our favourite servers last summer. RIP, Tammy.