President's Message - January 2012

 

Hello Ladies and a Very Happy New Year to you all.....

Well, this is a new year and it started out with a bang at our first tournament, the January Classic. We all had a great time.

Ace of Aces was played the first Tuesday and Midge Zarling won it with a net 65. Congrats to Midge.

The next tournament will be in March. There is no tournament in February. The March tournament will be sponsored by Ron's Pro Shop, and it will be a one day tournament, "Beat the Pro". We feel great that Ron has chosen the ladies' club to be his sponsorship this year. The sign up sheet for this tournament will be put up
on February 14th in the club room. Keep your eyes open for it.

In the event of a tie in any of our tournaments: the tournament chair will put the method for a tie-breaker on the flyer so that everyone will know before the tournament what will happen before play. Please read the flyer when you sign up to play.

The new rosters are in the club room for you. They are all addressed and alphabetized, thanks to the board, and we welcome you to pick yours up along with a new rules book from the USGA and SDWGA. Keep that one in your bag for "look ups" while playing. Thanks to Betty King for working hard to put these together for us. It was a big job. If you see anything that my be incorrect for one reason or another, please let me know. We will put together a corrections list and get it out. In an undertaking of this magnitude that could happen.

Some of you are concerned about not getting a tee time. I regret that this happens, but we may have a solution. Until we can get more times, which, sadly, will not be soon, how about signing up to be a hostess. You are guaranteed a tee time when you sign up for hostess for the entire month you do it. Currently we have openings
for late hostess in March, May, September and October. Just talk to Suzie Rogers and or Paula Fimbres and find out how. It is a great way to give back.

I am a hole Captain for the Kia Classic this year. I have hole #1. They are still looking for up to 300 more volunteers in all. I would welcome you to be part of my team if you think you would like to be a marshall with me on hole #1. This is the best hole because we get to actually meet the players on the tee, and once they play through we are done. If you think you would like to join me and the 10 others in our club that have signed up with me, please go to KiaClassic.com, go to "Become a volunteer" more info, register online to be a volunteer as a marshall on hole #1, and in the code section type in vetter. You will then be put on my team. You can also see what the benefits are, such as a round of golf at La Costa. It is going to be great fun and we can car pool up there. The dates are March 19-25. We will only be working from the 20-25th though. If you have any questions, just give me a call.

Another item, housekeeping really, I want to touch on is weekly signups. We have our tee sheets out each Tuesday for the following sweeps day. Our "rule" is that you may sign up yourself and three others to make up one foursome. We all know by now that we have to let any lady that wants to play on Tuesday play. We, the club members, hope however, that you will be courteous and respectful of your fellow members and only sign up members. If other ladies want to play, they can start signing up after the tee sheets are delivered to the pro shop on Tuesday afternoon. We are only given a certain number of tee times. This cannot be changed. It is ordered by the City and upheld by the course. We need to work together so that we can all play. Another suggestion is to have one member, you can rotate each week, come down to the course early and sign in for the following sweeps day.             Susie