Stamford Golf Club Tee Times

June 2010 Issue 

Ramblins' From the President

The Board of Directors is undergoing a change in its makeup. Tom Miner Sr, 8 year veteran, and Nancy Lanni, 3 year veteran, have tendered their resignations from the Board, citing personal reasons. As required by the SGC bylaws, replacements must be named as soon as possible, with a maximum limit of 60 days to continue to do business. At the last Directors' meeting, Evelyn Johns was named to replace Tom Miner Sr. and Steve Sibbern was named to replace Nancy Lanni. Both appointments will take effect immediately and they will be attending their first Board meeting on August 4. We thank Tom and Nancy for their dedicated service to SGC and will miss their active participation in the functions of SGC and Board meetings. At the same time, we welcome Evie and Steve and will try to bring them up to speed as soon as possible. SGC is a business that must pay its own way and it takes a focused group of Directors to accomplish this. Evie and Steve should fulfill this requirement with ease.

The Queen of the Catskills Tournament, 2010 edition, is now in the history books and once again, it was a rousing success. As always, a full 72 player roster participated on a very warm, but dry Saturday in July. You will find a great deal more information about the tourney elsewhere in this issue, but I mention it here for a reason. The Stamford Women's Golf Association sponsors this tournament and as such, the money raised goes to their association. They do, however, pay SGC the standard tournament rate for greens fee and cart for all participants. In addition, the association regularly "invests" back into SGC with funds for things that don't fit into the regular budget items. Examples of recent "investments" would be the flower beds that magically appeared near many of our tee boxes and also, the three new water closets to hold the water jugs we have around the course. Shortly, you will see a brand new sign down on the corner of Route 10 and Taylor Road. For all of these, we owe thanks to our Ladies organization.

We are nearly ready to begin the project of running electricity from the pole near the cart barn up to the new snack bar. An estimate of the cost has been obtained and to keep costs in check, the laying of the cable will be done by the club, hopefully with the support of some physically fit volunteers when the time comes. Firm dates are not yet set, but it is hoped that this might be accomplished before the Invitational Tournament. If you are interested in helping out, stop in the golf shop and let Ken know.

The annual Stamford Invitational Tournament is just around the corner. For those of you who are sitting on the fence, there are still openings, but it's time to sign up because time is running out. Also, forty teams are already confirmed for the Fall Scramble in September. This is a limited entry tournament, so don't wait to long send in your entry or it could be too late.

Thanks for listenin',

FHJ

Tale of the Turf

Looking at the calendar, it's difficult to believe that we are half way through the golf season. but so we are. Since the middle of June, we have had some great golf weather with lots of sunshine and adequate rainfall arriving in the overnight hours (with a few exceptions, ofcourse).

The course is lush and green despite the high temperatures and more than adequate humidity. This type of weather brings on an increased chance of "disease" occurring on our greens, but our new sprayer has made it much easier to control. We are even making some progress in knocking back the
moss that has plagued us for several seasons as the sprayer allows for more even coverage of the greens with products that were not available in granular form.

As you may have observed, we did not core aerate the greens this spring, instead trying to verticut the greens at least once per month. So far, we have verticut twice, but have not had the ideal weather to get the process done in the month of July. With the heat and humidity, the greens are already under some stress and verticutting on top of that would be a gamble. Mike has elected to wait for a forecast three or four day stretch of drier, cooler weather to thin out the greens. Hopefully, we will get the opportunity before the Invitational in the middle of August.

Mike and the crew would like to thank Gordie Faulkner for his dedication to keeping our tee boxes in great shape this season. Gordie applies his expertise on a regular basis, removing weeds and repairing divots with seed mixture and the tee boxes definitely show the results of the tender loving care. They would also like to thank another of our members, Charlie Palm, for his timely work in our sand traps. Charlie's magic touch keeps the sand evenly spread throughout the traps and loosened up
so that play is possible out of any area, should your ball find its way onto the "beach".

As a reminder to all our members and their guests, you do have a responsibility to replace the divots that you create on the golf course and repair ball marks that you make in the greens. If you find one that was missed by someone else, do the next golfer a favor by repairing that one also. Either process only takes a few seconds of your time. We could also use your help in saving our mowers by picking up your broken tees and placing them in those little square boxes that you see on nearly all our tees. These broken tees have a tendency to put nicks in our mower blades which then requires sharpening at a cost of about $500 per machine.

'Til next time,

Greens Committee

Picture courtesy of Bev Hartwell

THANKS TO THE LADIES OF THE SWGA, LUCY JESSEN, VICKI JOSHPE, BEVERLY HARTWELL ALONG WITH SOME OF OUR JUNIOR GOLFERS FOR A GREAT JOB!

Because of them the Stamford Golf Club was patriotically represented and made us proud and look good in the Annual Stamford Flag Day Parade June 14th. Way to Go!

Results of Headwaters Scramble June 12th.

The day started off, and for the most part, a great golf day but later turned into more like a soggy soccer day. However, the winners didn’t seem to mind and for the losers there is always next year.

1st Lamport Farms
KEN COLE, JOHN LAMPORT, RUSS
ASHLINE & JOHN SOULE 63

2nd NICK SAVIN, MIKE VlRGIL, &
MARK DUPRA & GARY JACOBSON 65

3rd BABE McCULLY, CHRIS MEYERS
& KATIE MEYERS 68

Congratulations to ALL the winners and we look forward to seeing you all in 2011.

Stamford Open Winners June 19th - 20th

A - Flight
1st GOV GOVERN, CAREY
TRAPPENBURG 159
2nd MEL BURGER, JOE LAMBERT 166
3rd JON BARBER, WALT SHAPIRO 167

B- Flight
1st JOHN MICHALOWSKI
TONY MICHALOWSKI 170
2nd VICTOR JESSEN, ROB TURNER 173
3rd LEON & GREG JOHNS 175

C- Flight
1st JOHN WISNIEWSKI, DAVE HOFFMAN 182
2nd BOB JESSEN, JOHN WYBERANAC 188
3rd BARRY & CHUCK HENDEE 192

Also, congratulations to the winners and our condolences to the losers.

Tuesday Nite Leader Board as of 6/15

1. TIM CLARK/PETE VLAHAKIS 11.5
2. WAYNE LORD/VIC MULLEN 10
3. JOHN WISNIEWSKI/CARL BECKER 9.5
4. BOB LOESEL/KEN CAMPISI 9
5. STEVE SIBBERN/DON STONE 9
6. TOM MINER JR/DON VAN ETTEN 9
7. DAVE HARTWELL/HARLEY PALM 9
8. GORDIE FAULKNER/TOM MINER 8.5
9. JIM CRAIG/LARRY FRAZEE 6
10. ART SPRAGUE/CHRIS BARKER 6
11. TONY MICH/WILLIAM NICH 6
12. DAVE HOFFMAN/BOB SPENCER 5.5
13. KEN COLE/IRA FYFE 5
14. DAVE BARBER/LARRY JOHNSTON 4.5
15. DUCAN AXTELL/AL HIGGINS 4
16. JIM NATALE/LARRY TOMPKINS 3.5
17. TED ARCHIBALD/RANDY JARET 3.5
18. JIM LAMPORT/JOHN REED 3
19. JOSH & RANDY ROE 3
20. JERRY WARNER 1&2 2
21. JOHN GIBBONS/BOB COMENZA 1
22. RUSS ASLINE/JOHN SOULE ,5

It was great to see the Coles we hadn’t seen in years together at T&T’s, we just wish it had been under happier circumstances. May God Bless.

Queen of the Catskills Tournament

No Room at the Inn. If you haven’t already signed-up for the July 24th Tournament you are out of luck and a great time- it’s full up. Unless of course someone can’t make it, but then you wouldn’t want that to happen!

2010 Stamford Women's Golf Schedule

 
Sat - Jul 10 9:30 a.m.- Queen Meeting

Fri - Jul 23 5:30 p.m.- Set up for Queen of the Catskills Tournament

Sat - Jul 24 9:00 a.m.- Queen of the Catskills Tournament – Members and Non-members. Limited Space

Wed - Sep 8- Rally for the Cure Tournament (ladies and men)

Sun - Sep 19- Two Woman Better Ball – Members Only, Sign Up Required

Sat - Sep 25 9:00 a.m. - SWGA Closing Meeting – Election of Officers

Please Check The locker Room And/or Pro Shop For Additional Information Concerning These Activities And Other Events Available To Women Golfers.

In Memory Of Charlie Axtell and Pete Songdale.

I am sure both Pete and Charlie would be pleased to know this years Men’s Invitational will be dedicated to them. In the past year we lost two good men and loyal supporters of the SGC. I also los two super neighbors and long time friends. Charlie I first met over 50 years ago and Pete I had the privilege to tend bar with at Scotch Valley in the 60’s. There are many fond memories of both. Charlie and I will no longer engage in our game of dueling lawn mowers, he was always one mowing ahead me. As for Pete, it brought an end to our cocktail parties and our trips to Saratoga. Those memories only scratch the surface. International Paper couldn’t supply enough paper to put them in writing.

It's The Soldier

I want you to close your eyes and picture in your mind the soldier at Valley Forge as he holds his musket in his bloody hands. He stands barefoot in the snow, starved from lack of food, wounded from months of battle and emotionally scarred from the eternity away from his family surrounded by nothing but death and carnage of war. He stands tough with fire in his eyes and victory on his breath. He looks at us now in anger and disgust and tells us this….”I gave you a birthright of freedom born in the constitution and now your children graduate too illiterate to read it. I fought in the snow barefoot to give you freedom to vote and you stay home because it rains. I left my family destitute to give you freedom of speech and you remain silent on critical issues because it might be bad for business. I orphaned my children to give you a government to serve you and it has stolen democracy from the people.”

   It’s the soldier not the reporter who gives you the freedom of the press.

   It’s the soldier not the poet who gives you the freedom of speech

   It’s the soldier not the campus organizer who allows you to demonstrate

   It’s the soldier who salutes the flag, serves the flag, whose coffin is draped with the flag that allows protesters to burn the flag!!

Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they, have and now, protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Author: anonymous

Remaining 2010 Schedule

July

August

September

October

"THE NEW HARRY"