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| Suzi Olsen |
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CHAIRMAN
~ SUZI OLSEN ~
Our “Spring Getaway” last month was such a huge success thanks to coordinators Sherri Romito and LaVaughan Gilkey
and committee helpers Judy Davis, Carol McLaughlin, and Rona Kipper. They did
such a great job organizing the cocktail party, golf, and dinner! Quite a feat for 30+ women!
It was especially nice to see so many ladies participate, especially some whom we haven’t seen in a long time! I am now holding these excellent party planners to organizing the next one in the
fall!!
We seem to be on cruise control this month. Here’s what to look forward to:
*At our May 1st General Meeting, we will be privileged to have course superintendent Matt Marsh as a guest. Matt is anxious
to bring us up to date on course conditions and what we can expect
for the next several months. Linda K. will be once more
tempting us with another fabulous Raffle; the winning ticket may just be yours!
*May 15th brings
us another Guest Day headed by Toni Nagel. “May Flowers” is the theme
for what we know will be a successful day.
*Spring Team is now underway
and off to a successful start! Way to go Marbella!
As May weather turns even more
beautiful and the course becomes a little more golfer friendly, many of us may want to tune up our game with lessons from
one of our excellent pros. Comedienne Phyllis Diller puts that all into perspective
with this great quote! “The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can’t see him laughing.” With that in mind, I wish you lots of birdies and pars, but most of all a relaxing
time out there with good golfing friends! Suzi
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MEMBERSHIP
~ PK JENICAN ~
ANNUAL RENEWAL FORMS
Annual Membership renewal forms will be mailed out the first part of
May. Renewals are due by June 1st so make sure to check your mail.
If anyone would like an additional Roster Book, I have extras and
they can be purchased for $5.00. Just give the Locker attendent the money and she will get you one from my Locker #29.
Current Full Memberships
162
Associate
Memberships 20
MAY
BIRTHDAYS
Diane Combs 5/1 Susan Taylor
5/4
Sea Prattes 5/6 Linda Cunningham 5/10
Nancy Tall
5/12 Susan Cole 5/15
Joni Cox
5/17 Arlene Menon
5/17
Jeri Rimel
5/18 Berry Ann Martin 5/19
Elizabeth Thiergartner 5/21 Dani Ratkelis 5/26
Ali North
5/31
2008 Schedule of WSCGA Tournaments
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Date |
Tournament/Division |
Hosting Club |
Entry Date |
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4/5 |
Women’s
Golf Council Tournament
4-Person
Designated Better Ball |
Trilogy at
La Quinta |
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4/14-15 |
Div II Fortmiller
Net Championship
Individual
Stroke Play |
Sycuan Resort
& Casiono Golf Club |
3/3-21 |
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5/5-6 |
Desert Event |
Mountain
View La Quinta
Mountain
Vista Sun City Palm |
3/3-31 |
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5/5-6 |
Desert Event
II |
Tahquitz
Creek |
3/3-31 |
For more information on events
and upcoming tournaments, go to WSCGA’s Website
at www.womensgolf.org
For
more information on events and upcoming tournaments, go to WSCGA's Website at www.womensgolf.org or CLICK on the link below.
CLICK HERE for WSCGA Site
~ PLAYDAYS ~
JUDY DAVIS & KATHY LYONS
A big “thanks” goes to our hostesses for April:
Shana Martensen, Cici Barry and Sue Pebley. The hostesses’ responsibilities
can some times appear to be overwhelming...please remember to call me at any time if you are short of helpers or if you have
any questions regarding this LCOM task. I am here to help!
Please remember to sign up for our General Meetings either in the Pro Shop or on ForeTees. If you use ForeTees, the GM Day is listed under “EVENTS”. If you are playing golf but do not want to attend luncheon, please make a note in the “Notes to the
Pro” section that you will not be staying lunch. If you are having lunch
but not playing golf, there is a sign up sheet on our board in the locker room.
Thanks ladies, our volunteers “MAKE OUR CLUB”.
Judy Davis (949) 388-2179 or pdavissjc@cox.net
HANDICAPS
~ RONA KIPPER ~
NEW ONLINE POSTING FEATURE!!!
Go
to WSCGA website…
Click
on Home Page
Under
Handicap tab on the WSCGA home page
- Click on Handicap and select Division 1
- Below the area to search for member handicap index by name or number appears
a Login section and an area for members to register for Online posting.
- EVERYONE MUST REGISITER EVEN IF YOU
REGISTERED TO USE NETPOST. (The NETPOST
feature will be removed from the website and terminated as of April l8, 2008)
- Follow the prompts to establish your profile and password.
- Once registered, you can continue to post scores. Click on Post Score Box
- If you forget your password, the “Recover Password” link will
send an email to your email address of record with your forgotten password. Once you post a score, a confirmation page will
immediately appear, notifying you that “your score has been successfully posted to the system.”
- Immediately after posting online, you can select the “Scores Current Month” tab to see the scores you have posted both at the club and online for the current
month.
**Please feel free to call me if you have any trouble and I will be happy
to help. This feature is great
if you forget to post or the Pro Shop is closed at an away course.
MOST IMPROVED PLAYERS FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL
Old
New Decrease
Susan
Pierce 22.0 18.7 18.3
Patti Stringer 17.3 14.5 16.2
Patricia Stites 17.6 15.4 12.5
Jaisoo
Bahng had a Hole in One on March 30, 2008. Hole Number 16!
Congratulations Ladies!
CLICK HERE for WSCGA Site
THE GETAWAY
~ Sherri Romito & LaVaughan Gilkey ~
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Marbella Ladies Club Getaway Results
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Flight
A
Low Gross - Connie Merlis & Jean Kelly - 82
Low Net - PK Jenican & Nancy Tall - 68
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Flight B
Low Gross - Carol McLaughlin & Rona Kipper
- 93
Low Net - Sheryl Sauer & Marcia Smith - 72
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| Jaisoo & Joni Congratulate |
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| "A" Net Winners - PK & Nancy | |
| LaVaughan & Sherri |
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| Thanks for our Getaway | |
| Rona & Carol |
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| "B" Gross Winners | |
| Connie & Jean |
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| "A" Gross Winners | |
| Rona & Sheryl |
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| "B" Net Winners | |
| Bev, Marjorie, Jill & PK |
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| Fun Time | |
| Helen, Katherine, Judy |
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| Nancy & Betsy | |
| The Getaway in RB |
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| WHEN IS THE NEXT GETAWAY? | |
NINE-HOLERS
~ KATHERINE SZEM ~
Our 9-Holers Group is going
strong. Each week we have 6-8 ladies playing, learning the rules and having a
wonderful time. Every clinic, we have 8-12 ladies working with our Professional Golf Staff to improve our technique. It must be working because last Tuesday we had 3 players with scores in the 50’s
and three players with scores in the 60’s. It wasn’t too long ago
that most of our players had scores in the 70’s.
We
are also getting used to ForeTees and reserving our tee times. By the time we
graduate as 18-holers, we’ll be experts. Thank you to all the 18-Holers
helping us out, especially Maria DiDonato and Charlene Salmacia. We bade Paula
Staff a temporary “goodbye” as she moved back to her New York home. Paula
will be rejoining us in October.
Please
spread the word of our 9-Holer program. It is certainly a “user friendly”
way to break into golf and enjoy the camaraderie of like-minded women. Please
call me at 949-248-1456 or e-mail me at kszem@earthlink.net.
BIG/LITTLE SISTER
PROGRAM
~PK JENICAN
AND JOAN HARTL~
Marbella Ladies Club is starting a Big Sister program to assist the women who are moving up to the 18-hole group and leaving
the 9-hole group. This program will include One-on-One personal contact such as scheduling
and playing golf together, introducing the Little Sister to other 18-hole members, explaining “golf etiquette, speed
of play” and generally answering all the questions the Little Sister may have. This sisterhood relationship will be based on a 12-month period. All the gals
are excited about taking part in this program to meet new friends and help all of our ladies be the best they can become!
The Ladies enrolled in the program thus far are:
Linda Cunningham.............Marcia Smith
Betty Martin………………….Carolyn McGuire
Sue Matson………………….Marie DiDonato
Arlene Menon……………….Connie Merlis
JoAnn Mercer……………….Carol McLaughlin
Mary Kay Minner……………Shana Martensen
Joyce Nishimura…………….Maria Barger
Carol Pugmire……………….Sea Prattes
Debby Sowers………………Sally Orgera
Sandy Vargas……………….PK Jenican
Linda Fryling……………….....Jean
Kelly
GUEST DAYS
~ DANI RATKELIS ~
Mark your calendars!
Next Guest Day will be May 15th
Deadline to Sign up:
May 9th
Invite
1 or 3 guests
(Great
way to invite your friends to play at Marbella)
Maximum handicap will be 36.
COST:$41 with cart
$ 26 with private cart
7:15 a.m. Check-in & Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Shotgun Start
1:00 p.m. Lunch & Awards
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TONI NAGEL is in charge. Please e-mail her at tanagel@cox.net or put your entry form in locker #107 with your name, WSCGA #
as well as your guest’s WSCGA # and club.
We had another great guest day on April
17th with a total of 60 ladies playing. The weather was beautiful and the lunch delicious. I would like to thank Shana Martensen
for the beautiful table decorations and Carolyn McGuire always ready to help wherever needed. Results are below.
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APRIL SHOWERS GUEST DAY
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1st Gross |
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Carol Warlick, Ellen Kimura, Connie Merlis,
Corinne Smolarek |
157 |
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1st Net |
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Patty Collins, Nancy Harper, Karen
Jordan, Teri World
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127 |
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2nd Gross |
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Jean Kelly, Sharon Wiborg, Lisa Shaw,
Christy Seminoff
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158 |
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2nd Net |
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Linda Kennard, Phyllis Smith,
Jeri Rimel, Rosie Cobb
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126 |
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| "B" Flight |
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1st Gross |
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Betty Grant, Linda Reagan, Joann Pollard,
Regina Lesky
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175 |
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1st Net |
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Trish Mansfield, Cindy Reichle,
Shelia Draper, Stanley
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129 |
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2nd Gross |
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Toni Nagel, Donna Seymour, Pat Doyle,Donna
Arnold
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179 |
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2nd Net |
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Marjorie Warren, Lynne Ells, Nancy
St. Pierre,Terry Bayless
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136 | |
| Closest to Pin |
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#4 Member Patty Collins
38’2” |
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#4 Guest Ellen
Kimura
15’3” |
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#11 Member Betty Grant
7’4” |
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#11 Guest Cindy
Reichle
17’6” | |
CINCO DE MAYO
COUPLES
MEMBER-GUEST
Those of you coming to the Cinco de Mayo Couples Member-Guest
on May 3rd are headed for a fabulous time. Check-in will start at 11:00 and you can have lunch early to allow plenty of time
for the Putting and Chipping Contests. The Shotgun is at 1:00. We would recommend bringing a sweater for the evening as we
will be eating out on the patio. Don’t
hesitate to wear your sombreros or serapes so you can salsa in style! Adios
until Cinco de Mayo.
SPRING TEAM
~ ALI NORTH & YOLANDA TALBOT
CO-CAPTAINS
Our
2008 spring team season is in full swing and we’re proud to say that we have done quite well in our first two matches
against Newport Beach Country Club, winning 3-1/2 out of 4 possible points! We
head to Los Coyotes Country Club in Buena Park next Thursday, May 8th, and then they will visit us on our home
course on Thursday, May 22nd. We will play a total of 8 matches between
now and June 12th and certainly have our work cut out for us so wish us luck!
GO
MARBELLA LADIES TEAM!!
FALL TEAM
~ Maria Barger & Patrish Stites ~
Just a reminder…The time is almost here
for our favorite Fall Team to begin. We would like all potential players (with a handicap between 15-30/August index),
to be watching for future information. We will do this by newsletter, General Meetings and locker room message board.
The actual play dates do not begin until August so we have lots of time to practice and be ready to play.
We’re looking forward to playing some different
courses, making new friends and just having a ridiculously good time while doing it! That is what Fall Team is all about
so check your August calendars and we will be back in touch.
RULES
~ GEORGIANNA HALES ~
Position On Raking A Similar Hazard
An
interpretation of Rule 13-4a effective immediately:with respect to testing the condition of a similar hazard (whether a bunker
or a water hazard). One such question was whether a player whose ball lies in a bunker may smooth sand to tidy up another
bunker, even though he had not made a stroke from that other bunker.
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Rule 13-4a prohibits a player from testing the condition of
the hazard in which his ball lies or a similar hazard. Yet Exception 3 to the Rule, which was introduced in 2008, allows a
player to test the condition of one hazard after playing from that hazard into a similar hazard. Although Decision 13-4/0.5
lists smoothing a bunker with a rake, club or otherwise as an example of testing the condition of the hazard, the Etiquette
Section of the Rules of Golf provides that "Before leaving a bunker, players should carefully fill up and smooth over all
holes and footprints made by them and any nearby made by others."
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is not the intent of Rule 13-4a to prohibit players from practicing the proper etiquette of the game when more than one bunker
is involved. Therefore, when the player’s ball lies in a bunker, it would not be a breach of the Rules if the player
were to smooth the sand in another bunker, provided (a) the smoothing is for the purpose of tidying up the bunker, (b) the
smoothing does not breach Rule 13-2 (Improving Lie, Area of Intended Stance or Swing, or Line of Play) with respect to his
next stroke and (c) there is not a reasonable possibility that the smoothing could affect a subsequent stroke by the player.
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If
the player were to smooth sand in the bunker in which his ball lies prior to making his first stroke in that bunker, he would
be in breach of Rule 13-4a.
Questions
have arisen in connection with a recent ruling involving Stewart Cink at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. In that situation,
the player incurred a penalty for smoothing sand in a bunker from which he had not made a stroke, when his ball lay in another
bunker -- a ruling that followed the USGA’s Rules of Golf Committee’s position at that time. To avoid such an
act being a breach of the Rules in the future, the JRC has decided to make public its agreed position on smoothing a similar
hazard.
PROPOSED BYLAWS CHANGES
~ Marie DiDonato ~
PROPOSED BYLAWS CHANGES
In order to satisfy the IRS ruling about unrelated income,
we must amend ARTICLE II – MEMBERSHIP and ARTICLE III
– DUES AND FEES of our bylaws. As per our Amendment procedures,
these change were reviewed by the Bylaws Committee and the proposed changes were submitted to the Executive Committee for
approval before presentation to the General Membership. These proposed changes
will be posted in the ladies’ locker room at least two weeks previous to the vote and are being included in this May
Newsletter to fulfill the requirement that the proposals be mailed or delivered to each member at least three weeks previous
to a vote. Please consider these minor changes and be prepared to vote on them
at the June General Meeting on June 5th. The proposed changes to the
current Articles are shown in red.
ARTICLE II - MEMBERSHIP
Full Membership:
Any women, 18 years or older, who is a Golf member or the
spouse of a Golf member of Marbella Country Club may become a member of the Ladies’ Club and may be eligible to participate
in Ladies’ Club events. Each Ladies’ Club member shall be a member
of the Women’s Southern California Golf Association and will receive complete handicap services. All Full members
shall abide by and support the Bylaws and Standing Rules of the Ladies’ Club and WSCGA Bylaws.
Associates: Membership:
For an annual fee established by the LCOM, full handicap
service from WSCGA will be provided for the following:
- Associate: A Golf Member of Marbella Country Club
- Junior
Associate: Daughter under age 18 of a Marbella Golf Member certified by the Golf
Staff of Marbella CC and
- Special
Associate: Unmarried daughter of LCOM Members from age 18 through age 30.
As non-members of the LCOM, none of the above Assoicates
are eligible to participate in Ladies’ Club events. Associate members are not eligible to participate in Ladies’ Club events.
ARTICLE III – DUES AND FEES
Section 1.
No Changes.
Section 2.
No Changes.
Section 3.
There shall be a service charge to cover the cost of computer handicapping for
Associates Members of the Ladies’ Club.
Section 4. Dues for Full Members and Associates Members shall be due and payable on June 1 and shall be valid from July 1 through June 30.
Section 5. No Changes
Section 6. No Changes
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PHOTOGRAPHER
~ MING GONZALES ~
View our Photo Gallery
page by clicking on the link in the upper left hand corner of our website or below. You can view and
purchase copies online of most of our event photos. Don't forget to look at all the new pictures from the Getaway. You
can even e-mail photos to your family or guests!
CLICK HERE FOR PHOTO GALLERY
NEWSLETTER
~ TINA RUSSELL ~
Please remember to submit your articles by the 25th of each month
for publication. Hats off to all our members and staff who are working so hard to make our events so much fun.
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