Ladies Golf Club of Marbella

FROM THE RED TEES

JUNE 2008

Our Fearless Leader Suzi

Ladies Club Chairman with Jefe de Policia

CHAIRMAN

~ SUZI OLSEN ~

It’s hard to believe, but we are closing in on the halfway mark of ’08. The months have gone by quickly and I realize how lucky and privileged I have been to work with such an incredible group of women! Each and every one of the board members is smart, creative, talented and dedicated. I feel we have accomplished much in the past five months due to the time and effort they have put in to make our Ladies Club the best it can be. With your continued support of our playdays, guest events and tournaments, and we can only grow bigger and better!

June brings us a few new changes. To go along with our new scorecards, we will be receiving a new and improved fleet of golf carts in the next few weeks! We will also be welcoming Kip Evans, our new Asst Greens Superintendent, a new front desk receptionist (as Maggie is leaving), a new dinner menu, and a new twist to our Friday night happy hour. Read the Weekly Wire for more details.

I look forward to seeing you all at the June 5^th meeting when we will fill you in on even more “new” happenings! Til then...Suzi

....P.S. Don’t forget your raffle money...you may win a trip to the “Bahamas”!!

MEMBERSHIP

~ PK JENICAN ~

ANNUAL RENEWAL FORMS

Annual Membership renewal forms were mailed out the first week in May. Renewals are due by June 1^st so make sure to check your mail and send them in, there is a $25.00 late fee if not received by June 30^th.

Total Full Memberships 162

Associate Memberships 20

If anyone would like an additional Roster Book I have extras and they can be purchased for $5.00. Just give the Locker attendant the money and she will get you one from my Locker #29.

JUNE BIRTHDAYS

Celia Francese          6/2     Sherry Blower           6/5

Phyllis Smith             6/5     Myrna Molnar            6/6

Kay Wood                 6/6     Vaughan Speare       6/8

Carolyn Noonan        6/9     Patti Stringer           6/10

LaVaughan Gilkey    6/13    Phyllis Sapsowitz     6/14

Debbie Sower          6/16     Nancy Spraker         6/16

Linda Travis             6/24    Barbara Gallagher    6/30

2008 Schedule of WSCGA Tournaments

Date

Tournament/Division

Hosting Club

Entry Date

6/9

USGA Women’s Open Qualifying

The Farms

6/21

Golf council Tournament

Reidy Creek

7/7

WSGA Women’s Amateur Qualifying

Hacienda

7/14-16

CWC I & II

Hiddenbrook

8/9

Golf Council tournament

Soule Park

8/12

Grandmothers

Las Posas

6/30-7/18

8/18

USGA Women’s Senior Amateur Qualifying

Palos Verdes

8/18-21

Southern Championship

Victoria(Riverside)

7/7-25

For more information on events and upcoming tournaments, go to WSCGA’s Website
at www.womensgolf.org

CLICK HERE for WSCGA Site

~ PLAYDAYS ~

JUDY DAVIS & KATHY LYONS

MAY HOSTESSES: Helen, Shelly, & Celia: Great job ladies!!! Thanks so much for all of your hostess responsibilities. “TIN Whistle” on May 8th was challenging (scoring wise), and “Hate’em” on May 22^nd propelled one of our May Hostesses (Celia) to win “Low Gross”.

Our June hostesses are Barbara Behrens, PK Jenican and Nancy Clark. They have “GOLDEN PLANS” for JUNE, ...these girls are GOOOOD.

We WILL have fun on June 5^th,please sign up on ForeTees in the “EVENTS” section or through the Pro Shop.

MAY PLAYDAY RESULTS

5/1/08 GENERAL MEETING DAY RESULTS

1st Place Gross Susan Taylor, Toni Nagel, Sherri Romito, Linda Fryling 76

1st Place Net Nancy Tall, Linda Kennard, Tina Russel, ghost 56

2nd Place Gross Sea Prattes, Mary Kay Minner, ghost, ghost 76

2nd Place Net Carol Warlick, Jeri Rimel, Charlene Salmacia, Elena Miller 57

5/8/08 - TIN WHISTLE

(1 POINT NET BOGIE, 2 POINTS NET PAR, 3 POINTS NET BIRDIE, 4 POINTS NET EAGLE)

1st Place Tina Russell 34

2nd Place (tie) Judy Davis 33

2nd Place (tie) Mary Kay Minner 33

2nd Place (tie) Maxene Weinberg 33

3rd Place Kay Wood 32

Low Gross Kay Wood 91

Low Net Tina Russell 71

5/10/08 - SATURDAY "MIDDLE NINE" Red/White Tees 50% Handicap (net)

1st Place Bev Letter 36

2nd Place Susan Taylor 38

3rd Place June Kim & Jean Kelly 38.5

Low Gross Susan Taylor 82

Low Net Bev Letter & Georgianna Hales 73

5/17/08 - SATURDAY "CRISS-CROSS" Red Tees 50% Handicap (net)

1st Place - tie Jill Blurton-Jones, Dani Ratkelis 29

2nd Place Phyllis Goldstein 31

Low Gross June Kim & Jennifer Jackson 83

Low Net Phyllis Goldstein & Dani Ratkelis 71

5/22/08 - HATE'em - Red/White Tees

1st Place Celia Francese 91

2nd Place Jaisoo Bahng 92

3rd Place Charlene Salmacia 96

Low Gross Celia Francese 95

Low Net Mary Kay Minner 74

5/24/08 - SATURDAY "2-3-4" Red/White Tees, 50% Handicap (net)

1st Place - tie June Kim 34.5

1st Place - tie Jean Kelly 34.5

Low Gross June Kim 86

Low Net June Kim 75

5/29/08 - LOW GROSS/LOW NET - RED TEES

1st Place Gross      PK Jenican           90

2nd Place Gross     Barbara Behrens   94 Tie

                               Maxene Weinberg 94 Tie

1st Place Net          Judy Davis            71 Tie

                               Tina Russell           71 Tie

Low Gross              PK Jenican           90

Low Net                  PK Jenican           70

HANDICAPS

~ RONA KIPPER ~

Most Improved Player’s for the Month of May, 2008

Name Old New Decrease

Sue Pebley 6.9 5.1 26.1

Karen Jordan 13.9 11.0 20.9

Alissa North 15.3 12.1 20.9

Congradulations Ladies!

**New Course Handicap Conversion Charts are being replaced. The new ratings are effective June 1^st and should appear on our handicap computer once the June revisions are downloaded.

A lot of time and energy has been put into the new design of our scorecards!

Please remember to correctly fill in your Full Name and WSCGA Number along with the Date.

Any questions please let me know!

CLICK HERE for WSCGA Site

Mini-Member/Guest Tournament

~ Carolyn McGuire & Marcia Smith ~

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Thursday, July 24th

Deadline to sign Up: July 15th

Be sure and mark your calendar for this very “special” tournament. You may invite 1 or 3 guests. Our committee is already hard at work to make this a FUN day for your guest/guests. There will be Closest to the Pin winners in each flight and several other contests for both members and guests. The cost is $95 per player which includes two free mulligans. ($80 for member with a private cart.) We will, of course, have breakfast, snacks, and lunch. Sign-up early in locker room so you won’t miss out, as the event is limited to 120 players.

CINCO DE MAYO

~ Joey, Judy, & Tina ~

Muchas Gracias to all who helped make this year's Couple's Member/Guest so much fun. Our putting green and driving range were transformed into Hussongs Cantina and the Jefe de Policia de Baja reminded everyone to play by the rules. The food was fabulous, and you may have heard a few tales about the amount of margarita salt used that evening, or that everyone danced until the DJ closed down...and the rumors are all true! The photos tell the true story. Next year, you will not want to miss this Marbella tradition.

Hot Tamale Flight

1^st Place Gross MARQUIS DEMOREST 150

1^st Place Net CLEEREMANS GAFFNEY 128

2^nd Place Gross SOULES/PEBLEY MCBRIDE/MAKOS 153

2^nd Place Net DAVIS REYNOLDS/REDMOND 129

3rd Place Gross KELLY WALSH 154

3^rd Place Net RUSSELL ESAYIAN 131

Chili Peppers Flight

1^st Place Gross    DANTO DAVIS 165

1^st Place Net STRINGER POLLARD 120

2^nd Place Gross GRANT CARLTON 167

2^nd Place Net MCGLOTHLIN CHIU         128*

3rd Place Gross    ROMITO BAKER 171

3^rd Place Net MITCHELL MITCHELL 128

Closest to Pin

Senor Member Hole # 7 Mark Lyons 4'5"

Senora Member Hole #11 Patti Stringer 17'8"

Senor Guest Hole #7 Chet Mitchell 4'11"

Senora Guest Hole #11 Ellen Kimura 7'6"

Tres Banderas Drawing Loy Johnston

Sombrero Drawing Ross Pollard

Hussongs Contests

Chipping Senora Joanne Pollard

Chipping Senor Loy Johnston

Putting Senora Nancy Cleeremans

Putting Senor Dave Warlick

NINE-HOLERS

~ KATHERINE SZEM ~

We have expanded our horizons and played "Match Play" for the first time. With the always exciting leadership of PK Jenican and her "assistant", JaiSoo Bahng, on May 6 our 9-Holers learned the basics of Match Play and thentook on the course and each other. What an exciting day! Two of the matches went down to the final hole, #9 and one ended in a tie. Chambers over Grisanti; McGlothlin tied Danto; Ristoff over Canetti.) On May 13, Carol Warlick spread her knowledge and good cheer with our 9-Holers and encouraged them play to their hearts content. Then on May 20, PK and Suzi Olsen gave helpful instructions and advice on keeping up the pace of play. Finally, on May 22, we went over different formats of play as we unraveled the mysteries of Scrambles, Shambles, Best Ball, Odd/Even, Mutt & Jeff and other fun games shown in the Roster. Thank you PK, Jai Soo, Carol and Suzi for taking care of our 9-Holers during my vacation.

I wish to thank so many of our 18-Holers for welcoming, coaching and giving our 9-Holers such warm vibes!!! We're looking forward to our next clinic on June 5. Please help spread the word and pass on to any lady interested in learning to play golf my phone number, 949-248-1456 or my e-mail, szem@earthlink.net.

GUEST DAYS

~ DANI RATKELIS ~

My thanks to Toni Nagel for giving me a month off and running a great tournament. As always she does a super job no matter what she takes on to do .

The LCOM Board voted to change our Guest Day form June 19^th to June 26^th due to the fact that there are three other Guest Days in our area on June 19^th.

NEXT GUEST DAY IS JUNE 26^TH

E-MAIL DANI RATKELIS AT algisdani@cox.net or put entry form in locker #49 with your WSCGA #, YOUR GUESTS # AND CLUB AFFILIATION.

5/15/08 - GUEST DAY

First Gross B Letter, T. Steinmeyer, C. Merlis, C. Boswell 158

First Net J. Knudson, J. Crockett, P. Goldstein, T. Loutherback 126

Second Gross Y. Talbot, P. Marshall, P. Collins, C. Fawcett 162

Second Net S. Olsen, G. Woodward, D. Siegel, A. Liggitt 127

Third Gross D. Ratkelis, M. Hall, G. Hales, S. Hitchcock 167

Third Net B. Grant, G. Lesky, V. McMahon, V. Knippler 129

Closest to Pin

#4 Guest T. Loutherback 17'3"

#11 Member K. Jordan 9'3"

SPRING TEAM

~ ALI NORTH & YOLANDA TALBOT

CO-CAPTAINS

As of Thursday, May 29th our team is doing GREAT! We only have two matches left, at home and away against Alta Vista Country Club on 6/10 & 6/12. We're currently tied for low net with Dove Canyon Country Club and they only have one match left. We're having fun playing terrific (and tough!) golf courses and the competition has been very exciting so far. Thanks to all of our teammates for your great golf so far...let's keep it up and make the playoffs!

FALL TEAM

~ Maria Barger & Patrish Stites ~

FALL TEAM ALERT:

We will have a brief meeting in the Ladies locker room right after General Meeting for those ladies who signed up to play Fall League Team! If you can’t make the meeting, please pick up an application from the Fall Team bulletin board!

RULES

~ GEORGIANNA HALES ~

Rule 3-3

PROCEDURE TO PROPERLY PLAY A SECOND BALL IN STROKE PLAY
In stroke play, if a competitor is doubtful of his rights or the correct procedure during the play of a hole, he may, without penalty, complete the hole with two balls.

What steps must be followed in order to properly play a second ball?
A. Announce to his marker or fellow-competitor his intention to proceed under Rule 3-3.
B. Specify which ball he wishes to count if the Rules so permit.
C. Hole out with both balls.
D. The competitor must report the facts of the situation to the Committee before returning his score card. If he fails to do so, he is disqualified.

PROPOSED BYLAWS CHANGES

VOTE ON JUNE 5TH

~ 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 5^th. 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

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 Cinco de Mayo. You can even e-mail photos to your family or guests!

Our photos on costcophotocenter.com are now available.Thank you.

CLICK HERE FOR PHOTO GALLERY

NEWSLETTER

~ TINA RUSSELL ~

Please remember to submit your articles by the 25th of each month for publication. Once again, "sombreros off" to all our members and staff who put in so much time so we can enjoy golf at Marbella.

MUCHAS GRACIAS

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