Upstate SC Chapter - American Singles Golf Association October 2009

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1 CELEBRATING 17 YEARS OF SINGLES GOLF IN AMERICA Upstate SC Chapter - American Singles Golf Association October 2009 Next Chapter Meeting October 5, 2009 The next Chapter meeting is scheduled for Oct. 5 th, We will meet at Logan s Roadhouse in the meeting room with social hour from 6:30-7:30 PM and meeting to follow. Logan s is located at 53 Beacon Drive off Pelham Road in Greenville. Please contact Deborah Fowler (864) or Darlene Lancaster (864) for additional details. President s Message Hello All, I hope everyone has had a great summer. I know we have had some fun golf times and weather permitting we can continue to have some more this fall. I wanted to thank every one of our members that came to multi-chapter Santee outing and helped make the event a great success! We had 22 play Santee Cooper Country Club Friday at 1:00. The format was to play whatever your cart group agreed on. There were no prized involved for that afternoon. We met at 6:30 in the restaurant/bar area for the meet and greet. Thanks to Leslie our table looked very nice where we handed out the name badges and goodie bags. Thanks to Gina, Francine, Hugh and Sam for getting all of the bags together and providing the name tags. Thanks to Sam for taking pictures at the table, Francine, Leslie, Allen, and everyone else that helped sell the raffle tickets and greeted. The donations from everyone in our chapter were great. We had enough door prizes items donated that almost everyone received one. Bob Blaylock really loved his sleeve of golf balls that were used and different brands. He got a kick out of that. You always have to have one to pick on right? I did give him a sleeve of brand new balls, all the same brand! I truly appreciate you for contributing your time and gifts for the outing. It made my job a lot easier. We purchased a Veggie tray for an appetizer and Kitty from Quality Inn donated the chips and salsa and the tubs of free beer at the bar. The staff at the Quality Inn really was great in accommodating us for the whole weekend. They furnished all we asked for and contributed to keep our cost down. That was great! Saturday we had breakfast that was included with the package, and then a great round of golf. The weather couldn t have been better. We had 48 plays at 9:00, at Lake Marion, shot gun start. The format was captain s choice. I think everyone finished within about 4 hours and could enjoy the afternoon around the pool, etc. for free time. John brought some music and Allen brought a jam box for entertainment. We had a lot of dancers and some even came back out to the pool after dinner and door prizes. We provided a Hamburger/hot dog cook out with the fixings and that went very well. Gina graciously did the winners announcements and the door prizes. We paid first and second place. First place was $ $15.00 each player and second was $ $10.00 each for both Saturday and Sunday play. The closest to the pin and longest drive for both days were certificates for ASGA logo shirts. Saturday winners included Ray Kelly, Brenda Powell, Bill Covell, & Jim Whitemore. Second Place was George Weinfurter, Charlene Walker (our new VP of the chapter) ha, and Edna Feliz, & Dave Cummings. Ray Kelly won closest to the pin and longest drive for the men. Judy Holland won longest drive and Francine G. won Closest to the pin. We gave out a door prize of $ cash (free weekend at Santee) and the winner of that was Maria Han Upcoming Events Include: Myrtle Beach in November - Details in newsletter & at Singles- Golf.com/BattleAtTheBeach New Year's at ChampionsGate, Florida. Dec. 29-Jan. 1 - Details at SinglesGolf.com/newyears We're Going to Scotland - August, Details at SinglesGolf.com/ scotland National Website: ASGANational@aol.com Office Hours: 8:00am to 4:00pm, M-F (Eastern) National Office: or GOLFMATE Regular Meeting Date: First Monday of each month Next Meeting: October 5th, 2009 Meeting Location: Logan s Roadhouse at 6:30 pm Our Website: Our Hotline: TBD (See next page for list of officers and board members.) To join, renew dues, make a change of address, phone, etc., call National Hotline at left.

2 Upstate South Carolina Chapter of the American Singles Golf Association President Darlene Lancaster (864) Golf Chairperson Allen Sanford (864) Social Chairperson Sharon Coln (864) Communications Chairperson Deborah Fowler (864) Membership Chairperson Gina Murphy (864) Webmaster George Moureau (706) Treasurer Sam Murphy (864) Golf Co-Chairperson Ray Kelly (864) Golf Co-Chairperson David Gambrel (864) T from our chapter!!! The case raffle was $ and Pat Leader from Wilmington won that. Sunday was played at Santee National with the first tee times at 8:04 and the last at 9:30. We played the same format and the weather Sunday was great also. We gave out the prizes at the course before returning home. Taking first Place was Hugh Bell, Gina Murphy and Allen Richards. 2 nd Place was my team with Charles Rooks, Me, Kathy Masschelin and Bob Keady. Ray Kelly won longest drive, Alston Gordon won closest to the pin. Penny Polson won both longest drive and closest to the pin. I had some great comments over the weekend and I have gotten s since saying they had a great time. Thanks to my great golf friends in our group for helping and making a great fun weekend. I truly appreciate all you did and do all year long. To change the subject, we need to have some volunteers for our nominating committee. We have elections coming up October and November. If you are interested in being on the committee or an office for the Upstate Group please contact me. Thanks again for everything!!! ~Darlene Lancaster We will be voting in new officers next month, so please send in your nominees to Deborah Fowler at cheeta1@charter.net Birthdays in October Sharon Coln - October 31st Editor s Note I don t know about you but this is my very favorite time of year! Please take advantage of the weather and plan on getting to know our members and guest better by playing golf and entertaining. If you have an idea or would like to host an event at your home please call Beth Ball. Bethball01@chater.net A TRIP TO COSTCO Yesterday I was at my local COSTCO buying a large bag of Purina Dog Chow for my loyal pet, Biscuit, the Wonder Dog and was in the checkout line when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had, an elephant? So since I'm retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, I was starting the Purina Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn't, because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in line was now enthralled with my story.) Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no, I stepped off a curb to sniff an Irish Setter's ass and a car hit us both. I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard. Costco won't let me shop there anymore. Better watch what you ask retired people. They have all the time in the world to think of crazy things to say ABOUT OUR MEMBERS Happy Birthday to these members: Sharon Coln - 10/31 Bobby Gossett - 11/08 These members are up for renewal: (date shown is last day of membership) Marc Brady - 10/31/2009 Welcome newest members: Missy Cashman - Joined 08/20/2009 These members recently renewed: Beth Ball Lesley Chandler These members did not renew their dues: (date shown is date membership expired) Ray Kelly - 08/31/2009 Our chapter currently has 21 members.

3 Ray Kelly and Charlene Walker. Ray won the longest drive at the Santee Multi- Chapter Outing. Leslie at Santee Bob Blaylock and Kathy Masschelin. Bob joined us at the Santee Outing

4 CELEBRATING 17 YEARS OF SINGLESGOLF IN AMERICA AMERICAN SINGLES GOLF ASSOCIATION OCTOBER 2009 We have three national events headed you way, November's Battle at the Beach in Myrtle Beach, SC, New Year's in Orlando and St. Andrews in August, Registration for the New Year's event has just opened (online), about 100 are registered for Myrtle Beach already and 195 are registered for our Scotland trip. It always helps planning events when we know how many are coming, so please register early if you can. The beauty of this is that you can arrive as many as three (3) days early and stay up to three (3) days late and it will only cost you $64 per person (based on dlb. occ.) to stay an additional night, or $128 to room by yourself. Orlando offers so much more and our online website can give you links to other things to do while there, such as visiting Mickey, SeaWorld, MGM, etc. Register by October 31st and you ll receive two (2) free drink tickets! Details and online registration available at SinglesGolf.com/newyears See you there! Battle At The Beach, Myrtle Beach, SC In a matter of a few weeks, over 100 people have registered for the Battle at the Beach so far, which will be held at the Marriott Grande Dunes in Myrtle Beach, SC. This hotel is a AAA Four-Diamond hotel and is ranked as one of the Top 500 resorts in the world by Travel+Leisure magazine. New Year s and Golf in Orlando We were here last year and it's just the perfect venue for our group. Open to all ASGA members. Yes, you are invited to the largest gathering of singles who golf in the world! Here are the basics: Who: Open to all ASGA Members When: Tuesday, December 29, Friday, January 1, 2010 Where: Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate, 1500 Masters Blvd., ChampionsGate, Florida 33898, Phone What: 3-Night Stay, 6 Food functions (incl. New Year s Eve plated dinner), 2 Rounds of Golf, DJ dancing and more... Why: To meet friends you didn t know you had and to have the time of your life! Standard Package Rate is $ PER PERSON, DOUBLE OCCUPANCY, IF PAYING BY CHECK. $ if paying by a major credit card. Our annual trips for warm climates in the winter have landed us back in Orlando once again. It s really tough to beat what this city offers to golfers. Yes, we could have chosen a venue less expensive, but a vacation should feel like a vacation. This hotel will make you feel like you have arrived. It is four-star from the rooms to the pools to the on-site golf courses, quality of food, etc. Check out the hotel s website OmniOrlandoResort.com and you ll see what we mean. Date: November 12-15, 2009 Cost: Only $399 if you have a roommate, play two rounds of golf (including GPS golf cart), enjoy six food functions, one of which is the Saturday night dinner... filet mignon and salmon and Friday night s themed Cheeseburgers in Paradise, where the best dressed parrothead will get $100. To get all the details on this fun-filled event and to register, visit the website at SinglesGolf.com/ BattleAtTheBeach If you d like to register for the event over the phone, call us at or toll free at GOLFMATE (Mo-Fri, 7:00am - noon, Eastern). Scotland is Headed Toward Sellout As of late September, nearly 200 people have signed-up for our trip to Scotland, July 31-August 8, We originally set a limit of 128 players but we've secured additional rooms and courses to accommodate our needs. St. Andrews, Scot-land is no doubt the most special place on this planet for golfers. We'll stay at the beautiful Fairmont Hotel on the outskirts of St. Andrews and on the edge of the North Sea. We have room for about another people. At this point, you'll only need to put 10% down. All details, packages, itinerary, etc. at Tom Alsop, President / Founder, ASGA Phone or GOLFMATE GolfASGA@aol.com - New Year s Day falls on a Friday this year and our event begins on Tuesday.

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