Sacramento, CA Chapter - American Singles Golf Association June 2012

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1 CELEBRATING 19 YEARS OF SINGLES GOLF IN AMERICA Sacramento, CA Chapter - American Singles Golf Association June 2012 GOLD COUNTRY CLASSIC Sacramento ASGA held its annual spring weekend outing in the Gold Country and it proved to be a rousing success. Although we were down in numbers, those who participated gave back great comments on the venues, the food and the fun!!! We had 36 players each day. Friday May 4 th was our opening round and was held at La Contenta Golf Club in Valley Springs. This is a hilly course with some very interesting holes. We played Mystery Player where everyone plays their own ball and the holes are drawn separately. Each player s score had to be used at least 4 times. We played to a net score and in the end we had a three way tie at one over par 72. We matched cards using the back nine scores and Team #3 with Fred Walker (Savannah, GA), Lynn Manfree, Roger Wilson (Seattle) and Carol Norris were the winners. The second place team was Karl Winkler, Bob Bund (Palm Springs), Char Paur (Palm Springs) and Jo Briggs. Also firing a 72 but losing out on the money was Dwight Pattison, Carrie Duncan (Palm Springs), John Wardlow and Sandy L Allier (Seattle). The Long Drive was held on #9, a nice long straight 4 Par. Mike Newby took the Men s title and Lynn Manfree captured the ladies title. The closest to the pin was #13, the signature hole, off the top of the hill and over the small lake. Bill Coble (Palm Springs) had the best shot for the men and Janice Van Gutman won the ladies competition. After golf we all headed to Greenhorn Creek and to the penthouse at the World Mark Wyndham Resort for a hospitality get together hosted by our chapter and our Vice President Warren Peacor. Thanks to Doris Grose and Jan Valine for setting this up and arranging for the food items. A good time was had by all. Saturday morning we played Greenhorn Creek, right there where we were partying the night before!! We played a Best two balls of the four in each foursome and the scores were close with all 9 teams between 131 and 139. Team #3 with Fred Walker, Ernie Finkbeiner, Char Paur and Janice Van Gutman were the first place winners. Team #5 with Dwight Pattison, Bev Hatch (Palm Springs), Bill Coble, and Dagmar Hotel shot 133 to finish second. We had the long drive on the 18 th hole and it was won by Rick Weis and Lynn Manfree. The closest to the pin was once again on a signature hole, again #13. Larry Olson (Palm Springs) and Shirlee Cisneros were the winners. We also awarded a plaque to the low individual lady and gentleman who shot the best net score for the weekend. Harriet Schloemer was the low female with a 70-76=146, just beating out Char Paur who shot 71-76=147. Connie Deblaquiere was third with Dwight Pattison led the men with 67-71=138, ahead of Karl Winkler (70-72=142) and Warren Peacor (72-75=147). Saturday evening we enjoyed cocktails and a banquet in the Fireside Room at Greenhorn Creek followed by dancing to the DJ from Marquis Entertainment (He was Great!!). Thanks to Von Canale for getting such a good DJ for our dancing and listening pleasure. Some of us danced ourselves to near death, but we had a great evening. In addition, it would not be right to leave out a statement about the buffet dinner which was outstanding. All in all, once again our weekend outing proved to be a highlight of the year. We are now looking forward to the Northwest Invitational II in Central Oregon in September. Upcoming Events Include (see SinglesGolf.com/events) ASGA in Ireland - July 20-July 30, Dublin + Killarney + Limerick. Details at Denver's Colorado Rocky Mountain Golf Adventure - August , Golf at Headwaters and Pole Creek GCs. More details soon. Sacramento+Seattle's Northwest Invitational II- September 6-9, Office Hours: 9:00am to 2:00pm, M-F (Eastern) National Office: or GOLFMATE Regular Meeting Date: First Tuesday of each month Next Meeting: June 5th, 2012 at 6:30pm Meeting Location: CoCo's Restaurant, 1830 Arden Way, Sacramento, CA. Our Website: Our Address: ASGA Sacramento, 9630 Bruceville Road, # , Elk Grove, (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 or go to

2 Sacramento Chapter of the American Singles Golf Association, Inc. President Paul Arquette Vice President Warren Peacor (916) Treasurer Dwight Pattison Secretary Dagmar Hotel (916) Golf Chairperson Dwight Pattison (916) Social Chairperson Von Canale (916) Membership Chairperson Cathie Quade (916) Communications Chairperson Sue Jeffery (916) ASGA Sacramento 9630 Bruceville Road, # Elk Grove, Thanks a bunch to the committee of Doris Grose, Jan Valine, Von Canale and Dwight Pattison for arranging this outing. And thanks to Janice Van Gutman for hanging around each day and collecting the scorecards and doing the scoring!!! MOTHER'S DAY CLASSIC This year Dwight arranged a Mother's Day Classic golf event at River Oaks Golf Course. The course is located on the Feather River a little bit north of Sacramento on the way to Yuba City. I was the only mother playing in the event voted #1 Best Mother's Day event by Sac ASGA Mothers. I want to thank Dwight, Richard Garfield and Mel O'Neal for the special day. And to thank Mel who paid for my entire day as a tribute to his mother, the most influential person in his life. Thanks Mel. You're a sweetie. Ladies, if you can't get together with your family do consider Mother's Day with ASGA. It's been a fun event for me these last couple of years. ~Sue Jeffery, ASGA Intrepid Reporter The roster of members in our chapter is updated daily, that is, any day there are changes to our chapter s roster, the National Association office updates it. Want to play weekdays? Our roster indicates who s available! Need to contact a chapter leader, go for it! To see a roster of our members, go to and key-in your username and password. If you don t have that info, just follow the prompts and we ll your information to you. Once you are logged-in, you can also update your personal information. ABOUT OUR MEMBERS Happy Birthday to these members: Richard Garland - 07/12 Doris Grose - 07/01 Lynn Manfree - 06/23 Martha Murray - 07/05 Carol Norris - 07/05 Betty Perault - 06/28 Harriet Schloemer - 06/10 Jan Valine - 07/05 Barb Wilkis - 07/11 These members are up for renewal: (date shown is last day of membership) Suzanne Bowser - 06/30/2012 Rosemary Penman - 06/30/2012 Kathy Wichert - 06/30/2012 Karl Winkler - 06/30/2012 Welcome newest members: Richard Garland - Joined 04/12/2012 These members recently renewed: Barbara Thomas Jan Valine These members did not renew their dues: (date shown is date membership expired) Lynn Knoll - 04/30/2012 Julia Nicholson - 04/30/2012 Barbara Parker - 04/30/2012 Our chapter currently has 52 members. Gotta Love Em Frank is 90 years old. He's played golf every day since his retirement 25 years ago. One day he arrives home looking downcast. "That's it," he tells his wife. "I'm giving up golf. My eyesight has gotten so bad. Once I've hit the ball, I can't see where it went." His wife sympathizes. As they sit down, she has a suggestion: "Why don't you take my brother with you, and give it one more try?" "That's no good," sighs Frank. "Your brother is 103. He can't help." "He may be a hundred and three,"says the wife, "but his eyesight is perfect." So the next day, Frank heads off to the golf course with his brother-in-law. He tees up, takes an almighty swing, and squints down the fairway. He turns to the brotherin-law. "Did you see the ball?" "Of course I did," says the brother-in-law. "I have perfect eyesight." "So where did it go?" asks Frank. "I can't remember."

3 GOLD COUNTRY CLASSIC Rick Weis, Old Vet Out to Pasture. Ends Up Eating Grass!

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5 CELEBRATING 19 YEARS OF SINGLESGOLF IN AMERICA AMERICAN SINGLES GOLF ASSOCIATION JUNE, 2012 June 20 Deadline to Sign-Up Sixty (60) members have signed-up for the Ireland trip, July We will spend three days in Dublin, three in Killarney and three in Limerick. You d fly into Dublin but return home from Shannon Airport near Limerick. When online registration is available, please have your roommate sign-up the same time you do. Details and itinerary at Killarney Golf & Fish Club, Site of 2011 Irish Open and one of the courses we ll play in July. Get High On Golf this August If you re a down-home country boy like me, you don t get out much. Yes, I ve traveled the world but places in my own back yard have never been pleasured by my presence. Living in North Carolina, we sometimes think anything west of the Mississippi is another country. The landscape changes. Roads are straight and you can see places you don t want to see for miles. But as you head west, I mean really, really west, you bump into a rock. Locals call it the Rockies. And within those Rockies is one of our newest chapters, the ever-so-young Denver group. Several months ago, Denver contacted the national office with a desire to blow-away the membership. They wanted to host a multi-chapter golf weekend, where else, but in the Rocky Mountains. That place way up in the sky. But you re such a young chapter, are you sure you want to do this? I asked. Absolutely! they replied. We are energetic and we know we can offer the members from all over the country an experience like no other. So game on. Denver s Colorado Rocky Mountain Golf Adventure is now official. It s golf with an attitude. Or, was that altitude? At 9,000 feet elevation, this will be an adventure. The reason most Denver chapter members have single digit handicaps is because balls travel 400 yards out there. (Ball retrievers are four times longer as well.) Winter Park, Colorado will be the venue and the dates are set for August So the only question remains: will you engage yourself in this kind of experience? Will you get high with your fellow chapter members? Will you meet friends you never thought you had? So enough questions. Go to the website and register. Do it now. This and other events are at Update Your Info on Your Chapter s Roster People still call us wanting us to change the phone number, or handicap or address in the database (roster). For a couple of years now, you ve had the ability to update your information on the roster yourself. This updates the national database. Got an address or phone change? Want to add your cell number, change your handicap? Go to the MY ACCOUNT button at our website, SinglesGolf.com and log-in. Forgot your log-in? It s real easy; just follow the simple instructions and your log-in information comes to you right away. The National Website: Where Can We Improve? Ever been to SinglesGolf.com? The national site receives some 30,000 visitors per month, some for the first time, and others are returning members. The site is, to a certain extent, an electronic brochure about our organization but it s also a place members go to find out what s going on next. Most chapters who use our software access their local website by entering their chapter name, followed by the national site, e.g. Local sites are free to chapters but other chapters host their own sites entirely independent of the national site. We also want to make sure the national site is satisfying your needs. If there s something you d like to see that s not there, let us know. And if you d like to submit a photo for our moving photos section, send it to GolfASGA@aol.com Hawaii 2013: Time to Return Yes, time to return for a low score and aloha! Everyone knows that your golf score in Hawaii doesn t really mean anything. Hit a bad shot, it doesn t matter, just look beyond the beautiful hill of flowers and see whales frolicking off the coast. Hit a good shot, well, it s just another day at the office. Yes, again, we re looking at a return visit to Hawaii. We seem to show-up there about every other year. No details yet, but as usual, before we can discuss things with hotels, we need to know if you re interested. Will we have 28 or 82 attend? We never know until we start seeing some action on your part. So if you d like to go to Hawaii at some time between the last week in January through mid-march, go to our Hawaii website and just put your name on the list. There s no financial or other obligation at this point, just a show of hands. The site s at An announcement should be made by the end of this month or mid-july at the latest. Mahalo! - Tom Alsop, President / Founder American Singles Golf Association - GolfASGA@aol.com

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