From Mike LaFrance
Winter has been fickle this year, allowing us a number of beautiful days of golf during December and January. Maybe we can look forward to an early spring, officially get our clubs out of storage, get ourselves out of the house and onto our outstanding Doe Valley Golf Course HANG OVER TOURNEY The 2012 golf season started early with our first event of the year: the First Annual Hang Over Tourney. We had 36 golfers participate in our inaugural event. The following is the results: 1st Place: Tom Gorter Vaneda Gorter Lynn Bramer Pauline Bramer 50 2nd Place: Frank Beasley Sally Beasley Rick Jent Mendi Skeeters 51 Next to Last (Tie) Lloyd McCollum Paula McCollum Dave Johnston Mike LaFrance 57 Ken Wilson Ginny Herrmann Dave Kuprion Mike Kuprion 57 Thanks to all who participated! LEAGUES & OUTINGS As part of the 2012 Schedule of Events, we are forming golf leagues and searching for groups or businesses that would like to conduct a golf outing. If you or your place of employment is interested in having a league or golf outing, please contact me at the golf shop. The staff of Doe Valley Golf Club will provide all the services necessary to have a league or outing. The golfers are here to have fun not work. GOLF INSTRUCTION Mark Your Calendars: Beginning Golf and Intermediate Golf Instruction for Women will begin in April. We will provide more info in future newsletters. Individual lessons are available by appointment and will begin in March. Junior Golf Camps will be scheduled in June. Each camp will be by age group and last 4 days, Tuesday through Friday. Please watch the newsletter for registration info. ANNUAL GOLF MEMBERSHIPS Golf Memberships for 2012 are available and the fees for 2012 have not changed from 2011: POA Single: $ 50.00/Month; Family: 69.00/Month; Unlimited Cart: Single: $ 40.00/Month; Family: $ 50.00/Month; Trail Fee for Private Carts is available. Please contact the golf shop for more information. GOLF COURSE HOURS OF OPERATION The Golf Shop will be open daily 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM (Weather Permitting) through February. If it is sunny, no frost, and temps will be in the Hi 40’s and 50’s we will open at 9:00 AM MERCHANDISE New Items of merchandise will start arriving in the golf shop March 1st. If in need of Custom Fit Irons: we, at Doe Valley have the expertise, to fit and order any clubs that you desire. RE GRIP SPECIAL GET READY FOR SPRING: HAVE NEW GRIPS INSTALLED. NEW GRIPS STARTING FROM $ 3.00 PER CLUB - ONE DAY SERVICE THE DOE VALLEY PREFERRED CUSTOMER CARD: ONLY $ 75.00 OR 2 CARDS FOR $ 125.00 - PURCHASE AT THE GOLF SHOP OR PURCHASE BY PHONE 270-422-3397 ATTENTION ALL POA MEMBERS: TWO PROJECTS TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE IRRIGATION FUND Tee Marker Monument Advertising: One Year: $200.00 Three Years: $500.00 Includes Ad Sign with advertisers information. Contact the Golf Shop for more information or to participate 3 of 18 signs are committed. Aluminum Can Recycling: Save your aluminum cans and bring to the golf course. Course employees will bring saved cans and redeem for cash. Cash deposited with Admin office for Irrigation Fund. The Irrigation Fund will be used to improve the irrigation system of the golf course which is vital to the overall improvement of golf course quality of play and the improvement in the condition of the course will have a direct link to increased usage of the course by our property owners and public. MARK YOUR CALENDARS!! ST PATRICK’S DAY GREEN BEER OPEN - SATURDAY, MARCH 17TH. 18 HOLE INDIVIDUAL STROKE PLAY GROSS & NET WINNERS ENTRY FEE: $ 15.00 From Chris Love, the Doe Valley Golf Course Superintendent: Well I guess by now we have all recovered from the holidays, and are well on our way to shedding the pounds that the holidays put on us. I’m not sure what February will bring us, as far as weather is concerned, but January was certainly a bizarre month. As I am writing this, a storm system just blew through that brought with it some tornadoes for the surrounding areas. That is definitely not normal for this time of the year, but who knows what “normal” is anymore. Nowadays, it seems that our weather is doing outrageous things more often than not. On the other hand, with this odd weather came lots of great golfing days in the month of January. It has also made it much more pleasant to be outside working. We have stayed pretty busy these last couple of months, doing everything from building tees to mowing grass. If you have been around the golf course recently, you’ve probably seen that we have started moving some dirt and shaping the areas where a few new forward tees will be built. We have been talking about it for a while now, and we finally decided where to put them, and had a few dry days to start moving some dirt. The process of building these tees will take some time, but hopefully we will have them ready to play in the early part of the golf season. We have also taken down many dead trees, and have quite a few more to go, but that’s always a work in progress around here. We have plenty of things to do to keep us busy for the rest of the off-season, but I am certain that the golfing season will be here before we know it. I hate to say it, but I am pretty sure that “winter” is eventually going to get here. I just hope it takes it easy on us. In the meantime, I would encourage you to take advantage of some of these nice days, and get out and play a round of golf. It might help you lose those last few pounds lingering from the holidays, and it is always a bonus if you can get a few rounds in during the dreary winter months. |
