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EL MACERO CC NEWSLETTER Happy New Year from all of us at El Macero CC!
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T o G o O n l y T o G o O n l y T o G o O n l y T o G o O n l y ISSUE NO. 1 | JANUARY 2021 GENERAL MANAGER'S MESSAGE Rusty Seymour | General Manager
It is the middle of January where the normal highs are in the low 50’s so I’m excited to see absolutely beautiful The following members are weather this weekend. Although we need a lot more rain, celebrating a milestone anniversary this January: we will take upper 60’s any day! I look forward to seeing a lot of activity this weekend around the club! Proprietary · Vince, Heidi, Collin, & Alyssa Yee- 20 years Our management team recently finalized the 2020 4th · David & Christina Horne- 5 years Quarter Employee of the Quarter nominees and winner. The four nominees were Lachlan (Golf Operations), Single Non-Proprietary · John & Sandra Tassano- 10 Benedicto (Agronomy), Lorenza (F&B Back of House), and years Luke (Bartender/Server). All four nominees have · Alan & Terri Wolf- 1 year · Miles & Sheila Ruth Young- 1 exemplified great positive attitudes the last few months year · Timothy & Margaret Sisson- 1 and always look for ways to go above and beyond the call year of duty in their respective areas. The big winner for the
4th Quarter is...... LACHLAN! He has been here at El Macero for only a few months but has added a lot of enthusiasm to the team. Lachlan is also an official PGA Apprentice and is working on completing Level 2 of the 3 level program so he is well on his way to becoming a Class A Certified PGA Professional. Congratulations to Lachlan and all the other nominees!
There was some exciting news announced a couple of weeks ago by Troon as they acquired Indigo Golf Partners (formerly known as Billy Casper Golf) which is one of the largest golf course management companies in the United States. They own and operate more than 160 golf courses, country clubs and resorts in 29 states. This is exciting for all of you as it means there will eventually be more great golf courses for you to access at discounted rates throughout the nation. Click here to read the entire press release
Only one housekeeping item for this week which is our dress code for the club. We have both a lot of new members and many tenured members I would like to politely remind what our club dress code is in our Golf Operations Manual which can be accessed on our website after logging in. ISSUE NO. 1 | JANUARY 2021 GENERAL MANAGER'S MESSAGE Continued
Section 2.05.3 Dress Code All members, guests, golfers and non-golfers, whether playing golf, using the practice facilities, or observing on the golf course, are expected to adhere to the dress code rules as follows: (a) Shoes must be worn at all times. (b) Shirts must be worn at all times on the golf course and practice facilities. (c) No tank tops, halter-tops or bathing suits permitted either on the golf course, practice facilities or in the clubhouse. (d) Men’s shirts must have sleeves and collars (mock or turtle neck are OK). (e) Shorts must be hemmed with the hem consistent with golf retail stores. (f) No jeans or denim of any kind permitted on the golf course or practice facilities. (g) El Macero CC is a soft-spikes only club. No metal or ceramic spikes allowed.
To read through the entire Golf Operations Manual to view other policies and procedures, please click here.
I hope everyone enjoys the beautiful weather this weekend and you can sneak out to play some golf. ISSUE NO. 1 | DECEMBER 2020 FOOD AND BEVERAGE Keith Culley | Food and Beverage Director
2021… here we go!
Let’s start this year of with some fun collaboration. Back in September we did a blind whiskey tasting at the Men’s Pheasant with Sonoma Distilling Co. to pick a private label single barrel whiskey. The winner was a straight bourbon whiskey. Well bottles are in! There are a limited number of these bottles so get them while supplies last. You can purchase in the Golf Shop or in the restaurant at $35 plus tax per bottle. Please click on the flyer on the next page to view the PDF.
The EMCC Rewards program is up and running. Details were sent out last week but if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out!
The county is back in the purple tier for COVID-19 however that comes with restrictions. Dining at the Club must be at on the patio again and only members of your household can sit with you. Because of these restrictions the Board elected to send out a survey to all members. If you have not already filled out the survey, please click here. The survey will be active until 12PM on Sunday. Those surveys will be tallied early next week and more information about our restaurant opening will come soon after. Keep a lookout for that email. We are eager!
Thank you again to everyone that is ordering To-Go. Every order keeps our staff working through the slow times! ISSUE NO. 1 | JANUARY 2021 ISSUE NO. 1 | JANUARY 2021 MEMBERSHIP HAPPENINGS Karyn Yarris | Membership and Marketing Director
Happy New Year! Who can believe it is 2021? After all the craziness of 2020 I am optimistic that 2021 will be a great year for all of us. December turned out to be a record month in terms of new members signed up due in large part to a combination of member referrals and our Winter Promotion. I am thrilled to say that in the months of December and January we signed up over 15 new Proprietary members! Rusty and I went back and checked, we believe this is a record so thank you! We are excited to welcome so many new members to the Club. Just a reminder, each time you refer a new member that joins you get 10% of the initiation fee in the form of Elmo Bucks! Now speaking of all those new members please take a moment to get to know just a few of our newest members:
Paul and Marna Ghiglieri have lived in Davis for the last 15 years. They have two daughters Gina (25) and Lisa (23) who live and work in the Bay Area. Paul is a Plant Manager at Farmers Rice Cooperative in Woodland. Marna is an Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy at University of the Pacific's Health Science campus in Sacramento. Paul and Marna enjoy exercising, sampling local craft beers and golfing (of course!).
The Swift's, Andy, Mandi, Hayden (9), Branson (5), & Paxton (2), moved to Davis in 2011 and currently live in Wildhorse. Andy is originally from Wisconsin and works for The Hartford. Mandi is from Sacramento and works for Elsevier. The kids are split between Montessori Country Day and St. James School. In addition to golfing, their family loves to spend time at the beach, any/all water sports, and snow skiing. ISSUE NO. 1 | JANUARY 2021
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D a t e s a n d e v e n t s a r e s u b j e c t t o c h a n g e E V E ISSUE NO. 1 | JANUARY 2021 EVERYTHING GOLF Chad Bennett, PGA | Director of Golf Operations
Winter is here, or is it? We couldn’t ask for better weather in January and with the great weather, it is keeping members on the golf course which is great to see. With all of the play every day and the golf course continuing to be busy until the late afternoon, we want to make sure everyone is doing their part to play their round at our Time Par of 4 hours and 10 minutes and a big part of that is playing Ready Golf. Please continue to keep an eye on your scorecard which has the hole by hole pace of play on it and always be aware of the group in front of you. It’s a common misconception that if no one is pushing your group, you are okay but the most important factor in keeping up with pace is to always keep up with the group in front of you. There is not as much concern with the group behind you but if they are pushing you, there is a chance you are behind pace. The Golf Shop will continue to make Player Assistant runs throughout the day and if you are behind pace, we will mention it to you and to please speed up to get back on pace. If you are approached a second time and there is a large enough gap in front of you, we will be inclined to ask you to pick up and proceed directly to the next hole. It’s not fun being out on the course for a 5 hour round of golf and pace has been great considering how busy El Macero has been. We kindly ask everyone to do their part and play to our Time Par of 4 hours and 10 minutes and play Ready Golf. We also ask that everyone is able to continue to use carts through the winter and to allow this, we need all members to continue to stay in the rough at all times with your carts.
We are also excited to start fully utilizing the capabilities of our Golf Genius Tournament Software with the WGG. We have started to do online signups for the WGG’s weekly game and will also implement Live Scoring and reduce the amount of scorecards that are printed and ultimately thrown away and wasted. We will also continue to do this for most events at El Macero going forward and eliminate printed scorecards which helps slow the spread of Covid. It will be more streamlined and less paperwork to keep track of, scoring and results can now be done instantaneously.
We are excited for what 2021 has in store and it’s time to start looking at the 2021 At A Glance because events are starting up next month. The first event of the new year will be the NCGA Zone Qualifier which is open to both men and women. Signups will start online next week so keep an eye out for that. ISSUE NO. 1 | JANUARY 2021 EVERYTHING GOLF Continued
Very important for everyone to do first thing is to download the Golf Genius App on your smart phone or tablet. The icon in the App Store is orange with a globe sitting on a tee. Once you download the App, if you’ve never registered with Golf Genius, you will create a username and password. If you have a smart phone or tablet, you will be able to do live scoring anytime you are playing in an event. When signups open online for each event, everyone will get emailed a link to be able to login in and sign up. You will also be able to login and sign up from that link on your laptop or desktop computer.
There will be questions and either Chad or Andy will be able to answer any questions or concerns you have. Happy New Year and there is excitement for 2021! ISSUE NO. 1 | JANUARY 2021 PLAYER DEVELOPMENT Kevin Estrella | Director of Player Development
All Things Junior Golf Establishing a Handicap for a Junior Golfer Winter Junior Golf League If you are interested in your junior golfer Our Winter Junior Golf League is well under establishing a handicap, here are some useful way. We start our day at 2:00 with a socially links for more information on that: distant group clinic and rules discussion. Our NCGA clinic topics throughout the season include the Youth on Course full swing with irons and woods, 20-60 yard pitch shots, putting, how to save strokes around New Clubs for 2021 the greens, and how to practice so you can improve faster. Our rules and etiquette discussion topics include sportsmanship, the unplayable lie, ball hit into the water, when and how to take relief, ball hit out of bounds, hydration & nutrition on and off the course, and much more. This program is designed for intermediate junior golfers that are able to play on the golf course without constant direct adult Callaway just released their new EPIC driver. supervision. It is a great stepping stone for These clubs are already receiving rave reviews those junior golfers looking to eventually play in on tour. With 3 models to choose from as well individual tournaments or to play for their high as a variety of shafts we can get you dialed in school team. If you weren’t able to join us this with a complementary custom fitting. time around keep an eye out for future junior Also just in the new Ping G425 driver and golf leagues as we will be conducting these fairway woods. Similar to the Callaway Epic, seasonally throughout the year. Ping has multiple head and shaft options for all levels of golfers and all swing types. Stop Introduction to Golf for 5-7 Year Olds by the golf shop and ask to hit some of our We just concluded our winter sessions of our demos. You won’t be disappointed! Introduction to golf for 5-7 year olds. Thanks to all of you who participated! And, special thanks to Assistant Pros Kyle Kircher and Andy Schroeder who ran the program. Again, we will be offering these camps throughout the year. We will announce our spring dates in the near future. ISSUE NO. 1 | JANUARY 2021 NINERS Cathy Raycraft & Kathy Magrino (Co-Captains)
The Niners ladies golf group at El Macero play a round of 9 or 18 holes every Tuesday morning. We are members of the Women's Nine Hole Golf Association (WNHGA) and participate at other Northern California private country clubs' Invitationals and Open Day events. We also join in Team Play and compete with other country clubs. This year, due to Covid-19 many of the away events have been cancelled, but we continue to enjoy golf at El Macero. If you would like information on joining the Niners group at El Macero, please contact our Membership Chair Jeanne Egan at (530) 219-4623.
On Tuesday, January 12, 2021 our Niners group held an all new Game Day Event 9ers Go For The Green. Each Tee Time Team was a “Green Team” with members wearing Green to celebrate the event. Each team counted the lowest 2 team members’ putts for each hole with each member contributing at least 2 putts for the 9-hole round. The teams with the lowest 2 person putts for the 9-hole round were declared the winners. Congratulations go to: Trudy De Felice, Theresa Mariani, & Laura DeOrio with 29 putts (with Laura getting a zero putt on hole #5) Wendy Amundsen, Kathy Barrientes, & Mayet Reina with 29 putts
The mantra for the game was “Drive for Show, Putt for Dough.” This inspired a new prize for the winners called 9er Dough. Of course, 9er Dough is only good for 9er members, but will soon quickly become popular as the 9er Dough designs are used on the course when needed for “1 free foot wedge, 1 free toss, or 1 free mulligan” and are activated by handing the dough to a fellow 9er when needed on the course.
9ers Go For The Green was super fun and made many realize we need to spend more time practicing on the putting green! Thank you Kim Beck for leading this event and for all of the extra entertainment that only Niners know how to do!
Congratulations to our Niners 2020 Most Improved Golfer, Natalie Dettling!!! Before the start of the first group at our 9ers Go For The Green event with Kim Beck, Cathy Raycraft presented Natalie with a Golfing Pin celebrating her achievement. ISSUE NO. 1 | JANUARY 2021 WOMEN'S GOLF GROUP (WGG) Dorothy Yerxa (Captain) and Diane Kavrell (Co-Captain)
2020 WGG Captain Carol Youmans passed the gavel to 2021 WGG Captain Dorothy Yerxa. We thank outgoing WGG Captain Carol Youmans for her leadership and humor meeting many unexpected challenges with resilience throughout 2020.
The Women’s Golf Group (WGG), 18 hole Thursday players begin our regular Thursday morning golf play days on Thursday, January 21. We always welcome new members to WGG.
In addition to weekly scheduled Thursday golf play, we host a variety of fun & competitive tournaments throughout the year. WGG is an excellent opportunity to expand your golf game and enjoy the lively camaraderie.
For any questions on joining the WGG, please contact Dinnie Holloway, our WGG New Member chair. ISSUE NO. 1 | JANUARY 2021 AGRONOMY Joe Cuneo | Superintendent
The winter time has finally allowed us to catch up on detail work. We’ve just completed edging bunkers, moving sand around and a training with all staff members to make sure they are consistent for the upcoming season. Irrigation improvements have continued with the addition of some irrigation heads, relocation of others, and a bunch of adjustments to make sure our coverage is as consistent as possible next season. We’ve also allocated labor to cleaning and trimming some of the overgrowth in the parking lot.
The coming months will be busy with removal of a few remaining dead trees, stump grinding, and trimming of trees on holes 6 ,8, 15, 16, 17. Other efforts will be on continuing to improve irrigation coverage, completion of connecting the EM3 lake fill, and a removal and inspection of our current well on #8.
We’ve also been extremely lucky to add a new assistant superintendent to our crew. Logan Bloom has joined us from Cordevalle Golf Club in San Martin. He has 5 years experience in the industry and will bring a new perspective to us on quality and efficiency of operation. We look forward to seeing the improvements over the next few months and are very excited to have him on the team. ISSUE NO. 1 | JANUARY 2021 ON THE COURTS with Sara Jackson
February Adult Clinics to use it, first reserve a court using the online As most of you know, I am the assistant reservation system. Upon arrival to the Pro women’s tennis coach at UC Davis. Our season Shop, you will be given the key to the is scheduled to begin on Saturday, January courts/shed, along with the battery for the 29th. We receive weekly updates from Yolo ball machine. Even if you’re not planning to County concerning guidelines for competition. use the ball machine, please make sure to As of today, we are still planning to begin our reserve a court using the online reservation season as planned, which means I will only be system any time you plan to play. Happy available one Sunday in February for a clinic. If hitting! my schedule changes and we are unable to compete in our scheduled matches during Ball Machine Battery – PLEASE READ February, I will have the club send an email to The ball machine has been getting a lot of use communicate additional clinics. The details of lately, which is a good thing! This is just a each clinic will remain the same, Sunday friendly reminder to make sure the battery is mornings from 10:00 – 11:30am for adult players sitting properly in the designated holder on of all levels. Each session is limited to 8 the ball machine before use. This is extremely members, and registrations are handled important in order to keep the ball machine through the club’s online system. If you are and battery in usable shape. There have been having any trouble with registration, please call times when the battery casing (which is the the office for assistance. The cost is $20/person green part that surrounds the battery) has and I ask that you PLEASE cancel your gotten bent. If you find that you cannot fit the reservation more than 24 hours prior if you battery properly due to this, or have any other cannot make it in order to allow wait-listed issues fitting the battery properly, please ask participants to have your spot. for help from the Pro Shop. Thank you for Here are the details for February’s clinic: taking the time to read this, and for taking Sunday, February 14th - We Love Tennis!!! good care of our ball machine! - Happy Valentine's Day! In this clinic we will do some basic drills to get everyone moving, then we’ll play Tennis Lessons some fun fan-favorite games using all of our skills! If you’re looking to improve your game, please Sunday, February 14th - We Love Tennis!!! contact me for more details about lessons. I
Ball Machine/Court Reservation Procedures offer private lessons if you like to work one- Our ball machine is a great way to get some on-one, and I’m also happy to set up semi- practice in when you don’t have anyone to play private and group lessons if you know others with, or if you simply want a good workout. We who are interested. For more information have a storage shed inside the tennis courts please contact me by email at where the ball machine is housed. If you'd like [email protected] or call (916) 267-4447. ISSUE NO. 1 | JANUARY 2021 ON THE COURTS CONT. with Sara Jackson
Tennis List For those who may not be aware, there is a list of tennis playing members posted at the courts. If you are not on the EMCC tennis list, and would like to be, or if you are currently on it but no longer wish to be, please contact one of our tennis committee chairpersons, Georgia Corbett at [email protected] or Olivia Beck at [email protected].
ADULT TENNIS CLINIC WITH SARA JACKSON FEBRUARY 2021 | 10-11:30AM
February 14 - We Love Tennis!!!
Players of all levels are welcome! Maximum 8 members per clinic $20/member
Sign up on elmacerocc.org on the Member Home calendar For more information contact Sara Jackson at [email protected] or (916) 267-4447
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