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April 2019 T H E Jumpstarter the Official Jumpstart Newsletter for All the Happenings and News at Grand Haven Golf Club APRIL 2019 T H E JUMPSTARTER THE OFFICIAL JUMPSTART NEWSLETTER FOR ALL THE HAPPENINGS AND NEWS AT GRAND HAVEN GOLF CLUB FROM THE GENERAL MANAGER ANDREA KNOX In 2012, Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore, became IN THIS ISSUE the first women to be received into membership at Augusta National Golf Club. This year marks another truly significant stride in the club’s history and for women’s golf; the Augusta National CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP Women’s Amateur. After decades of watching the Master’s on TV, it RESULTS will be a first for the world to watch as woman negotiate these hallowed grounds. As historic as this event is, the field of extraordinarily talented amateur women is truly amazing! Final round WOMEN’S MEMBER- coverage will air Saturday April 6th from 12:00 to 3:00 PM on NBC. GUEST Don’t miss it! APRIL 11TH - 13TH Since 1938 (minus 4 years during WWII), the Master’s has faithfully enticed golfers with it’s awe inspiring golf course and the unfolding drama of who will ultimately don the Green Jacket! But don’t miss out MEN’S MEMBER-MEMBER on some of the other great events that revolve around the Masters. 80 APRIL 24TH - 27TH junior golfers will compete in the finals of the Drive, Chip and Putt contest on Sunday April 7th. Conducted in partnership between the Masters Tournament, the PGA of America and the USGA; Drive, Chip APRIL 2019 CHECKING IN FOR GOLF and Putt is a free, nationwide youth golf development program open to boys and girls, ages 7-15, in four age categories. The competition tests the skills essential to playing Please be reminded that if a the game – accuracy in driving, chipping and putting. But of all the traditions at the Cart Attendant is not present Masters, the annual Par 3 Contest is one of the most endearing. Held on Wednesday when you arrive at Bag drop, of Tournament week, the Par 3 has become a true family affair. Players children, you are asked to check in at grandchildren, wives, nieces and nephews - all decked out in Augusta National the golf shop. This will help jumpsuits, serve as caddies for this fun stress reliever prior to the start of the us know who is on the course tournament. Whether you choose live streaming, twitter, a mobile app or television or practice area in case of coverage; there is a lot to watch and a lot of coverage available. Who are you rooting emergency and to record the for this year? correct charge (if any) to your account. Most days after Our Women’s Member Guest this year is honoring the tradition of the Master’s 2:30pm, you will need to along with celebrating the inaugural Augusta Women’s National Amateur. The come in the golf shop to check tournament committee has been hard at work preparing for a fabulous event and we in and retrieve a cart key. all look forward to welcoming your guests! The Men’s Member-Member is also on tap this month. This traditional round robin match play features 5 nine hole matches with a shoot out to determine the overall GOLF CART GUIDELINES winner. Last year’s champs Dick Boulds and Joe Dresnok are ready to take on all challengers. Information and sign ups available in the golf shop. 1. Observe the 90 degree rule Feeling inspired to work on your game? Ladies, please join me Wednesday’s this month for a unique format aimed to help you improve your short game and scoring 2. Obey the green post and we are calling “#36”. We will meet at 3:30pm each Wednesday in April to play a nine exit the fairway to the hole round of golf from approximately 50 yards. Shoot 36 or better and the following cart path week you’ll move back another 10 yards and test your skill. Shoot 36 from there and 3. Keep carts on the cart you’ll move back again the following week. We’ll keep a leader board to track your path around all tees and progress but we’ll use nick names to relieve any score posting anxiety. The aim is to greens and on all par 3’s. have some fun, meet some different people and improve your scoring around the greens - and I’ll say it again - have some fun! The only charge for the event is your 4. Handicap flag carts should keep the cart at cart fee and there is a sign up in the golf shop so I’ll have an idea of how many will least 30 feet from the participate. green as much as A nod to everyone for continuing to follow our Golf Cart Usage guidelines on the possible. Avoid slopes and limit travel to the golf course! As we get deeper into season with lots of rounds of golf, the importance shortest route possible. of keeping carts on the paths around tees and greens, observing the green stake and taking your cart back to the cart path and the 90 degree rule become more and more 5. Scatter cart traffic when important to maintain healthy turf! Keep up the good work! entering and exiting the fairway Now get out and Play! 6. Always buddy up in Andrea carts. No single riders unless in a threesome. Bobby Jones said that one of the greatest difficulties in learning golf is “it is taught as a series of calisthenic exercises, but it is learned as a game.” APRIL 2019 GOLF SHOP HOURS FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT Monday ~ Sunday TJ WEST 7:00 am ~ 5:00 pm March was a fairly good weather month! The course received 2.25 inches of rain and we saw our last cold temperatures of the season! The nights are still cool, but the daytime Tee Time reservations can be temperatures are beautiful! I just wish that it was not so windy! The temperatures this made by calling the Golf Shop 7 winter were mot too warm…but not very cold either…especially compared to last year! days a week. Spring is here and it is time to start growing grass! In March we applied 13 tons of fertilizer to the entire Score posting after Golf Shop course! This will help the turf recover from a busy Winter! We will begin our pre-emergent herbicide applications hours can be done from home to eliminate Summer weeds. Ideally this would of happened in March! However, the amount of wind at the end using of the month stopped us from doing the applications! http://www.ghin.com/ In April we will begin to close the course every other Monday. This will allow us to be on a good schedule of ver- scorePosting.aspx ticutting/topdressing greens and edging bunkers! Closing on Mondays will make the course better for a busy Tues- day through Friday! We are currently working on adding, subtracting, and properly placing sand in bunkers. Be- WINTER DRIVING RANGE tween the wind and washouts from rain, the sand depths are all over the place! Please be patient as this is a lengthy process! If you have an issue with a bunker, do not hesitate to let me know so that we can address it! HOURS With the growing season rapidly approaching, we will begin to lower the height of cut on all mowers. In the fall we Thursday thru Tuesday slowly raise the height in order to have as much leaf tissue as possible. This protects the turf from stress (weather, Front of Range 7am to 5pm cart traffic, etc.). I am very happy with the amount of turf that we have heading into the Spring/Summer! I believe that the turf is the healthiest that it has been, for this time of the year, in my almost 5 years at Grand Haven! We Back of Range 7am to 4pm have a great staff at Golf Maintenance that is working hard to put out the best conditions possible! Wednesdays April will not only be a busy month for me on the course, it will also be a busy month for me personally! Along th Front of Range 7am to 4pm with all that I mentioned earlier in this newsletter…my wife and I close on the purchase our first home April 5 ! I am already exhausted thinking about the move! However, my wife, kids, and I are excited to have something that Back of Range 7am to 3pm is ours! If that isn’t enough, I will be traveling to Kingsmill for the first Escalante Superintendent Summit. I will be gone for 5 days starting April 22nd! It will be a great experience speaking with the other Superintendents, as well An early close is needed to as the other industry professionals that Escalante will be bringing in! Fingers crossed that the move doesn’t kill me accommodate a clean pick for before the summit! mowing the following morning. As always I can be reached by e-mail, [email protected], for questions or comments! FROM THE OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR PATSY BETTENCOURT-PAPPAS REMINDER Happy Spring!! I hope the early hints of wonderful weather are treating everyone well and you are starting to get GOLF CARTS ARE NOT back in to the spring of things! So what better time for a little spring cleaning? Pull out those clubs; how do the ALLOWED OFF GOLF grips look? Billy would be happy to take a look at the condition for your clubs and recommend what would be best for you and your style of play.
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