MAY 2018 SPCC NEWSLETTER

MAY NEWSLETTER

HOURS OF OPERATIONS

Upper Level Dining Service 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm Tuesday – Friday

Lower Level Dining Service “It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me 11:00 am to 8:00 pm Tuesday 11:00 am to 11:00 pm Wednesday – Saturday many years to realize it... ” 11:00 am to 7:00 pm Sunday - Reservations encouraged.

Golf Shop 7:00 am to 6:00 pm Tuesday – Sunday 11:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday INDEX

Hours of Operation……..…1

Message from the GM…...2 President’s Letter…….…...2

Events………………………….3 What’s Cooking…………….4 Turf News……………………5 20/20 Links…………………6 Heartbeat…………………...7

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MAY 2018 SPCC NEWSLETTER

PRESIDENT’S LETTER MESSAGE FROM THE GM

Dear SPCC Members, Dear Memberships,

It took a while, but we finally made it to our opening day We recently hosted our Annual Membership Meeting on of the course. With the good turn, out on opening May 1st. We had a great turn out. A big thank you to weekend, you can tell a lot of us had the itch to be out there. Really enjoyed seeing a lot of our new members those of you able to attend. We had an evening around the club and welcoming them to SPCC on discussing our new member book and outlining our 2018 opening day. Hoping to see more new faces throughout season and areas of focus. There were many great the year on a regular basis as you enjoy the facilities and questions regarding the future of the Club. We really feel at home. appreciate everyone sharing feedback with us, it has The golf course came through the winter well and will been extremely helpful! only get better with more sun and warm weather. We still will have some areas of the course that need some There is a lot to look forward to over the next month. time after last year’s construction, but those areas will Mother’s Day is coming up this weekend and our new become less and less. Staying off the roped and seeded F&B Director, Dakota Young and the kitchen staff has an areas will help the process move along quickly. Your cooperation is appreciated and necessary, so we can have outstanding menu prepared for everyone. This year a mature groomed course as soon as possible. Mom’s will receive a complimentary flower and Peach Screwdriver upon arrival. Mom’s work hard, we should Lower level construction is now done with locker rooms really provide this for mom’s every day! We hope you can and bag room finished so check with Mark in Golf Shop if you are planning on using club storage for the join us. year. Parking lot asphalt work and parking stall striping will take place late May. Hopefully after that most of the Finally, we continue work on the property will be done and we will have a to have wonderful finished product to be very proud of. success with securing

As always, keep promoting the club to friends and new members to the associates so we can have a very successful 2018 at our Club. We have added amazing facility. over 47 new members this year! Thank you Hit ‘Em Straight for spreading the Jason Allen, Club President good word on at SPCC and for providing introductions for us to prospective members. If you know of someone that we should be contacting, please contact me at [email protected]

Enjoy the warm weather and we look forward to seeing you soon. Sincerely

Tim Burkhart, PGA General Manager

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MAY 2018 SPCC NEWSLETTER

EVENTS

News from the Kitchen Wednesdays the club will be featuring one of our Mother’s Day Brunch Glasses of Wine for 1/2 off to give our members an opportunity to "taste their way through the list". Sunday, May 13th 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

EVERY Thursday the club will be running a "Five Moms show their love all year long so be sure to show Dollar Featured Appetizer". We invite our members your love on her special day! Make her Mother's Day to enjoy these services designed to create a regular extra special this year. Reservations are required, so weekly community. Stay tuned to communications please call 715-345-8900 today! All Mothers will receive a Fresh Flower and a Peach Screwdriver. and social media for details on our monthly “Wine Down Wednesday” and “Try it out Thursday”.

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MAY 2018 SPCC NEWSLETTER

WHAT’S COOKING?

Apricot Dijon Glazed Salmon From the Dining Room

Hello members, I am thrilled to be joining the family here at SPCC, I have been busy meeting you all and getting to know the club, as well as planning new events and working with our kitchen staff on new menu items! I want to personally thank everyone who showed up honoring Anne Shierl, I wish I had the pleasure of knowing such an incredible woman.

Let’s make 2018 a great one! I want to extend out my helping hand to all of you, so please email me with any suggestions or to simply introduce yourselves! My door is always open.

Dakota Young, F&B Director Ingredients: • 4 (6 oz) Salmon Fillets

• ¼ Cup Apricot Preserves (Jam)

• 1 TBS Grainy Mustard

• 1 TBS Dijon Mustard

• 1 TBS Soy Sauce

• 1 TBS Lime Juice

• 2 TBS Grated Ginger

• 2 TSP Grated Garlic

Instructions:

Place the salmon on a baking dish, brush with the mixtures of the apricot preserves, mustards, soy sauces, lime juice, ginger and garlic and bake in a preheated 400F oven until the salmon just starts to flake easily about 10 minutes.

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MAY 2018 SPCC NEWSLETTER

TURF NEWS

SPCC Golf Course Report

May is upon us and we are finally getting some spring Now that the season is upon us, I would like to take the weather. The 2 big snowstorms during April set us back a time to remind everyone to help us keep your golf course couple of weeks but we were able to open the course on looking the very best it possibly can by always being April 28th , walking only and with carts starting on May conscious of three simple courtesies: 1st . The course came through the winter well and with 1. Repair Ball marks on greens some help from Mother Nature and a little fertilizer, it should be in great shape in a couple of weeks. We are in 2. Repair Divots on tees and fairways the process of getting the course cleaned up for the season, including sweeping debris from fairways, picking 3. carts in designated areas only. Use cart paths up leaves and sticks from the winter, repairing, cleaning wherever possible and please keep out of Fescue (Longer and raking the bunkers and cleaning off and repairing the Grassed) areas around the course. cart paths to make them usable for golf carts.

The month of April was spent on performing more equipment maintenance, plowing snow, cutting up downed trees on the course, making more new signs for the marking the course and refurbishing more tee and green supplies. The benches have all been completed now after we replaced the wood on the last few and stained them to make them look like brand new. We are in the process of finishing up repairing, cleaning and painting the ball washers and garbage baskets and they will be put on the course as they are completed. Unfortunately, with the last big snowstorm, several more trees were broken off or knocked down and we will clean them up as soon as possible. We are also working on cleaning up and staining the water cooler sheds and will have them all out on the Have a great month of May everyone and enjoy your golf! course soon. -John Femal Golf Course Superintendent

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MAY 2018 SPCC NEWSLETTER

20/20 Links by Dr. Steve Slezak looks like a green sliver surrounded by water. The slope and pace of that green make the shot particularly treacherous; however, most reasonably good club golfers can make that Personality and Golf j shot. Yes, missing it once, even twice, but five times! The Before my column, may I recommend an excellent article in the reason that Sergio now owns the highest single-hole score in a Wall Street Journal, April 27, by Brian Costa, “The Secret to major event after running in a nice 9-footer for the 13 is Raising a Golf Prodigy Isn’t What You Think.” This is a must- personality. He out tin-cupped Roy McAvoy/Kevin Costner . . . read for golf parents. I wish I had this article when my kids and none of us should really want it any other way! We were young. Fortunately, grandkids may provide a second certainly do not wish anyone ill, but the world would be more chance. Now to the column . . . pedestrian and beige if Seve, Jose Maria, and Sergio didn’t bring their Iberian Peninsula machismo to Augusta. During the medieval period in Europe, personalities or temperaments were categorized as one of four types: Sanguine, Do you want Tom Kite crushing two shots to every par five like Choleric, Melancholic, or Phlegmatic. This Four Temperament Dustin Johnson? Do you want playing it safe? Theory traces back to Hippocrates and was expanded upon by Yes, Hogan would harrumph in disgust at John Daly‘s pants, Galen, the most influential medical authority until the though he frequently partnered with Jimmy Demerit who was a Scientific Revolution in the Sixteenth Century. The word real clothes horse. But wouldn’t that be fun with them in the “temperament” is from the Latin “temperare” meaning “to mix” same foursome! Place Chi Chi Rodriguez in a foursome with as in one’s temperament is a mix of the four senses of humor. Bernard Langer and we might be scraping up roadkill by the These categories were basically proto-psychological turn. Let Tony Lima do his best Dean Martin imitation and pair observations generalized and given a pseudo-authoritative him with Mormon, Billy Casper. I’d pay to see that wouldn’t nomenclature. Life is simple when you make it simple. What a you? Don’t you want to see gun slinging Ray Floyd face off wonderful arrangement. You get to stereotype and seem against the Merry Mex for high stakes? (This actually happened educated at the same time. However, we do the same thing in West Texas before they were household names.) Don’t you today. We have the Myer-Briggs Indicator, the Winslow want to see Arnie hitch his pants and charge? Personality Profile, etc., thoroughly buttressed with supposedly Golf is a great sport because “All personalities need to apply!” empiric data. All these personality assessment instruments Ben is not Jack is not Anika is not Tiger. You are who you are have had their faddish run and, of course, indispensably enable and can play great golf. One personality type is not us to find our “sweet spot” in an organization. God forbid you predominant. All you need is to hate to lose, a willingness to to end up in HR, or worse, sales when you should be in work on your game, and enough self-confidence to be who you accounting or programming. There is this expectation that are. Sergio has reminded us that being who we are is not personality determines aptitude and success. Round pegs always pretty and doesn’t always produce green jackets. should never end up in square holes. This is our generation’s Sometimes the matador gets gored. But it is more entertaining . received dogma. . . and one of these Masters, Sergio is going to suck that wedge So how does this concept work for golf? If personality is back into the hole and have the final laugh on us all! Ole, determinative, then shouldn’t we expect to find a single Sergio! personality type dominant in golf? A “Phlegmatic need not -Steven Slezak, M.D. apply the rule.” Something as narrowly demanding as golf would certainly stratify, weed out, even eliminate certain Thank you, Steve personality types wouldn’t it? Per golf history . . . not so much. Comments and Suggestions welcome at Golf has always proudly had its personalities, many of whom [email protected] went on to become great champions. Think of the contrast: and John Daly, and champagne Tony

Lima, and , Bobby Jones and , and Tom Kite, and , Chi Chi Rodriguez and Hale Erwin, and Moe Norman. The list could go on, but I have made my point.

Which brings me to Sergio Garcia and his 13 at the Masters. Sergio’s wedge shot to the green is not an easy wedge shot. I have been to Augusta and have seen that shot. The 15th green 6 | P a g e

MAY 2018 SPCC NEWSLETTER

HEARTBEAT All lessons are 30 minutes in length. We’re excited to announce that we have hired our new Food and Beverage Director, Dakota Young. • $60 per block of three individual lessons. • $90 per block of three small group lessons. Dakota has a BA in hospitality management and (Payment to be split between participants.) nutrition and food from • Lessons will be scheduled at a consistent, Kent State University. recurring time. Dakota brings over 5 • Lessons must be paid in full prior to the start of the session. Details will be discussed during the years of experience in scheduling process. Food and Beverage, hospitality, fine dining Please contact Daylyn at 715.498.9513 or and banquet operations. [email protected] to schedule His plans to deliver a lessons. higher level of We do anticipate a very busy lesson consistency and schedule this summer. professionalism to all our members, every time.

Swimming Lessons at SPCC!

Hopp, Swim, Run LLC is excited to again provide high quality swim lessons at the Stevens Point Country Club this summer. Our team of instructors has a combined 30 years of aquatics experience, we are all Lifeguard/CPR certified, and are ready to get Thank you! the summer started. To all our members, for reading this month’s Individual and small group lessons are available to all ages and abilities. newsletter. If you have any questions, comments or ideas for next month’s letter Our team has experience with every level of please reach out to us at swimmer from Parent and Child lessons through competitive swim instruction. [email protected]

Lessons will be offered Tuesdays, We hope to see you at the club soon! Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

Lessons will be offered in three sessions: Summer 1 will run from 6/12-6/29 Summer 2 will run from 7/10-7/27 Summer 3 will run from 8/14-8/31

Because of the continued excitement surrounding the new pool, we will again be condensing our lesson availability this summer. Lessons will be offered from 9:00am-1:00pm. 7 | P a g e