June 2008 Newsletter
Dates to Remember
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June 21 and 22: Men’s Spring Member-Member, 8:30 a.m. shotgun start
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June 24: 8th Annual Women’s Invitational
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June 26: Rain date for 8th Annual Women Invitational
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July 5: Woodstock Cup
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July 10: Women’s Clinics Start
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July 11: Junior Clinics Start
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July 12: 26th Annual DeLisio Memorial
Save the Date:
Women’s Golf Clinic Starts
July 10
Contact the Pro Shop for a reservation
Tournament Roundup
Points Event to Swanson; Miller-Schussler Team Prevails in Memorial
By George Pattison
In the first significant individual competition of the 2008 season, Steve Swanson paced
33-player field on May 17 to capture the Points Tournament, exceeding his handicap- based "contract" for the event by 8 points and thereby collecting the first-place prize
$140 and gaining a leg up in the season long race for player-of-the-year honors. The left- hander has stayed hot since that victory, reportedly recording seven birdies en route to a recent round of 69, while routinely finishing in the money in tournament play.
Mike Rogers and Alex Sharpe, with 7 points each, tied for second in the tourna- ment and earned $100 apiece. Bud Dagir- manjian (6 points, $80) was alone in fourth, while fifth place went to Glenn Miller (4 points, $70). Ray Guerin ( 3 points, $60) had sixth place to himself. Five golfers hit their contract on the number (net zero points), tying for seventh and taking home $30 each: Henry Berleth, Bob Meyer, En- rico Palazio, George Pattison, and John Schussler.
Like Swanson, Enrico Palazio remained fine-tuned, winning the May 26 Memorial Day Flag Tournament by planting his banner father out on the course than any rival’s: 15 inches from the hole on no. 2. The win was worth $32. Sal Misasi finished in the hole on no. 1, placing second and collecting $27. Third place, and $21, went to Ken Meisler, who placed his flag six inches from the hole on no.1. The rest of the money list, from fourth through ninth places, list read as follows: Phil Clark ($18), Steve Swanson ($16), Kieran Bell ($14), Carl Van Wagenen ($13), Jack Warns, ($11), and Joe Appel ($9).
In a departure from the customary schedule, the Memorial Tournament, a two-man team event, was played on the weekend following the holiday; in this case, Saturday, May 31. The pairing of Glenn Miller and John Schussler started slowly, making the turn at only two under, but then caught fire, shooting eight under on the back side to finish with the winning net score of 60 and earn $115 per player. Steve Swanson and Ed Stover, with a nine-under 61, were the runners-up, pocketing $85 each. In third place, a shot behind them, were Chris Grady and Bernie Mogelever, whose earnings came to $70 per golfer. Three teams tied for fourth at seven under, with each golfer collecting $38: Michael Schulman and Jim LoDolce, Carl Van Wagenen and Richard Weinberg, and Sal Misasi and Jack Mizerak. The teams of Terry Breitenstein and Dick McDermott and John Frahm and Peter Fein shared seventh place at six under par, with each player earning $15.
Forty-four players turned out for the event, one of the club’s “major” tournaments.
Manager’s Mulligan
Member-Guest Event
A Showcase for the Club
As my second year as your general manager moves into the summer golfing season, I would like to share some of my thoughts on the job and its challenges. Hopefully, my love affair with Woodstock Golf Club is apparent; it’s a privilege to have the opportunity to polish this “little jewel,” as Wiggie DeLisio described our course, according to longtime member Richard McDermott. I feel that our course and our members provide a great example of what can make a round of golf so rewarding.
The walk across the Sawkill Creek to the first tee marks the beginning of a relaxing chance to commune with nature while experiencing wonderful views of Overlook Mountain and, yes, to negotiate the demanding yet fair shotmaking layout of our course. The heart of our club is this “golf” experience. Unlike many private clubs that offer amenities unrelated to golf, we concentrate on, and build our budget around, the condition and design of our golf course. As you know, we work within a very tight budget, concentrating our efforts on keeping the course and buildings in good shape and our membership costs as low as possible. Because our budget does not fund our membership recruitment and advertising, I encourage everyone to help spread the message about our wonderful club to prospective new members.
An excellent way to do that is to support our Member-Guest Tournament on Saturday, August 9. In the past this was always a well-attended event and a perennial highlight of the season. We need to reenergize it now, in order to expose our club and course to golfers who are unfamiliar with it. Every guest who plays will be an ambassador for our club. Please take this convenient opportunity to “advertise” the club to potential new members who would share our operating costs and thus serve the Board of Directors’ goal of keeping Woodstock Golf Club an affordable choice for golfers in the area.
For your information, revenue from the Member-Guest Tournament is applied only to the event itself: golf carts, food (breakfast and lunch; on-course beer, other beverages, and snacks; and hors d’oeuvres afterward) gifts, and prizes. We do not collect any greens fees from members or their guests.
If you have any questions or wish to share your opinions, please give me a call or drop me a line. Thanks you in advance for your support.
John Rizza
Women’s League
Women’s League has successful meeting:
A group of thirteen interested local Women golfers met on Thursday June 12th and formed an afternoon two person team league. Golf Professional Darryl Jack outlined the club’s goals including:
- Encourage women to join our membership and expand the camaraderie among members.
- Our course is well suited for players of every level
- We have a rich history of women’s golf in the Hudson Valley
- We are interested in expanding our couples’ and families’ golf participation..
The league will open to members and a limited number of nonmembers, who will pay a reasonable fee to use the golf course. A prize budget was set along, with the starting date of Thursday July 10th.
League applications are available at the Pro shop or by contacting John Rizza: wgcdad@aol.com .
Registration Deadline : July 1st.
From the Golf Shop
June 2008 Newsletter
Dates to Remember
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June 21 and 22: Men’s Spring Member-Member, 8:30 a.m. shotgun start
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June 24: 8th Annual Women’s Invitational
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June 26: Rain date for 8th Annual Women Invitational
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July 5: Woodstock Cup
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July 10: Women’s Clinics Start
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July 11: Junior Clinics Start
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July 12: 26th Annual DeLisio Memorial
Save the Date:
Women’s Golf Clinic Starts
July 10
Contact the Pro Shop for a reservation
Tournament Roundup
Points Event to Swanson; Miller-Schussler Team Prevails in Memorial
By George Pattison
In the first significant individual competition of the 2008 season, Steve Swanson paced
33-player field on May 17 to capture the Points Tournament, exceeding his handicap- based "contract" for the event by 8 points and thereby collecting the first-place prize
$140 and gaining a leg up in the season long race for player-of-the-year honors. The left- hander has stayed hot since that victory, reportedly recording seven birdies en route to a recent round of 69, while routinely finishing in the money in tournament play.
Mike Rogers and Alex Sharpe, with 7 points each, tied for second in the tourna- ment and earned $100 apiece. Bud Dagir- manjian (6 points, $80) was alone in fourth, while fifth place went to Glenn Miller (4 points, $70). Ray Guerin ( 3 points, $60) had sixth place to himself. Five golfers hit their contract on the number (net zero points), tying for seventh and taking home $30 each: Henry Berleth, Bob Meyer, En- rico Palazio, George Pattison, and John Schussler.
Like Swanson, Enrico Palazio remained fine-tuned, winning the May 26 Memorial Day Flag Tournament by planting his banner father out on the course than any rival’s: 15 inches from the hole on no. 2. The win was worth $32. Sal Misasi finished in the hole on no. 1, placing second and collecting $27. Third place, and $21, went to Ken Meisler, who placed his flag six inches from the hole on no.1. The rest of the money list, from fourth through ninth places, list read as follows: Phil Clark ($18), Steve Swanson ($16), Kieran Bell ($14), Carl Van Wagenen ($13), Jack Warns, ($11), and Joe Appel ($9).
In a departure from the customary schedule, the Memorial Tournament, a two-man team event, was played on the weekend following the holiday; in this case, Saturday, May 31. The pairing of Glenn Miller and John Schussler started slowly, making the turn at only two under, but then caught fire, shooting eight under on the back side to finish with the winning net score of 60 and earn $115 per player. Steve Swanson and Ed Stover, with a nine-under 61, were the runners-up, pocketing $85 each. In third place, a shot behind them, were Chris Grady and Bernie Mogelever, whose earnings came to $70 per golfer. Three teams tied for fourth at seven under, with each golfer collecting $38: Michael Schulman and Jim LoDolce, Carl Van Wagenen and Richard Weinberg, and Sal Misasi and Jack Mizerak. The teams of Terry Breitenstein and Dick McDermott and John Frahm and Peter Fein shared seventh place at six under par, with each player earning $15.
Forty-four players turned out for the event, one of the club’s “major” tournaments.
Manager’s Mulligan
Member-Guest Event
A Showcase for the Club
As my second year as your general manager moves into the summer golfing season, I would like to share some of my thoughts on the job and its challenges. Hopefully, my love affair with Woodstock Golf Club is apparent; it’s a privilege to have the opportunity to polish this “little jewel,” as Wiggie DeLisio described our course, according to longtime member Richard McDermott. I feel that our course and our members provide a great example of what can make a round of golf so rewarding.
The walk across the Sawkill Creek to the first tee marks the beginning of a relaxing chance to commune with nature while experiencing wonderful views of Overlook Mountain and, yes, to negotiate the demanding yet fair shotmaking layout of our course. The heart of our club is this “golf” experience. Unlike many private clubs that offer amenities unrelated to golf, we concentrate on, and build our budget around, the condition and design of our golf course. As you know, we work within a very tight budget, concentrating our efforts on keeping the course and buildings in good shape and our membership costs as low as possible. Because our budget does not fund our membership recruitment and advertising, I encourage everyone to help spread the message about our wonderful club to prospective new members.
An excellent way to do that is to support our Member-Guest Tournament on Saturday, August 9. In the past this was always a well-attended event and a perennial highlight of the season. We need to reenergize it now, in order to expose our club and course to golfers who are unfamiliar with it. Every guest who plays will be an ambassador for our club. Please take this convenient opportunity to “advertise” the club to potential new members who would share our operating costs and thus serve the Board of Directors’ goal of keeping Woodstock Golf Club an affordable choice for golfers in the area.
For your information, revenue from the Member-Guest Tournament is applied only to the event itself: golf carts, food (breakfast and lunch; on-course beer, other beverages, and snacks; and hors d’oeuvres afterward) gifts, and prizes. We do not collect any greens fees from members or their guests.
If you have any questions or wish to share your opinions, please give me a call or drop me a line. Thanks you in advance for your support.
John Rizza
Women’s League
Women’s League has successful meeting:
A group of thirteen interested local Women golfers met on Thursday June 12th and formed an afternoon two person team league. Golf Professional Darryl Jack outlined the club’s goals including:
- Encourage women to join our membership and expand the camaraderie among members.
- Our course is well suited for players of every level
- We have a rich history of women’s golf in the Hudson Valley
- We are interested in expanding our couples’ and families’ golf participation..
The league will open to members and a limited number of nonmembers, who will pay a reasonable fee to use the golf course. A prize budget was set along, with the starting date of Thursday July 10th.
League applications are available at the Pro shop or by contacting John Rizza: wgcdad@aol.com .
Registration Deadline : July 1st.
From the Golf Shop
Weekly Clinics for Juniors And Women to Start in July;Sign Up Now at Golf Shop
By Darryl Jack, WGC Golf Professional
Our season is now in full swing and the golf course is in great condition.
Tournament Play Encouraged
The results of our recent WGC tournaments are included in this newsletter, and we encourage you to make plans to participate in the upcoming events. They present all of us with an excellent opportunity to socialize with fellow members and develop new friendships.
Details on Clinics
Beginning on July 11 and continuing through August 22, on Friday mornings at 9 a.m. I will offer a weekly Junior Clinic for children of WGC members between the ages of 8 and 17. Paid separately, the price of each session is $10 per child; alternatively, you may prepay $50 per child and attend up to all 8 sessions. Each session lasts one hour and will begin promptly at 9 o’clock.
Building on the success of last years’ Women’s Clinics, I will also offer a one-hour weekly women’s clinic this summer. Clinics will be offered on Thursday mornings at 9 a.m., beginning on July 10 and continuing through August 21. Each session lasts one hour. Anyone who is interested should sign up in advance in the golf shop.
Play with the Pro
Finally, I am available to play golf with your threesome on weekend mornings and would like the opportunity to play with every member before the end of the season. Contact me in the golf shop to include me in your weekend group.
A Natural Greens Reader
Cookie is growing fast and enjoying all of the attention that everyone is lavishing upon her. She is learning how to chase geese and is already good at reading greens.
See you on the tee!
Birdies, eagles, and doves,
Darryl
From the Lesson Tee
By Darryl Jack, WGC Golf Professional
Most mistakes in the swings of players at every level occur in the setup, before the club is ever in motion.
Top players are brilliant on the basics of grip, stance, posture, and address position, and will rarely make errors in the way that they set up to the ball.
If you watch the best players in the world carefully, you will notice that they go through the same procedure(s) before every shot that they hit. This is commonly called a “preshot routine.” Every player, regardless of skill level, should work to develop one.
Sports psychologists will tell you that going through the same procedures before each shot will help to trigger signals in your brain, along the lines of “I’ve done this before and been successful at this before,” so that regardless of the situation in front of you, you will have a better chance of relaxing and producing a good shot.
If you carefully practice setting up with proper alignment and ball position, sticking to your routine will go a long way toward eliminating many common mistakes.
Tour players average between 18 and 22 seconds from the beginning of their preshot routine to the time that the ball is struck. They will step out of the shot and begin the process all over again if any negative thoughts creep in while they are over the ball.
Every player should work to develop a way of walking up to the ball that makes him or her comfortable. You can “borrow” bits and pieces from players that you admire, but your preshot routine should be your own and unique to you. In order to produce the desired result, you need to go through your “preshot” on every practice shot, so that you do the same thing in practice that you do when you play.
As you develop your preshot routine, remember to keep it simple; make it brief, so that it does not create a slow-play problem; and be consistent in your practice as well as when you play.
Juniors on the Approach
For Justin Lane And Family, Golf Shots Meet Slap Shots
By George Pattison
Woodstock junior golfer Justin Lane’s prowess on the links is yielding all sorts of rewards, beyond the considerable fun he has playing the game. The eight-year-old son of Kevin and Tracy Lane has placed second and first in two recent Junior Golf of America tournaments; received a junior membership at Woodstock Golf Club; and introduced Woodstock’s club and course to a family friend, New Jersey Devils center and assistant captain John Madden, whose own eight-year-old son, Tyler, is also a budding star in the junior ranks.
On June 7, playing in his second JGA event,, in temperatures that hovered around 100 degrees, Justin shot a 46 over nine holes at Bear Creek Golf Club in Newton, N.J., to win the boys “A” division of the tournament by four strokes. He was runner-up in a previous JGA tournament this spring. In late May the Lane family learned that someone who wished to remain anonymous had donated a junior membership at WGC to Justin, who until then had played as his father’s guest. His aptitude for golf notwithstanding, Justin is otherwise athletically active, playing football in the fall and, at the moment, Little League baseball three times a week.
Woodstock golfers may have spotted Kevin and Justin Lane and John and Tyler Madden teeing it up together in recent weeks. The two families have hit it off—Tracy Lane and Madden’s wife, Lauren, are about the same age, as are the couples’ daughters, Nicole Lane and Reese Madden, noted Kevin—and have planned an upcoming vacation together at the Seaview Resort & Spa outside Atlantic City, where the boys will attend a junior golf camp. Madden, an eight-year National Hockey League veteran, who scored 20 goals last season, is a member of Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., according to Kevin. Lane.
Membership drive
Please join the Board of Directors and me in welcoming the following new members to our club:
Michael Doniger, Robert E. Linnett JR.,(sponsored by Louis Casciaro and Marie de la Parte ( sponsored by Jose de la Parte).
The Woodstock Golf Club Proudly Presents The 26th Annual Delisio Memorial
Sat. July 12, 2007
Woodstock Golf Club
CAPTAIN & CREW FORMAT
Entry Fee $125 per player
Dinner Guest $45-Prime Rib or Salmon
Includes Golf,Cart, Prizes for all, snacks on course and Dinner & donation to Special Olympics
For an official entry form,
call or stop in the Golf Pro Shop
73 rd Woodstock Open news
Our "little jewel" shined yesterday for the 73 rd Woodstock Open, we all should be proud of her. Please see the attached article from today's Kingston Daily Freeman.
http://www.dailyfreeman.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20102497&BRD=1769&PAG=461&dept_id=82700&rfi=6
We also are continuing our tradition this Friday to help support the following memorial fund, for the brother of our member Rob Weingard. http://www.scottweingardmemorialfund.com/foundation.php Rob will be bring approximately 20 guest on Friday afternoon to raise funds for the memorial fund. The course will be open, however , if possible plan to play in the morning or later in the day because most of Rob's guests will be arriving early afternoon.