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Upcoming Events

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July 2016

BRENT JESSUP PGA HEAD GOLF PROFESSIONAL

Member Guest Invitational This year’s Member-Guest Invitational is scheduled for Saturday/Sunday, July 30 and 31. The team entry fee is $250. It includes golf and cart fees for both tournament rounds, drink coupons, and hors d’oeuvres and snacks after each round. (Practice round cart fees are not included). There will also be a separate closest to the pin contest entry fee collected on the first tee for those teams wanting to participate. On Saturday, teams will play 9 holes of best ball and 9 holes of Texas scramble. Sunday’s round will be 18 holes of captain’s choice to round out the weekend. All teams will use handicap allocations and will be flighted based on scores from Saturday’s first round. The tournament is open to teams of any makeup: men/men, men/women, women/women. All teams (regardless of makeup) will compete directly against each other from different sets of tees. Entry deadline is July 22nd. Call the golf shop to sign up now. Super Saturday #5 Round Five of this year’s competition is scheduled for Saturday, July 8th. Including this month, there are four more rounds left for the season. Therefore, if you have not played yet, there is still time to get started, play, and post three scores and have one throw-out score. Bob Ryerse captured the Low Net Field pr ize for June with a net (62). Below are the leaders in each category as of the end of June. July is “moving month.” Sign up by July 6th to play. Red Tee Gross (255) Alyson Dildine Red Tee Net (205) Anna Tollison White Tee Gross (244) Ray Johnson White Tee Net (205) Bob Ryerse Purple Tee Gross (242) Jim Kenworthy Purple Tee Net (221) Jim Kenworthy Couples Twilight: July 8th This month’s couples twilight will be the annual “Bring a Couple” event. Play begins at 6pm with our “step away scramble” format. Members are encouraged to invite a couple of non-members or a member couple that has NOT participated in a couples event in 2016. Entry fee is $80 per foursome and includes golf, cart fees, and dinner for the winning teams following play at Sole’ on the Green. Call the golf shop to sign up now!

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04 Course open at 8am (Holiday rates) 08 Couples Twilight 15 Sr. ICC: vs. The Preserve @ The Walker Course 16 Super Saturday # 5 18-19 Hurricane Junior Tour 27-28 Junior Club Champ 29 Sr. ICC vs. The Preserve @ The Preserve 30-31 Member-Guest Championship

August 06 Golf Channel Tour Outing 13 Super Saturday # 6 19 Couples Twilight 21 WCMA Fundraiser 27 Kappa Sigma (2pm)

Membership by the Numbers Individuals: 128 Family: 121

Non-Resident: 28 Young Alumni: 15

Inactive: 7 Life: 26 Total Membership: 325

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Hurricane Junior Tour Volunteers Needed On Monday and Tuesday, July 18th & 19th, The Walker Course will host the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour. More than 80 juniors from across the southeast will compete for age division titles. As in the past, we will again need a host of volunteers to drive shuttle carts to keep these young folks moving around the golf course. If you are able to spare a few hours either or both days, we would love to have your assistance. We have morning and afternoon shifts available. Please call the golf shop or sign up in the shop for an assignment. We could not host this event without the help of our junior golf supporters like you. Thanks for your help! Junior Club Championship The annual Junior Club Championship will take place on Tuesday/Wednesday, July 27th & 28th , beginning at 5:30pm each day. Juniors will play 3, 6, or 9 holes daily, depending on the age division. Divisional winners will receive trophies and all players and parents will enjoy a Pizza Hut pizza party following play on Thursday evening. There is NO ENTRY FEE, as the member’s tournament committee sponsors this event each year. Call the golf shop to sign up by July 25th. Match Play Reminder If you are still in the running for your match play flight championship, be sure to call your next opponent and schedule the match so we can keep this event moving toward conclusion before the July 31st deadline. Member Guest Pass Cards Your annual Member Guest Pass Card is included with your most recent monthly statement for July. If you did not receive the pass, please contact Brent Jessup (before July 25) for a replacement card. Cards lost or misplaced after July 25th will NOT be replaced. This card is valid for three complimentary greens fees for your accompanied guests. Remember the time restrictions noted on the back of the card. (Not valid on weekends or holidays until after 2pm and also not valid on home football weekends Friday-Sunday). Thanks for being a Walker Course member and enjoy! Senior Interclub Update Our first match scheduled for Cobbs Glen was rained out, so our first match was actually played at The Walker Course on Tuesday, May 26th. We got waxed! There are eight players on each team, four twosomes playing better net score with two points for winning the front, two points for the back, and two for winning the overall match for a total of 6 points available in each twosome match and a total of 24 for the team. Cobbs beat us 17-7. Ouch! Three of our four teams struggled, while the team of Eddie Brown and Ron Thomas won four of its’ six available points. Our second match was played at Cobbs Glen on Tuesday, May 31, and what a comeback we had! The #1 team of Jim LaRue and Jim Kenworthy won all six of its’ points, led by Mr. Kenworthy’s 72. The #2 team: Ron Thomas and Ste-ve Finger won five points. The #3 team: Andy Walker and Bill Banton won four points with Mr. Walker shooting (74) and Mr. Banton (75). The #4 team: Billy Rice and Mike Hembree won four points. Next on the schedule was the Smithfields Country Club match at Walker Course on June 9th. With the summer travel schedule upon us, the composition of the team changed substantially for each match and the group did well, beating Smithfields 18-6. Jim LaRue shot (73) and his partner Andy Walker won their match 5-1. Jerry Crabtree shot (80) and won his team match with partner, Bob Dobson 5-1. Stan Childers and Frankie Horner put the closing touch on the match by ousting their opponents 6-0! On Tuesday, June 21st, the team traveled to Smithfields and got waxed 24-0! Even though some of our players shot well, the Smithfields players had outstanding rounds, and we just couldn’t stand up to their barrage. Our next match is against The Preserve at Verdae in Greenville on Fr iday, July 15, so put your name on the list in the golf shop and go with us. We’ll take the lowest eight handicaps of those who sign up to play. The team lineup must be submitted one week in ad-vance, so if you are available, please sign up. Sincerely, Team Captain: Mike Hembree (Note: Due to flooding, the July 15

th match has been switched to The Walker Course. We will play at The Preserve

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DON GARRETT, CGCS SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT

June Status June has been extremely dry with only a half inch of rain recorded here at the course for the entire month. To make the situation worse, our transfer pump that moves water from Hartwell to the irrigation pond on #9 went down for 10 days which curtails our ability to irrigate as much as we needed (from as much as 450,000 gallons a day to about 200,000 a day), putting us further behind. Upper 90’s and wind have only served to dry things out further. In this type of weather, every gap in sprinkler coverage and areas outside the throw of the sprinklers is quite evident. Hopefully, we will get some rain soon and things will bounce back. We were able to aerify the fairways as planned and also verticut the front nine. The back nine were not done due to a scheduling conflict with our contractor who performs this work and then due to the dry weather. Hopefully, we can verticut the back nine sometime later this summer. The first portion of #1 and the lower portion of #9 were also topdressed. We started this program last summer to try to firm up and dry out these perennially wet areas. We plan to aerify and topdress these fairways at least one more time and hopefully twice later this summer. Greens The greens were aerified as scheduled on Monday and Tuesday, June 26 & 27. We used a ½ inch coring tine and topdresed to fill the holes. The greens were then rolled with a 36 inch, 1.5 ton asphalt roller. This was a process that I have been looking forward to because of the results we saw from performing this work on the chipping green last summer following recovery. We anticipate full recovery after 21 days, based on some testing we did on the nursery green earlier this month. One change we made from last year was that we increased the fertility rate in order to speed up recovery. An application of quick release nitrogen was made 7 days prior to aerification. This fertilizer will provide rapid growth then be gone, allowing us to regain control of the growth rate and the green speed. Following recovery, we will be spoon feeding small quantities of plant food, applying growth regulator and lightly and frequently verticutting, brushing, and topdressing.

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FOR YOUR INFORMATION Pro-Shop

Operating Hours:

Tuesday—Sunday 7:30a.m—7:00 p.m.

Practice Range Hours:

Tuesday—Sunday 7:45a.m.—6:45 p.m. (Weather Permitting)

Brent Jessup

Head Golf Professional

656-7516 Don Garrett

Course Superintendent

656-1814 Azenda Thompson

Accounting

656-0595 Golf Pro-Shop

656-0236 Club House Grill

656-7518 Joe’s Place

656-7517 Sole on the Green

656-7444 The Martin Inn

654-9020 The Madren Center

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Eagle report Cherryl Meadows eagled hole #1 on June 8 with a perfect flop shot over the greenside bunker. Witnesses: Margie LaRue, Janna Smith, Joyce Doss. Congrats!

Red-White-Blue Results Congratulations to Albert Hay for taking first place honors in the Memorial Day Red-White-Blue tournament. Mr. Hay had a net (55) to capture first place by 10 shots! Second place went to Andy Walker with a (65) and third place was tied at (67) by Lehmon Dekle and Chris Carter. Seventeen members participated. The ladies division was won by Debbie Abu-Eideh with a net (74), edging out Cherryl Meadows second place finish with a net (75). All winners received golf shop credits for their finishes.

Welcome New Members Preston & Kelli Cooley Jeremy & Elisa Turner

Scott Bridges

Resigned Members William O’Brien