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July 2018

BRENT JESSUP PGA HEAD GOLF PROFESSIONAL

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP: July 28-29 This year’s annual club championship is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, July 28 & 29. This is an individual stroke play event, (18 holes on Saturday and 18 holes on Sunday). The entry fee is $10.00 and winners will receive golf shop credits for winning their division championships. Golfers (men & women) will play from various tees, but not compete against others from different tees. The overall champion (men & women) will receive a trophy. Deadline for entries is Thursday, July 26th. Call the golf shop to sign up by tee color divisions: Orange, Purple Hybrid, White, Gold, and Red. Defending champions from last year are: Mickey Plyer and Katie Whitfield. Senior Interclub Report The Walker Course senior interclub team faced their first opponents of the season on May 31st. The Preserve at Verdae traveled here to play the first match. Unfortunately, the Walker Course team was defeated by a score of 17-7. Teammates Jerry Crabtree & Steve Trojan lead the Walker Course team with 3 points. Andy Walker & Steve Finger had 2 points. Jim LaRue & Jim Kenworthy and Jerry Handegan & Lewis Creel had one point each. The second home match of the season was against The Links at Stoney Point on June 14th and The Walker Course team put up a valiant effort but lost the match by a score of 13-11. Jerry Crabtree & match partner Steve Trojan and Eddie Brown & Bill Stevenson led the Walker Course team with 4 points each. The third and final home match was played on June 19th against the team from Cobbs Glenn GC. The Walker Course team won their first match of the season by the score of 16-8. Jim LaRue & Jack Mansmann and Jerry Handegan & Bill Banton both led the way with six point team wins. Team Walker has three away matches in July to wrap up the season and hopefully make the play-offs: July 13 at Stoney Point, July 20 at The Patriot, and July 31 at Cobbs Glenn CC. If you are able to play on any of those dates, please contact captains Rick Hamilton and Eddie Brown. Super Saturday Update Round four provided some excitement in June. We had a three-way tie for the Low Net Field Award. Rick Brackett (74), Howard Bodenhorn (75), and Ray Johnson (77) with their handicap adjustments all scored a net (63). Round five will be played on July 14th. With the July round, there are only four rounds remaining, so you could still get started, play all of the remaining rounds and still dump your worse score. For those who already have three scores, you remaining rounds will help you reduce your total for the season. Deadline to sign up for the July competition is Thursday, July 12th. Sign up in the golf shop.

Super Saturday Leaders after three rounds: RED Tee Gross Marti Duda 267 RED Tee Net Sandy Minder 189 GOLD Tee Gross Rudy Powell 248 GOLD Tee Net Rudy Powell 205 WHITE Tee Gross Eddie Brown 227 WHITE Tee Net Ray Johnson 194 PURPLE Tee Gross Howard Bodenhorn 241 PURPLE Tee Net Howard Bodenhorn 218 Clubhouse Trim Paint Project While we were closed for course maintenance, we were also able to complete the much needed golf clubhouse trim painting project. We hope you enjoy the clean and fresh look. Our plans are to replace and paint the clubhouse scoreboard later this summer.

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1 TWC Junior Golf Clinic (Week #8) 3-4 Member Invitational 6 Closed Monday 11 Super Saturday #6 13 Closed Monday 20 Closed Monday 25 Kappa Sigma (PM) 27 Closed Monday 31 Home Football Friday

August

2 Closed Monday 4 Independence Day 4 TWC Junior Golf Clinic (Week #4) 9 Closed Monday 11 TWC Junior Golf Clinic (Week #5) 14 Super Saturday #5 16 Closed Monday 18 TWC Junior Golf Clinic (Week #6) 23-24 Hurricane Junior Tour 25 TWC Junior Golf Clinic (Week #7) 28-29 Club Championship 30 Closed Monday

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Jeff Martin Retirement On June 8th Jeff Martin, Executive Director of the Clemson University Conference Center & Inn Complex officially retired after 35+ years of service with Clemson University. Dr. Martin was here from day one of the planning, construction, and operation of this entire complex. His responsibilities included the hiring and overseeing of the current management team (Garrett/Jessup) of the Walker Golf Course. He successfully guided the team through some stressful periods of operation including the complete retirement of the original construction debt loan for the hotel and golf course and led the recent major renovations project at the hotel and golf course. We owe him a great debt of gratitude for his years of service and leadership. His knowledge and expertise will certainly be missed. The Clemson University Board of Trustees has contracted with CBRE Hotels’ Americas Research consultants to develop recommendations for the future leadership and direction of the complex. That decision should be made later this fall. During this interim period, Mr. Hank Fonde, Jr., of CBRE Inc., will serve as the interim executive director until a permanent successor is named. Hurricane Tour Volunteers On Monday & Tuesday, July 23 & 24 the Hurricane Junior Tour blows into town with 80+ juniors from around the country to compete on The Walker Course. As always, we are in need of shuttle cart volunteers. If you are able to help for a couple of hours either day, please call the golf shop and we will be glad to give you a short term assignment. These juniors and their parents are always appreciative of the support our Walker Course members and volunteers show each year. Thanks for your help! Lightning Warning System Reminder Back in 2007 The Walker Course became part of the Clemson University Adverse Weather Warning System. When dangerous weather approaches, the University alarm is sounded to warn people to take immediate cover. We do not control when the alarm is sounded, but we do have policies and procedures in place for when it does sound. Obviously, we cannot put our employees in danger by sending them out to warn golfers, so it is imperative that when the alarm is sounded that you vacate the golf course immediately. Once the alarm sounds, we are required to close the golf course, practice areas, and the pool until the warning expires. Please don’t take a chance with this alarm. Heed the warning and come in off the golf course until the warning expires. Your life may depend on it! Bucket List Golf Trip: Monterrey Bay Invitational Have you ever wanted to play Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill, and The Links at Spanish Bay? We have an opportunity to create a bucket list trip to compete in the Monterey Bay Invitational in January of 2019. If you are interested in possibly making this trip, please respond to Brent Jessup as soon as possible. A team of four golfers plus our PGA professional will make a five-man team for this 3-day event. If enough folks are interested, we will put together a package with rates and dates. Don’t miss out on this golden opportunity to play the beautiful Monterey Peninsula courses with your fellow Tigers! Member Guest Pass Cards Again this year, we are providing each membership with one Member Guest Pass Card. Here are a few reminders about using the card:

The card is valid for three guest greens fees between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019. The card may be used on weekdays, with the exception of home football Fridays. The card may also be used after 2pm on weekends except home football weekends. You must play with the guest to use the card. When you present the card, your guest only has to pay for a cart fee. The savings value of this card is approximate $120.00. If you lose your card after August 1, 2018, it will not be replaced.

Please make sure you put this card in a safe place where it will not be lost. If you do not receive your card by July 15 th, call the golf shop

and we will be glad to supply you with a replacement. Member-Member Results Congratulations to Carl Sitler & Jamie Graham for winning the gross division championship of the annual Member-Member. Sitler/Graham shot 66-69 for a 135 total. The format over two days was 18 holes of team best ball and 18 holes of team Texas Scramble. Jerry Handegan & Russ Roark captured the purple/white net division with a 117 total. Mark Boutchard & Stan Childers won the white tee, first division net and Howie Roesch & Bill Banton took the white tee, second division net title. Sixteen teams competed in this year’s championship. Winners of the closest to the pin contests for the weekend were: Hack Tram-mell, Joe Hill, Eddie Brown, Charlie Breece, Ron Shealy, Lonnie Durbin, Mark Boutchard, and Jerry Handegan. Thanks to everyone that played. Good weather, good golf, great fellowship!

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DON GARRETT, CGCS SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT

SUPERINTENDENTS REPORT July 2018

June Status June is always a busy month. Lots of play, two weeks of golf camp and closing for aerification made it fly by. Af-ter all the rain to end May, the first 3 weeks were very dry. The rain during the last week when we were closed to aerify was a big nuisance, wetting the debris every afternoon and slowing the cleanup process.

Greens We started the aerification process on the greens to give them maximum healing time prior to re-opening. We be-gan on Sunday night and were finished by the end of the day on Monday. We used a 5/8 inch coring tine and topdressed to fill the holes. The greens were then rolled aggressively. Full recovery will take 21-24 days. An application of quick release nitrogen was made 7 days prior to aerification to promote recovery. 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. For now we will mow on an every other day basis until we are no longer picking up sand with the reels. We will also be rolling regularly. Fairways We performed an aggressive aerification and verticutting of the fairways. Last year we did not aerate as aggressive as normal nor did we verticut and we paid the price with very fluffy fairways in August and September. As I mentioned above, the mid-afternoon showers really hampered our ability to cleanup. To clean up the debris generated, it is necessary to wait to initiate cleanup when things dry out around mid-day. We received a shower each day Monday through Wednesday which shut down cleanup each time. Rain throughout the day on Thursday kept us from any work. Fortunately, Friday was good and our staff worked until 8:30 that evening to get the course cleaned up and playable for Saturday. Even though we had extra equipment borrowed/rented and extra help lined up, Mother Nature showed us again who is in charge. In the end, we were not able to verticut #11 fairway and did not punch #14, 15 or 16. We hope to get these performed in early July. Tees We had planned to aerate the tees, which were postponed from the rain in May, this week as well but were unable to. They were done the following Monday on July 2. We will be verticutting the tees through the summer to remove thatch that has built up. Early this month, you received an email explaining the poor transition we had on the par 3 overseeded tees. The tees as a whole have improved greatly. However, I felt that #12 orange and purple and #17 purple were not going to recover in a timely manner. Therefore we took the opportunity to resod these tees the week we were closed to aerify. They are com-ing along nicely and should be back in play sometime during the second week of July. We also sodded a portion of the gold tee on #4. Portions of the white tees on #4 and #12 continue to lag but I think they will recover okay. Project Work The project work we had scheduled for the last week of June went well. Bunkers on #1, 7 and 9 were renovated to restore their original shape by removing sand that had been blasted out and built on the face. The liner was replaced to im-prove drainage and appearance, the sand was replaced and Zoysia sod was re-established on the perimeters. It will take a while for the sod to tack down and begin growing so please avoid stepping on the upper face of these bunkers and treat the area as ground under repair. I hope that we can continue to do a few bunkers each year. Two drainage projects were also completed, one at #2 tee where water would stand and the other along #16 cart path where water collected. The installation of the wetland in front of 6 tee will be done in mid-July. July

Doing all this aerification and project work has us a little bit behind on some of our trim work and such, but we will be working hard to catch up on this in early July to prepare for several events at the end of the month including the Club Championship. Spraying mulch beds and weeds in the rough will be a priority. Fence lines, creeks and ponds will be trimmed back as well. Thank You Thank you for your support and understanding as we closed the course the last week of June to perform aerifica-tion and project work. This is something I’ve had on my mind to try and do for several years as I think it benefits all. I be-lieve that performing all the aerification work at once is better than spreading it out over an entire month, and it gives us a chance to have contractors come in and do the project work while there is no play to interfere.

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Golf Pro News Cont. FOR YOUR INFORMATION Pro-Shop

Operating Hours: Tuesday—Sunday

8:30 a.m—7:00 p.m. Practice Range Hours:

Tuesday—Sunday 8:45 a.m.—6:30 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 Sole On The Green

656-7444 The Martin Inn

654-9020 The Madren Center

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Fee Increase Approved The Finance Corporation board of directors recently approved the 2018-19 budget with the following fee increases beginning August 1st

18-hole cart fees will increase to $20 per rider 9-hole cart fees will be $10 per rider. Public green fees will also increase by an average of $3.00 per round.

There will be no membership dues increase for fiscal year 2018-2019.

Don Lesley Hole-In-One Congratulations to Don Lesley for scoring his second career hole-in-one on Wednesday, June 13th. Mr. Lesley’s ace came at hole # 8 from 167 yards. The shot was made with his hybr id 6. Witnessing the shot was: Mark Boutchard, Truman Watson, and Mike Hembree. Mr. Lesley was also a member of the hole-in-one club and captured the jackpot of $130. By the way, Don Lesley also won the hole-in-one club jackpot back in 2012 when he scored his first hole-in-one. So, it’s time for everyone to rejoin the hole-in-one jackpot club again. Who will be next?

Membership by the Numbers Individuals: 132 Family: 102

Non-Resident: 37 Young Alumni: 10

Inactive: 8 Legacy Life: 11 Life: 26

Welcome New Members Vincent Powell

Graham Eubank Jr.