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Club Captain Women’s Report
The Super Bowl is behind us
and the Master’s is just around the The snow bells have come and
corner, therefore, the Spring Open gone, and the crocuses are out!
must be soon! The first event of Next comes the daffodils and
the season is early this year, 5 the tulips! But in the meantime, the
April, so don’t miss it. Sign up is worker bees are working hard behind the scene in
available online now. As a reminder, the Spring preparation for the 2020 GV Women Golfing
Open is an individual Stableford competition for the Season!
men and the women will be playing a scramble I can’t wait to share it
format later in the day. all with you during our
By now we are all pretty frustrated with the new Spring Launch evening
World Handicap System, but all the bugs will be now held on Thursday
worked out soon and everything will be back to April 09, 2020! Yes, we had
normal. We have sent all the required information to change the date! Hope
to Golf BC, so they will be able to produce the new you can still make it!
handicap sheets for the various tees in time for the I would also like to introduce to you the
active season. organizing committee for the 2020 Field Day:
Gorge Vale will be hosting the BC Men’s and Connie Dykstra, Jill Robertson and Heather
Women’s Mid-Am/Mid-Master Championship, 26- Campbell. Stay tuned! More to come in the
28 May 2020. We will be needing volunteers for upcoming month on this year’s big event scheduled
scoring, Pace of Play monitoring, live scoring, for Sunday May 24, 2020.
spotters and some miscellaneous tasks. Volunteer Plan to join us on Sunday April 05 with tee
lists are posted in the respective locker rooms and times starting at noon for our Annual Women Spring
online soon. I understand that many members Open 4-person Scramble FUN Tournament. Did I
volunteer for the Canadian Tour event at Uplands say it was going to be FUN? Yes, a fun day to get
being held the following week, but I’m confident back into the swing of things!
that we can look after this Championship as well. If Tons of laughs and a few surprises! Registration
you have any questions regarding the tournament or will open the 1 week of March.
st
volunteer work, please see me or Glenn Bell, our
Tournament Chair, for the event. Happy golfing and stay healthy!
As we get more into the golf season, remember
to let me know about any great golf stories. We had
a lot last year and it always adds to the golf
experience when you hear a good story. I got three
holes in one’s last year, on different holes! The
challenge is on.
Tim Howard
Club Captain

Here are 2 YouTube Videos to get you ready for the
golfing season! Click on them and Enjoy!

• 6 Simple exercises for golfers over 50
• 3 Drills for a better backswing
Sylvie Martel

Women’s Captain