Executive Board
2016-2017
Holly Minniti
Gail Kramer
Jan Keck (with Carol Dunlap)
Dianne Gardner
Terri Davisson
Sandra MacDonald
President
1st V.P.
2nd V.P
Secretary
Treasurer
Past President
March 2017
Committee Chairpersons
2016-2017
PRESIDENT
Dear Members,
Timing is everything! While we’ve been able to play
every Tuesday (because of a serendipitous switch to the
Resort Course for both days of our Club/Net Championship)
the Men’s club has been shut out of their Wednesday play
twice already this season. Weather has been… well, rather
un-Southern California-like. Easy to get into a habit of
griping about it, but just remind yourself how many areas in
the country can’t even consider playing outside right now let
alone riding around for 4 hours on a golf course.
While we’ve had just a couple of frost delays and our creek
has resembled a raging river in some instances you have to
admit that course management is doing a good job of getting
us out there. A big thank you is due, also, to all the ladies
here that work hard behind the scenes to make our regular
play days and tournaments run pretty darn smoothly!
March, we’re in full swing this season with many members
still here. Good thing, too. Looks like we’re finally in for
some warmer and sunnier weather. To go with those good
times and good spirits we have our Beat the Club
Champ/Spring Fling Luncheon on March 21st. Please be
sure to sign up and bring cash for the small luncheon
fee. For those of you new to the event - the Cimarron Golf
Club is a great venue and, of course, Marilyn Palfrey puts her
personal spin on it to make it just lovely! For more
information, check out Marilyn’s SOCIAL column.
If you’re in town into April - it’s time to start thinking about the
BYOT (bring your own team) event. Check Jan’s WEEKLY
TOURNAMENTS/PLAY column for more details. Sign-ups
with Jan Keck have already begun. So start thinking about
who you’d like to play with for a fun day and some stress free
golf!
Lot’s of great events, many more opportunities to golf with
friends, and check out those views. Nothing more decadent
than golfing in short sleeves with snow capping the
mountains around us. Palm Springs is sometimes referred to
Heaven’s Waiting Room. Instead of what some might
consider a negative connotation - I consider it a
compliment. It’s so beautiful here it certainly feels like we
ARE one step closer to nirvana! Enjoy!
HOLLY MINNITI
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Awards
Desert League
Handicap
Membership/
Roster
Newsletter
Publicity
Rules
Sunshine
WSCGA
Social
TournamentCommittee
A Team
B Team
Helen Conley
Char Withers
Beth Betz & Allison Johnson
Donna Kirscht
Nadine Navarro
Camille Victour & Penny Feehan
Margaret Smith
Joan Heeter
Fran Nocella
Marilyn Palfrey
Gail Kramer
Karen Weiss & Fran Nocella
Betty Fladd, Sher Sellman &
Marybeth Tarrant
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TOURNAMENT COMMITTEE
What a tournament!!
Rain, rain and more rain! With last minute planning, our
‘Board” approved to play both Championship rounds on the
RESORT course. With heavy rain prior to both tournament
rounds, our ladies played in wet course conditions, ‘winter
rules,’ rushing water and puddles throughout the
course. With strong will and perseverance, everyone made
the best of it and competed hard for the record amount of
prizes for this year. Our 2017 Club Champion is Gail
Kramer; Net Champion is Debbie Phippin. Congratulations
to all our winners this year! Below is our complete list of 2017
winners.
CLUB Champion Gail Kramer
FLIGHT "A"
1st Gross
Joan Heeter
2nd Gross
Susie Krogness
3rd Gross
Sharon Vincent
FLIGHT "B"
1st Gross
FranNacella
2nd Gross
Kraen Weiss
3rd Gross
Diane Conrad
FLIGHT "C"
1st Gross
Jan Keck
2nd Gross
Kay Murfin
3rd Gross
Pat Dutkewicz
FLIGHT "D"
1st Gross
Bonnie Flood
2nd Gross
Merrilee Howard
3rd Gross
Marilyn Palfrey
FLIGHT "E"
1st Gross
2nd Gross
3rd Gross
Char Withers
Dianne Gardner
Phyllis Bovey
Net Champions:
NET Champion
FLIGHT "A"
1st NET
2nd NET
3rd NET
FLIGHT "B"
1st NET
2nd NET
3rd NET
FLIGHT "C"
1st NET
2nd NET
3rd NET
FLIGHT "D"
1st NET
2nd NET
3rd NET
FLIGHT "E"
1st NET
2nd NET
3rd NET
Our Royal Purple B Team hosts all of our competitors
on March 10th on the Resort Course.
We have a great morning planned for them with breakfast,
lunch and drinks. Hopefully we
can gain enough points with our talented team to break our
tie of second place, or even move up
to number 1.
Debbi Phippen
Diane McMillan
Sharon Chun
Frankie Nobert
BETTY FLADD, SHER SELLMAN AND MARYBETH
TARRANT
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DESERT LEAGUE
Debbie Cunningham
Carol Dunlap
Holly Minniti
Donna Kirscht
Camille Victour
Joan Carbonetti
Marybeth Tarrant
Christine Anderson
Sher Sellman
Diane Tasse
Beth Betz
Myrna Griffin
Our February tournament at Desert Dunes turned out to be a
beautiful day. Especially for our own Frankie Nobert who
won Low Gross over the field!! Thanks Frankie for making
our club proud.
Our next tournament is on Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at
Cathedral Canyon Golf Club.
A note from our Desert League President:
Please let your friends know they can come out and join us to
play anytime as your guest but cannot share in the winnings.
We hope this will encourage them to join.
CHARLENE WITHERS
GAIL KRAMER
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WSCGA
WEEKLY TOURNAMENTS/PLAY
A reminder for April 4th we have the BYOT (bring your own
team) play day. Each foursome must have at least one
Tahquitz member in it. You may bring three guests if you'd
like, and no handicap is required. There is no overall game,
however, we are doing pin prizes for members and guests for
closest to the pin, chips-ins and most accurate
drive. Besides your green fee, it is $5 per person/$20 per
team. The entry fee will need to be paid in advance to Jan
Keck by Tuesday, March 21st. We will be limited to 60
players and we will be playing on the Resort Course.
JAN KECK AND CAROL DUNLAP
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A TEAM PLAY
We came in second place this year gross with Indian Springs
the winner. I suppose it is only fair to let another team win
every once in a while. Remember to pay your annual dues
early so you are eligible to play next year. We had 19
women participate this year and we appreciated everyone's
support and team effort.
We also celebrated our victory from last year a bit late (this
past Wednesday), however fun was had by all.....and there
are stories to tell.
KAREN WEISS AND FRAN NOCELLA
B TEAM PLAY
It is in the WSCGA Board's reasoned judgment that our
association's best path moving forward to achieve their
stated goals of continuing key programs and services and
enhancing women's golf in Southern California would be
through the unification of our association with the SCGA.
If you are wondering why unify? Well, the WSCGA Board
believes that unifying with the SCGA provides its members
and clubs, the best option to continue to receive the same
core programs and services they are accustomed to,
including tournaments, Team Play, USGA Handicaps,
Course Rating and rules education, as well as the continued
support for junior golf.
The USGA recently named the SCGA as our region's Allied
Golf Association. In addition, due to the SCGA'S expanded
resources and size, unifying will provide WSCGA members
with new benefits such as discounted playing opportunities,
social/casual outings, partner discounts, access to SCGA
group travel as well as other SCGA member benefits.
There are still many details to work out, but basically, the
WSCGA is very excited about the potential to become part of
the SCGA'S community of more than 140,000 male and
female golfers.
As a club, we need to vote on this unification and I will cast
our vote on this recommendation at an upcoming WSCGA
Special Meeting in mid-April.
Any questions that you have may be answered on the
comprehensive FAQ page that I have placed on our bulletin
board and on each table.
FRAN NOCELLA
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RULES
HANDICAP
THE USGA PROPOSES MODERNIZATION AND
SIMPLIFICATION OF THE RULES
Most Improved Golfers from 12/1/2016 to 3/1/2017
On March 1st the USGA released a draft of proposed epic
changes to the Rules of Golf. The massive overhaul of the
rulebook isn’t just about common-sense changes to the rules,
it’s also about making the rules easier to read, easier to
understand and easier to apply. In fact, these proposals
would actually reduce the number of rules from 34 to 24.
Starting Ending
Margaret Smith
Joann Carbonetti
Gail Kramer
Helen Conley
Pat Dutkiewicz
10.1
21.6
7.6
16.6
23.6
7.6
18.3
5.9
14.3
21.3
Highlights of the proposed changes include:
-Water Hazards being redefined and simplified as “penalty
areas” and allowing for the grounding of clubs, practice
swings and removal of loose impediments in these areas.
Also allowing desert areas, jungle, woods, lava rocks, etc to
be included in the “penalty area” definition.
Good Job Ladies!
BETH BETZ, ALLISON JOHNSON
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AWARDS
NAME
2/7
Holly Minniti
8
Gail Kramer
13
Dora
Moutafian
Sharon Chun
9
2/14
2/21
2R
3R &17R
6
5R &
11R
7
Deb
Cunningham
Donna
Kirscht
Mary Beth
Tarrant
Fran Nocella
1
1R &
14R
4R, 8R,
13R
3R, 13R,
15R
6R
8R
12R
2
4R &
16R
8R
1R & 5R
4
12R
-No penalties for accidental movement of a ball at rest such
as causing your ball to move when searching for it or
accidentally kicking it or when taking a practice swing.
-Allowing players to tap down spike marks on the green and
no penalty if a ball putted from on the green hits the flagstick
in the hole.
-Allowing a drop outside of the bunker for a ball lying in the
bunker as an unplayable lie with a 2 stroke penalty.
4
4
3
Attached is a summary of the changes. It makes for very
interesting reading. After a period of input from the general
public and issuance of a final draft, the proposed changes
would go into effect on January 1, 2019. Until then, we’ll play
under the Rules as currently written. You can find materials,
articles and videos about the proposed changes at
www.usga.org/rules.
1
MARGARET SMITH
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17R
1
MEMBERSHIP
17R
1
Coming soon: Watch for the 2017-2018 Membership form in
your inbox. As usual, we like to get the forms for next year
turned in by the end of our season. If dues are not received
by the end of May, I need to deactivate your GHIN #.
Sharon
Vincent
Frankie
Nobert
Deb Phippen
3
3
3
9
4
2
1
Camille
Victour
Joan Heeter
TOTALS
ALL
1
12
Susie
Krogness
Loretta
Henley
Terri
Davisson
Diane
McMillan
Gail Kramer
2/28
-When taking relief, dropping the ball from any height – even
one inch off the ground - and in a small defined area of either
TOTAL
20
inches (free relief) or 80 inches (relief with penalty).
16
12R &
13R
14R
2
12R
1
DONNA KIRSCHT [email protected]
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7R &
12R
2
SOCIAL
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SRING FLING -MARCH 21.......following golf.....Cimarron
Golf Resort
14
HELEN CONLY
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1
This year's menu will be slightly different, you will have a
choice of two items for lunch.
The salad will be a cranberry chicken salad, and we will also
offer the Reuben sandwich served with french fries. Both of
the entrées will come with a soft drink and dessert. Because
of the number of people we will be having, there is no
substitution.
When you sign up please indicate which you prefer.
The price for the luncheon will be $9 dollars.
As always, all past presidents receive a free lunch on this
day.
If you were unable to sign up on the sheet, please call
Marilyn at
760 770-7030.
I will be there on Tuesday, to collect money, or answer any
other questions.
MARILYN PALFRY
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SUNSHINE
Wishing Mary Martinez a speedy recovery following a " hit by
bus" accident!!
Yikeeees!! A story to be told!!
Also sending get well wishes to Loretta Henley who is
working hard to get back
to Tuesday golf.
JOAN HEETER
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PUBLICITY
If you missed last month’s announcement, here’s a reminder.
Hello Ladies –
If you haven’t already done so, please go visit the Tahquitz
Creek Women’s Golf Club official page and like and follow it.
This is our FB page where the leadership can post news
about the group. We also have a group discussion page,
called the same title of Tahquitz Creek Women’s Golf Club.
This is a discussion page where anyone in the group can
post. It’s a closed group and you have to ask to join the
group, but don’t let that stop you as we will approve you
quickly. At some point, we will probably just have the
discussion page but for now we have the two pages. I know
it’s confusing but please do like and follow both. We have
had quite a few postings from our members with lots of fun
pictures, too. It’s great to see everyone participating. Keep it
up!
CAMILLE VICTOUR
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