Saturday, May 19th

 Our next 18-hole chapter event will be at Paradise Valley in Fairfield.

This event will include games, prizes, free range balls, and lots of fun!  Twenty members and guests have registered.

 

Weather forcast: 81 degress and windy.  Bring your sunscreen!

 

 

Paradise is also having a "Demo Day" this date from 9-3pm.

 

Their address is 3950 Paradise Valley Drive, Fairfield.  Check the "Who's Playing?" list on our website if you would like to make arrangements to carpool. 

Vintner's Golf Course is located in Yountville just off Hwy 29 north of Napa.

 

At this golf event we will play 18 holes (it's a 9-hole course played twice from different tees).  A very nice sit-down lunch is included.  There will also be raffles, prizes and lots of fun.  Don't miss it! 

 

This event benefits our charities: Wardrobe for Opportunity and LPGA-USGA Girls Golf at Diablo Creek Golf Course.

 

Cost is $88 and the deadline to register is Wednesday, May 23rd. 

 

Click here to register for Vintner's.

To see who has registered and to contact others to arrange for a carpool - click "Member Sign In" before registering on our website.  Enter your email address and your password (your password is your EWGA member number) then click "Who's Playing?".

 

 

Submitted by Ann Marie McGee 

Did you know that the EWGA-NEB Chapter Championship is part of the largestt amateur women's golf event in the world?  It's great for golfers of all skill levels - the competition is "flighted", so each player only plays against others with similar handicaps. 

 

Member Naomi Iaccarino says: "The Chapter Championship was the perfect venue to introduce competition to my golf game."  In Naomi's first year in the Championship, she represented NEB at the Finals in Nashville!

 

Have you signed up for the Championship yet?  Don't forget - you must have posted 3 18-hole or 6 9-hole rounds by May 31, 2007. 

 

Also, all registration forms must be received by June 9, 2007.

 

Please note that this deadline is unlikely to be extended due to time requirements at EWGA AQ for submitting required documentation, payment, and handicap verification.

 

Click here to register and pay.

 

Click here for registration form.

 

 

 

Andy Nisbet, Director of Instruction - PGA Professional and Jack Duke, Assistant Golf Professional - PGA Apprentice will be teaching the class.  If needed, Justin Wright, Assistant Golf Professional - PGA Apprentice will also teach.

 

Deadline to register for this fantastic clinic has been extended to May 23rd!

 

 

Click here for a location near you.

 

Tilden, The Bridges, Monarch Bay, Blue Rock Springs, Metropolitan, San Ramon GC are just a few of the courses offering specials.

 

Susan Sappington and Rita Vitaliano, two very busy professional business women, met at a local Vallejo golf course.  They talked about joining a women's golf club to further enjoy the game they love, meet new friends and just network.  While they ventured out and joined another local EWGA chapter, they decided starting a Northeast Bay Chapter for professional working women would be ideal for them.  After research and phone calls to the National EWGA office, the 2 years of completing paperwork and filing documents with the National office finally paid off.

 

Susan and Rita hosted their first informational meeting at Hiddenbrooke in May 2002.  From that meeting approximately 15 new members joined at that event.  They spread the word by hosting another meeting at Tilden.  With even more interested women golfers signing up.  The NEB Chapter's first kickoff meeting was at Blue Rock with guest speaker Suzanne Woo.  The rest is history....

 

Happy 5th Birthday EWGANEB!

and thank you Susan and Rita!

 

Submitted by Lora Lee Del Rosario

 

Submitted by Cindy Maxim, Chapter Championship Chair

 Benicia

 

 Susan Spann

 Berkeley

(dual membership with Sonoma/Marin chapter)

 

 

The day is from 9am until 5:30pm.  It is open to ANYONE who wants to participate. 

 

FREE: Range Balls, Lessons, Clinics, Golf Clubs, Drawings (for golf and lessons) and 9-holes of golf!  The Arcade Creek Red and Blue courses will be closed to the general public and any participant who wants to play golf can play for free on a first come basis.  It's the only Play Golf America Day in Northern California - people come from all over.

 

If anyone wants to volunteer before they play golf, after, etc. or just volunteer, please contact Kris Poe at kris.poe@sbcglobal.net .  Let her know which shift or table you prefer:

 

Welcome Team:

8:30am - 11:30am - 2 volunteers

10am - 1pm - 2 volunteers

11am - 2pm - 2 volunteers

1pm - 3pm - 2 volunteers

2pm - 5:30pm - 2 volunteers

 

EWGA Table:

8:30am - 12:30pm - 1 volunteer

12noon - 4pm - 1 volunteer

3pm - 5:30pm - 1 volunteer

 

Haggin Oaks GC is located in Sacramento.

Meet Sara Swafford, our EWGA NEB web designer - also busy mom, soon-to-be grandmother, entrepreneur and sports enthusiast.  Sara was recognized at our March kickoff as the chapter's Volunteer of the Month.

 

Sara started her web design business, Sky High Software, in January 2005.  With over 25 years' programming experience (back in the old COBOL days), her last job brought her to the Bay Area to a mortgage bank.  When the bank closed after 10 years, Sara realized the demand for website design and programming and decided to enhance her technical skills in that genre.  Her technical talent has paid off, as witnessed in our own chapter's new website.

 

She enjoys outdoor activities such as tennis, skiing and softball and became a recent golf convert 2 years ago.  After taking lessons with our Membership Chair, Margaret Hammersley, she later joined EWGA.  Sara still plays softball part time along with her other hobbies of photography, reading, movies, and travel.  

 

Submitted by Lora Lee Del Rosario 

 

The following members are have already indicated that they would like to be on a scramble team:

 

Jan Bridges

 

Pictured above at Red Hawk GC in Reno is our 2006 Chapter Championship winning scramble team.  Ginny Taylor, Jane Taylorson, Cindy Maxim, and Pat Block.

 

Scramble teams are a great way to compete.  You play with members of your own chapter against other chapter teams.  The team is required to be made up of members with varying handicaps and a handicap factor is applied.