| March
Kick-off
Breakfast &
Golf Saturday, March 8th
ON-LINE REGISTRATION
OPEN!
 The first event of the year
is almost here! It's just 6 1/2 weeks away!
Ginny Taylor, Events Chair, has secured the
Lone Tree Golf Course in
Antioch for our 2008 Kick-Off Breakfast and Golf
Event for Saturday, March 8th.
8:30am - Check-in
9:00am - Breakfast and program
11:30am - Golf (scramble format)
Invite your friends, co-workers, anyone (18 or older) who
is interested in golf and may want to join a women's golf
association. Information will be provided at the breakfast
about our chapter, the year's golf events,
membership, benefits and more. Drawings for great prizes
will also be available. Members from other chapters are
welcome, too.
Cost will be a reasonable $30 for breakfast or $90 for
breakfast and golf (scramble format with prizes). Non-members
are also welcome to join us for this golf event. It is the
same price for members and non-members. On-line registration
is now available!
To register on-line, please click on one of
the following:
If you are an EWGANEB member - please login to the website
after clicking the appropriate item above. Non-members, other
EWGA chapter members, and guests can bypass the login by
clicking the SIGN UP NOW button after clicking the appropriate item
above.
All attendees will be asked to agree to the Event Release and
Indemnification Agreement on-line after clicking the SIGN UP NOW
button.
Deadline to register for the Kick-Off is
Wednesday, Feb. 27th! |
Sponsorship
Committee
Submitted by Joanne Segovia
If
anyone would like to work on the Sponsorship Committee, please
contact Joanne Segovia, Sponsorship Chair at
sponsorship@ewganeb.org or call her on her cell
phone at 925-639-2464. If you don't think you can serve on a
committee for the entire year, but have some time right now, we
could surely use your help to get the year started. If you
have any leads for sponsors, please send Joanne their contact
information. Please include the following information for the
potential sponsor:
Name
Business Name
What the business is
Website, if they have one
Email address
Phone number
We are also looking for sponsors who would like to participate
in our 2008 Kick-Off Event on March 8th by donating items for "goody
bags" or setting up tables to display their products.
Contact Joanne at the email address or phone number
above. |
Donations Needed for our
March Kick-Off
Do you know a business
(maybe your own) that would be willing to donate an item or two
for our March Kick-Off?
In the past we've had golf related items: golf balls,
golf lessons, equipment, green fees w/cart for two-somes or
four-somes, as well as non-golf related donations such as dinner for
two at nice restaurants, gift baskets, etc.
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Lifting the
Flagstick
Rule Change for
2008
A typical reaction of a player who sees a
ball about to strike a flagstick lying on the ground is to lift the
flagstick. In the past this action resulted in a loss of hole
penalty in match play or a two-stroke penalty in stroke play, but as
of January 1st, there is NO penalty.
Rule 24-1
Submitted by the Education
Committee |
2008 S.W.I.N.G
Program
Education
Committee
Interested in participating in the
2008 S.W.I.N.G. (Skillful Women Inspiring New Golfers)
Program? Please email education@ewganeb.org and specify if you're
interested in being a mentor or mentee. An Education
Committee member will contact you.
Additional information can be found on the EWGA website www.ewga.com . Click on Education and
Player Development on the left-hand column, then click S.W.I.N.G.
under Golf Education in the upper right-hand column.
Information will be updated for 2008
shortly. | |
Scramble
Format
What's that
mean?
Throughout the year we play various golf
formats. For example, at the Kick-Off golf event we will be
playing a scramble format.
That means: Each foursome is a team and each team member
hits a tee shot and the team selects the best shot and all team
members play from that spot. All four team members hit the
next shot, the best shot is selected and all team
members play from that spot, and so on until the ball is holed
out.
The team selects the best shot, which may not always be the
longest ball, especially if it ends up in the sand, behind a
tree, or in the water! |
Volunteers Needed
NOW!
Your Chapter Needs
You
The Membership Committee Chair,
Margaret Hamersley, is looking for volunteers to
help stuff envelopes for a mass mailing of flyers for the March
Kick-Off. If you are available on Tuesday, February
5th at 5pm (or shortly thereafter) in the Walnut Creek area
contact Margaret at membership@ewganeb.org Your assistance
will be greatly appreciated.
Our chapter is also in need of one or more
members willing to manage the "9-Hole
Committee". This person would arrange with local golf
course(s) to reserve tee times for 4-8 players on at least one
Saturday or Sunday per month. This is a very important
position because it especially benefits our new and beginner
golfers, although all members are welcome to play. We would
like this person to volunteer well before the March Kick-Off.
If you are interested, contact Ann Marie McGee at
leadership@ewganeb.org
Last but far from least, our chapter is looking for
someone to chair our Chapter Championship Committee.
Our Chapter Championship tournament will be held June 21st at
Franklyn Canyon GC in Hercules. EWGA rules prohibit
the Chapter Championship Chair from playing in the Chapter
Championship tournament. For someone who was not planning to
play in the championship tournament but would like to volunteer for
this very important position, please contact Ann Marie
McGee at leadership@ewganeb.org as soon as
possible.
Our chapter cannot exist without volunteers. All board
members, committee chairs and their members are volunteers and all
gladly donate their time to make this chapter successful.
Please join us. You will find a great deal of support and friendship
among the members. |
Golf
Clinic
Education
Committee
 We have our
first golf clinic of the year. Mark your calendar for
Saturday, March 15th at 12:00 noon at Franklin Canyon Golf Course.
It is $25 for a 1-hour lesson to help those with chipping,
putting, and driver. Includes lunch and 9-holes of golf!
Maximum attendance is 18 golfers and the deadline to register
is Saturday, March 1st. Members and non-members welcome.
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EWGA Member on
Radio
 Mary Ann Pate, EWGA Northeast
Bay member, was interviewed by Mike Sugerman
of KCBS Radio for a piece on organizing that aired January 14th.
You can listen to the interview by clicking
on the KCBS button at www.atimelysolution.com
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Mark Your Calendar
Don't Miss a Date!
Last Call -
January 28th, Monday
-
Deadline for NCGA members to
register for Catta Verdera GC on 2/4
February 4th, Monday -
First NCGA event at Catta Verdera GC in Lincoln
February 4th-10th -
2008 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
February 5th, Tuesday, 5pm -
Stuffing envelopes with the Membership Committee!
February 27th, Wednesday -
Deadline to register for our chapter Kick-Off at Lone
Tree Golf Course
March 1st, Saturday -
Deadline to register for the Golf Clinic/lunch/9-holes
at Franklin Canyon GC
March 8th, Saturday -
2008 EWGA-NEB Kick-off breakfast and golf at Lone Tree Golf
Course in Antioch
March 15th, Saturday at
noon -
Golf Clinic, lunch, 9-holes at Franklin Canyon GC
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