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Leadership EX ECU T I VE CO M M I T T E E Seth Lee, President | slee@summittalentgroup.com Steve Schrenk, Vice President | sschrenk@eqr.com Scott Nicholson, Treasurer | snichlsn@gmail.com Scott Segrist, Secretary | ssegrist@apexhomeloans.com Howard Feldman, Past President | howard.feldman@cfmktg.com BOARD O F D I R EC TOR S Jeff Martin Colton O’Donoghue Lurdes Abruscato Sean Battle Mike Malone Scott Segrist Heather Smyth Dustin Heusser John Deleonibus Michael J. Jack Lou DeBenedetto Bob Zgorski CO M M I T T E E S Golf - Scott Segrist | ssegrist@apexhomeloans.com Junior Golf - Dustin Heusser | dustyh711@comcast.net Green - Colton O’Donoghue | odonoghueclan@verizon.net Tennis - Heather Smyth | hsmyth68@hotmail.com Membership - Lou DeBenedetto | ldebenedetto@gmail.com Finance - Scott Nicholson | snichlsn@gmail.com House - Mike Malone | michaelbmalone@gmail.com House - Lurdes Abruscato | lurdesabruscato@aol.com Swim Team - Sara Magden | saraeliz82@me.com Audit - Bob Zgorski | bobzgorski@yahoo.com Compensation - Seth Lee | slee@summittalentgroup.com CCWGA Chair - Sondra Rappaport | sondrarappaport@gmail.com CCWTA President - Amanda Shumate | amanda.shumate@me.com
M A NAG E M E NT Bill Jankowski General Manager bill.j@cattailcreekcc.com ext. 231 Tony Haynes Controller tony.haynes@cattailcreekcc.com ext. 232 Chris Harriman Golf Course Superintendent chris@cattailcreekcc.com 410.489.9178 Colin Brennan Director of Food and Beverage colin.b@cattailcreekcc.com ext. 234 Lisa Schneider Food and Beverage Manager lisa.s@cattailcreekcc.com ext. 397 Alicia LaPreze Food and Beverage Manager alicia.l@cattailcreekcc.com ext. 396 James Diamantides Food and Beverage Manager james.d@cattailcreekcc.com ext. 397 Tom Caswell Executive Chef tom.caswell@cattailcreekcc.com ext. 246 Rob Anderson Facilities Manager rob.anderson@cattailcreekcc.com ext. 247 Chris Cozzillio Director of Tennis chris.cozzillio@cattailcreekcc.com ext. 265 Daniel Bengtson Head Golf Professional daniel. bengtson@cattailcreekcc.com ext. 222 Deborah Eubank Membership Coordinator deborah.e@cattailcreekcc.com ext. 233 C LUB P HONE NUM B E R S Main Clubhouse 410.489.4653 Golf Shop 410.489.5224 Tennis & Fitness Pro Shop 410.989.3683 Green Department 410.489.9178
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A MESSAGE FROM
the General Manager Dear Members, As I am sure you will agree, I am over this cold weather and cannot wait for the spring season to begin! The leadership team is thrilled to bring our Membership yet another exceptional experience at Cattail Creek this year.
Our Junior Golf program focuses on all aspects of golf, including etiquette, dress code, course management and safety, in addition to short game, long game and mental aspects. The Golf Day Camp is a learning-intensive program for ages 7 to 14, but still offers a fun atmosphere. Camps include significant on-course time as part of instruction. Please contact Head Golf Professional Daniel Bengtson, PGA, at Daniel.b@cattailcreekcc.com for details!
The winter weather has not discouraged new Members from joining Cattail as we have already exceeded more than one-third of our annual Membership goal, welcoming Golf and Social Members. Our new Members have personally told me how thrilled they are about our Our Junior Tennis program helps develop the skills and knowledge renovation project and how it made the decision easy to join our great needed to play and enjoy the game of Tennis among our youngest Club! Members. The goal is to expose them to all aspects of the game, featuring rules instruction, interactive drills and tennis-themed games! We continue our fresh approach to our Club calendar, offering many Please contact Director of Tennis Chris Cozzillio at more theme nights, restaurant promotions and family-friendly events! Chris.Cozzillio@cattailcreekcc.com for more information! Here is a preview of some of our can’t-miss events and specials: • Extended hours for outdoor patio service • Brand-new events featuring Sunday Brunch, Crab Leg Night, Guys WHY NOT ENJOY IT ALL WITH FRIENDS? & Ladies Night Out and many more! DON’T FORGET ABOUT OUR • New fitness classes and seminars MEMBER REFERRAL PROGRAM! • Frozen drinks at the pool for Adults and Kids • New seasonal menus, including fantastic small plates, desserts Golf - Refer a new, first-time Golf Member, receive a $500 statement and cocktail offerings credit Coming up, don’t forget to register for our Cattail exclusive event on March 23 — Casino Night! This event will feature a variety of casino Social - Refer a new, first-time Social Member, receive a $300 stategames and prizes, a top-notch buffet and babysitting! Please register ment credit and the new Member receives a $300 statement credit through the Club calendar for this featured event. See you at the Club, Did you know that Cattail features exceptional Junior Golf and Tennis Camps? Cattail is proud to support youth participation in these sports and boasts several county and state champions as family Members. Bill Jankowski, General Manager
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MARCH/APRIL 2019 U P COMING E VE NTS MA RC H 15 Men’s Golf “Winter Thaw” Happy Hour 16 TaylorMade Fitting Day 17 St. Patrick’s Day Specials 23 Callaway Fitting Day 23 Casino Night 30 Crab Leg Night 31 Cattail Signature Sunday Brunch PR EM I ER EV EN T: CASIN O N IGH T SAT U R DAY, M A R C H 23, 201 9 FRO M 6 :00 - 1 1 :00 PM Join us for casino table games & buffet in the Cattail Room & Grille! Cost: $60++ per person includes gaming & buffet. Registration is available now through our Club Calendar at cattailcreekcc.com. BABYSI T T I N G AVAILABL E FO R $1 5 PER CH IL D DURI NG T HE E VE NT ! Please note how many children you will be bringing when you register!
A P RIL 2 CCWGA Spring Fling 3 Masters Par 3 Tournament 4 Wing Night 6 Father-Daughter Dance 11 Ladies Night Out 13 TaylorMade Fitting Day 14 Men’s & Women’s Year-Long Founders Cup & Individual Match Play begins 16 Women’s Opening Day 21 Easter Brunch 23 Men’s Spring League begins 24 After School Junior Golf Clinics begin 24 CCWGA Twilight League begins 25 CCWGA 9-Hole League begins 26 CCWTA Kick-off Party 27 Men’s Opening Day 28 Junior Golf Kick-Off Party
SAVE T HE DAT E S PR EM I ER EV EN T: “TH E M ASTERS AT CATTAIL CR E E K” PA R 3 TO U R N A M EN T WE D N ESDAY, A P R IL 3, 201 9 AT 4:00 PM
May 2-5 Wild Dunes Resort Tennis Trip May 12 Mother’s Day Brunch May 25 Pool Opens May 29-31 Cattail Creek Tennis Classic
Registration is available now for our first golf event of 2019 through our Club Calendar at cattailcreekcc.com.
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BUNKER to BUNKER Dear Cattail Creek Members,
Challenge on Wednesday, April 3 at 4:00 p.m. All Golf Members are welcome to join this great event. The format is best 2 of 4 gross and Spring is right around the corner and I am sure we are all looking the pairings will be selected at random using the A, B, C, D player forward to the warm weather and golf! As we turn the calendar format. to March and the time change on March 11, the Professional Shop will return to normal operating hours. The Professional Shop will be Women’s and Men’s Opening Days open Tuesday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. and Saturday-Sunday 8:00 Please join us for the Women’s Opening Day on Tuesday, April 16 at a.m.-6:00 p.m. Tee times will begin at 9:30 a.m. in March, and the 10:00 a.m. The format of the tournament will be a scramble with Weekend Lottery and Wheel will make its return to the tee sheet. foursomes being selected at random. Men’s Opening Day will be We will also start to receive all of our new spring apparel and golf Saturday, April 27 at 10:00 a.m. and the format is best 2 of 4 net with clubs. Be sure to stop by the Professional Shop to check out all the randomly selected pairings of A, B, C, D players. latest new spring styles and clubs! Junior Golf Kick-Off Party We have many fun events planned for the 2019 golf season and This free event will be held on Sunday, April 28 and will be the oneplease allow me to highlight a few to begin the year. stop shop to register your kids for golf camps, teams and lessons! This is always a fun day and please see the following for some Men’s Golf “Winter Thaw” Happy Hour details of the day: Please join the Professional Staff on Friday, March 15 at 5:30 p.m. to kick off the 2019 golf season. This event will be free to attend, and • Juniors may invite one non-member “buddy” we will discuss many topics including the upcoming golf season. • There will be games and contests, featuring the “Golfzilla” Enjoy some drinks while gearing up for the upcoming season. We inflatable target, Snag Golf and more! hope to see you there! • Register and learn information about junior day camps, afternoon clinics, Junior Golf Academy, tournaments and PGA CCWGA Spring Fling Junior League Whether you are a longtime CCWGA Member, or hope to take up golf for the first time this year, we encourage you to attend our 2019 will be a very exciting season for golf and we hope to see you annual “Spring Fling” Cocktail Party on Tuesday, April 2 at 6:00 p.m. around the Club soon! The CCWGA Ladies’ skill levels and ages span the spectrum, so there is room for everyone to participate. Please enjoy complimentary Warm Regards, appetizers and desserts while mingling with other CCWGA Members Daniel Bengtson, PGA and Golf Professional Staff. We will also be discussing the new rule Head Golf Professional changes for 2019. Masters Par 3 Challenge Most golfers look forward to the first week of April because it signals the Masters is on the horizon. We will host our Masters Par 3
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The Green Report What an up-and-down winter we have had so far. We have seen temperatures drop into the low teens and highs reach upward to the mid-sixties. We have had over six inches of rain so far this year and that doesn’t count the snowfall we have received. What does that mean for the turf? Likely nothing as all the turf remains dormant. We need a solid two weeks of temperatures to be above fifty degrees to really jump start the turf. As we push into March, I am sure Mother Nature still has a few snowstorms up her sleeve; but temperatures will start to teeter to the warmer side and the golf course will start to come alive.
FROM CHRIS HARRIMAN GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENT
Our Tree Management Plan for the golf course continues to progress. The increased amounts of sunlight and air movement, especially on holes 6 and 11, will quickly pay dividends as the turf greens up this spring. Most of our work now is focused on cleaning up stump grindings and filling the holes with soil and seed or sod. With much of this work being done over the winter, it will be difficult for most people to discern exactly what has changed. The change you will notice, however, is a healthier, more consistent golf course this year.
March will be a busy time on the golf course for our cultural practices. Our plan is to core aerate the tees and approaches and topdress Our bunker renovation on the front nine is coming along great. The them with sand heavily in order to fill the holes. The fairways will be crew has been hard at work removing the old bunker sand. We are solid-tine aerated, verticut and lightly topdressed. Greens aeration taking the time to cut along the outer edge of the bunker to locate will take place on April 8 and 9 followed by sand injection on April the original edge from when the bunker was constructed. In some 10 with the Dryject process. We will be using 3/8” size coring tines places, that requires us to cut out over a foot of material. Over time, this year in hopes that the holes heal more quickly than in the past with sand build-up and washouts, these bunkers have reduced in on the greens. size, as the turf around the bunker remains actively growing. In some bunkers, we are adding better drainage to aid in the removal Once again, I would like to thank the Membership for eight great of water that enters the bunker. Once we get warmer weather, we years at Cattail. I was given the tools and freedom to really make will be installing Capillary Concrete to the bottom of the bunker. This this facility special. It is very difficult for me to leave such a caring porous liner will dramatically increase the amount of water that can and supportive Membership, as well as a crew of people that give run through the bunker without causing washouts. New sand will 100% to Cattail each and every day. I am confident that your new be installed and raked out. All this work will leave us with a more Superintendent will not just carry on my legacy but forge their own consistent bunker to play out of and a bunker that requires less filled with innovation, quality and expertise. Please extend to them input from our staff during heavy rains because of fewer washouts. the confidence and trust you instilled in me! Thank you, thank you, The front nine green side bunkers should be finished by Opening thank you! Day. Chris Harriman
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The Free Lesson Challenge! I BET WE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION, HUH? Good! As teaching professionals, there is one aspect of practicing that we believe sometimes gets overlooked—training. Every player works on match toughness in block time. Some people work on technique with private lessons or work on strategy in a clinic. But what about training independently with a friend? Allow me to illustrate a scenario of a common occurrence in player development. Let’s say you come in to fix your grip on your volleys. After an hour lesson, you finally feel comfortable volleying with your new continental grip, and you’re ecstatic. “I can’t wait to try this at block,” you say to yourself. So the next day at block, you miss the first couple of volleys with your new and improved grip, so you begin to revert back to your old grip. “I don’t want to blow it for my partner or waste people’s time, so I’ll just use my old grip and work on the new one later,” you say to yourself. And the remainder of the week’s blocks come and go, and then you are back at your lesson the next week working on the same things you worked on last week, and the cycle repeats. Unless you are taking multiple lessons and clinics a week, so that your instruction and technical work overrides the bad habits from block time, this pattern will continue.
Now, training on your own is admittedly more boring than match play or clinics—but the repetition is necessary. So the tennis professional staff is prepared to reward all those who follow the training regimen below. If you and a friend do all of the things listed below, you will be entered for a chance to win the following package: 1. 1 Free Semi-Private Lesson for you and your training partner together. 2. I Free Racquet Stringing for each training partner. 3. 1 Free Pack of Overgrips for each training partner. 4. 1 Free 90 minute clinic for you and your training partner. Training Regimen: 1. 100 forehands hit crosscourt past the service line (not consecutively) from deuce corner to deuce corner. 2. 100 backhands hit crosscourt past the service line (not consecutively) from ad corner to ad corner. 3. 100 volleys hit consecutively from deuce corner to deuce corner. 4. 100 volleys hit consecutively from ad corner to ad corner. That’s it! The drawing will be done at the Cattail Creek Tennis Classic, May 29-June 2. GOOD LUCK!! Chris Cozzillio, Director of Tennis chris.cozzillio@cattailcreekcc.com 410.489.4653 ext.265
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