CCN August Newsletter by Escalante Golf

COUNTRY CLUB OF THE NORTH AUGUST 2022

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WELCOME GENERAL MANAGER MESSAGE Tony Madera PGA General Manager It has been an extremely rewarding first month here at CCN and I thank all of you for your kind words and welcoming hospitality. As we move into August, I have some very welcoming news which will lead us into the upcoming fall season. First, we have contracted to have the parking lot completely re-surfaced in the next few months! Yes, this much needed facelift will add a tremendous amount of “curb appeal” for our wonderful facility. I cannot wait until we can begin this project to enhance your experience. In addition, we are also going to do some much needed drainage work to improve the playability of the golf course. The above projects represent a substantial investment into the club by Escalante Golf and as always, there will be no assessments. Our best days are ahead of us, and l look forward to the future! See you around the club!

MEET OUR TEAM PGA General Manager Tony Madera tmadera@ccothenorth.com 937.374.5000 ext 7 PGA Head Golf Professional Dave Miller dmiller@ccothenorth.com 937.374.5007 Director of Membership Brian Smith bsmith@ccothenorth.com 937.374.5000 ext 3

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Director of Course & Grounds Kevin Butts kbutts@ccothenorth.com 937.374.5030 Office Manager Jacquie Ayers jayers@ccothenorth.com 937.374.5000 ext 8 Director of Catering/Events Stacy Black stblack@ccothenorth.com 937.374.5000 ext 4

Executive Chef Matthew Marconi mmarconi@ccothenorth.com 937.374.5000 ext 6

CLUB HOURS Monday: Club Closed Tuesday - Sunday 8:00 am - 8:00 pm

Assistant Golf Professional Alec Velasco avelasco@ccothenorth.com 937.374.5007

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NEW MEMBERS MEMBERSHIP UPDATE Brian Smith Membership Relations Hello everyone, as good the two previous months

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS Doug and Whitney Gioiello

Referred by: Jim Cardosi

Jim & Lori Evans

Referred by: Roger & Julie Wentwoth

Travis and Hallie Kelley

Referred by:

have been, where the club was able to add a number of new golf and social members, July has been very quiet on the membership front. July's Men's Member Guest went extremely well and the reviews of the

Rowland LeMasters

event were very positive. Hopefully we can turn some of those happy guests into future CCN Members. Additionally as we move into fall you will see repairs to the parking lot as that has been scheduled for September and improvements to the drainage on the course. Thank you for your membership and have a great August. In June CCN welcomed the Kelley Family as new golf members. Travis and Hallie Kelley joined CCN in June and live in Jeffersonville Oh about 50 minutes from CCN. They have 2 kids, Mason who has played with his dad several times already at CCN and a daughter Bryn. Travis works for Alliance Agricultural Services and farm real estate. He manages farm leases for individuals who own the land but don’t farm it. It was very interesting talking with Travis as he said most of his investors and clients are foreign investors. If you see him or his family at the club please say hello.

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GOLF COURSE MAINTENANCE Kevin Butts Director of Course & Grounds Mother nature has been up and down for us this season making conditioning the course very difficult. I want to start off by giving a big shout out to our maintenance staff in the last month. They have all taken pride in their work and created the best playing conditions as possible for the Club Championship, Men's Invitational and Ladies Member Member. With more member events coming up in August our goal is to continue to grow our team and create great playing conditions for these events. Moving into August we have plans to do some sod repairs on tees, cleaning up hazards and continuing to move the needle forward on the course. We will also be having an outside company coming in to do some extensive drainage repairs on the course. We will be adding additional drainage to holes 9 and 11 as well as repairing existing drainage. The drainage expansion on these holes will help us through the spring thaw months from winter along with spring rains and will help us improve the playing conditions on these holes through those tough months. It will also help us from being CPO on those holes at the beginning and ends of the season. Along with holes 9 & 11 there will be repairs made to 12 fairway and 18. These will be repairs to existing drainage and sink holes. At this time we do not have an exact date for these repairs but will keep everyone up to date on scheduled repairs moving forward. We will be focused on these projects moving forward as well as preparing for upcoming events.

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GOLF GOLF UPDATE

Dave Miller PGA Head Golf Professional

It’s been a whirlwind of golf events since last month’s newsletter. The weather somewhat cooperated and we had a stellar late June and July. Leading off we had our CCN 2022 Club Championships on June 25-26. Tee Pazitney won the Women’s Club Championship shooting rounds of 79-78 = 157. Angie Degenhart won the Women’s Club Championship Net Division shooting rounds of 69-65=134. Great playing Ladies!!! Ryan Reichley cruised to a 5 shot victory shooting 156 for the two rounds and taking home the Men’s Club Championship. Lee Erdman dominated the Super Senior division winning by 10 strokes shooting a score of 155.Ron Coates won the Men’s Net Division shooting 139 for the 2 days. Congratulations to all our Champions and fellow competitors. The 2022 Men’s Invitational was a huge success. A record number of 50 teams competed with guests coming in from across the country and even Canada, we've gone international. The men fought through the rain on the second day but we were able to compete he 5 different formats for the event. Flight Winners- CCN: Matt Clouse & Wes Nobles, Pumpkin Ridge: Curtis Schmiedebusch & Brandon Poynter, Kingsmill: Tom & Dan Hoskins, Pursell Farms: Ron & Ryan Coates, The International: Daniel & John Willis, Black Diamond: Troy Rose & Dan Baker, Shadow Hawk: Jim Yost & Mike Bosworth, Dove Mountain: Larry & Michael Lentz, Sonoma: Ron Roddy & Jim Faulkner, Blackhorse: Rick Weber & Dean Hayes. The final 3 teams in the 10 team shoot-out battled it out playing #18 a record three times until we finally crowned a winner. 3rd Place overall was the team of Daniel & John Willis, 2nd Place overall was the team of Jim Yost & Mike Bosworth and Winning the 2022 Men’s Invitational was the team of Tom & Dan Hoskins!!!!Congrats to all participants.

The LGA hosted their Ladies Member-Member tournament July 15-16 with a Las Vegas theme. Elvis was in the building along with a cutout showgirl for pictures of the participants. The format was a 9 Hole scramble the 1st day and 1 best ball of 2 the last day. Weather held out for the ladies and we had a great tournament. Placing 3rd was the team of Angie Degenhart & Molly Horstman posting a 99. 2nd Place went to Daryl Nels & Tracey Hollenbaugh posting a 95. Coming from behind and taking home the Championship was the team of Cynthis Pratt and Carol Smith shooting a 91.4 with a stellar round of 59 on the final day!!!!Awesome playing ladies!

GOLF EVENTS Tuesday August 2nd LGA 9 Hole Mixer 4PM Shotgun Men's Thursday Night League 2.0 Starts August 4th 5PM Shotgun LGA League Championship Tuesday & Thursday, August 9th & 11th Men’s Member-Member Friday thru Sunday, August 12th-14th Friday July 22nd Couples 9 and Dine 5:30 Shotgun LGA Guest Day Tuesday, August 23rd Men’s Fall Stag Friday, August 26th

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MEMBER SPOTLIGHT MEMBERSHIP UPDATE Brian Smith Membership Relations Hello everyone and thanks for your Membership at Country Club of the North. So last month I featured arguably the first member at CCN, Tom Boots, as he says he was number 5 but 2 moved away and 2 passed away making him number 1. This month I'm spotlighting Daryl Nels who joined CCN in 1992 before it opened. I said that has to make you CCN's first femaile member? She said she's not sure, it's either her or Mary Miller. So she may not have been CCN's first female member but I found out a lot more about Daryl in our conversation and that is what I'm sharing with you today. As I like to say, "A lot of good things come from Michigan", including Daryl Nels. Daryl grew up in southeast Michigan in Monroe just over the border from Ohio. She started golfing at a young age and won her first tournament at Monroe Golf and CC as a junior against the ladies. After that the members enacted a rule barring Juniors from playing in the Women's Championship at Monroe Golf and CC. Due to this change Daryl wasn't even allowed to defend her title. She went on to play golf in high school and continue her education at that great institution of learning in Ann Arbor Michigan, the University of Michigan. She studied to be a dental hygienist and graduated from U of M in 1969. She worked for several dentist in the Dayton area and even worked as a floating hygienist at several offices helping when they were short staffed. She worked as a hygienist for 31 years before retiring. She met and married husband Terry in 1971 and moved to Dayton as Terry has family here. In 1972 she won the Ladies League at Community Golf Course, more of a fun than competitive league and was promptly told you're too good for this league. Sound familiar? So in 1973 Daryl started a Wednesday Women's League at Community and ran that for a few years. In 1973 she had here first son Kevin and in 1976 had their second son Michael. In 1977 the family joined Greene CC and were there until 1993 when she joined CCN.

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Daryl and Terry love to travel and have been around the world. They went on a 3 week guided tour by plane with 53 other passengers and had a great time. Here favorite place to travel is Africa and wants to go back. While traveling around the world she did yoga in India and saw all of the Natural Wonders. Daryl has had 4 hole in ones, 1 on #7 at CCN, 2 in Texas and 1 on the Officer's Club at WPAFB. I couldn't pin her down on a favorite golf memory but she said it was probably being inducted in to the Dayton Golf Hall of Fame in 2011. Or the time she spent with the players of the LPGA while CCN hosted the tournament for 7 years. She's played with Nancy Lopez and other LPGA players in the Pro Am. She's won two state women's golf titles, the OWGA and the SWIGA, both held at Greene CC. Daryl has qualified and made it through the local qualifier for the US Women's Senior Open twice. Won the CCN Club Championship and been a major help in growing the LGA. Thanks for sitting down with me Daryl and although your handicap is lower than mine I'd love to play a round with you anytime. Heck, I'd probably learn a lot.

MONTHLY EVENTS

02 TUESDAY

LGA 9 Hole Mixer TIME 4:00 PM Join the LGA for a day of fun, games and prizes on the course and in Member Dining

THURSDAY

Men's Thursday Night League 2.0 Men's Thursday night league second session, tee times start at 5:00.

SUNDAY

Hattori Cup Day 3 Men's Member Member 7:00 Full Breakfast 9:00 Shotgun Start 3:00 Awards Dinner

WEEKLY TRADITIONS

Day 1 18 holes Shotgun start 8:30

Day 2 18 holes Shotgun start 8:30

LGA League Championship Day 1

FRIDAY

LGA League Championship Day 2

09 TUESDAY

FRIDAY

THURSDAY

August

Hattori Cup Day 1 Men's Member Member 1:30 Registration 3:00 Shotgun Par 3 Contest 6-8:30 Team Auction

Couples 9 & Dine 5:30 Shotgun Football Theme Dinner to follow golf

For more information call 937.374.5000 ext.3

SATURDAY

Hattori Cup Day 2 Men's Member Member 7:00 Full Breakfast 9:00 Shotgun Start 6:30 Social Dinner

TUESDAY

Ladies Guest Day A fun day for our lady members to invite friends for golf and fellowship

TUESDAYS: Two For Tuesdays *** $1 Wings and $3 Miller Lite Drafts *** WEDNESDAYS: Wined Down Wednesdays *** Half off all bottles of wine and $10 Burgers ***

FOOD & BEVERAGE FEATURED RECIPE Matthew Marconi Executive Chef Baked Brie in Puff Pastry Ingredients Baked Brie in Puff Pastry ½ (17.5 oz) package frozen puff pastry, thawed 1 (8oz) wheel of Brie Cheese ¼ cup sliced almonds Step 1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degree C). Lightly grease a 9 inch pie pan. Step 2 Slice the wheel of Brie in half, horizontally, so that the halves are two, flatter wheels of Brie. Lay the puff pastry in the pie pan. Place half of the Brie (rindside down) onto the pastry dough. Sprinkle almonds evenly over the top. Place the other half of the Brie (rind-side up) over the almonds. Bundle the pastry dough around the Brie. Step 3 Bake for 15 to 20 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes before serving.

Live music continues to be popular and happens every other Tuesday in Member Dining. During the month of August we will have 2 for the Road on August 2nd, Amy Newhart (Nashville recording star) on August 16th and the Rick George Band on August 30th. If you haven't been following monthly menu updates, Chef's Specials or what Member Dining hours are they can be found on the CCN website under the dining tab on the left. We continue to get some top shelf and allocated bourbons at the bar, so stop in and have an Old Fashioned or maybe a Manhattan. Turnstand Hours:. Monday 9am - 4pm Tues - Sunday 7:30am - 4pm Member Dining Hours: Monday Closed Tuesday 11am - 7pm Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 8pm Sunday 11am - 7pm ***Member Dining is now open *** Tuesday - Sunday for lunch at 11am

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GOLF TIPS AND EVENTS PRO TIPS & RETAIL UPDATE Alec Velasco Assistant Golf Professional DON'T FREEZE YOUR SWING ON PITCH SHOTS Even though you are trying to hit the ball a lesser distance on pitch shots, this does not mean that you should abandon the mechanics of your swing. According to Stan Utley, "It starts with a good setup. Take a slightly closed stance and square the face (1). On the backswing, let your right wrist hinge a little so the handle stays fairly close to you (2). Make sure you turn your body--proven here by the creases in my pants at the top of my right leg. On the downswing, turn toward the target, with your hips level at the finish (3)."More: Pitch Shots, Make sure you stop in the Pro Shop to see the collection of new hats and shoes that arrived in July.

CCN PRIVATE & CLUB EVENTS Stacy Black Director of Catering/Events

We are catering to our Members Did you know that Country Club of the North private events and room reservations are now exclusive to our Members? We are delighted to adjust our banquet and room reservation policy to cater to our members, their friends, family and associates. As of May, the club will now only accept reservations for special events, gatherings, celebrations and holiday parties that are requested by a CCN Member or an affiliate of a CCN Member. We are thrilled to make this adjustment and have no doubt it will elevate our member experience above and beyond previous years. If you would like more information on scheduling your next gathering, business retreat or holiday party, please feel free to reach out to my office by email, phone call or stop by in person. As an Event Planning professional, with over 16 years of experience, it would be my honor to assist in planning your event celebrations at Country Club of the North. We do the planning so you can enjoy the experience. PAGE 9