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PUMPKIN RIDGE GOLF CLUB MAY 2022

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WELCOME GENERAL MANAGER MESSAGE Jeff Muller

2022 is going to be an exciting year and the team here at the club has been working diligently to prepare for the upcoming season. One of the areas we are continuously working on is member communication to provide you the best member experience. In our ongoing effort to provide you with the best member experience possible, we have been working hard to develop an exciting calendar of events for 2022 designed to create opportunities for you to connect with family and friends, enhance camaraderie with other members, and get more out of your private club membership. We are also working with the VOBO team to bring an app to Pumpkin Ridge that will allow us to communicate instantly with the membership in one area. The 2022 Pumpkin Ridge calendar of events will help you keep track of all of the wonderful golf and social events we have planned. In the event you have not been receiving our e-mails, please call the administrative offices at 503.647.4747.

MEET OUR TEAM MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR Matt Whitfield mwhitfield@pumpkinridge.com 503.647.2528 MEMBER ENGAGEMENT MANAGER/ CLUB ACCOUNTANT Taylor Bench tbench@pumpkinridge.com 503.647.2508

MERCHANDISER Name: Sebastain Stewart Email: sstewart@pumpkinridge.com Phone: 503.647.2512

CLUBHOUSE MANAGER Name: Christina Dalton Email: cdalton@pumpkinridge.com Phone: 503.647.2527

DIRECTOR OF AGRONOMY Eric Feldhusen efeldhusen@pumpkinridge.com 503.647.2507

FOOD & BEVERAGE MANAGER Kayt Coleman kcoleman@pumpkinridge.com 503.647.2526 HEAD GOLF PRO - WITCH HOLLOW John Kawasoe jkawasoe@pumpkinridge.com 503.647.2505

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NEW MEMBERS MEMBERSHIP UPDATE Matt Whitfield Hello PRGC Membership, I wanted to take a moment to say hello and WELCOME our (29) new 2022 FULL MEMBERS to Pumpkin Ridge! As always, it’s a goal of mine to make introductions with new members however please take a moment to introduce yourself to any new faces around the club when you have an opportunity! As we enter 2022, I wanted to share the final totals from another successful Discover Membership “trial” program as we welcomed 14 new full members from 26 enrollments in 2021! The program IS still active however we only have 3 remaining spots available so let me know if you have anyone interested. Once the cap limit of 10 is achieved then we stagger enrollment for new Discover Members to align with existing Discover Members ending and/or upgrading. Initiation Fee update: our Initiation Fees increased from $9,000.00 to $12,500.00 (Junior Executive (under 40 years old)) and $18,000.00 to $25,000.00 (Full Golf (over 40 years old)) on April 1, 2022. Although we are just coming out of our off-season, the course/s remain busy, so we continue to ask for everyone’s commitment with scheduling (and cancelling) tee-times correctly/accurately via EZ Links in order to maximize access for all members. THANK YOU! Additionally, I wanted to pass along that our referral rewards portal is accessible via the members only webpage. For those unaware, the program is still new and has been gaining positive momentum since its inception. Referrals are a major driving factor behind our fantastic membership group at Pumpkin so please continue to let me know if you have any friends/colleagues interested in membership! Lastly, I wanted to share the Icon Golf website with you again. Icon Golf is an enhanced-membership-upgrade that Pumpkin Ridge offers. As many of you know, Pumpkin is one of the 7 Icon Golf Clubs in Escalante’s portfolio. Let me know if you have any questions about membership! If the shoe fits, it is a one-of-a-kind membership!... I’m confident you’ll love being part of the Icon family! I will continue to commit to strengthening our membership group by infusing it with new members and I’m very appreciative of everyone’s support! Thank you!

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GOLF COURSE MAINTENANCE Eric Feldhusen The past month has flown by with aerification being completed on both golf courses in the past 30 days and many projects started or under way as part of the LIV Golf event and overall golf course improvements that we had planned. I wanted to give you some quick updates on the aerification process and projects in process. I am also hoping we see sun and warmer weather sooner than later as we transition into the May! The Ghost Creek green, tee and fairway aerification and topdressing went very well, and everything recovered as expected. Witch Hollow was a little different story. I have not in 28 years of being in this industry ever aerified in snow until this past week.My team did a great job of working around and at times through the elements to complete everything. I do expect Witch Hollow recovery to be a little bit slower than Ghost Creek in the fact the average air and soil temps are almost six degrees cooler this April than this past March and we have had less growing degree days because of this. I am still very happy with the program in place of using all solid tines in the Spring and varying depths to allow as much air and sand in the profile as possible! The LIV Golf event is something that has come at everyone very quickly and my team has had to make a lot of adjustments and sacrifices as we work to bring everything together to make a great event. Will everything thing go smoothly as we prep for this event, probably not but this is not because of a lack of effort. The reality of bringing this event together in just over 90 days is very challenging and even more challenging when we are bringing two golf courses together to make one. We will be able to make a lot of course improvement because of this event and are very excited knowing this!

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GOLF COURSE MAINTENANCE Eric Feldhusen Here is a quick overview of what has or is happening on the golf course and in my department: Making internal adjustments and adding new team members. Leveling of eight pro tee decks for this event. We have also reserved sod to level all our blue and white Par 3 tees on Ghost Creek and Witch Hollow. We will not do # 12 Witch since it was just done last year and # 10 Witch as the blue and white tee are in good shape overall. We will start the leveling of these tees after Labor Day. We are doing it after Labor Day for several reasons including sod and contractor availability and knowing this is the best time to establish new turf to make sure we have a successful project. We will be replacing 6000 square feet of damaged cart paths. Our target start date is the week of April 25th if weather starts to cooperate. This will also include a drain basin and over 300’ of 6” drain line added to 5 Ghost Creek to move the water efficiently into the wetlands the comes into our property from our neighbors and road. We will be repairing and asphalting several areas in our maintenance facility parking lot where we are seeing damage to equipment from potholes and areas of settling. Northwest Tree will be out the week of May 4th for tree work around the golf courses and clubhouses. We are depth checking and adding sand to all bunkers on property. Pacific Landscape Management will be taking over the landscape maintenance of both clubhouses and all the common grounds through the summer. This will allow us to concentrate on the golf courses and helping us bring back these areas to pre Covid conditions. We will be replacing all matting on the foot bridges and adding in a new foot bridge to 10 Ghost. Installing step cuts on both golf courses as we prepare for this tournament. We are working on the planning of a few other short- and long-term projects. When I have everything finalized with these projects, I will provide an update.

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WELCOME NEW MEMBERS Patrick Fox

Sponsored by: John Lee

Gabriel & Devin Pascuzzi Sponsored by:

Rob & Jessica Aragon

GOLF PRO SHOP - GOLF RULES & TIPS John Kawasoe The first month at Pumpkin Ridge has been action packed. I have really enjoyed meeting everyone here. I would like to thank everyone here at PR for the warm welcome. I am very excited to be here! The May golf schedule is fairly light. Hopefully we will start to see and feel some warmer temperatues. Couples Twilight kicks off on May 13th, GG sign up to follow. The Member-Member Shamble is May 14th, two person teams and the player will get 80% of their handicap. A golf genius sign up will be out any day! We have a Home and Home with The Reserve May 20th. while we are still working out some details with The Reserve, sign ups will be out soon!

I would like to offer this short but sweet putting tip. Do you remember when you were young and your teachers/parents told you it takes less muscles to smile than frown? That is a true statement. With that being said, TENSION kills performance. So, the next time you have a short putt that you deem very important to your round, put a huge smile on your face before you hit that putt. You will feel the tension release and it will free you up to sink that putt. I hope this helps a few of you make more putts. Play well and have fun. See you on the links!

GOLF EVENTS

May 13th | 5:00 PM Couple's Twilight Apps on the Range Dinner after 9 Hole Shotgun May 14th | TBD Member Member Shamble May 20th | TBD Home and Home @ The Reserve

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MEMBER SPOTLIGHT- MR. & MRS. CHANG Peter Chang – Approx. 20 handicap Transitioned over to Pumpkin from (The Reserve Vineyards) Were looking for a better golf experience and had 3 friends who were already members at PRGC (John-Gerard Muirhead, Joe/Irene Yoo and Eun/David Moon) Three boys: 19 (Baylor University), 17-year-old (high school) and 14-year-old (Ethan - is a great kid/very polite and good golfer) Ethan is friends and plays a lot of golf with Jack Muirhead The older Chang boys are active with water polo Stephanie is an active golfer, and they referred their friends Rob/Jean Lee a week after they joined Stephanie/Jean play a lot of golf together…and have been out many times so far Peter is a Pediatric Cardiologist Nice new couple and family!

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FOOD & BEVERAGE NEW FOUNDERS MENU & HAPPY HOUR Christina Dalton

With season just some sunshine away we are excited to have new food & beverage menus in both Founders and Champions Grille. Members will be able to enjoy some classics (MILKSHAKES!!!) along with new items. Starting May 3rd Founders and Men’s Locker Room will be offering Happy Hour with a variety of shareables and drink specials for all tastes. Thank you to all who attended the Easter Brunch last month.We served around 100 people on a beautiful Sunday and I guarantee no one went home hungry! These special events are designed to give all of you extra value for your membership and we are glad that so many took advantage. Pasta Night is back on May 12th starting at 5:00pm – 8:00pm! Come out with your friends and family and enjoy custom pasta creations. Southern Wine and Spirits will be pouring wine tastings with the opportunity for you to order to enjoy at dinner and add to your collection. I look forward to seeing you all as you enjoy the beautiful Oregon Season! Cheers!

BREAKFAST 7 days a week at Champions Grille 9 AM - 12 PM Check out our new menu!

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JR LEAGUE & RETAIL JUNIOR LEAGUE Matt Brandt

Pumpkin Ridge Junior Programs: We are hosting a variety of junior camps and leagues for your children this year! Age ranges for camps start at 7 years old and goes all the way up to 18 years old. We will also be offering a summer program for all juniors under the age of 7 years old, called our Pumpkin Seed Program (all interested parents for our pumpkin seed program please email Matt Brandt inquiring about the program). If you have any interest in participating in these camps, please fill out the registration sheets available in the pro-shops. All registration sheets have a calendar layout of dates and times for each camp/league. Please email those registration forms to Matt Brandt (mbrandt@pumpkinridge.com) and if you have any questions about the junior program, reach out to him as well. We look forward to teaching the next generation of golfers!

RETAIL UPDATE Sebastain Stewart

Golf bags from Ping, Titleist, and TaylorMade. 4.0 model Clicgears in 5 different colors Titleist SM9 Wedges in the Witch Hollow Golf Shop NEW Men's FootJoy Apparel NEW Men's & Women's Peter Millar Apparel NEW Headwear from Imperial & Ahead 35% off sale to all members for all women's & men's apparel (tops, bottoms, hats, etc.)

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YOU'RE INVITED TO JOIN OUR

Mother's Day Brunch SUNDAY, MAY 8TH BRUNCH MENU RESERVATIONS FROM 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM

kindly RSVP to Kayt 503.647.2526 kcoleman@pumpkinridge.com