November 2023 Newsletter by Loch Lloyd Country Club

November 2023 MEMBER NEWSLETTER

03 A Message from your Club President 04 Straight from the Pro Shop with Golf Operations 07 Keeping it Green - Update from our Superintendent 08 Your Experience Update 12 Events Calendar 30 Stay In The Know 31 Cancellation & RSVP Policy 32 LLLGA Information 34 Loch Lloyd Home & Garden Club 36 Fitness 38 Club Communications

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A Note

FROM THE CLUB PRESIDENT Hello November. I encourage you not to wait until the fourth Thursday of the month to sit with family and friends. Make everyday a day of Thanksgiving. As hard as it is to believe, fall has started trending behind us and we begin our steps towards the holiday season. There were great events during October and the last two months of the year will parade nothing less! From Gobbler Bingo, to Thanksgiving Brunch, we leap ahead into December with our Holiday Lighting Ceremony, a Wine Dinner featuring Duckhorn, a Pop-Up Christmas Performance by the notorious Loch Smiths and much more to officially tie the bow on 2023. I truly hope you consider spending a part of your holidays at one of the Club hosted activities. As our ownership reminds us “It is not the Country Club that makes the Members, it is the Members that make the Country Club” and having you join us, making memories with your families and friends, your neighbors, and fellow members is the spirit the Clubhouse wants to exude. We want our members to think of the Clubhouse as an extension of their home - a place to celebrate, entertain, and welcome others. If there is anything we can do to help improve your experiences at the Club, please let us know. My door is literally always open. As we approach the holidays, I want to thank the team at Loch Lloyd. Our associates spend holidays, weekends, and celebrations away from their own families to ensure our members are taken care of. The sacrifice they make during the holidays is something I appreciate and respect greatly.

Please welcome our new Golf Members Garrett & Madison Fugate James & Jill Simaras Boston Dickerson Calaway McQueeny

- Chris Brems, Your Club President

Golf

OPERATIONS Sean Hanna, Director of Golf

November has arrived and with that, the 2023 tournament season has come to an end. Thank you to all that participated in this year’s events and congratulations to the lucky and skilled competitors that took home victories and bragging rights. We are beginning to work through the 2024 event calendar and will have a great variety of events for you to enjoy next season. While the colder weather is sure to set in soon, I encourage you not to hang up your golf clubs for the year. The golf course is in fantastic condition and there are sure to be many great fall days ahead of us before the snow begins to fall. Tee times now begin daily at 9:00am each day and will extend to 10:00am in December. The 10:00am starting tee time will remain in effect until the end of February 2024. Please check ForeTees for daily updates on the weather forecast to be advised of any potential frost delays or inclement weather. Also note, in preparation for colder weather, the ice/water dispenser will be removed from the Comfort Station until next spring. This is done annually to prevent the water lines in the machines from freezing. A huge shout out to the Loch Lloyd Men’s Bigley Cup team. The men brought home the Championship after defeating the National Golf Club of KC. This is the first Bigley Cup Championship for our men, and we look forward to defending the title in 2024. The Loch Lloyd Ladies Team Play squad also brought home a trophy this year. The ladies captured the first place Team Net trophy and narrowly missed the Team Gross trophy. Congratulations to all our ladies that participated in Team Play. A special shout out filled with congrats to Lori McConnell, the 2023 Player of the year in the Loch Lloyd Ladies Golf Association! Lori won the Player of the Year in 2022 as well and this latest victory makes her the first to win back-to-back Player of the Year awards. We are proud of you, Lori! Beginning Tuesday, November 1st the Practice Facility setup will transition to our winter setup. All golf balls will be set up on synthetic mats rather than the zoysia grass teeing areas. We make this transition because the zoysia grass has gone dormant and is no longer able to recover from divots. Our zoysia grass teeing areas will open Spring 2024. 4

2023 TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS Congratulations to all our tournament champions and thank you to all that participated in our 2023 tournaments! Women’s Club Champion: Kylie Nicholas Women’s Club Champion (Net): Patty Merlie Men’s Club Champion: Brent Mertz Men’s Club Champion (Net): Drew Hannan Senior Club Champion: Trent Newby Senior Club Champion (Net): Frank Janoski Junior Club Champion: Cole White The Whummle: Sal Belfonte & Jonathan Dold Women’s Member-Member: Kay Rippy & Linda Boice The Scotty: Justin Lightner & Alex VanVliet Women’s Match Play (Sorenstam Flight): Amy Walleck Women’s Fourball: Linda Enright & Sheri Bartlett Men’s Match Play (Watson Flight): Keith Andrews Men’s Match Play (Nicklaus Flight): Chris Heckadon Men’s Fourball (Watson Flight): Josh Donnici & Jared Myers Men’s Fourball (Nicklaus Flight): Ryan Anthony & John Walczuk Men’s Fourball (Palmer Flight): Clint Gallagher & Evan Riesman MARK YOUR CALENDARS - DECEMBER 6TH, 2023 Please join us as we host our annual Member Appreciation Sale. Come in and spin the wheel for additional discounts! This is a great opportunity to spend your shop credit and it‘s never a bad idea to load up on holiday gifts. GOLF SHOP NOVEMBER HOURS OF OPERATION 8:00AM – 5:00PM Tee times will begin 1 hour after the Golf Shop opens, weather permitting. See you on the first tee,

-Sean 5

GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENT Grant Suderman Dear Members, On October 30th, the Loch Lloyd golf maintenance team will resume installing drainage to zoysia grass fairways. This continues our commitment to installing drainage in all fairways to dry out low water holding areas which lead to turf decline. Eliminating these low-lying saturated areas will provide enhanced turf conditions and playability. We also expect to minimize traffic restrictions with drier conditions. Phase 1 & 2 of this 5-phase project began in March with drainage being installed on holes #1,3,9,17 & 18. These holes were prioritized due to having extensive problematic areas and/or traffic flow limitations. The remaining three phases of this project were planned to continue in late October to limit disruption to golf. The phases are listed below and we expect to be completed by the close of 2023. Phase 1 – Holes 1,3,9 Completed Phase 2 – Holes 17,18 Completed Phase 3 – Holes 4, 6 Starting October 30th Phase 4 – Holes 7,8,10,12 Phase 5 – Holes 14,15,16 DRAINAGE BEING INSTALLED ON HOLE #17 THIS PAST MARCH Thank you for your patience as we perform course enhancement projects. This short-term disruption will provide long-term benefits and improved sustainable conditions. Please feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns. Best,

-Grant Suderman

Operations Director Kim Palmer I am going to keep my update very brief this month. Stick to the one thing members care about. Here you go:

TATER TOTS (GOLDEN NUGGETS)

ARE COMING BACK NEW MENU MID-NOVEMBER INCLUDING A NEW COCKTAIL MENU (AKA - TREATS) THAT WE HOPE WILL PLEASE ALL PALLETS OF LEGAL DRINKING AGE.

Now that I have your attention. Always looking for ways to engage our members and make the newsletter entertaining and FUN, we started a “FIND THE MEMBER” number a couple of months ago. The objective and “rules” of this seek & find were outlined in my portion of the September newsletter. Basically, each month we have hidden a member number in the newsletter. If you find your member number - you win a HUGE prize. Like HUGE... like not a Ferrari huge but still - really good stuff. Guess what? No one has found their number. To be honest, we don’t even make it difficult to find. So I ask... is anyone looking? If you find your digits, call our Club Concierge Ciara to claim your prize.

-Kim Palmer

Yappy Hour

Hole in Won

Witches & Wine

JOIN US FOR $18 DOMESTIC CHOICE JOIN US FOR $18 DOMESTIC BUCKETS DURING ANY CHOICE CHIEFSBUCKETS GAME DURING ANY CHIEFS GAME

STAY IN THE KNOW EVENT CALENDARS Click here to view the 2023 Event Calendar

MENU'S & FACEBOOK GROUP We want to ensure all of our members are updated on the tasty options offered and have attached the new menu's to this email for your convenience - see the clickable links below. The menu's have also been shared to our Private Members Facebook Group, a new group set up to keep all of our incredible members informed with up to the minute information and happenings in the Club. If you are not apart of that group, please see the clickable link below to request to join. Click here to view the Loch Lloyd Country Club Dining Menu Click here to view the Loch Lloyd Country Club 19th Hole Fare Menu Click here to view the Loch Lloyd Country Club Desserts Menu Click here to access our Private Members Facebook Group

DINING & CLUBHOUSE HOURS OF OPERATION Monday

CLOSED

Tuesday

11AM - 9PM

Wednesday |

11AM - 9PM

Thursday

11AM - 9PM

Friday

11AM - 11PM

Saturday

11AM - 11PM

Sunday

11AM - 9PM

*KITCHEN CLOSES 30 MINUTES PRIOR TO RESTAURANT CLOSURE*

All dates, times and activities are subject to change. Most events require an RSVP and this will be noted in the event specific information sent closer to event time. Cancellation policy applies for most events. We will keep you updated on events with targeted emails, on our Private Members Facebook Group, and with postings on our bulletin boards.

CANCELLATION & RSVP POLICY HOW TO RSVP FOR AN EVENT RSVP’s are required for a lot of our events and the event flyer will always include the RSVP information including phone number and deadline. All RSVP’s must be directed to our Club Concierge, Ciara and she can be reached by calling 816-322-1022. You are not allowed to RSVP for another member. Each member must call and RSVP for themselves and their family. This policy is to ensure a member does not receive charges for an event they never RSVP’d for. Please always RSVP by the deadline as we order the food, beverage and event needs based on numbers received by the RSVP date.

CANCELLATION POLICY All cancellations must be made at least 48 hours prior to the start of the event. Cancellations must be received by speaking to our Club Concierge, Ciara and she can be reached by calling 816-322-1022 or by emailing ciaram@lochlloyd.com. Voicemails will not be accepted. Any cancellation made less than 48 hours prior to the event will incur the full event charge.

LLLGA INFORMATION We are officially done with LLLGA golf events for 2023! Many thanks go to the ladies who joined us for the final event, dinner and association meeting on October 11th. We were fortunate to have had decent weather for our closing day – especially given the rainout many of us experienced at the Brigadoon a few weeks before. Everybody who attended our closing day dinner walked away a winner, some with a hundred-dollar bill in hand! I’d like to give shout-outs to the winners of our LLLGA special events: MOST BIRDIES OR BETTER 18 Holes: Sherie Bartlett, Melinda Baty, Linda Enright, Julie Farrell, Peggy Frazier 9 Holes: Kylie Nicholas MOST CHIP-INS 18 Holes: Pam Hamer, Marsha Mock 9 Holes: Laurie Lind, Andrea Mackay DREAM GAME - THE TOTALING OF THE BEST SCORE ACHIEVED FOR EACH HOLE THROUGHOUT THE SEASON Gross (Even): Linda Enright, Peggy Frazier, Patty Merlie Net (-22): Amanda Schlup MOST IMPROVED Eileen Joyce In addition, the winners of club sponsored events were recognized: Club Champion: Kylie Nicholas Net Club Champion: Patty Merlie Individual Match Play: Amy Walleck Partner Challenge: Sherie Bartlett and Linda Enright Player of the Year: Lori McConnell I also want to give a special shout-out to all the ladies who represented Loch Lloyd in interclub Team Play events. As a result of some good playing, the Loch Lloyd ladies secured first place net, besting six other clubs for that honor. We would be remiss to not thank Pat Hersma, our Team Play captain, for her diligence in coordinating the play days and putting together teams for this friendly interclub competition. For those of you who remain in KC for the winter, we plan to once again announce some pop-up lunch and happy hour events to keep the LLLGA connections going strong throughout the off season. Keep an eye open for those announcements in emails and the newsletter. We look forward to seeing you there!

-Wilma Collado

LOCH LLOYD LADIES GOLF ASSOCIATION -2023-

LOCH LLOYD HOME AND GARDEN CLUB MEETING December 7th, 2023, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

A Holiday Celebration!

9:30AM: Social. Enjoy holiday cheer with friends! 10:00AM: Business Meeting – Election of officers 11:00AM: Program - Welcome Sherèe Lutz, Violinist. Blessing offered by Meredith Lutz 12:00PM: Lunch served Sherèe holds a BA and an MA in Art History, and completed her musical studies at Baylor University where she minored in violin performance studying under Dr. Eka Gogichashvili. Following her performance, we will enjoy a delicious holiday meal planned by Chef Nick and the LLH&GC Program Committee. The Luncheon Menu includes Garden Fresh Salad, Prime Rib Carving Station, Creamy Scalloped Potatoes, Savory Green Beans with Bacon, Baked Roll and butter, Decadent Dark Chocolate Tart w/Chantilly Cream. Home & Garden Club members are encouraged to come and bring a guest!

A Holiday Celebration Continues... THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7TH 6:30PM

The Field Trip Committee has organized another fun event to kick off the holidays! We meet at the Overland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens for the annual Luminary Walk. We will take a stroll along lighted pathways to experience the magical Gnome and Fairy Villages; colorful candlelit gardens with musical performances throughout. Trees, buildings, and bridges are all part of the show, with thousands of lights aglow! If you are interested in joining the home and garden club for this event, please see the club information below to contact us. Tickets are $15.00 for this event.

Philanthropy Committee’s Annual Belton Welfare Holiday Drive DECEMBER 5TH – DECEMBER 7TH (BY 1PM)

Food and Gift drive: accepting donations of non-perishable food items and new, unused, gifts, toys gloves etc for the Belton community. A collection basket will be set up in the lobby. Please do not wrap gifts. Gift cards in small amounts are acceptable. DECEMBER 11TH – 10AM TO 1PM HOLIDAY DECORATION DONATIONS

Please drop off any gently used or new holiday décor on the sidewalk outside of the clubhouse. A committee member will be there to accept gently used or new holiday items; small trees, wreaths, ornaments, and other decorations. Checks payable to Belton Welfare Association, cash and gift cards should be received by Linda Boice or Deanna Jacaway between 11/3 – 12/7.

In Case You Missed It The Field Trip Committee organized our latest outing to Aubrey Vineyards on Oct 3rd. A fabulous time was had all. We enjoyed delicious pairings of wine and catered appetizers that were brought in just for us! Thank you, Aubrey Vineyards!

On October 10th, we enjoyed a Pickleball and Potluck social, organized by the Social Committee. We met at the pickleball courts with chairs, drinks, and food. We had special instruction from a pro, and learned the rules and techniques of play.

As a reminder, there will be no Garden Club meeting held in January 2024. The Loch Lloyd Home and Garden Club features home décor, food, fashion, gardening experts, field trips, socials, and more! The annual dues are only $65.00. The friendships are priceless! TO FIND OUT MORE OR JOIN THE CLUB, PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT www.llhomeandgarden.com or email llhomeandgardenclub@gmail.com

NOVEMBER AT THE FITNESS CENTER Unfortunately, winter weather is right around the corner. The Fitness Center will follow the Belton School District closure policy for inclement weather. If the Belton School District does not have school the Fitness Center will not have classes on that day. GOLF FITNESS - YOGA FOR GOLF CONDITIONING Imagine your golf swing is like a machine. If one part of the machine isn't working right, the whole thing can break down. Often, we invest in expensive clubs and lessons for a solution, and we don't consider that our body is the most important club we have. Exercises that improve balance, hip mobility, functional strength, and rotation through your mid-back will give you the best chance to consistently create a more efficient swing and proper sequencing. If you are looking for a fun way to improve your body and your swing, Yoga for Golf Conditioning is for you! Group classes are offered on Monday and Wednesday at 5:45 pm and Saturday at 9:15 am. Exercises and stretches are designed to improve mobility, strength, balance and cardiovascular health. You don't have to be a golfer to benefit, as the movement will also improve your overall quality of life.

For more information, please contact Joni Van Horn at (913) 226-4688 or email at joniv@lochlloyd.com.

- lance Darling 36

NOVEMBER AT THE FITNESS CENTER

- lance Darling

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