August 2017 web by Private Club Marketing

AUGUST 2017

THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE — Steve Callaway, President July was another busy month at Sequoyah. We had a large turnout for the Fourth of July festivities. Taco Tuesday and the Thursday Family Buffet continue to be popular events and well attended. The big tournament of the month was the Clandestine. We had 84 members participating in the Clandestine. This tournament features a difficult alternate shot format — each team is only as strong as its weakest link. After five round robin matches, eight teams made it to the horse race finale. KJ Park and Mark Penskar dominated their round robin flight and won the horse race to become the 2017 Champions. Congratulations. We are excited to announce the hiring of a new general manager. Bryan Richardson comes to us after operating Sunol Golf Course for many years. Richardson has a strong background in course maintenance, course operations and restaurant operations. His primary focus will be the daily operations of Sequoyah and improving our processes, financial results, and the member experience. Please take a moment to welcome Bryan as he starts his expected long career at Sequoyah Country Club. The Board is working with Club Resources to refine their continuing engagement with Sequoyah CC. They provide significant insight and expertise to Sequoyah and provide vital leadership and contributions on membership, facilities improvements, and managing the operations through this challenging year of change.

Membership growth and retention is the Board’s priority. Through several targeted marketing campaigns, we have increased our prospect list to over 1,000 and currently have more than 100 prospective members in various stages of “discovery.” The monthly dues revenue is the financial lifeblood of the Club. We currently have 352 golf members. This includes Proprietary, Individual, Family, and Seniors. The Social and other categories add another 78 members. There are currently 48 families participating in the Summer Social membership program. The Board's target for member-

ship is 400 golf memberships and 200 social memberships. We need to add members, so please support the efforts of Bob Bodman and the Membership Committee. If you have a friend you think is interested, please contact Bob Bodman. August is going to be a great month at Sequoyah. We have the Ladies Invitational on the 16th – 18th. Competition has started for the 128 members participating in the Sequoyah Cup. Armando Sanchez, Course Superintendent, predicts great weather and course conditions. So, come out and enjoy your club.

PRO SHOP NEWS — By Brandon Huneke, PGA Professional Registration for the 2018 Mexico Trip is Now Open! BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

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You are all invited to relax in your very own 1,400 square foot luxurious suite at the Marival Resort — Nuevo Vallarta’s #1 ranked, 5-star, all-inclusive resort. Get ready to eat, drink, golf and relax… it’s all included! For $1,899 (+$329 golf package per person), you can’t afford not to go! We have been traveling to Mexico with ILT for over 10 years with happy customers. An email was sent out on August 30th giving more details regarding Continued on Page FIVE

WOMEN’S GOLF — Emily Gorin, Captain Birthday Bash! June 29 This dinner is going down in our history books as one of the best birthday dinners we’ve ever had. Our Social Chair Mary Ellen Tong, Sally from catering, and Chef Javier outdid themselves. We oooo’d and aahh’d as each course was beautifully presented. Chilled shrimp and lollipop lamb chops as appetizers set the bar high, as we enjoyed wine and cocktails poured by the versatile Tsring. But the night went from excellent to over-thetop as Andrea and Leticia provided the most excellent and efficient service as we dined on salad and filet mignon out on the beautiful patio off the Grill Room. The flower murals by Elaine Buchanan encircled us with beauty as we finished up our evening with a selection of delectable desserts.This was a Country Club experience in the best sense with good friends, excellent food, beautiful environment and outstanding service.

Town Hall – July 18 One thing the 18-Holers can all agree on is that we love this Club! We all have lots of opinions about what would make the Club stronger, what areas need improvement, and what we would do if we were in charge. Because we care so

Birthday Bash Merrymakers

much, we were particularly grateful for a Town Hall style meeting that President Steve Callaway arranged, along with Board of Directors Michael Stearns and Don Steffen, together with Robin Nelson. We left our pitchforks at home, and asked pointed questions instead. Steve was his usual diplomatic self in handling the robust exchange. The hot topics included expectations of the new General Manager, strengthening new member orientation, clubhouse changes, and (weirdly) the popcorn machine which was symbolic of a few bigger issues.

Trophy Day – July 18 Trophy Day is our monthly tournament in which the low-net overall winner and the low-putts winner earn a coveted spot in the Trophy Day play-off in November. Results for July Trophy Day: Overall Winner – Bev Steffen Low Putts – Hazel Willacy 1ST FLIGHT 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place

Pam Phippin Tracey Perkins Ellen Jaffe

2ND FLIGHT 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place

Janet Kirk Marta Parker Dee Dee Appleton

Tuesday, August 1 Trophy Day, 8:30 am shotgun Tuesday, August 8 Match Play, 8:30 am shotgun Tuesday, August 15 Play Day, 8:30 shotgun Wed. Aug. 16 – Fri. Aug. 18 Ladies Invitational – Arirang! Tuesday, August 22 Mini Solheim, 8:30 am shotgun Tuesday, August 29 Fun Day Tournament, 8:30 am shotgun Summer of Love Social – July 23 They are the “Theme Queens!” Weekend Social Chairs Melissa McDonald and Lucinda Newcomb, who weren’t even born yet for the Summer of Love, nevertheless rocked the Summer of Love social event they organized. Ladies channeled their inner-flower child and had a groovy time decked out in tie-dye, peace signs and love beads. Kari Hovland and Diana Tan were the winning partners in this casual shamble format event, and Velma Magnani won best costume.

Steve Callaway at Town Hall

Team Play Buffet

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Town Hall

Feelin" Groovy at the "Summer of Love" social

NINER NEWS — Molly Natsues, Secretary "Golf balls are like eggs. They're white. They're sold by the dozen and you need to buy fresh ones each week." — unknown Well we may not actually buy balls by the dozen every week, especially if you have been a part of our Niner Team Play as we WON our division! Congrats to everyone who assisted through these past couple of months. Your time and dedication does not go unnoticed and it has been so appreciated. Team Play Results Sequoyah 81.0 Morgaga 55.0 Stonebrae 72.5 Round Hill 51.0 Marin 65.5 Rossmoor 51.0

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NINER’S UPCOMING EVENTS

We had a great time on Sunday, July 9th, The weather was warm and dinner on the patio was perfect! Congratulations to the following couples and individuals:

AUGUST 10 Team Play Championship at Pine Mountain Lake GC

1st Place Team: Lisa & Gerry Bajada and Neva & Jim Thompson

AUGUST 11 Twilight Golf 5:30 pm

2nd Place Team: Buffy & Jeff Ross, Diane & Bruce Del Fante

AUGUST 23, 25 & 30 Tournament of Champions

3rd Place Team: Teresa & Ces Butner and Mary Folzman & Mark Cunningham Men's Straightest Drive: David Tu Men's Closest-to-the-Hole: Bill Levey Women's Straightest Drive and Cloesetto-the-Hole: Neva Thompson

Tournament of Champions Now is that time of year when we throw our Tournament of Champions

AUGUST 26 & 27 Mixed Couple's Club Championship competition. The TOC determines our Niner Champion (low gross) plus our best players in all three flights. The tournament is held over three days: Wednesday, August 23rd, Friday, August 25th and the final round is on Wednesday, Continued on Page FIVE

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Birthday lunch celebration: Neva Thompson, Rosalie Schoenweiler and Diane Del Fante (Careen Carter in abstentia)

Marin Team Play: Esther Thal, Joan Cannon, Mary Flozman, Stephanie Hulka, Sue Caro, Lisa Bajada & Susan Fox

AUGUST 2017

SENIOR NEWS — Mike Erickson Our Seniors had a very busy month of July that started on July 6th with the Senior Invitational. Again, thanks to Benton Gross — this was a very special event that encompassed good food, good golf and a post event celebration. The 1st Flight was won by Marc Cunningham and his partner, Mike Biggar and 2nd Flight by Bruce Del Fante and Bob Kron. Second place in the 1st Flight had Pat Romani and Barry Brynjulson winning while in the 2nd Flight, Tex Phippin and Randy Coon won. Third place in the 1st Flight had Benton Gross and Rob Ziman as winners while finally Mike Erickson and Wayne Harbert won something in the 2nd Flight. We had Away events at Rossmoor on July 12th, Marin on July 19th, and Crow Canyon on July 26th. In August, we have an event each week starting with a Home event on August 3rd hosting Palo Alto, Rossmoor and Crow Canyon. This is a lunch and dinner event and is an opportunity to show off our beautiful course to these visitors. We then go to Castlewood, Round Hill and Green Valley along with hosting Round Hill and Claremont on the 24th. A special note is how our Senior players won first and second place and almost third place in the Member/Member Tournament. The total point winner and the winners of the horserace were Mark Penskar and K.J. Park while second in total points and second in the horserace was the team of Mike Erickson and John Jeffords. Many of our other Seniors carried the banner well. Good Job You Old Guys! It is rumored that with this win, K.J., Mike and Mark have surpassed the 2017 winnings of one of our esteemed Seniors. His last name begins with the second letter in the alphabet.

SEQCC @ Rossmoor – July 12th 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

Patriarca, Mike Pope, Ben Fanning, Chuck Anderson, Jim Shand, Eric Cantacessi, Bruce

114 pts $31 115 pts 25 117 pts 20 118 pts 13 118 pts 13 120 pts 8

CTP #16 George Cheng @ 5' 5" CTP #2 Benton Gross @ 26'

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2017 SEQUOYAH SENIOR SCHEDULE DAY DATE Red=Home | Black=Away

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Thurs

3-Aug

Rossmoor, PAHCC and Crow Canyon @ SCC*