FEBRUARY 2017
THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE — Steve Callaway, President Fellow Members, We had a large turnout for the first Crab Feed of the season and the Committee Member reception and thank you. The success of our club is dependent on the members supporting Sequoyah financially and with our leadership. Everyone interested is encour-
aged to join a committee. We need your input and valuable contributions. If you have an interest in contributing to the success of Sequoyah, please contact Ken Kelley. Let us know how you would like to volunteer and we welcome your help. The BIG VOTE is due Thursday, February 9th. If you are a Proprietary member and have not received a ballot, please contact the office. Ken or CJ will get you a ballot. We want everyone to vote. This
PRO SHOP NEWS — By Brandon Huneke, PGA Professional With a new golf level of pride and Please remember to take season right ownership around the corner, members at care of your golf course I would like to private clubs tend while playing. Filling divots to have of their stress the importance of facility, as they and repairing your ball course should be. They marks will help keep the maintenance. also take more While learning to and course in pristine condition responsibility play the game in care for their throughout the season. high school, I did course since they not really have a know they will be mentor. I played coming back time with friends at public facilities and, if I and again and want to play on a wellrecall correctly, I don’t think I was manicured course in great condition. aware that there were sand and seed As we start the year, I would like every bottles on golf carts or on tee boxes. The one of you to think about your dedicaonly course maintenance that I took tion to keeping the course in great part in was repairing ball marks on the shape: putting surface — and I was doing it the Do you fill every divot? wrong way! This could be one of the reasons that, generally speaking, private Do you look for others around yours courses are in better shape than public that you can fill? It literally takes a or municipal facilities. Some people just couple seconds to do this and is haven’t been educated in maintaining extremely beneficial. Continued on Page FOUR the course. Another reason could be the
vote is critical to our club’s future stability and growth potential. The facility amenities we are adding plus the additional programing will allow us to attract additional members. We seek both golf and social members. The key is increasing our monthly dues revenue. This will spread the overhead and operating costs over as many members as possible. We are going through technology upgrades at the Club. This includes emails and phone systems. Director Steve Hart is working closely with management to implement improvements. We understand many members have experienced communication problems related to these upgrades. We hope these issues will disappear in the months ahead. Please, if you encounter any issue, let us know. We cannot fix the situation unless we know the problem. The additional programming includes more dining opportunities at Sequoyah. These are family-focused events with child care available for our younger families. Please see the calendars on pages 5 and 6 for additional dining opportunities at your club in this newsletter. We look forward to seeing you at Sequoyah. The first large tournament of the year is less than three and a half months away. The Men’s Invitational is Thursday – Friday, May 18 – 20, 2017. Please mark your calendar and sign up. This is the best tournament and party of the year. It is your opportunity to show off your club and treat your best friend to a great weekend at Sequoyah CC. If you have questions, please contact Director Marc Cunningham. Make the commitment to come enjoy your club this month. You deserve it.