THE VILLAGE CLUB OF SANDS POINT OCTOBER 2019 - newsletter 1 THAYER LANE, SANDS POINT, NY 11050 | 516.944.7400 | WWW.VILLAGECLUB.ORG
IN THIS ISSUE… Contents Message from our general manager MEMBERSHIP UPDATE THE VCSP WEBSITE Golf NEWS GOLF COURSE UPDATE RACQUET SPORTS UPDATE grille opening hours Chefs corner Food & beverage update Upcoming events
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Mansion office 516.944.7400 Grille reservations 516.944.7207 Golf pro shop 516.944.7840 Tennis pro shop 516.944.7843 Pool 516.944.5213 ACCOUNTING 516.944.5438
MEMBERSHIP UPDATE WELCOME NEW MEMBERS- September 2019 PLATFORM MEMBERSHIP
DISCOVER MEMBERSHIP Wayne & Leslie Hauser Charles & Meridith Krell Mitchell & Gina Deleonardis Ira & Carol Fishman David & Arleziana Lapter Michael & Angela Deleonardis Ken & Susan Lippe
Jane & Simon Walsh Andrea Portinoy Jamie & Matthew Levenson
MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL We hope you have enjoyed the 2019 season here at the Village Club of Sands Point. We value and appreciate you being a member of this community and look forward to sharing the Club’s upcoming season with you. You should have received an email highlighting the upcoming 2020 Membership Dues and a renewal application form. We will also be sending this to you via regular mail as well. We ask all members to complete a renewal form with their intentions for 2020. This can now be submitted online! Login to the membership portal at www.villageclub.org using your credentials. The form can be found in the “Quick Links” section called “2020 Membership Renewal Form”. Alternatively, you can return the form to the club either in person or by mail. Guest Passes and Prepaid incentives • •
Members paying their annual dues in full prior to December 1st,2019 will receive 6 guest passes for their membership category. Members paying their annual dues in full prior to January 1st ,2020 will receive 4 guest passes for their membership category.
We look forward to your continued membership and participation, and a successful 2020 season. 3
The village club of sands point new website We are delighted to announce the release of the new Village Club of Sands Point Website,www.villageclub.org As well as providing an improved marketing platform to promote the club, we hope you enjoy a new and improved user experience in the membership portal. We strongly suggest uploading a profile picture of you and your family to your account to help our staff. This can be achieved in the "My Profile" section. New and Improved features include:Online Tee Time Reservations for Golf ❖ Online Weekend Chit Submission for Golf Tee Times ❖ Up-to-date and latest information on events and news around the club ❖ Online reservations for certain events ❖ Ability to customize shareable profile information ❖ Member Roster ❖ Archived Newsletters ❖ Updated Policy and Procedure Member Handbook ❖ Future 2020 Membership Renewal
We will continue to add more and more features to the website, so stay tuned for latest updates. If you have any issues, feedback, and suggestions, we would love to hear from you. Please contact Kevin Dudleston at kevin@villageclub.org Kevin Dudleston, PGA Director of Membership Sales and Marketing 4
Golf News The Golf Season is finishing up with a bang! The Club Championships were a success with great turnout and a lot of close matches. Chad Stone won his sixth straight Club Championship defeating Marc Grossman in the finals. Rachael Liebman won her second straight Women’s Championship defeating Grace Gordon in the finals. Other winners from the other flights included: Kevin Graham Def. Teddy Chen Jeff Holtzman Def. Craig Pastolove Ken Elan Def. Larry Dolin Deb Josephs Def. Linda Akers The Ryder Cup was played the first weekend in October and once again we had a record number of participants. The Blue team won for the 5th consecutive year in a very close match against the Red Team!
Please note that we will be giving lessons all winter upstairs about the golf shop. We have a launch monitor and video software to help improve your game. It will also be open in ½ hour segments for you to hit balls and practice. See Karl for more details. 5
Golf Course Update It’s that time of the year when we shift our focus from mowing and start on our fall projects. Here is a list of upcoming agronomical processes the course will be undergoing. All these processes are a necessity to help the golf course recover and strengthen after a long season of wear and tear. October 28th- We will begin to renovate the 11th and 16th fairways. Each hole will be shut down during the initial renovation. Once the area is finished and ready for sod, we will open the hole and the disturbed area will be roped off and left as ground under repair. These areas are not to be entered under any circumstances. We will collect the golf balls gathered inside the roped off area and they will be placed in a container outside the proshop. We will also begin the process of verticutting our fairways. This is a helpful process that helps to tear out older mature grasses and leaves behind the younger smaller plants allowing for a more dense and uniform turf. November 4th – We will be aerifying Greens, Collars, Approaches and Tees. This is a lengthy process and will last most of the week. Instead of closing the course, we just ask that if you come to a hole where workers are present, please skip the hole or use a different tee box if they are working on the one you tee off from. This process will be much more invasive than what most of you are used to. The greens will be playable after we finish the process, but the holes will be much larger and much more sand will left on the surface. I feel we made great strides over the last year on our putting surfaces. This aerification will allow us to improve the putting surfaces even further. .
November 11th – We will begin to aerify the Fairways. This will be a long process that require us to aerify, drag the plugs to break up the soil from them, blow all the organic matter in to piles and remove all organic matter with our new vacuum. Its ok to drive across a fairway after it has been aerified and the plugs are still there. While we are aerifying, dragging and cleaning we ask that you skip the hole and move on to the next one. These machines work well but do slow at a slow pace. The aerifier moves at approximately 1 mph and having to stop every 10 minutes to allow a golf to play through slows down the process significantly. I hope to see you all out there squeezing in a few more rounds before the weather takes a turn for the worst. If you ever have any questions, feel free to stop me or send an email to golfcourse@villageclub.org 6
Racquet Sports Update Congratulations to Angela LaManna and Katie Schneider on winning The Sally Tournament held on October 10th in Scarsdale NY which benefits Children’s Village in Dobbs Ferry, NY. 32 teams competed and Angela and Katie beat the #2 seed in route to the finals! Congratulations also to Sue Tarzian and her partner Kelly Brown Cobbs for placing 5th in the Lake Tournament held on October 11th in Franklin Lakes New Jersey. They lost in the Quarter Finals and won the reprieve. Columbus Day and Court 2 Columbus Day is Monday, October 14th and social play is treated as a weekend. The courts cannot be reserved before 11:30am Court 2 will be resurfaced on Tuesday, October 15th(weather permitting) and will be closed for 5 days to dry before it can be played on. Complimentary Introduction to Paddle Clinics If you are new to the game or would like to try it out please join me on Sunday, October 20th from 12-1pm. Paddle Round Robins We will be organizing social round robins in October every Sunday from 10:00-11:30am. All levels welcome. Platform Tennis Instruction Pointer Too many times we find ourselves as the receiving team down 0-30 because of missed returns. It is so important to make the return to get the point started. The three important things for a successful return of serve are: Keep your backswing short-avoid the big backswing it will throw off your timing and you will find yourself hitting late. It also allows the server to get to the net quicker. Take your feet to the ball-too many times we stand on the baseline stagnant and let the ball play us. Keep your swing smooth and take the ball at the peak of the bounce. Aiming over the center net strap will cut out unforced errors. 7
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October Grille Opening Hours Hours of Operation CALL 516.944.7207 FOR RESERVATIONS
WEDNESDAY: 11:30AM –4:00PM Bar Open to 7:00pm
THURSDAY: 11:30AM – 4:00PM Bar Open to 7:00pm
FRIDAY: 11:30AM – 9:00PM SATURDAY: 11:30am – 9:00PM SUNDAY: 11:30AM – 8:00PM
FOOD & BEVERAGE UPDATE Chef’s corner The colder days of autumn are finally here and have brought with them many changes at the Grille. We introduced our Fall menu in September and have been receiving some great feedback. Everyone seems to be excited about the new food items and the return of some of the seasonal favorites. The VCSP Culinary Team and I are looking forward to the upcoming events at the Mansion, hope to see you there. Remember to eat, drink and be merry, Bon appetite, Chef Jack
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FOOD & BEVERAGE UPDATE With the successful end of Summer Party last month with over 170 members and guests enjoying our Dueling Pianos event, we are now excited to celebrate our fall festivities with our membership We have two great Halloween events planned, our Halloween Brunch for all the little ghosts and ghouls, will take place on Sunday, October 24th. Including a DJ, games, goodies, pumpkin patch and a costume contest! We are calling all souls to join us on Saturday, November 2nd for this year’s Adult Halloween event themed Day of the Dead. With open bar, DJ, Haunted House and a photo booth. We encourage you to come dressed in your deadliest or Halloween best! For food, we will be serving passed hors d’oeuvres with late night food stations and dessert. Click here for more details Please keep an eye out for our save the date email which will be going out shortly, including the rest of the events for the season. Along with our Roaring 20’s party on January 25th. Ashley Romanelli Food & Beverage Director
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