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NOTE FROM MIKE SIZEMORE

PRO-CHAMP TOURNAMENT

MAY BIRTHDAYS

GOLF TIP OF THE MONTH

FROM THE RECIPE BOOK

OF CHEF RICARDO ROBINSON

NOTE FROM RAY RASH

PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2012

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP

COUPLES’ MEMBER-GUEST

PHOTOS

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MAY 4 TRIVIA NIGHT

6:30 PM PGA COUNTRY CLUB

MAY 11

TRIVIA NIGHT 6:30 PM

PGA COUNTRY CLUB

MAY 18 COCKTAIL PARTY

5:30 PM PGA COUNTRY CLUB

MAY 25

PRIME RIB NIGHT BY RESERVATION

PGA COUNTRY CLUB

NOTE FROM MIKE SIZEMORE

By Mike Sizemore, PGA, Director of Operations Boy does time fly when you are having fun! It seems like it was just yesterday that our “Season” was just getting started, but reality is we have just finished another winter season here at PGA Golf Club. We hope you have all enjoyed your time here this season, and we have already began a process to make multiple improvements to ensure that you will enjoy your Club even more in the future. This summer will be a busy time of the year for our team. We will be working on almost all facets of the Club to improve service, product quality, and overall physical space(s). We couldn’t be more excited to get this work underway because we know that it will only make the Club Member experience even better in the future. Here is a quick summary of two major items on our “project list” that we have planned to start during this upcoming summer: 1. Complete cultural golf course maintenance programs on all four courses. This work will begin in May and once we start we will have one course closed every 15-17 days in rotation until late September. This will allow us to get all of the necessary aerification work done without being overly disruptive to golf course availability. Each course will get a full aerification twice during this period, which will give us an overall healthier “plant” to prepare playing surfaces. 2. Phase One of the Clubhouse Expansion Project at PGA Golf Club will begin. This first phase of construction will address one of our core needs, which is dedicated private dining space for our Club Members. This work will also include the transition of the current staging area into the planned Centennial Garden, as well as the creation of a new staging area located where the front putting green is currently located. There are also many more improvements to our facilities that will be included in this first phase of construction.

For those Club Members who will be away during the summer - we will keep you posted on our progress throughout the summer via the website, our newsletter, and our weekly e-newsletters. For those Club Members who will be with us during the summer you will get to see this metamorphosis first hand. If at any point you have any questions please feel free to ask our team.

PRIVATE CLUB MATTERS

MAY 2012

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PRO-CHAMP TOURNAMENT APRIL 21, 2012

Jim Herman Thrills Crowd, but Club Champs Win MatchJim Herman Thrills Crowd, but Club Champs Win MatchJim Herman Thrills Crowd, but Club Champs Win MatchJim Herman Thrills Crowd, but Club Champs Win Match

By Hank Cook All the theories about who would win a match between a Tour Pro and three amateur club champions will keep bubbling for another year. The amateurs prevailed in round one, year one. The crowd was treated to 14 birdies in 16 holes. Prodigious drives, superb second shots and terrific putting made for a fascinating match. Tour pro Jim Herman, who played from the back championship tees, 6901 total yards, outdrove his competitors by about 70 yards with the driver, 3-metal and 3 iron that he employed for first shots. The club champions; Rich Makoujy, Frank Martinez and Jim Burchell, played from the standard men’s tees at PGA Country Club, 5943 yards, approximately 1000 yards shorter than the “tips.” Advantage Herman. Second shots on par fours yielded an advantage for the amateurs with three opportunities to get it close versus Herman’s one. Herman’s best second shot on a par 4 came at the 409 yard fifth hole where his gap wedge hit the flagstick in the air. The flagstick acted like a slingshot and his ball ricocheted some 35 feet away, instead of the 2 or 3 foot “gimmee” he deserved. Two putts for par left the match even after five holes with both sides already producing two birdies each. The two sides played three par 5s. Herman’s great length left him with two chip shots and a putt after two shots. The amateurs played for position and had wedges for third shots. Herman got up and down twice and two putted to birdie all three par fives. Unfortunately for him, Rich Makoujy spoiled Herman’s fun by one putting for birdie on all three par fives! The par 3s were fascinating too. On number 2 Herman hit a four iron from 226 yards to about 25 feet. Jim Burchell hit a hybrid club from 172 on the same hole to just 3 feet. Herman’s putt touched the hole but slid just past for a three. Burchell’s putt caught the left side of the cup and went in for two. An almost identical scenario played out on number 7 but this time Herman’s putt dropped for a birdie. Burchell, just a foot or so closer, dropped his 25 footer on top of Herman’s to tie the hole. On the twelfth hole Herman’s twenty footer refused to fall and Makoujy dropped his ten footer to win another hole with a birdie. The amateurs lost their one up lead on the front side when Herman birdied the last three holes in a row. He made the turn with five birdies in the nine holes. Only a bogey on number six blemished his card. The amateurs had four birds on the front and their only bogey of the day on number nine. Herman had troubles on the back nine. His tee shot on the 384 yard tenth found a fairway bunker. He missed the green in a grass depression to the left of the green and after a pitch shot couldn’t get a seven footer to drop for a par. The amateurs went two up with Makoujy’s deuce on number twelve. On number fourteen Herman debated a safety shot with a three iron then opted for his three wood oK the tee. He hit it a bit right of the line he wanted and a bad bounce carried the ball into the edge of a Palmetto bush. With a severely restricted swing he could advance the ball only about twenty yards. His third shot left him a twenty foot putt from the back edge of the green that refused to drop and he went three down with four to play.

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Happy Birthday!

Susan Shreiber 1st Dave Gordon 2nd Robert Miner 4th John DiEgidio 7th Rick Rineberg 8th Jim Thomson 10th Carole Reidlich 11th Bonnie Snavely 11th Douglas Bliven 12th Harold Morris 13th Evelyn Mohr 14th Suzanne Hamilton 14th Charles Kaplan 17th

Mary Ann Sartoris 18th Lloyd Giardano 20th Barbara Rineberg 22nd JeKrey Deighan 23rd Monica Illuzzi 24th Roy Levin 26th Robert Babkie 26th Doris Brosek 27th Neal Frampton 28th Dianne Bryan 29th Steve Collins 29th William McLaughlin 31st

The fifteenth hole at PGA CC is a 425 yard par four from the back tee. Herman’s three wood and wedge put him 17 feet above the hole with a very fast and slippery green to negotiate. Herman conceded birdie to Makoujy, his fifth of the day. Burchell was also inside him and he picked up too. A miss would end the match. As his fellow competitors started tugging oK their gloves, Herman stepped up and gently stroked the putt. It slowly rolled down the green and right in to the left center of the cup. Herman’s seventh birdie in 15 holes! Herman was still alive. The end of the match came on the next hole, the sixteenth. The Jim Fazio design plays only 342 yards from the back and just 276 from the standard tees. The green is wide but very short from front to back. An environmentally protected area guards the entire width of the steeply sloped green. Both sides played lay up shots short of the hazard from their respective tees. Makoujy and Burchell hit first to about 8 feet and 12 feet respectively. Herman’s desperation shot hit high on the green and right over the flagstick. It bounced over before the backspin could bring it back to the hole. He was left with a delicate pitch up to the green which sloped quickly away about 10 feet to the pin. He had to sink the shot to extend the match. This time he couldn’t do it. The ball trickled past and the Champions had prevailed. In a post game interview Herman blamed bogeys he made for the loss. They were fateful in the one against three format of the match. Three bogeys for Herman and just one for the former club champs wound up being the critical margin in an exciting match which either side could have won or lost. A repeat date next year would be a welcome continuation for the lucky fans who viewed the inaugural match and the charities that split the $660 raised for Pars Fore Pink and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

FROM THE RECIPE BOOK OF CHEF RICARDO ROBINSON PANCAKES AND WHIP CREAM

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GOLF TIP OF THE MONTH LONG GREENSIDE BUNKER SHOT

By Jamie Fordyce, PGA I hear from many of my students that they have a lot of trouble playing a long bunker shot near the green. Most players either swing too hard at a shot like this and end up taking too much sand and leaving it short, or hit the center of the ball and end up over shooting the green. What you want to do is use a pitching or gap wedge, hit two inches behind the ball and try to keep the club moving low through the sand. This will keep the ball flight low so the ball will roll towards your target. 1. Don’t swing hard at the ball. 2. Use a pitching or gap wedge. 3. Swing the club low through the sand.

1. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a

bowl, then sift ingredients all together.

2. Mix in the eggs, buttermilk and 1 oz. melted butter

with the dry and sifted ingredients.

3. Whisk well until all lumps are dissolved and batter is

smooth.

4. Let batter rest for 15 minutes.

5. After batter has rested, heat up a large sauté pan on medium heat. 6. Add 3 oz. melted butter at a time to the sauté pan and pour 3 ounces of pancake batter into pan and cook pancakes for 90 seconds on each side until golden brown. 7. Continue procedure until all the pancake batter is used. 8. Top pancakes with whip cream and serve.

Yield: 7 Large Pancakes Whip Cream:Whip Cream:Whip Cream:Whip Cream: 1 pt. Heavy Whipping Cream 1 oz. Granulated Sugar 1. Combine heavy cream and sugar in a mixing bowl. 2. Mix on high speed with an electric mixer until cream reaches hard peaks. 3. Remove from bowl and refrigerate.

Pancakes:Pancakes:Pancakes:Pancakes: 8 oz. Bread Flour 1 Tbsp. Granulated Sugar 1 1/2 tsp. Baking Powder 2 Whole Beaten Eggs 2/3 tsp. Salt 12 oz. Buttermilk 1 oz. Melted Butter 12 oz. Melted Butter (For Cooking)

NOTE FROM RAY RASH

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By Ray Rash, PGA, Membership Manager Because of the old saying “A picture is worth 1000 words” I have written very few words in our last 3 monthly newsletters. As I looked back through those issues, I saw many smiling faces; whether all dressed up and attending one of our parties or as a participant in one of our golf tournaments. It is nice to see people enjoying themselves at PGA Golf Club. As I complete my first season as Membership Services Manager, I want to thank every member for their support of the club and our various oKerings. I am working with the newly formed Event Planning Group to establish the calendar for our next fiscal year that begins July 1st. That schedule will be posted on the website when it is complete. It is the goal of the group to provide the best possible experience in each of our activities. The group will have input on such things as format, menu, and entertainment for each event, striving to meet the needs of the majority of the membership. For you members that go north, I wish you a great summer and look forward to your

return in the fall. For those of you that are here year round, I hope to see you at the club

often, watching the exciting things that will get underway soon.

LILY LAI RON SHELDON

PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2012

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP 2012 APRIL 15, 2012

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(Left to Right) Tom LaFemina—Runner Up, Barb Pagana—Champion, Sue Colton—Runner Up, Roy Levin—Champion

MEN’S AND LADIES’ CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS

MEN

Championship Flight—Roy LevinRoy LevinRoy LevinRoy Levin

“A” Flight Tim McGee

“B” Flight Forrest Dial

“C” Flight Robert Fletcher

“D” Flight Seong Pyun

“E” Flight Bill Kane

“F” Flight Ken Brown

LADIES

Championship Flight—Barb PaganaBarb PaganaBarb PaganaBarb Pagana

“A” Flight Sheryl Babcock

“B” Flight Charlotte Clark

“C” Flight Theda Rucker

“D” Flight Norma Opgrand

COUPLES’ MEMBER-GUEST 2012 APRIL 28, 2012

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