Greendale Women's Golf Association, Alexandria, Va

SPRING TUNEUP AT TOP GOLF – Tune-up your swing early and socialize at top golf with your Greendale golf buddies!  Watch for a sign-up to come out in the next few days and sign up for the fun!   Don’t worry about the weather, the heated driving range area is covered, and the staff serves hot chocolate!

SPRING MEETING:  Be sure you have this on your calendar:
Thursday, March 17, 2016, 2 p.m.
Kingstowne Library, 6500 Landsdowne Centre Drive,
Alexandria, VA 22315

FLORIDA FUN – These GWGA golfers warmed up in the Florida sunshine while playing at 6 different courses.  A big thank you to Lucinda for organizing.

GWGA BOARD MEETING – Your board will meet on March 10 to prepare for the Spring Meeting.

GWGA members, some of you may be interested in attending this coffee and possibly joining this Tuesday league at Fort Belvoir.  Below is information they sent us:

FORT BELVOIR – LADIES GOLF ASSOCIATION OPENING COFFEE
The ladies league will be hosting an Opening Coffee and General Membership meeting on Tuesday, March 29, 2016 from 9 to 11 am at the Fort Belvoir Golf Club. You are invited to attend and find out more about our league. We play on Tuesday mornings April through October. Annual dues are $65.00.

Please let our Social Chair, Kim Kohler, jinhyo322@hotmail.com or President, Ginger Poole, ginger.poole121@verizon.net know if you can attend. The deadline for sign up is Monday, March 21, 2016.

Click here to open a 2016 League schedule.

Click here to open a printable flyer.

Click here for additional background on the Fort Belvoir League.

I look forward to seeing all of you at our Greendale spring meeting:
Thursday, March 17, 2016, 2 p.m.
Kingstowne Library, 6500 Landsdowne Centre Drive,
Alexandria, VA 22315

Sally

Happy New Year GWGA golfers!  Your board is looking forward to the season ahead.  Currently we have 49 paid members and hope to have a few more new people after the Spring Meeting.   For those who have paid, your handicap accounts will be activated and ready to go on our first league play date.

If you are reading this as a potential new member interested in our league, please check out our web pages, then contact our membership chair, Jeanie, and she will provide you with more information about our league, answer your questions and tell you how to proceed.  You may contact her at greendale@cox.net or 703-548-7334.

Mark your calendar with these dates: 

February 14 sign up deadline for Trip to The Woods in WV May 17-19:  This promises to be a great trip, and it is only about a 90 minute drive!  Rough cost if 16 people go is approximately $225.  This includes three days of golf and two nights of lodging. Cottages have full kitchens. Last year we ate breakfast at the cottages, some packed lunches, others ate at the club house.  We may dine out for dinner. If you want to go let Lucinda angelsrwus@gmail.com know ASAP and she will provide you more information about making a deposit before February 15th.

GWGA Spring Meeting, Thursday, March 17, 2016,  2 p.m.
Kingstowne Library, 6500 Landsdowne Centre Drive,
Alexandria, VA 22315

April 3 – first signup to be published.

April 7 – first day of league play.

Other news:

• Watch for future announcements about Top Golf winter fun.
• Penn National Trip October 17-19 – Carey Durham is planning this one and will begin taking reservations at the Spring meeting.  If you cannot attend the spring meeting for some reason and you are interested in going, please contact Carey carey48@comcast.net prior to the meeting.
• We are having winter golf escape to Kissimmee, Florida, scheduled for Jan 21-28, with 8 GWGA golfers participating.  Thank you to Lucinda for planning this.

Cheers to all, hope to see you on the golf course soon!   Sally

Before you review the results, please be aware that a golfer can only win one championship tournament award. The purpose of that policy is not to usurp recognition from the true winners, rather the purpose is to ensure that one person does not walk away with all the money.

The awards for which a person can only win one include:

Club Champion
Low Net Champion
Flight Champions
Low Putts

• The contests (closest to pin/long drive) are not included, so a member can win both an award listed above and all of the contests in the member’s flight.
• Ringer award is not part of the championship so members can win both one of the above and the ringer award.
• Most improved is also not part of the championship, so members can win both one of the above and most improved.

When the championship computer program runs and the numbers indicate more than one win for a person, the person is given the award that has the higher dollar value and the golfer next in line receives the other award. 

So to fairly recongize the true winners, please look at the data rankings, you will see the true rankings based on scores, and it may look a little different than the list of winners, and you will know the reason for that.  Also, when there is a tie, the tie is broken by comparing score on the most difficult ranked hole, and if still tied, it compares on the next most difficult hole, etc.

Click this link and scroll down the page/calendar to Championship 3, on September 24.  Then open whichever report you wish to see.  There is a list of winners, and 3 separate reports, one for gross, one for net and one for putts.   Again, due to the “one championship tournament award” rankings may appear to be different than the list of winners.

— Sally