Hilaman Women`s Golf Association

Hilaman Women’s Golf Association
April 2013
Vol. 3, No 2
http://www.hilamangolf.com
Welcome Mike Durst
to Hilaman!
President: Janice Mazza
Vice President: Rachel Durland
Past President: Janie Herold
Secretary: Debby Musgrave
Treasurer: Jean Albritton
Mike can teach
anyone to play golf!
Thank you for the opportunity to
introduce myself to you. I am excited to be a part
of the staff at Hilaman Golf Club and offer golf
instruction as the new teaching professional.
Many of you may know me from my time as the
Head Golf Professional at Killearn Country Club
from 2001 to 2004 and as the Head Pro at
SouthWood Golf Club the last nine years.
You may not know that I started in the golf industry back in 1990 in Palm
Springs Ca, and spent four years as the Head Pro at Lake Tahoe Golf Course
before moving to Tallahassee in 2001. I have been a PGA professional since
1997 and have always enjoyed teaching and promoting the game.
I am very excited to be focusing on teaching and helping to bring new players
into the game thru our Get Golf Ready group classes. I will also be offering
special programs to the members at Hilaman, including complimentary clinics
and discounts on individual and group lessons. Please check out the Lessons
Tab at www.hilaman.com or email me at mikedurst@pga.com for information
on our lesson programs.
“A two-foot putt
counts the same as a
two-foot drive.
The stages of golf are
Sudden Collapse,
Radical Change,
Complete Frustration,
Slow Improvement,
Brief Mastery, and
Sudden Collapse.
I am currently promoting a Spring Lesson Special called “Four Steps to Better
Scores” guaranteed to improve your game and lower your scores. The details
and pricing can be found on the Lesson page and will be posted in the locker
rooms at the club. A great feature of this program is you can do it as an
individual, a couple, a parent/junior or a group of up to four people.
If you have any questions about your game, golf equipment or the game in
general feel free to contact me by phone at 850-210-3680 or at my email listed
above.
Thank You,
Mike Durst, PGA
Play Day Winners
January 15
Janie Herold and Kit Fisher (tie)
Rachel Durland
Debbie Musgrave – chip-in
March 5
Kit Fisher 1st
Mary Whitmire
Group 1
Group 2
2nd
Rachel Durland –Play Day Coordinator
Upcoming Events
April 2 – Hilaman’s Invitational
April 5 – Par 3 Night Golf at Hilaman
April 9 – Monthly meeting
April 11- Big Bend (Killearn) ; Golden Girls (Golden Eagle)
April 25 – Jack & Jill Jake Gaither
(8:30 shot gun) Email Rosie if you plan to play… rosiek@embarqmail.com
May 1 – Ladies May Golf Tournament (Glen Arven)
May 7 – Monthly meeting
May 21- Net Shelfer Tournament – 2 lady best ball (Havana)
May 31 – Celebrate America Tournament (Hilaman)
Hilaman Ladies Invitational
Our Invitational was a great success! We had 20 teams with 2 flights. Everyone had a great time
on an especially beautiful golf day. The HWGA would like to thank Jan Auger for all the golf balls and
towels she gave to each participant for the great shoe prices! Without Jan’s help we would not be able to
put on such a great event. As always, Geri Bucheit made us proud to be members of such a wellmaintained and beautiful golf course.
Thank you to all the ladies that brought in breakfast and dessert and for all their help preparing
for the tournament. A special thank you to Rachel Durland for the beautiful flowers and decorations.
We can always count on Rachel’s talent to make things look so nice! Thanks to Janie Herold for the
wonderful chocolate fountain. It was a great hit with all the ladies! Last, but not least, a special thank
you to Pat Huott! Pat came early and helped set up breakfast and while we all played and enjoyed our
selves, Pat set up things for lunch. When we finished playing everything was ready and melted
chocolate was flowing in the fountain!
“The odds of hitting a duffed shot increase by the square of the number of people watching”
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Annika
Sorenstam
"I am a person that's all or nothing. If I can't be on
top, because I have been there, then I don't know if
I can handle that. I don't like finishing in the middle.
I never have."
Swedish golfer Annika Sorenstam is one of the best golfers to set foot on the green. She
won the first two U.S. Opens that she competed in and has been inducted into the World Golf Hall
of Fame. "I'm very proud about what I've done and pleased about my career," she told Golf World.
By June of 2004 she had fifty-two victories to her credit, ranking her in sixth place among the best
players in golf history.
Chose golf over tennis
Annika Sorenstam was born on October 9, 1970, in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father, Tom,
was an executive for IBM. Both her parents were athletically inclined, and participated in several
sports including track and field, handball, basketball, and golf. As a youth Sorenstam most enjoyed
playing tennis. She participated in her first tennis tournament at age five, but by age sixteen she
began to feel burned out on the sport. She had begun playing golf at age twelve, and now turned
her energies toward this sport. Golf, she found, suited her better than tennis. "In tennis, you always
have to have a partner.... In golf, I could be on my own," she told SI.com. She qualified for the
Swedish junior national team, and her career took off from there.
In 1990 Sorenstam was offered an athletic scholarship to the University of Arizona at
Tuscon. In her freshman year she won the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) golf
championship and was also named College Player of the Year. She left school after her second
year in order to play golf professionally. She went to Europe, qualifying for the European Women's
Tour in 1993. She was named Rookie of the Year on that tour. The following year she qualified for
the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) and earned the title of Rookie of the Year. In
1995 Sorenstam finished in the top ten for seven of the eleven tournaments and then won the U.S.
Women's Open, which is the most prestigious event in women's golf. That same year she was
awarded the Vare Trophy, given to the player with the lowest scoring average of the season, and
was named LPGA Player of the Year.
After working so hard for all her achievements in the early 1990s, Sorenstam needed a
break. She gave herself until mid-March of 1996 before returning, refreshed, to the golf circuit.
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Once again, she won the Women's Open, as well as the Vare Trophy—this time with
the second lowest score ever (70.47), next to Beth Daniels who finished 1989 with an
average score of 70.38. She also won the Samsung World Championship of Golf and the
CoreStates Betsy King Classic. Sorenstam made the top ten in fourteen tournaments and
finished in the top five seven times.
No women's golfer had ever won at the U.S. Open three times in a row. In 1997 the pressure
was on Sorenstam to do just that. Although she performed admirably that year, with six
wins—the Chrystler-Plymouth Tournament of Champions, the Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies
Open, the Longs Drug Challenge, the Michelob Light Classic, the CoreStates Betsy King
Classic, and the ITT LPGA Tour Championship—she could not pull off another Women's
Open win. Her top rival that year was Kerrie Webb, who took the 1997 Vare Trophy. But the
competition inspired Sorenstam to work harder, and she was once more named the LPGA
Rolex Player of the Year.
In 1998 Sorenstam reclaimed the Vare Trophy,
breaking Beth Daniels' record by finishing the year
with an average score under seventy. She won five
more championships: the Safeco Classic, the
Michelob Light Classic, the ShopTire LPGA
Classic, and the JAL Big Apple Classic. The
following year she won only one tournament, but in
2000 she performed at top level, winning five
championships.
In 2003 Sorenstam became the first woman
to play in a Professional Golf Association (PGA)
event in fifty-eight years. That May she competed
in the Bank of America Colonial. However, not all of
her fellow players appreciated her presence. Two
weeks before the tournament, Vijay Singh said,
according to SI.com, "I hope she misses the cut."
Although Sorenstam did fail to make the final cut, she found the experience invaluable,
feeling that she had come away from the Colonial a better player. She called the event "the
greatest thing that will ever happen to me, golfwise," as quoted by Steve Elling ofthe
Knight/Ridder Tribune News Service. "The pressure I was under, I figured if I can handle that,
I should be able to handle everything."
Extra credit: Sorenstam is 5'6" tall... She married David Esch, then an executive at
Callaway Golf, on 4 January 1997; they were divorced in 2005... Her career victories have
automatically qualified Sorenstam for the sport's Hall of Fame... Her dominance of the
women's tour was often compared to Tiger Woods's dominance of the PGA in the same era...
Sorenstam attended the University of Arizona... Her sister Charlotta also is an internationalclass golfer... Mike McGee became managing director of Sorenstam's business brand in
2006. He is the son of former pro golfer Jerry McGee.
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Big Bend Golf League
2012 – 2013 Play dates
All start times: 9:30 AM
Golf Club
2012
Wildwood CC
850-926-4653
Thursday, August 23rd
Cario Golf Club
229-377-4506
Tuesday, September 11th
Capital City CC
850-224-1815
Thursday, September 27th
Glen Arven CC
229-226-1780
Wednesday, October 10th
Golden Eagle CC
850-668-1071
Thursday, October 25th
Havana CC
850-539-6767
Monday, November 19th
Hilaman Golf Club
850-891-3935
Tuesday, December 4th
2013
Wildwood
Thursday, January 17th
Killearn CC
850-893-2144
Thursday, February 21st
Golf Club of Quincy
850-627-9631
Tuesday, March 12th
Southwood CC
850-942-4653
Tuesday, March 26th
Killearn Make-up
Thursday, April 11th
Summerbrooke CC
850-894-4653
Tuesday, April 16th
“FUN DAY” @ Wildwood CC
850-926-4653
Thursday, May 9th
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(Make-up)
Specials at Jake Gaither Golf Course:
Ladies Special every Thursday - $13 with cart
Senior Special Monday and Wednesday (55 and over) - $13 with cart
Everyday Special is only $20 with cart
Annual and Premium Members can play any day for a $10 cart fee.
Jake Gaither is open daily at 7:30 A.M. except on Tuesdays it opens at 11:00 A.M.
Rosie Keween
Supervisor of Golf Operations
Golf Rules
Almost each time you are on the course an occasion will occur when you are
unsure of the golf rule that applies in a situation. One of the core functions of the
USGA is to write and interpret the Rules of Golf. They now have a video series online
that explains many of the rules of golf. I have watched several of these segments and
they are well worth your time. Examples include Play the Course as You Find It,
Abnormal Ground Conditions, Ball Unplayable, Nearest Point of Relief, Provisional Ball,
etc. Check it out at: http://www.usga.org/Rules.aspx?id=7788
If your driver is hot, your putter will be ice cold; if you can hit your
irons, you will top your woods; if you are keeping your right elbow
tucked in, your head will come up.
GHIN Moblie App
GHIN Mobile is the official app of the Golf Handicap and Information Network
(GHIN), a service of the United States Golf Association. Post your score directly
from your Android Phone or IPhone, view your official USGA Handicap Index®,
play with partners and calculate shots off, view your most recent scores and
information, use the Interactive Course Handicap™ Calculator and Handicap Index
lookup and so much more. Download this app (which is free) to your phone.
The bluebirds are nesting! If you would like to help out and
“adopt” a nest to monitor, contact Geri Buchheit at
geribuchheit@yahoo.com or Hilaman 891-3935.
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