Orlando events July 5th and 6th @ Celebration and SugarLoaf Mountain

The Orlando tour gets back into the swing of things on the 4^th of July weekend with two great events. First on Saturday we will be at Celebration Golf Club to play the perfectly manicured course. Celebration is a great layout and will challenge you to play your best. Tee Times begin at 8am and we have space for 72 players. I will post practice round information as soon as it becomes available. Sunday brings us to the 5^th stop on the Sunday Series and it is a special one to be sure. Sugarloaf mountain is a spectacular new course set in the hills of Mineola and will be a treat to play for everyone. The event is limited to 40 players unless we have some quick sign-ups this week and then I may be able to get a few more tee times from the course. We currently have 22 players signed up for the event. Please sign up early for this one so you don’t miss out on playing one of the best courses I have ever seen. I was out there Monday and was blown away by the track. They are offering practice rounds for $55 plus tax and you need to be registered for the event to play a practice round.

The Sunday series has reached the midway point and the standings are below. There is still plenty of time for players to climb the leaderboard as up to 175 points are at stake in each flight at every event. The top 3 point earners for the series will earn bonuses of $300, $200 and $100 in TGW Gift Certificates.

SUNDAY SERIES STANDINGS
1. Richard Newman 430 points

2. Bill Raub 340 points

3. Bryan Powe 330 points

3. Lou Savinetti 330 points

5. Murray Miller 310 points

6. Allen Huff 285 points

7. Brian McDonald 280 points

8. Bill Coy 270 points

9. Ben Delaney 260 points

10. Gary Marx 255 points

11. Joe Lallier 240 points

12. Vince Jarrell 235 points

I hope everyone has dried out from the Florida Open week and I look forward to seeing everyone on the holiday weekend!

Sean Steele

Director of Golf

Jacksonville & Orlando

904-246-0473 office

904-333-9391 cell

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Orlando Kissimmee Bay and Eagle Creek Wrap- Up

We had our first shotgun of the season Saturday at Kissimmee Bay and it made for a very quick day with the average group playing in about 4hours and 35 minutes and the entire event wrapped up around 1:15. With the combined Stableford / Stroke Play format in use this weekend we had some very exciting play and very close scoring both for the flights and the stableford. The results are below as well as the standing for the Sunday Series points as we have reached the halfway point of that series. The next Sunday event has been moved from Hawks Landing to the new SugarLoaf Mountain course in Mineola. I have limited space for that event and the course is not to be missed if you can fit it into your schedule. I will send a separate email out later today detailing that event on July 6^th! This week’s Sunday at Eagle Creek had some great scoring and a few members had their rounds of the year. The Hogan flight had a 3-way playoff with Kevin Taber coming out on top while the Palmer flight also went to a playoff with Bryan Powe edging Brian McDonald.

KISSIMMEE BAY June 14^th

FLIGHT WINNERS:

CHAMPIONSHIP Mike Amato

PALMER Bryan Powe

HOGAN Butch Benton

SARAZEN Brent Blandford

JONES Randy Smathers

SNEAD Rob Cable

STABLEFORD EVENT

1. Bryan Powe    +16 * won scorecard playoff

2. Vince Jarrell    +16

3. Al Hanif         +15

4.Brent Blandford +15

5.Andre Williams  +14

6. Mike Amato     +13

7. Gary Williams +12

8. Brian Rock       +12

SKINS:

There were 5good skins for $125 each

Vince Jarrell (2), Al Hanif, Gary Williams, Bill Parks

SPACE COAST VACATION GIVEAWAY WINNER:

Murray Miller

EAGLE CREEK June 15^th 2008

FLIGHT WINNERS:

CHAMPIONSHIP Scott Schepens

PALMER Bryan Powe

HOGAN Kevin Taber

SARAZEN Terry Gorman

JONES Brian Gillen

SNEAD Kyle Donato

STABLEFORD EVENT:

1. Kyle Donato     +17

2. Scott Schepens  +15

3. Kevin Taber        +15

4. Brian McDonald   +15

5. Terry Gorman      +14

6. Bryan Powe         +13

SKINS:

There were 9 skins for $50 each

Brian McDonald (3), Allen Huff, Ben Delaney, Terry Gorman, Bryan Powe, Carl Evans, Kevin Taber

CLOSEST TO THE PIN:

Lou Liggett and Brian McDonald

SPACE COAST VACATION GIVEAWAY WINNER:

Lou Savinetti

SUNDAY SERIES POINTS STANDINGS ( Through 4 of 8 events )

1. Richard Newman                                430 points

2. Bill Raub                                           340 points

3. Bryan Powe                                       330 points

3. Lou Savinetti                                      330 points

5. Murray Miller                                      310 points

6. Allen Huff                                           285 points

7. Brian McDonald                                 280 points

8. Bill Coy                                             270 points

9. Ben Delaney                                      260 points

10. Gary Marx                                       255 points

11. Joe Lallier                                        240 points

12. Vince Jarrell                                     235 points

Last Minute Golfer

One of our best sponsors is Last Minute Golfer. They supply us with free golf for our closest to the pin contests at each event. They have treated you to some great free golf at places like ChampionsGate, St. Johns G&CC, Legends, Windsor Parke, Celebration and many more and I wanted to make sure that all of you were aware of what they do and how they can save you money on golf. Last Minute Golfer is a FREE service that allows you to book rounds of golf  up to 7 days in advance and if you book the night before you play you can really save some serious coin. For example in Jacksonville I just went on the site and you can book Fleming Island for $28 tomorrow and In Orlando Celebration can be had tomorrow for $42.

All you have to do to take advantage of the savings is register @ www.lastminutegolfer.com make sure you reference the GOLF CHANNEL Tour when they ask you how you heard about the service. Again it’s free and you will save money so check it out. The site has dozens of very cool links as well.

Orlando GOLF CHANNEL Tour Update and Shingle Creek/Rio Pinar recaps

Another fun weekend of golf in Orlando this past weekend. Saturday saw us at Shingle Creek and what a layout. The course was in great shape and we had some very competitive play. The Palmer flight alone saw 7 players separated by 3 shots! A couple of players had career rounds in claiming their flights as well. The switch to overall skins has produced some big payouts but none bigger than this Saturday as 3 players claimed $330 each! Pace was good for essentially all 4-somes on a packed course with the average being 4:49 and almost every group in under 5 hours. Sunday saw our first visit to the private course Rio Pinar. We will definitely be back! It is a well-conditioned great old style traditional layout with a great staff. Thanks to tour members Joe McKinney and Michael Tyson for steering us there. Unfortunately the day ended with an unfortunate circumstance. Mike Tyson had seemingly won the Hogan flight by 5 shots with a 77 and a skin on the 6^th hole. When I went to pay him he very honestly told me he had not made a birdie. This led to the revelation that he had inadvertently signed an incorrect scorecard and he had to be dis-qualified from the event. Mike was extremely gracious in accepting his fate and should be applauded for his sportsmanship and the tour would also like to recognize his round as the round of the day on the course. He played very well but behaved better after the round. It is a cautionary tale for all players to be sure to check all the holes on your card and not just the totals.  The pace on Sunday was phenomenal with the average being 4:12 and the slowest being 4:24. Well done to everyone! We have a lot coming up on the tour with Falcons Fire and Grande Pines in a couple of weeks, the Florida Open June 21^st and 22^nd and it looks like the Orlando Championship September 13^th will be expanded to a 2-day event September 13^th and 14^th.

SATURDAY @ SHINGLE CREEK

Flight Winners:

Championship:  Mike Amato

Palmer:             Andy Parks

Hogan:              Mark Anderson

Hogan SR:        Murray Miller

Sarazen:           Julian Torres

Sarazen SR:      Lou Savinetti

Jones:               Randy Smathers

Snead:              Chris Grimont

SKINS:

We did overall skins and had 3 winners for $330 each

Wesley Barber, Joe Levy and Allen Huff

LAST MINUTE GOLFER CLOSEST TO THE PIN:

Mike Amato

SPACE COAST VACATION GIVEAWAY: 2 night stay on the coast, tickets to the Kennedy Space Center and a very cool Dinosaur exhibit

Al Hanif

SUNDAY @ RIO PINAR

Flight Winners:

Championship:   Mike Amato

Palmer:             Brian McDonald

Hogan:              Richard Newman

Sarazen:           Vince Jarrell

Jones:               Gary Marx

Snead:              Lou Liggett

SKINS:

Again we did overall skins with  3 winners for $140  each

Al Hanif (2) and Bryan Powe

LAST MINUTE GOLFER CLOSEST TO THE PIN CONTEST:

Gary Marx

SPACE COAST VACATION GIVEAWAY: 2 Nights Courtyard by Marriott in Melbourne, Tix to the Space Center and the new Dinosaur exhibit

Joe McKinney

NEXT EVENTS ON THE ORLANDO TOUR:

May 31^st @ Falcons Fire and June 1^st @ Grande Pines

Falcons Fire is a tour favorite. Always in great shape and the site of our annual Orlando Championship in September. We will be going off at 7 am for this one and space is limited. Grande Pines is back on the schedule after a 2-year absence. A great track this should make for a fun Sunday!

THE FLORIDA OPEN @ GRAND CYPRESS

The next Regional Major is coming up on June 21^st and 22^nd. Of course this will also be a National Championship preview as these courses will be part of that rotation as well. I will be sending out detailed info about the event in a separate email this week. Registration is scheduled to close for this event on June 1^st!]

FLIGHTING

If you have been struggling in your flight and feel you may need to be adjusted please call or email me and we will review you status. We want everyone to be competitive.

MEMBER PACKS

Please be sure to go to the link I sent you a couple of weeks ago if you have not already to order your member pack. It will take 4-6 weeks from when you do this to receive the pack/