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St. Marys Golf is Bigger and Better for Summer 2011!
The St. Marys Golf Team is ready for the sun to start shining and for the golfers to start swinging. It has been a long and dreary, wet spring, however, all that means is the best is yet to come. The new Hole # 17 green is opening on May 27th for Member's Appreciation Day. This is a BIG day you don't want to miss!
Chris, our dedicated website and graphics designer, has been busy re-designing a new and improved website, for you, our dedicated St. Marys Golf Team member!
The newly designed website is more interactive, with more monthly contests, more St. Marys Golf blogs, more Golf Fitness Fitness Academy articles, and much more of everything golf; providing you the chance to become more connected with your St. Marys Golf team!
The website is now launched, be one of the first to check it out here: www.st.marysgolf.com
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News & Events: May 2011
Let's all hope this weather turns around for May!
Top 4 Events in May:
- Ladies Spring Scramble: May 19th
- Senior Invitational: May 25th
- Lincolns Hockey Annual Golf Tournament (Scramble): May 28th
Come out or give us a call to sign up. Member or non-member, everyone is welcome!
For a complete event listing: Click here.
Top 3 News from the Course in May:
- Member Appreciation Day - May 27th - Enjoy free burgers cooked by the owners themselves. Also grand opening for the new 17th green and 18th tee blocks - be one of the first to play. Official ribbon cutting at 10:00 am!
- Check out the newly, redesigned St. Marys golf
website: Click here.
- Monthly Draws Begin: Win exciting prizes all summer long. Learn more below
For more news: Click here.
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MONTHLY DRAWS - Every month all summer Long
The 2011 golf season will be a season of winning!
To reward our readers this year we have decided to run a series of contests for our member and non-member receiptents. Sorry non-members, there are perks to being a member!
Please select the correct contest to enter. Valid members are only eligble to win the Members Draw
MAY MEMBERS DRAW
WIN a St.Marys golf jacket.
To enter the draw: Click here.
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MAY NON-MEMBERS DRAW
WIN a day at the course for two.
To enter the draw: Click here.
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Cheating in Golf: Do you Cheat?
How does it affect the psyche of your golf game?
Intro: Cheating has and always will be an issue in the game of golf, but shouldn't golf be a game of honour and respect? In our latest golf blog, we discuss cheating in golf and how it affects the psyche of our golf game.
To read this blog post: Click here.
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Golf Fitness Academy:
2010 World Golf Fitness Summit.
Cyril Moss from Stonetown Physio travels to Orlando for this exciting event
Last November, Cyril had the chance to visit the World Golf Fitness Summit in Orlando, Florida. Click below to find out more about Cyril's experience where he learns about Fitness, Instruction, Medical/Health, and Emerging Fields; everything anyone needs to know about improving taking their golf game to the next level!
To read the latest from the golf fitness academy: Click here.
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On The Course:
How to Practise Properly.
4 Steps to Save Your Back.
Sean Foley on behalf of Score Golf
Here are some golf tips from Canadian swing coach Sean Foley, who is rapidly growing throughout the golf industry as one of the best swing coaches in the game. He teaches players like Tiger Woods, Hunter Mahan, Sean O'Hair and Stephen Ames. Here are some tips for you to help save your back while out golfing or on the practice range.
To watch the video: Click here.
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Grand Opening of #17 Green and re-designed #18 Fairway and tee-blocks
May 27, 2011 @ 10:00 AM
Members of the St.Marys Golf & CC, Members of the Media and the Golfing Public are cordially invited to attend the Official Grand Opening of our re-designed hole #17 and hole #18 scheduled for Friday, May 27, 2011 at 10:00AM.
The St. Marys Golf & Country Club, established in 1931, is a both an annual member and pay-as-you-play, championship golf course. The original nine holes, the 'Ainslie Nine', was established in 1931. Under private ownership since 1993, the golf course has been upgraded with numerous additions and renovations. In 1994, a new nine holes was constructed, the 'Gowanbrae Nine', at a cost of almost one million dollars. Designed by David Moote, of Moote & Associates, the new layout utilized the rolling St. Marys topography and maintained the degree of difficulty of the original course, by adding two ponds, in addition to the two creeks currently in play on the golf course.
Since adding the new Nine, the ownership group has continued to make a number of changes (the most significant being a new Waterfall attraction at Hole #9) that has made the St.Marys Golf course one of the most revered, and fun-to-play course in all of Southwestern Ontario.
Our most recent construction began last August whereby the ownership group decided to build a NEW #17 Green down to the right, replace old #17 Green with NEW Tee-Blocks for finishing hole #18 - the infamous 'Road Hole'. These two significant changes would make St.Marys that much nicer and would make the two finishing holes unforgettable. The two new holes have been designed by Dave Moote, the designer of our Nine Holes opened for play in June 1995 with inspiration from one of our late owners and visionaries, Earl Staffen, who passed away in March of 2010. Dave and his Team envision hole #17 as a beautiful, large, rolling green, surrounded by mature trees, making hole #17 a slight dog-leg right over Birtches Creek and make this hole one of the nicest to play on the course. Hole #18 would play much tougher with the tee blocks located near the current location of #17 Green, making #18 a dog-leg left. The tee shot on the picturesque finishing hole would require a draw (by right handed golfers), or a fade (from left handed golfers) with a carry of almost 180 yards from the back tees. While completely changing the outlook of both holes, the construction would make each of these two holes both more fun to play, and vaguely more difficult to par.
The real inspiration for #17 green comes from our former owner, Earl Staffen. The hole is being designed as a way to commemorate a great man, while helping to complete his dream of making the St. Marys Golf and Country Club the best golf course that it can be. Earl was a kind and humble man, with a strong desire for greatness, and that is what these new holes will reflect. We look forward to the dream of making these incredible, fun-to-play finishing holes a reality. And we are not too far away.
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