The Club Championships this year was less than perfect by far, however for the most part, it was alot of fun ( thank you all for showing up and playing).
We had a break after 18 holes of play and ate pizza the club provided, and drank sodas, JJ provided..... We posted the 18 holes scores on the big board then set out for our last 9 holes of play. It was a long day, gruelling at times with some tough pin locations set by Eddie, who was to scared to putt to his own pins. I want to state some things publicly so maybe we need to think about these things and act accordingly.
First we are a small club, with no clout, given a great rate by our golf course to play on.
The bottom line for a business is to make a customer happy and make some $. Our play on Sunday at a discount rate is something that the golf course could very easily do without.
We need to remember this when we are conducting ourselves on the golf course.( we can be easily replaced by full priced paying customers!)
I want to say "Thank you" to Don Matutina for allowing us the good rate, and 27 holes Tourn. game. Which means he has to tell other customers why they can't get a tee time and he has to deal with people who are behind our slow BUTTS! (possibly complaining too).
We all need to stop and think for a moment at times and realize everything does not revolve around us..! I heard Straight out yells of F bombs....during play on the golf course, cussing around kids and other golfers at the course. Complaints about when we tee off, complaints about who we are paired with, complaints about when we eat, complaints about course conditions, complaints about how long it took , complaints about when we finished, complaints about sandbagging SOB's.......the list goes on and on... Maybe we should just be happy we are able to play the game... and can afford it, and are healthy enough, and living in a place nice enough, in a country free enough. Let's stop acting like spoiled little babies and go out have some fun, compete with dignity... Thank your clubs GM, Thank your clubs officers for putting in the time and effort all year, Thank your lucky stars your not somewhere else , hungry, cold, and without...Thank you for listening, SRGC President.
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CONGRADS TO THE WINNERS. I GUESS SOME OF YOU HAD A GOOD TIME. WHATS WITH ALL THE WINING. DIDNT YOU BRING ENOUGH CHEESE FOR THOSE GUYS JIMMY????? WHAT THE HELL WENT WRONG??? YOU WORKED OUT A GREAT RATE, BOUGHT PIZZA FOREVERYONE, LOOKS LIKE IT WAS PERTY CLOSE SCORES?? WAS IT THE WEATHER, FULL MOON OR THIER TIME OF YHE MONTH??? ILL GIVE YOU A CALL TOMORROW FOR AN UPDATE.
It was a fun time for me... Though winning my flight would have been better...(I didn't win didley), I had some good shots some bad shots. I kept hanging around for someone in the lead to blow up and Andy and Cody just played solid golf all day... Everyone I think for the most part enjoyed it. There was not excessive whinning or anything.....I mostly wanted to take the time to remind people that we need to be good sports,
appreciate what we have, and what people are doing...Donating their time in preparing the tournament, organizing, having ice cold drinks and warm pizza to keep them going between 18-27 holes. Nothing seems to ever go perfect in our club, We are like the guy with the drinking problem we get drunk and fall down, hey no problem.....JJ
One thing I am encouraged about is the people who are standing up and volunteering for next year...Jason Ulllegue, Mike Wesner, Don Matutina, Hector Betancourt, myself.....and we have some new prospects looking into playing with us next year as well...JJ
P.S. there is talk about extending a welcomeing hand out to the ex-member group, and under new leadership maybe that will help the situation I couldn't...( bridge the gap )..JJ
Don't you mean something you refused to do?
you are exactly right!....JJ
THIS SOUNDS PROMISING. BELONGING TO 3 CLUBS IS COSTLYAND CONFLICTING AT TIMES. LOOKS LIKE A GOOD GROUP OF GUYS ALSO. MAYBE EXTENDING THAT OLIVE BRANCH ISNT OUT OF THE QUESTION THEY ARE A PERTY GOOD GROUP AND FUN TO PLAY WITH. GOOD LUCK.
I'm joining the Buena Senior Men's Club
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