As we get later into the season, please note that over the next few weeks staring times will get later. As of August 21st, we moved to 7:30 am. As of September 5th, we will move to 8 am as we start losing daylight.
This past Sunday, we hosted the Junior/Senior event at Whitevale. With over 35 teams participating, it was our largest field in many years. To support the event, Suzi Snow-Liska run a 50/50 draw to raise funds and support the event. Her efforts raised $2,490 and today, we did the draw to see who the lucky winner was. Congratulations to Roger Thompson who will be taking home $1,245. Thank you to Suzi for the support and all of our members who bought tickets.
It was a trip back in time which included bell bottoms, The Beatles, and flower power at this year's women's member-guest. It's the event that participants circle on their calendar, mainly because the amount of time and effort that goes into outfits based on the theme. Our wonderful group of ladies enjoyed a fantastic day before, during, and after the round. Congratulations to our winning team of Shirley Hughes, Kitty Braid, Liane Garvey, and Audrey Phinney.
We would also like to thank the member-guest committee for their time and effort in organizing such a groovy event. Terry Hosford, Bonnie Cartwright, Jodi Crerar, Sandra Milner-Docking, Yvette Fulton, Marianne Goss, and Jan Pugh.
In the spring of 2021, we renovated the two greenside bunkers on #18. During this work we installed a new type of liner in the base of the bunkers that is designed to allow water to infiltrate quickly and prevent washouts. It also creates a barrier that separates the clean bunker sand from the soil,silt and rocks used to shape the base of the bunker.
This liner, called Capillary Concrete, (or CapCon) has been installed extensively in Florida where hurricanes bring rainfall amounts that may have never been recorded in our area. It has performed very well on many golf courses with consistent proven results over the last decade.
Here at Whitevale, over the last two and a half seasons we closely watched how the liner performed, specifically at how well it prevented sand contamination during storm events. Over that time, we had some significant 1-inch-plus, (25+mm),storm events that washed out other bunkers, without causing contamination in the two bunkers at 18 green. We were seeing the functionality of the liner keeping the sand and subsoil separate.
After the recent storms on July 23rd and 24th the course received over 5 inches of rain - a ten-year storm event!
The story here is how the bunkers, with the CapCon liners stood up. Yes, sand had washed down the faces, but at a much smaller amount than all other bunkers with similar faces, and virtually no contamination. There was no standing water, the sand that did move was easily and quickly shoveled back up. The work to get these two bunkers back in play was a fraction of the work in all other bunkers.
Pictures speak volumes! Below are the two bunkers on the Tuesday morning before any work was done to them.
The bunkers (other than the two on 18) here are now 20 years old, and have significant contamination mixed within the sand. The proposed bunker renovation plan would bring all bunkers up to conditioning levels equal to the rest of the property. There's no way to sugar coat this, current bunker conditioning is unacceptable. The way the two bunkers at 18 green came through the storm proved to me that the investment in our planned bunker renovation is the right plan, at the right time.
Later this month, we will be holding a Town Hall meeting to present our plan to renovate the bunkers, and shortly after that a vote to approve the plan. For the record, I strongly support the initiative. This potential project is one of the most important we have ever addressed. The bunkers on 18 prove that short-term construction pain will give us long-term playability gain. Let's get this done.
Excerpted from Blair Rennie's August 2023 Sideline 30 Report.
It's the main event on everyone's calendar. We get to crown numerous new club champions and it's a treat to see so much hard work pay off. This year's event did not disappoint with a number of players putting together a weekend full of good golf. Congratulations to all of our champions and welcome to the winner's circle for 2023.
Men's Club Champion - Alex Letros
Women's Club Champion - Lauren Bevan
Men's "A" Flight Champion - Clayton Spahn
Women's "A" Flight Champion - Debbie Couch
Women's "B" Flight Champion - Joanne Kajganich
Men's "C" Flight Champion - Peter Garvey
Men's Weekday Club Champion - Tom O'Connor
Bantam Boys Champion - Ben Casselman
Junior Boys Champion - Andrew Ramsay
Junior Girls Champion - Maya Scanga
For complete results of the club championship weekend, please visit the links below, or the Golf Genius portal found on the event homepage.
Whitevale Golf Club showed off last week as we hosted the Ontario Senior Men's Provincial Championship. Not only did the course play well, despite significant rain, but all five Whitevale members playing in the event made the cut and played in the final round - congratulations gentlemen! You can find the full results here: https://www.golfgenius.com/pages/9114534681000331325.
We also had a first class group of volunteers, lead by Mark Crerar, work together to provide an experience many of the competitors will not soon forget. Thank you to everyone who was able to give their time to the event.
