The Longest Day Tradition

The Longest Day of Golf tradition continued at Whitevale on Friday June 22nd.

The weather was spectacular and so was the golf.
This year's Team included Ann Griffin, Paul Stephenson, Steve Rodriguez and Kevan Goble.


The first ball was in the air at 5:00 am and the last putt rolled in at 9:40. We had a great crowd at 18 this year and the players were piped onto the green by Tom Munroe. The group completed 9 rounds over the day and there were some impressive highlights. These included an opening round of 69 by Kevan (his final round was also a 69), 2 rounds of 66 by Steve and the most impressive fact of the day was that Ann played all 9 rounds without losing a ball.

Of course the real winner is The Cancer Society and a  huge Thanks You for all the generous donations that the members contributed.

The day wouldn't have been possible with out the hard work of Joan and Bob Store, Ed Griffin, Terri-Lynn Liddle, Al Kershaw, Rich Hughes and our Piper Tom Munroe.

Ann and Joan on TV

Watch Whitevale members Joan Store and Ann Griffin on Durham Rogers show Daytime being interviewed by Julia Piedimonte (who just happens to be the daughter of member John McCormick) about the Longest Day of Golf.



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The Longest day of Golf truly is a Whitevale traditions and overwhelming supported by the members. If you haven't yet donated this year, you can click this link to donate on line.

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It's only a game - Right?

It seems that the Euro Cup is stirring some strong patriotic emotions at the Club. A Battle for bragging right took place on Monday afternoon between Italian supporters Nello Mariani and Alex Maggiacomo and Irish transplants Padraig Darby and Mark Doyle.


The wager was that the losers of the golf match would have to wear the opponents team jersey while watching the match between Italy and Ireland. It was a close battle but the Irish team secured the victory on the 18th hole.

They all "quietly" watched the match after the round!!

Who won the soccer match?? The result seems secondary to the fun that was had on the course! (As it should be!)

Forget The US Open!!

Forget the US Open, forget the walk across the Falls - we had history being made here at Whitevale on Saturday. The team of Joan Store and Tom Kelly set a blistering record score of 55 to win the annual Mixed Haig. I can't find a result that low for that format - Congratulations!! (Joan kept her putting magic going the following day where she was 1 over par after 6 holes!)

We had some new members hit the leaderboard. Julie and Art Pingree were alone in second place with a score of 61. Bob and Darlene Doyle joined a group including Anna and Mike Lindsay and Zona Pereira and Dave Myrvold who finished third with rounds of 62.

The event had 39 teams competing this year which is up from the 30 teams that played last year.

Yesterday we traveled back in time!

For those members who were on the golf course yesterday afternoon at 2pm, I offer an apology. For those of you that were not here, at precisely 2pm yesterday the irrigation system stared running a watering program, and at exactly 30 seconds past 2pm yesterday, I became one of the most popular people around as my phone started “ringing off the hook” as we used to say. I hope it was nothing more than an amusing inconvenience for everyone, but I realize if someone had been in the wrong place at the wrong time not only could you have been blasted by the sprinklers leaving you soaking wet, but there is a real safety concern as you could have also been hit in the eyes. It took about 20 or 25 minutes before the system was shut down completely. I have to admit, I have never actually had to stop a program as it was running before so it did take a bit of time for me to look through the software to find a cancel command.

So why did it start running in the first place? Well, the storm that rolled through Monday night into Tuesday morning caused a power outage at some point. We knew we had lost power through the night but by the time we came in Tuesday morning the computer had rebooted and as I did a run through of the software and set up a program to run for Wednesday night I didn’t notice both the date and time were off. The computer actually thought it was January 1st 2001 at 10pm….Hence the travel back in time. Now you may find it very strange that we would be running any irrigation on January 1st, but the computer date has no connection to the programming, only to the time of day. So when it hit 2 O’clock yesterday, the computer was at 10 O’clock, and went to work just the way it is programmed to do. So, mental note to self…………when we lose power, double check the time on the computer…………

On another topic you may have noticed we have been mowing down some of the naturalized areas around the course. The reason for this is to try and reduce, and hopefully eliminate an invasive weed species called “Dog Strangling Vine”. We have tried some weed sprays in the past with very limited success. One of our best options of control is to mow it down before it goes to seed, which is exactly what we are trying to accomplish. This will not be a quick eradication process as there are many seeds already dropped in the soil waiting for perfect conditions in subsequent years to germinate. The large wide open areas are relatively easy to get at and mow down. But, unfortunately we also have this weed in amongst tight areas around trees, which we will have to cut manually if we are going to prevent it from spreading. We appreciate your patience and understanding with the ugly look of these mowed areas.

Foot Joy Shoes Sale

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Final Week - Men's Interclub Qualifying

Men’s INTERCLUB QUALIFYING 2012


Competition Dates:
@ Oshawa Thurs. June 28

@ Cedarbrae Wed. July 25

@ Whitevale Mon. July 30

@ Meadowbrook Wed. Aug 29

Qualifying Process

Date: Friday May 13 – Monday June 9

Cost: $20 for 3 x 18 hole attempts

Note: qualifying fee to be chitted by Business Office

Handicap Categories: A 0 – 9, B 10 – 15, and C 16+

Process: - must advise Pro Shop before playing and hand in score after play

- qualify from blue tees for A and white tees for B & C

- can re-qualify for an additional $20

- best net score represents your qualifying round

Requirements: 4 men teams from each handicap group

Special Note:

- at this time there are funds available for team shirt

-there will be additional charges to fund the Whitevale hosted suppers pro rated to all participants.

Convenor: Walt Lemon

Phantom Champions!

The 2nd annual Phantom tournament took place on Saturday and the Team of Bernie Docking, Mark Burrell, Kevin Duda and Jeff Sinovic were victorious. They all played well but Kevin Duda carded a fine round of 70 and our reining Club Champion, Mark Burrell closed his round going birdie, eagle, birdie. The Team finished with a total score of 100 points.

Fitting that 2 players are missing from the Phantom Winners photo!!

Second place went to Luiz de Carvalho, Manny Da Costa, John Toman and Paul Lacour who shot a score of 95.

Tied for third were the teams of Pat Burrell, Dave Myrvold, Jerry Kimber and Tom Kelly who along with Larry Aicken, Jim Glover, Dave Sutton and Bob Nebel shot scores of 86.

The Phantom tournament is a quota point format event where you don't find out which hole you count on until after the round.

An April Nor'easter...............in June???

If by chance you haven’t been to the course since last Thursday, I can tell you the temper tantrum that “Large Marge” threw on Friday caused quite the mess. On a positive note no trees came down in the Nor’easter that we all might have anticipated hitting us in April.


But the large amount of sticks, pine cones and branches that came down made navigating the fairways to the greens a bit of a challenge. With the amount of leaves that were blown off the trees, it was surprising that there were any left in the canopy of the trees. As you know on weekends and holidays we have only half our staff on, so we were lucky to get the fairways blown off, greens blown off and mowed, and the holes changed ahead of any play on Saturday morning.

Thanks to my crew for getting the course even remotely playable before the split tee at 7am.

Thanks to the golfer for being patient and understanding especially with the noise of the blower’s mere feet from many trying to hit a tee shot or sink a putt, and my apologies for all the carts driving in the way of play while we hauled debris off the golf course to the dump. We have no choice but to throw all courtesy out the window for being still and quiet while we are near play in order to get anything done when such a storm causes such a mess.

Even with the full staff here first thing Monday morning, I expect it will take us all week to even come close to finishing the clean up. Take into consideration that we still have all our regular jobs that cannot be ignored. The 2 inches of rain did bring 23 days of drought to an end and is sure to help top up out reservoir and return some green, to many brown spots we had.