Wintergreen Golf Academy announces 2014 programs

"get ready to play better golf"

Three updated programs at the Wintergreen Golf Academy are designed to have YOU playing better golf this season.

The "Drive It, Wedge It, Putt It" school is a 3 hour program that covers the three most important clubs in your bag.  For $279, the program moves from the putting green to our expanded short game facility.  The final hour hones in on the Driver where our Academy Professionals will get you hitting it longer and straighter.

Also available is our popular two day school.  For $599 you get eight hours of highly effective  instruction on full swing and short game, video analysis, lunch, on course and an instructional booklet and bag tag.  Lodging is available and an additional cost.

The three day academy gives you 12 hours of instruction for just $849.  Spend three days at our academy and cover all the bases from full swing, short game, uneven lies, on course as well as a professional club fitting.  Lunch is included in this program each day as well as a take home booklet and bag tag.

These schools are offered year round.  Please call our Academy Coordinator at (434) 325-8255 for more details.

2013 Superintendent's Revenge

Steve & Renee Willis teamed with Bruce & Pam Brushwood to take 1st Place in

The 2013 Superintendent's Revenge.

 
58 players enjoyed a fine breakfast buffet at The Stoney Creek Bar and Grill before teeing it up in the 2013 Superintendent's Revenge on Sunday, November 10th.

All teams enjoyed the Monocan/Shamokin rotation as never before given the creative course set up by Fred Biggers, Kevin Moore and Matt Burch. The sun was spectacular and the wind was howling. The course was in great condition and almost all the greens had one(or two) cups cut in spots that don't usually see much traffic.
Good times had by all. Mark your calender for the 2014 Member events.

TOUGH DAY AT DEVILS KNOB

Clear skies and sunshine made Tough Day at Devils Knob a little easier on the 72 players competing on the mountain course on Sunday, October 27. 

Devils Knob Head Professional Philip Licata teamed with Jim and Regina Dunaye and Ricky Buchanon for the victory (pictured below) with a net score of 57.8. 

Also in the money (golf shop gift certificates) were the teams of First Assistant Professional Andrew Bissonnette, Barbara Rios, Bob Marsh and Keiko Marsh with a score of 58.4.  The Luessens and the Foeges grabbed the third place prize with a 58.5. 

Stoney Creek's version of this event is Superintendent's Revenge and will take place on Sunday, November 10 with a breakfast and 11 am shotgun. 

Sign up and see if you can tackle all the obstacles that the golf course maintenance team throws at you!

Why our greens are so good...

Preventative maintenance is an integral part of successful golf course management. Golfers view aerification as an inconvenience that takes the greens out of play for a day, pulling cores from the greens and leaving holes that can affect putting for many days before healing. To add insult to injury, aerification is best done in many part of the country during mid-summer, at the height of the playing season and when most greens are in prime condition. But a golfer needs to understand how important aerification is to producing healthy turf. Aerification (also known as aeration) achieves three important objectives. It relieves soil compaction, it provides a method to improve the soil mixture around the highest part of a green's roots and it reduces or prevents the accumulation of excess thatch. Like so many things, the quality of a good putting green is more than skin deep.

Gibb and Finan battle it out in Member Member

The 2013 Member Member tournament was held last weekend. Forty teams representing five flights played Devils Knob and Stoney Creek. Players and spouses were treated to a Friday evening cookout on the mountain under gorgeous skies and cool temperatures. Players competed in the traditional putting contest. The team of Renee Willis and Lori Young won two putters for placing first in the putting competition. Saturday's final round had two teams competing for the first place overall gross hardware. Hank and Jonathan Gibb and Devin and Austin Finan each completed two rounds at 136 to force a playoff on Shamokin 1. In the end Devin Finan knocked a beautiful iron into the first green and two putted for the Overall victory. The Gibb team took home top Net division honors. Other flight winners included Don Young and Dwayne Nix, Harrison Jones and Houston Sorenson. The Womens division saw Renee Willis and Lori Young take home the gross honors in the Golden Bell flight and Sally Wright and Suzi Wisler took the net prize.

Nail Biter at The Justice Cup

Sunny skies and perfect temperatures at Devils Knob set the back drop for the second series match of the 2013 Justice Cup.  When all the scores were tallied, Glade Springs edged Wintergreen by 3 shots in the modified stableford format to collect the 10 points for the first place team. 

Current standings place Glade Springs atop the leaderboard with 20 points, Wintergreen and The Greenbrier share second place with 10 points and The Sporting Club is in fourth with 4 points. 

Wintergreen was led by John Coy, Jim Westfall, Bruce Brushwood, Greg Robertson and Jim McCaffery each with 40 or more total points.  Great playing guys!

 

The Justice Cup travels to The Greenbrier on August 19 for a competition on The Old White TPC Course, host of the PGA Tour's Greenbrier Classic.

2013 Justice Cup underway

The 2013 Justice Cup, a series of matches held throughout the year, will have teams from Wintergreen, Glade Springs, The Greenbrier and The Sporting Club competing in a modified stableford scoring format.

The first event was a rain shortened competition at Glade Springs, played on the Cobb Course.  Two rain delays foreced the match into a nine hole event with the host team collecting the most points.

Wintergreen currently sits in third place with the next event at Devils Knob on Monday, July 22nd.  Eleven members and a professional will navigate the slick greens and narrow fairways.

Stay tuned for results.  The matches are open to spectators.  Come on out and root on the team Monday at 10:00 am.