Message From the Professional Staff,
Good Morning,
Another brisk day here at Lookout Point Country Club. We are now seeing single digit temperatures in the mornings and the dreaded F word may start showing up sooner rather than later…. FROST. We would like to remind all members to check their emails before coming to the course when there are any adverse weather conditions and/or chances of frost as we will communicate updates through our Jonas tee time booking system. If you missed Aldo’s Green Report earlier this week, here is a great tip:
A little tip to keep in mind regarding frost delays. If you have an early tee time and the evening before has clear skies along with low temps, expect frost to occur with the potential of tee time delays. If the evening before has low temps, with complete cloud cover, generally expect no frost delays. Hope this little tip helps.
As we head into November, some of our services will be modified. While we don’t have a firm closing date in place (mother nature may determine that for us) we ask members to consider the following:
Call ahead for practice facility availability. Based on rain/frost and conditioning our Practice Facility hours may change from day to day. Give us a call for the most up to date information
If you are winding down your golf for the season, consider taking your clubs & caddies home from storage and cleaning out your lockers. Should mother nature decide to impact our closing plans in a rapid way, we may not have staff on site and/or hours of availability for you to collect your clubs and locker items. Clubs left during the off-season are not the responsibility of the club as outlined under the “personal property” section of the member handbook.
Golf Shop Credits - Now is the time to use up those golf shop credits you have earned. We have excellent deals in the Golf Shop and can still order almost anything that you need.
Deep-tyne aerification/topdressing will take place the week of Nov 1st. The golf course will remain open for play with temporary green closures as the outside contractors complete the deep-tyne process.
The winterizing of the irrigation system will take place November 9th & 10th. The course will remain closed on November 9th and anticipate that the course will reopen on November 10th at Noon.
Upon completion of the irrigation system blow-out we will be closing the golf course for two days to apply our winter fungicide applications on greens, tees, and fairways. The applications are weather dependent, and this schedule may vary. While applying these fungicides we cannot accommodate any play due to safety guidlines. We will re-open the course upon completion of the spraying. Dates to be determined
On Behalf of the Professional Team,
Dan Roud
Head Golf Professional
Lookout Point Country Club
Monday, October 25th we are excited to be hosting the PGA of Canada Head Professional National Championship. We have over 90 players from across Canada here to join us. Click on the button below to view the field, tee times and leaderboard for the 3 days of competition. A few members have asked about spectator access. As members of Lookout Point, you are more than welcome to come out and watch some great golf and competition in person. Carts are only available to tournament players however, and ALL members who are spectating MUST ensure they stay to areas of the course that are not in the line of play and/or interfere with play in any way.
Until the snow flies save 40% on ALL men’s and ladies apparel (in stock items only)
The Shop has been rearranged…Stop in and take a look - you may find something that you hadn’t seen before…
NOVEMBER TEE TIME LOTTERIES
Starting November 1st we will be modifying our current Lottery timelines.
Currently we open our tee sheets approximately 10 days in advance and lottery times can be booked up until 7 days in advance. One of the things we have noticed lately is an increase in tee time cancellations. While most of this is due to weather, one downside of inputting a lottery request upwards of 10 days in advance is that the weather is very unpredictable at best. As a result, we have too many members inputting bookings that end up going unused. Late in the season, the points earned from these cancellations don’t have the same impact as members may be booking their last rounds of the year. Starting November 1st we will open our tee sheets 7 days in advance and accept lottery requests up to 5 days in advance. We hope that members will wait until as close to the 5 days as possible to input their lottery request. This should help us have a more consistent and accurate lottery going forward. Please note the new daily lottery deadlines:
Sundays - All lottery requests due by Tuesday prior
Monday - All lottery requests due by Wednesday prior
Tuesday - All lottery requests due by Thursday prior
Wednesday - All lottery requests due by Friday prior
Thursday - All lottery requests due by Saturday prior
Friday - All lottery requests due by Sunday prior
Saturday - All lottery requests due by Monday prior
October 29th
Vokey Wedges, Scotty Cameron Putters, Golf Balls and more…
Titleist will be on site on Friday, October 29th from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm. Now is a great time to grab some fresh wedges for next season or place an order to ensure you have new clubs to start the year (or head down south with). We will also have Andrew Cox on site to discuss Golf Balls and help members choose which ball they should be using at this time in the season. To book a time, email theprofessionalshop@lopcc.com
2021 AWARDS NIGHT…..DETAILS TO COME
Covid-19 changed the way we did many of our Member Events in 2021. With tee time starts, we were unable to have our traditional awards ceremonies to recognize our winners at the end of each competition.
Now that capacity restrictions have been eased, we are going to start planning a special 2021 Awards Night. More information will be coming in the next few weeks regarding the date as we attempt to coincide the awards night with the launch of our offseason simulator programming.
Members who won awards in 2021, expect an official invitation in the coming weeks.
FROM THE BPG SHOW….
What’s new in 2022!
Continuing from last week’s blast - here are another 2 new brands you can expect to see in the Golf Shop in 2022.
Jones Golf Bags
Jones Sports Co. began in 1971, when a part-time golfer and cab driver from Portland Oregon glued, taped and cobbled together the first of what would become a line of golf bags that would revolutionize the carry golf bag industry. The plan was simple: Create an iconic, functional bag that could easily be customized. The result was a lightweight carry bag that served as the face of amateur, high school and collegiate golf for generations. However, the technical and design revolution the modern golf bag underwent in the early 1990s left the Original Jones Bag to fend for itself as a single-strap, no-stand bag that seemed to be slowly forgotten among the new styles and features of the modern golf bag.
Now, years after they stopped making what is arguably the most successful and iconic carry bag in the history of the game, the original design is back. The Original Jones Golf Bag, as well as a complement of new bags, are sure to capture the imagination of golfers worldwide. Jones Sports Co. has taken 40 years of history, tradition, and memories and put them all back where they belong, in the Original Jones Bag.
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http://www.jonesgolfbags.com
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