Opening Field Day Roster

Adamson, Terry Lynn

Allen, Bob

Alton, Earl

Andrews, Mike

Arsenault, Randy

Beauparlant, Brett

Belanger, Norm

Bosela, Matt

Boyle, Heather MacLeod

Bradley, Norman F.

Bullock, Kathie

Bullock, Ray

Campbell, Rick

Clarke, Shirley

Cousineau, Bill

Craig, John

Crowley, Jayden

DeGagne, Denis

Dewar, Dave

Di Lalla, Peter

Downes, Larry

Drummond, Tina

Duffy, Joe

Duliban, Jason

Dwyer, William

Eansor, Tom

Farrow, Patricia

Farrow, Wayne

Flegg, Joy A.

Foisy, Greg

Garner, Amanda

Garner, Chuck

Girard, Dan

Girard, Phil

Glaab, Peter

Glavac, Andy

Glavac, Jeanne

Groocock, Terry

Haist, Dianne

Hamilton, Ian R.

Healey, Dennis

Heelis, Bill

Herbeson, Bruce

Horton, Hazel

Horton, James

Houtby, Wayne

Inacio, Carl

Ingraudo, Marc

Jackson, Ray

Jones, Brenda

Kannenberg, Richard S.

Kershaw, Mike

Kershaw, Terri

Klimowicz, Bart

Klotz, Doug

Kocsis, Brian

Kozub, Julie

Kozub, Scott

Kurgan, Dean

Kurgan, Shelly

Leone, Rico

Levinski, Kathy

Levinski, Ron

Lindsay, John

Loewen, David

MacKeen, Gary

Markovich, Nick

Mate, Doug

May, Janice

McCloskey, Rick

McQuade, Mike

Millar, Daniel

Moore, Josh

Mortensen, Frank

Naar, Joe

Neudorf, Jim

Oliverio, Tony

Paolone, Gino

Piett, Doug

Podio, Bob

Popp, Rick

Robert, Don

Robert, Laurie

Robertson, Carolyn

Rocco, Pat

Sahs, Brendt-Werner

Shaw, Bonnie

Shaw, Galen

Sibbett, Ernie

Skelton, John C.R.

Snider, Gary

Snider, Ken

Stewart, Tim

Tofano, Diane

Tofano, Reno

Tribble, Karen

Tucker-Whyte, Marlene

Venter, Daleen

Wardrope, Randy

Wheatley, Bob

Wheatley, Terry

Whyte, Paul

Williams, Lockie

Wynne, Mike

Zaremba, Greg

Golf Shop News, May 2nd

Demo Day, Saturday May 11th
Callaway Fitting Day, May 12th
Titleist Fitting Day. June 9th

On Saturday, May 11th Titleist and Callaway will be on the range for a demo day. The demo day will be from 12-5 pm. This will be a great chance to try some of the hottest equipment that launched in 2019. All are welcome. We also have Callaway returning on May 12th and Titleist on June 9th for Fitting Days which will be by appointment and is your opportunity to book a half hour fitting using a launch monitor and all the newest fitting techology.

What’s Coming up Next Week

We’ve got a busy week of great events on next week’s calendar. Highlights include The Ladies Opening Dinner & Business Meeting, Men’s League Opening Shotgun & Draft Party and the Men’s and Ladies Opening Field Day.

This is the last call for the Opening Field Day. Don’t miss this really fun Member Event which is the official kick-off to our 2019 season. Click on the poster below to be taken to the registration page.

Mother’s Day Sale

  • Purchase any Ladies article of clothing and receive the second piece of equal or lesser value at 50% off. (including rain gear)

  • Buy one Ladies Callaway golf glove and receive the second one free

  • Buy any ladies FJ shoe, and receive a Lookout Point tote bag for free

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Golf Shop & Range Hours

With the season underway, we wanted to remind you of the Golf Shop and Practice Facility hours of operation.

Golf Shop Hours
Open - One hour before the first tee time
Close - 8:00 PM

Practice Facility
Open - Half hour before first tee time
Close - One hour before dusk
NOTE: Sundays practice facility closes at 4:00 pm for a clean pick of the range and remains closed until 11:00 am Monday morning.

Rules of Golf Seminar Recap

Below you will find a quick summary of some of the main topics that were covered at this week’s Rule of Golf Seminar. Thank you to Anne Edgar Dodds-Hebron and Golf Ontario for facilitating the evening. And thank you to the over 50+ members who were in attendance.

THE RELIEF AREA:

• The Relief Area is the area where a player must drop a ball when taking relief under a Rule. This area is measured from a Reference Point, the starting point for measuring every relief area.

• The Relief Area is a defined area that is measured with the longest club carried by a player, other than a putter.

• When taking free relief or penalty relief, a substituted ball or the original ball must be dropped in the relief area.

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BUNKERS

Loose impediments (like stones, leaves, twigs and acorns) in a bunker may now be removed or touched without penalty, provided the ball does not move. If the ball moves as a result, there is a one stroke penalty and the ball must be replaced.

• The Rules now allow the player to generally touch the sand in a bunker with a hand or a club, but there are limitations.

For example:

• You cannot touch the sand in a bunker when making a practice swing or in the back swing for the stroke.

• You cannot deliberately touch the sand in the bunker with your hand, club, rake or other object to test the condition of the sand to learn information for the stroke.

• You cannot touch the sand in a bunker with a club in the area right in front of or right behind the ball, except when searching or removing a loose impediment or movable obstruction. There is NO longer a penalty for striking the sand in anger or frustration, or for leaning on a club in the sand away from the ball while waiting to play

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DROPPING A BALL

• The ball must be dropped from knee height.

• Knee height means the height of the player’s knee as if she were in a standing position.

• Once dropped, the ball must land in and come to rest in the relief area.

•If the ball rolls outside the relief area it must be dropped again, then if it rolls out a second time, the ball must be placed where it struck the ground on the second drop.

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PENALTY AREAS:

•Penalty Area is the new name for Water Hazard.

•Penalty Areas will still be marked either Yellow or Red.

•In a Penalty Area the player can now ground the club lightly behind the ball, move a loose impediment, take a practice swing and touch the ground or the water.

*NOTE: As was the case previously, the player cannot take relief from Abnormal Course Conditions including Immovable Obstructions or an Embedded Ball when their ball is in a penalty area.

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DROPPING OPTIONS FROM A PENALTY AREA

When you take relief from a penalty area, you get one penalty stroke. For yellow penalty areas, you have two relief options. For red penalty areas, you have three relief options (the same two relief options as you do for yellow, plus one additional option.) 

Option 1
(Both Red & Yellow Penalty Areas) : you may take relief by dropping into a relief area using (1) the spot at which your last stroke was made under stroke and distance 

Option 2
(Both Red & Yellow Penalty Areas) : The player may take “back-on-the-line” relief procedure by choosing a reference point that is in line with where BOTH a) the ball cross the penalty area and b) the flagstick. The player may go backward as far as they like while maintaining that line. Once the player has chose their reference point they will then proceed under the new relief area rules.

Option 3
(ONLY Red penalty areas : Lateral relief allows you to drop a ball into a relief area measured from where your ball last crossed the edge of red penalty area. From that reference point, you are allowed to drop outside the penalty area and anywhere within two club-lengths of that spot, no nearer to the hole

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PUTTING GREEN

• Damage to a putting green may be repaired.

• Damage is described in the Rule and it means any damage caused by a person or outside influence and includes ball marks, shoe damage (such as spike marks) and scrapes or indentations caused by equipment or the flagstick. Any repair must be done promptly.

•It does not include natural surface imperfections or disease, aeration holes or natural wear to the hole.

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• The player can now putt leaving the flagstick in the hole, but the player must decide this before making the stroke.

•If the player elects to putt with the flagstick in the hole, it must NOT be moved after the stroke and while a ball is in motion. There is a practical exception to this. If the player elects to putt with the flagstick left in the hole, it can be taken out of the hole while the player's ball is still in motion without penalty if there is no reasonable possibility the ball will strike it.

• There is NO penalty if the ball accidentally strikes an attended flagstick after a stroke made on the putting green.

•If a ball rests against a flagstick in the hole and part of the ball is below the level of the lip, the ball will be considered holed, even if the entire ball is not below the surface. There is no longer a requirement to move the flagstick to see if the ball falls into the hole. The ball may simply be picked up

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Local Rule - Additional Relief option for Stroke and Distance

Lookout Point has put in place a new Model Local Rule for casual play in 2019. Full details of the Local Rule was sent on a previous eblast and can be viewed by clicking HERE.

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Golf Shop News, April 15th

Opening Day

Opening Day is officially in the books. We had over 90 golfers join us for the start of the 2019 season. Kudos to our first group of the year - John Lindsay, Craig Martin and Lockie Williams

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Tiger Woods wins the 2019 Masters

Tiger Woods wins the 2019 Masters

How much fun was Sunday afternoon at the Masters? Congrats to Tiger Woods on his 15th major championship. Closer to home we had an EPIC finish to our 2019 Master’s Pool. The team of DanJos1 extended their lead going into Sunday’s final round but stumbled out of the gate on Sunday and slipped out of the top 3 by the day’s end. Team IntheHole2 rode their dark horse pick Patrick Cantlay all the way to a 1st place finish. Here are our final standings:

IntheHole2 (Ian Longmuir) -40
$450 in Golf Shop credits

Open till 11 (Dianne Haist) -39
$275 in Golf Shop credits

Strilibidorcava (Bill Tomlinson) -38
$175 in Golf Shop credits

Random Draw Prize (Green Fee Pass)
Bob Anderson

Golf Shop Promotions

Titleist Vokey SM7 Wedge Promo 

Buy One wedge receive 10% off

Buy Two wedges Receive 15% off

Buy Three wedges receive 20% off

Foojoy Gloves

Buy 3 get one FREE until May 12th, 2019

ClicGear Electronic Caddy DRAW

 Make any purchase of $75 or more (before tax) In the Golf Shop and receive a ballet to be entered into the draw for the electric caddy. Draw will take place on Opening Field Day.

Additional tickets can be purchased for $20 a piece.

2019 Member Events

NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION

The following 2019 Member Events are now open for registration.  You can register for these events by clicking on each of the links below or signing up through the “Golf Events & Registration” section of the member portal.  If you have specific questions regarding any of these events or difficulty registering please contact our Tournament Director, Dan Roud directly by click on the button below

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Once you have clicked on the below link you will be taken to the registration form. To view details about the event including the format and pricing click on the small “house” icon of the top left of the menu bar. (see image to the right)

Opening Field Day

2 Person Best Ball

Club Championships

4 Man Quota Points

Member / Member

Also be sure to check out our Men's and Senior Men's Invitational Pages for information on these marquee invitational events.

Men’s Invitational

Senior Men’s Invitational

In addition to the events above, our 2019 calendar will have a number of specialty events for both our Men’s and Ladies sections including year long events such as leagues and match play championships as well as various social events. Signups for these will be posted once available under the “Golf Events & Registration” section of the member central.

Men’s League

We currently have 148 individuals registered for the 2019 Men’s League. If you have been waiting to sign up we encourage you to do so ASAP as the league is scheduled to being on May 9th. Click HERE or on the image to the left to be taken to the league info page to read all about it and register for the 2019 season.

2019 Rules Seminar

On April 23rd, 2019 at 6:30pm we will be welcoming Anne Edgar Dodds-Hebron from Golf Ontario to conduct a 2019 Rules of Golf Seminar which will focus on the changes to the Rules of Golf that have been introduced in 2019. There is no cost for the seminar, however, we are asking all participants to register by signing up through the Golf Events & Registration section of the Member Portal. If you have any issues registering please contact Dan Roud directly at dan.roud@lopcc.com

Course Opening Update

From the Green Committee

Update on course conditions

As most might remember, last fall was one of the coldest, wettest seasons we experienced in many years. The biggest concern at the time was the health of the greens going into dormancy due to the poor fall weather we experienced. Fast forward now to April, we are finally getting a chance to see how we wintered. All things considered, we can be relieved that the greens came through quite well. There are only minor weaknesses on a few greens but as the weather warms, they will all be fine. Turf, primarily greens require substantial amounts of sunlight with as little rainfall as possible in the late fall season in order to build the strength to withstand the winter conditions.

Spring aerification will soon take place as the weather allows. The process is necessary to address the minor weaknesses noted above. Our goal is to take care of this prior to the season starting so there will be no interruptions once the season begins. On a positive note we will be eliminating the traditional late summer greens aerification. This is specifically based on our current organic matter levels. Fairway aerification will still be completed at that time.

Last season we increased our focus on the turf conditions of the driving range. The goal was to initiate a better cultural program to improve the quality of turf, on the tee deck specifically. We will continue this initiative throughout the year and will be adding two additional verticutting, aerification and topdressing procedures to accomplish this. These dates will be communicated in advance of when these procedures will take place.

On a personal note, Aldo would like to take this opportunity to thank all the members who graciously reached out to him regarding the passing of Bronson, his chocolate lab. He was a wonderful companion and will be sorely missed.

We are looking forward to another great golf season with some fantastic playing conditions.

From the Golf Shop

OPENING DAY

Unfortunately, due to the potential of snowfall in next week’s extended forecast, opening date is now Saturday, April 13th. As long as the weather cooperates we will complete the aerification process before opening day.

Tee time bookings for Saturday, April 13th will open online and over the phone based on your category restrictions. For opening weekend we will be running tee times off the first tee only. We will transition to our traditional morning crossover & lottery for the weekend of April 13th.

COURSE CLEANUP

Course cleanup is still on the schedule for tomorrow, Saturday, April 6th. Members who participate will receive a continental breakfast & lunch, and a complimentary green fee pass. The breakfast will be available at 8:00 am and we ask all members to ensure they are present no later than 8:30 to receive instructions from Aldo and the grounds crew before the clean up begins. Please bring your own rake, we look forward to seeing you all there!

RANGE & STORAGE SERVICES

The driving range and club storage services will be up and running on Opening Day.

GOLF SHOP HOURS

The Golf Shop hours will remain Monday - Friday 9:00 am to 4:00 pm until we officially open for the season. We are excited to show off all of the new products and services we have to offer.

Restaurant & 19th Hole

The restaurant & 19th hole will open for the season on Saturday, April 13th