Full Swing?  covered by LPGA pro and chapter member Laurie Rinker.  Chipping? Covered by LPGA pro Debbie O'Connell. Putting? You bet we had it covered by Master Instructor Marie Claire DeBortoli.   

After the on-course instruction and wonderful appetizers, Debbie O'Connell discussed how to stay positive and leverage that during your round.  Huge SHOUT OUT to Joanne Torcivia for spearheading the planning efforts to Susan Murphy and Deb Miron for helping to pull this clinic together!

We won last year's inaugural event, hosted by the Palm Beach Chapter at Madison Green.  As a result of our victory, we are hosting this year -- which means home field advantage at Jensen Beach Golf Club!  If you've played there, you know how much fun, and how much of a challenge it can be.  This year's event will be on Saturday, July 20.  The format is 2-person four ball match play.  We are in need of six additional players to help Captains Susan Murphy and Joanne Torcivia Keep the Cup.  

In order to make this as fair as possible, we are going to have a "qualifier" to fill the remaining spots.  If you are interested in playing, here are the rules:

• Between now and May 31, you must play an 18 hole round at Jensen Beach Golf Club, from the red tees.
• This round must be played with a witness from the Chapter.
• Your score must be posted in GHIN and submitted to joannetorcivia@gmail.com by June 1 at noon.
• The top six net scores will qualify for the team.
• We will also create a slate of substitutes from the field.

We'd love to have everyone play Jensen Beach on June 22nd as the the Tee it Up Cup Team will be practicing match play that day.  Everyone else can choose to either compete in their own round of match play or play a casual round of golf. 

Additional details are as follows:

Team Composition:  Teams consists of eight (8) members who have a verifiable USGA Handicap Index.  The maximum allowable Handicap is 40.0; competitors with a handicap higher than 40.0 will play with a Course Handicap equal to that of a player with a 40.0 handicap.

Format:  Four-Ball Match Play.  Match Play is a format of play that is scored in a hole-by-hole competition; within each foursome, the team with the lowest net score on a hole wins that hole.  

Location:  Jensen Beach Golf Club

• Friday, July 19: Practice Rounds starting 11am through 1pm ($35 at the pro shop).
• Saturday, July 20 ($85 pre-paid upon qualifying for the Team):
  • 8:00 am check-in
  • Light continental breakfast
  • Free Range Balls
  • 9:00am Shotgun Start
  • 1:30pm Shrimp and Chicken Taco Buffet and Prizes

Four foursomes went toe to toe at this year's Shamrock Scramble last Saturday.  While none of teams made it all 18 holes with the Shamrock ball still in their possession <gasp!>, there were TWO TEAMS that lost their ball on the 11th hole. In a nail-biting, net score play off, the Team of Jeanine Berman, Karen Dick, Janet Writer, and Pat Potocny emerged victorious.  

• June 1 - Chapter Championhip at Monarch Country Club
• June 22 - Jensen Beach 
• July 19 & 20 - Traveling Tee it Up Cup at Jensen Beach

Brigite completed her Associate Degree in Golf Management from Keiser University, finishing with a perfect 4.0 GPA! 

Sue Whittington, Denise Ryan, and Maureen Pinnix all helped her to celebrate her graduation this past weekend. Brigite is also pictured below with The White Tornado, Donna White - former LPGA pro who was the Director of the School of Golf Management and one of Brigite's instructors. 

What a huge accomplishment!  Way to go Brigite!

First, let's thank everyone who participated in this year's Holiday Shamble!  Not only did the ladies show up in style, they also brought unwrapped gifts which were subsequently donated to the Hibiscus Children's Center in Jensen Beach.

Everyone had a great time and prizes were awarded for best team scores as well as for longest drive, straightest drive, and closest to the pin.

And a special shout out to the Jensen Beach Golf Club Ladies 18 League for also donating three large bags of toys as well. 

• January 6
• February 3
• March 2
• April 6

Treasure Coast members, Georgia Wiley and Wendy Jennings had a FANTASTIC time at the LPGA Amateurs Scramble recently hosted by the Dominican Republic Chapter. 

Mark your calendars for the following fun events in 2024

• January - Kick-Off Social Event
• January - April - First Saturdays Golf @ Champions;-
• March 8 & 9 - The Highway Series in Hilton Head
  
• March 16 - Shamrock Ball Scramble
  
• April - Spring Social Event
  
• May - September - Evening Golf League
  
• July - Summer Social Event
  
• August - Traveling Tee-It-Up Cup Tournament
  
• October - Fall Social Event

The Board and Committees thank you for your feedback and we hope to see you at all our events!

All of our Witches and Warlocks had a scream at the Birdies and Boos Scramble held at Champions Club at Summerfield in Stuart on Saturday.  We had Minions and Barbies and a host of other scary looking creatures on the golf corpse. The Minions dominated as the “grossest” team, and the Barbies won best  costume.  Visit our facebook page to see more frightening pictures! We hope to see everyone at the Snowflake Shamble in December!

The Member Get a Member Drive begins Oct 1, 2023 and will run until June 30, 2024. This year, thanks to Callaway we have added a new incentive, a custom wedge has been added in the category for members who recruit 6-10 new members! 

Now is the perfect time to encourage your friends to join the LPGA Amateurs and our Chapter.  Joining in October gets new members 15 months of membership for the price of 12.  Tell your friends to join the fun!

Let’s give a warm welcome to our newest member:

Tara Zweben

We hope to see you out on the golf course soon!

We have a new feature that we hope you will find helpful, the Treasure Coast Event Directory.  The Directory is a section within Golf Genius where you can register for all of our events at any time.  In the event that a link in this weekly email doesn’t work you can go to the Directory and sign up there.  Starting next week, this link will be included at the bottom of this email.  

Click Here to use the Directory

The Summer League Wrap Up party was held at Frazier Creek Distillery on Tuesday, October 3.

• Denise Ryan was the winner of low gross for the league with an average 9-hole score of 40.3.
• Brett Peterson was second place low gross 

• Lisa Rabant and Maureen Pinnix tied for third place, low gross

• Brigite Babine was the winner of low  net with an average adjusted 9-hole score of 35.76.
• Claudia Limanni was second place low net
• Deb Miron was third place low net

Keeping our new tradition alive for the 3rd year, Claudia Limanni received the hand-me-down EWGA cart cover for the Spirit of Golf Award for most rounds played - despite the rain - and for her enthusiasm and improvement.

On behalf of everyone who played in the League, and the entire Chapter, we want to extend our thanks to Sue Whittington for her leadership and all the great work she has done for our League. THANK YOU SUE!

Denise Ryan & Lisa Rabant
Lisa Shelton-Finch & Deb Bruno
Maria Beckett & Joanne Torcivia
Wendy Jennings & Claudia Limanni

We will be back next year, bigger and better, and we hope that more of us can participate.

Eleven warriors braved the heat and the rain to complete our Four Ball Match Play practice at the Florida Club on Sunday, September 17. We had 3 matches, everyone practiced using the Golf Genius app for mobile scoring, and we gave our Tampa RQ team members some valuable experience as we send them into battle next week.  Here are the results:

Lisa Rabant/Lisa Shelton-Finch < 8 & 6. Vs Brett Peterson
Brigite Babine/Deb Miron < 1 Up. Vs Jean Laws-Scott & Judy Combs- Penns
Maria Beckett/Joanne Torcivia < 3 & 2. Vs Claudia Limanni & Michelle Meehan

Congratulations Ladies and good luck to the team next weekend in Tampa!