For handicap purposes, the golf season in New Jersey closes on 
November 14. Scores played in New Jersey on or after this date should not be posted to your handicap record. 

• NJ Active season: April 1 through November 14.
• Inactive season: Outside of the active season, you cannot post scores from rounds played in New Jersey. This is because seasonal weather changes can significantly affect course conditions, which would unfairly distort a player's handicap.
• Traveling to active regions: If you travel to a region where the handicap season is still active (such as a southern state), you should post your scores from those rounds.
• Reminder to post ALL your rounds of golf when played in an active region (not just the scores you like or do not like) 
• Contact Irene Hunt, Handicap Chair for our chapter if you have any questions or need help adjusting errors made when entering scores in GHIN.

On Sunday, September 14^th, 2025, thirty women took to the greens at Pebble Creek Golf Course, Colts Neck NJ for the LPGA Amateur Coastal NJ Chapter Championship and Starter Cup.  In the chapter’s consistent goal to encourage women in the game of golf, the tournament had not only a Championship flight, but a Starter Cup for those women who are new to tournament play.

The chapter would like to commend all the ladies who competed and congratulate the winners. It was a wonderful event complete with beautiful weather, great golf and amazing women!

Starter Cup Net Winners: Lynne Petronio (1) net 72. Amy Dougherty (2) net 74 Judith Snyder (3) net 75.

Starter Cup Gross Winners: Laura Tarlow (1) gross 99. Jane Bologno (2) gross 101. Lori Savino (3) gross 102.

Championship Net Winners: Anne Sauri (1) net 71. Ann Mackey (2) net 72. Sheila Gelsomine (3) net 74.

Championship Gross Winners: Mary Zietchick (2) gross 86. Lorraine Kostinas gross 88

And finally…the 2025 LPGA Amateur Coastal NJ Chapter Champion is none other than

Lynn Jewell with an impressive gross score of 83! 

Self-Coaching with Journaling accelerates progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice. It concentrates on where you are today and what you are willing to do to get where you want to be tomorrow. Self-Coaching with Journaling provides a transformative space for you to experience easier and accelerated growth to move you towards your passion and goals. 

1.Pattern interruption. The structure and support within the professional and self-coaching with journaling relationship serves to interrupt the unconscious patterns of behavior, creating an opportunity to stop the business as usual, consciously look at what is happening and perhaps choose differently. 

2.Conscious goal commitment. What you focus on expands. If you make a conscious commitment to move forward with a goal or intention, you've immediately increased your chances of realizing that goal or intention.

3.Clarity. Self-Coaching with Journaling helps you to define what you want and how you're going to get there. Once defined, self-coaching with journaling keeps you moving forward toward the realization of that goal or intention.

4.Chunk down the bit goals. An ongoing coaching relationship helps you define and take the first step towards that big goal, effectively moving out of inertia. You start to think in terms of, "What can I do today to help me move towards my goal?" Your coach/journal is there to keep you on track all the way to the realization of your goal. 

5.Accountability. Making a commitment to yourself increases the consciousness that is brought to that commitment. It is no longer simply something you want to do, but something you have committed to doing. Big difference. 

6.Real-time feedback. The ongoing conversation and action plan allow for immediate feedback. New ideas or concerns can be quickly addressed and appropriate changes adopted to keep the momentum going.

7.Inquiry. Questions and answers are at the heart of self-coaching and journaling. Thought and action are inspired through the process of inquiry . . . what do you want?, what stands in your way?, and, how are your going to get there?