Tuxedo Club Outing 7/31/19 Info Sheet

Metropolitan Golf Writers Association

49 Knollwood Road    Elmsford, NY 10523    (914) 347-4653

 

To:                        All Metropolitan Golf Writers Association Members

 

From:                   MGWA Activities Committee (D. Berger, D. Donelson, C. Stogel, H. Munck, J. Olson)

 

Date:                    July 2019

 

Re:                      MGWA meeting, Quill & Tee GC Member-Guest Event and Q&T Club Championship

WEDNESDAY, July 31, 2019, The Tuxedo Club, 42 Stuart Terrace, Tuxedo Park, NY 10987

Tel: 845-351-4791. Website: www.thetuxedoclub.org. Chris Muldoon, Head Golf Pro

(845-351-4543; cmuldoon@thetuxedoclub.org); Randy St. John, Club Manager; Katrina

Wolenski, Director of Membership & Golf Outing Sales (kwolenski@thetuxedoclub.org);

Casey Klossner, Course Superintendent

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8:45 – 9:15 am                  Bag drop, lockers, continental breakfast

9:15 – 10:30 am                Practice, range & putting green; On range: Core Golf Performance pros

10:45 – 11:30 am              Indoor Presentations: Tuxedo Club, speaker TBD; Jim LaFratte, co-Founder of Core Golf Performance

                                          in Bergen County, NJ; MGWA: Chuck Stogel, Activities Committee (chstogel@aol.com)

11:30 am – 12:30 pm        Luncheon

12:45 pm                           Assemble at carts, instructions, proceed to starting holes

1:00 pm                             Shotgun golf

5:45-7:00 pm                     Awards, Refreshments

 

About Tuxedo:  The club and its surrounding residential community in southern Orange County, NY (just over the Rockland County line in the Ramapo Hills and not far from New Jersey) date back to 1886 when a gathering of tycoons built an exclusive expanse of stately homes, a racetrack, golf facility, toboggan slide, clubhouse and more. The nature of the private enclave, however, changed with the impact of the Depression and World War II, and the golf course was doomed by the construction of the New York State Thruway in the early 1950s. Subsequently, The Tuxedo Club purchased a nearby farm two miles south of its main clubhouse and engaged Robert Trent Jones, Sr. to design a new course, which opened its first nine in 1956 and a second nine the following year. The present course has been described as “penal, strategic and heroic,” with water in play on 11 of the 18 holes. The current par-71 course, with several sets of tees, measures from 5,368 yards to 6,807 (74.2 rating, 135 slope).  From the middle tees, the layout stretches 6,258 yards (69.7, 132).

 

Competition:  Back by popular acclaim, our Quill & Tee Golf Club is offering a Member-Guest event, running concurrently with the Q&TGC Club Championship individual competition. All Q&TGC attendees will be entered in the Club Championship, which will be scored at scratch. If entries warrant, the event will be conducted in flights. Additionally, Q&TGC members who sign up may invite a non-MGWA guest to join you and compete in a two-person Member-Guest event, with handicaps (the Q&T member-guest is limited to the first 20 members to sign up, but will be increased if overall room allows). All competitors must maintain verifiable USGA-GHIN handicap indexes. Prizes will be awarded in both Member-Guest and Club Championship competitions, along with Nearest to the Pin contests for all attendees. As always, of course, all MGWA members are encouraged to attend and play golf, but the Member-Guest is a perk for our club-without-real-estate Quill & Tee members only. If sufficient entries are received from non-Q&T members, there will be an MGWA individual competition at scratch.

 

Caddies:   Forecaddies will accompany each group. Fee is $40 per golfer, which includes a tip. However, additional gratuity is OK if warranted.

 

Dress Code, Cell Phones:  All MGWA events at Met area clubs require appropriate golf attire. Shirts with collars. No jeans, cargo shorts or T-shirts. Please remove hats during our meeting session. Audible use of cell phones is restricted to parking areas only.

 

Directions:  Please see directions on the club website (www.thetuxedoclub.org/directions).

 

Entries:   Enter online via www.metgolfwriters.org (you must be logged in to access the signup page by clicking the green Login box in the upper right corner of the home page.  Your username is your email and your password is your last name with the first letter capitalized.  If you receive an “Access Denied” message, you have not logged in.). Or you may return the attached form with a check, payable to Metropolitan Golf Writers Association, for $85 per player to Robin Sauerhaft (rsauerhaft@mgagolf.org), MGWA Client Administrator, 49 Knollwood Rd, Elmsford, NY 10523, by 2:00 pm Monday, July 29, 2019. No refunds after that date. If you are listing a preference for group pairing, please make sure others are coming. Some pairings may be based on member-guest considerations.

 

PLEASE DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST FEW DAYS TO SIGN UP, if possible.

 

Cancellation Policy:   Please read the “MGWA Meeting/Outing Cancellation Policy” found under “Meeting and Outings” on our website (www.metgolfwriters.org).

 

 

Met Golf Writers Association

ENTRY FORM

Wednesday, July 31, 2019, at The Tuxedo Club, Tuxedo Park, NY

 

 

Name _______________________________________GHIN #______________Hdcp. Index _________

 

_____ I am a member of Quill & Tee GC            _____ I am not a member of Quill & Tee GC

 

For Quill & Tee members wishing to bring a guest:

 

Name of Guest ________________________________ GHIN #______________Hdcp. Index _________

 

 

Other preferred pairings:_______________________________________________________________

 

(The Activities Committee will try to accommodate pairing requests, but pairings for any competition being conducted will take precedence. Also, please make sure a requested golfer is going to attend).

 

Return this form with a check, payable to Metropolitan Golf Writers Association, for $85 per player to Robin Sauerhaft (rsauerhaft@mgagolf.org), MGWA Client Administrator, 49 Knollwood Rd, Elmsford, NY 10523.

 

Entry deadline is 2:00 pm, Monday, July 29, 2019. No refunds after that date.

 

Important: Please read the “MGWA Meeting/Outing Cancellation Policy” found under “Meeting and Outing Announcements” on our website (www.metgolfwriters.org).

 

 

Next up: Bethpage State Park, Black Course, Monday, August 12, 2019. Details will be sent shortly.