Golf Tips – Page 7

Seniors Club Championship for Little Falls Golf Club

20 senior golfers took part in this years tournament on a warm sunny day, organized by leo Lamarche and Ron Speck, who have been putting this event together for many years, according to leo, was the most ever taking part in this yearly event.

Jerry Cripps shot consistent golf, finishing with an 80 to take home the trophy. congrats to Jerry on his win.

this years format was changed to use each golfers handicap to determine which tees would be used by the golfers.
If your handicap is 17 or under you teed off on the red tees, handicap 18+ you used the yellow and white. This format was popular with all of the golfers.
Max Clement at 88 years young enjoyed hitting from the forward tees, makes the games a bit easier.

More pictures will be posted in the next few days

Senior Thursday golf

June 26th seniors golf. This week we had 14 golfers out today, the team of Wayne Thomas, Gerry Cripps and Ted Mcleod took top honors with 4 birdies for a score of 68. Each golfer had to use one drive per nine holes as they played best ball.

Tom McLeod on the tee , note to all seniors he kept his head down.

Gerry Cripps chipping on to # 1 green, the ball did end up on the green.

Ed Kennedy hitting his drive off # 7, see if you can find the ball.

Flash Back Thursday

We will be adding a new series of pictures to the site , one per week .

From the last few years.

So come on back every once in a while to check them out :-))

Last golf for the LaCopa Friday League for the season

The end of the season came to fast for most of us, but it is inevitable that the Winter Texans feel the call of the north , like the migration of the birds.

the last day saw only 7 of us left, we played with one team of four and one of three, at the end of the round both teams tied at 32, a fitting end to the winter golf.

The most notable score of the day was a best round ever for Joyce who shot a 31 , congrats to Joyce.

With 6 more of our group leaving Saturday morning , we said goodbye to Sid, Joyce, Bill and Gerry as well as Gary and Helen.

LaCopa golf Fridays

It is Getting late in the winter texan’s stay in the valley and it is coming to a close.
There are less and less cars in the parking lot, it seems like every day, another couple leaves for the green grass at home only to be greeted with the harsh reality of March and how cold and snowy it can be.

today we still had ten golfers out to play, the weather was real nice with very little wind. The scores were a little higher than normal with Sid and Kieth coming in with the lowest score of the day.

For the team score Sid , Howard and Dianna came in with a 28, nice score team White. the blue team of Gary, Kieth, Gerry and Richard came in with a 29, with Joyce, Judy and Bill with a 31 for the Red team.

With a Few more leaving in the next week, next Friday Will be the last for the LaCopa Group this year.

Winter Texan golf

As the weather starts to get better up north, the winter texans feel the need to get home before all of the snow melts away.

Some of the group that stay at the La Copa Inn have already have left and over the next 3 weeks all will be gone to their summer homes, some to Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, North and South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Ontario (north and south)and a few other places.

This weeks golf outing of the LaCopa group saw us play with individual scoring and the best score on each hole used for the group bragging rights.
There was very little wind and since we are not used to golfing in calm weather no one could adapt and most of the scores were higher than normal, George had the best round of the group with a 32, congrats to George.

LaCopa League

This week we modified our group golf game. We played at Cottonwood golf course, a nine hole, par 27 course.

We made up teams from those who could attend our weekly outing.

Since we had 10 golfers this morning, we put 4 red tees, 3 white tees and 3 blue tees in a container and each player drew a tee to find out which team they would play on today.

Each team then hit the ball off the tee, to find out which ball would be played each player would roll a set of dice, the player rolling the highest number is the ball played on that hole.

From there each player would hit from that spot and it would be best ball to the finish of the hole.
This system would then be repeated on each hole. This made the game very interesting shots and tested the players ability to roll the dice.

golfing leagues

Golf clubs are always trying to get new golfers using their courses.
Most offer some good rates for groups of golfers from RV parks as well as those from other senior groups.

In general the bigger the group the better the rate per person, however to keep the lower rates, the groups have to have a set minimum of players.
Larger groups who can supply a large bunch of golfers also can get the best tee times, they can be Mens and Woman’s or mixed golfers.

Winter Visitors from the midwest and northern states as well as Canada, come for the warmer climate, make up the bulk of these golfers.
There are many golf courses in the Rio Grand Valley for every level of skill.
One thing most of these courses have in common is the firmness of the fairways, this is great for seniors as you can get extra roll on their drives.