senior golf groups

Friday LaCopa golf

The warm sunny weather brought out 21 golfers, to play in the LaCopa mixed Seniors league. this is the highest total for this year. Five golfers who play each week were missing from the group and hope to be back next week.

moonbit.co.inthe Format of the day was “Roll the Dice” which is very popular with the golfers as it adds a bit of chance into the game.

The Red team of Bob and Dee Martintonni, Doug Mazur and Bill Kozak, scored the only birdie of the day, on the first hole and were off to the races, they scored a 28 in the day to take first place on the days golf.

Dwayne Miller, Tracy Andrews, Nancy Rhulow and Gerry Busch made up the Blue team and took second with a 30.

Coming in the middle of the pack with a 34’s were the White team of Tony Gaudagnolo, Bill Stewart, Dave Miller (a new golfer this week) And Keith Bess.

The Pink fivesome of Dianna Stewart, Bev Gaudagnolo, Merv Andrews, Richard Lampi and the cart operator Joyce Foy also shot a 34, with a bit of help from the dice throwers.

The Green team, Jo LaCore with her better half, Harry, Howard Stewart and Gary Andrews, had no luck with the dice and turned in a 37.

Next week will be individual scoring, the best score on each hole will be recorded for overall bragging rights.

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seniors mixed golf

Roll the Dice was the format of week 3, for the LaCopa Inn League, (Week two was rained out).

While the bulk of the Golfers in this league stay at the LaCopa Inn on Tyler Ave, there are other golfers from other Winter Texan parks who play with the league every Friday morning at the cottonwood golf Course on Ed Cary Drive.

Tee time is at 10 A M every Friday, untill the end of March when most of the Winter Texas head north to the colder climate.

20 golfers took part in the golf today with nice weather.

Roll the dice : Each player is assigned a number from the dice, then tees off , after the tee off the dice is rolled to see which ball will be used. this is done on every hole. From that point on it is scramble golf, ( best ball) with each player hitting the ball from that point.

The white team (Dee, Dwayne, tony and Keith) led the charge around the golf course, turning in a blistering 28 for their round ( they must have had better luck with the dice) than the Blue Team of Bob M, Dan L, Jim W, and Gerry B. Their score was a 36, good for fifth Place.

The Green of Bill S. , Jo L. , Dianna S. , and Joyce F. turned in their card showing a total score of 31, they shared their score with the The Red team made up of Nancy R. , Becky L. , Doug M. and Harry L.

In not quite last place were the Pink Team with a 34 on the day. Teresa W. , Howard S., Bev G. and Richard L, made up this fine team.

The only Birdie of the day went to Becky, Nancy, Harry and Doug, from the Red team.

It was breezy on the course. Bob and his wife Dee are missing from the pictures as they had to leave to play at Treasure Hills golf club.

Lacopa Group 2018 season begins

the 2018 winter season for the group from the LaCopa Inn and from other parks in and around Harlingen, texas Begins on Friday Jan 12th.

Golf is played on Fridays at the Cottonwood Country Club with the tee off at 10 am.

come on out and enjoy the time with friends and enjoy playing on the Par 27 golf course at 1001 S Ed Carey Drive

Senior Mens Thursday golf Aug 31 2017

Dice, Red, Cubes, Die, Shapes, Two

Golf for the Thursday’s seniors golf, wound up on Aug 31 this year as the weather in past September’s has been rainy and cold.

The sun was out and the temps were about 10 c at tee off and climbed to 23 c by the time play was finished afer 18 holes.

12 players signed up for the day’s outing, the 4 lowest handicap golfers each picked two players names out of hat to form the teams.

The format for the day was “roll the dice” .each player is assigned a number from 1 to 3 and #4 was a roll over, # 5(happy face, take the best ball) #6 (sad Face, take the worst ball.) Each Player hits their Drive off the tee and then the Dice is rolled to see which drive would be used.

From that point on each player hit from the spot which was the best position on the fairway or green.

The team of Wayne Thomas, Ed Kennedy and Richard Lampi had the best luck with the dice and ended with a 74 on the day.

Ray Laquerre, Gary Ladouceur and Pete Barna followed with a score of 76, with one birdie on Hole #13.

Jean Lambert , Vern Herbert and Lance Beauregard, turned in a 77 with a birdie on #8.

Jerry Cripps, Harold Mosley and Steve Splowski, rolled the dice poorly and ended up with a score of 83.

Thanks to Ed Kennedy for organizing the teams every week and for looking after the winners and losers all summer.

Thanks to Motown for a great meal at the end of the day.

Senior golf on Thursday mornings will continue until the course is closed, with a start time of 9.30 am. for the next couple of weeks.

A moment of silence for senior golfers Ted McLeod and Leo Lamarche was observed .

The end of the LaCopa league on March 24/17

LaCopa golf March 24th 2017

Well today we were down to 7 golfers so we played girls against boys,
regular golf with a team score. The “girls” won.

left to right, Dianna Stewart, Gerry Busch and Teresa Williams.
The golfers survived strong Texas winds and had a good time
Friday, March 24, 2017.

This was the ending of the La Copa League for another year.
The winds were gusting to 35 MPH, we also had a sprinkle of rain on holes 5,6,&7.

(the rain always seems to start when you are at the farthest point away from the clubhouse)
You can see by the flag straight out in the picture of the men’s foursome the strength of the wind.
The luck was with the girls as they beat the boys. Howard thinks it was the rusty golf balls they had to play with after the rain.

left to right, Jim Williams, Howard Stewart, Bill Kozak and Duane Miller.

It was a good year for golf with many golfers taking part in the league, thanks to all who came and golfed at Cottonwood and we hope everyone comes back again.

thanks to Howard for the pictures taken in March and to Gerry

for the updates and the scorecards sent, Joyce for the tees and Dice (the loaded ones that some players used)

LaCopa league mixed senior golf

jan 27th seniors mixed golf.

Another breezy day greeted the laCopa group seniors on jan 27th Friday league,
it was a very pleasant day with 19 golfers playing golf.

there were 5 teams made up, four foursomes and one threesome, each golfer
used their own score and the best score one each hole was used for the team score.
The players drew from a container of colored tees to find out which team the would be on, for the day.

The White team, made up of , Howard Stewart, Jo LaCore, Fred Kline and Gerry Busch,took the weekly bragging rights with a blazing two under 25.
Gerry birdied the two longest holes, # 5 and # 8 to score a 31 on her round, Great score Gerry.
Fred had a birdie on # 3 and turned in a score of 29, tying Keith for the low score on the day.

The Blue team, Dan Luensmann, Grant Stewart, Bill Stewart and Dianna Stewart shot an even par 27,to take second place on the day. Dan score his birdie on the 105 yard # 4.

Coming in third place (28) were the Green team of Harry LaCore, Doug Mazur, Bob Martintoni and Keith Bess.
Keith shot a 29 and tied Fred for the lowest score of the day and Had a birdie on # 5 and one on # 9.

Fourth place went to the Red threesome of Bev Guadagnolo, Dee Martintoni and Richard Lampi turned in a team score of 30 on the day

Duane Miller, Tony Guadagnolo, Dorothy Kline and Joyce Foy turned in a 31 for the Pink team score .

Only 4 strokes separated the 5 teams for the day.

Individual scores on the day: Duane 37, Tony 43, Dorothy 39, Joyce 34,
Richard 37, Bev 44, Dee 33, Harry 40, Doug 43, Bob 39, Keith 29.
Dan 34, Grant 32, Bill 39, Dianna 40, Howard 41, Jo 37, Fred 29, Gerry 31.

Golf in Texas Dec 30th 2016

The La Copa Group Winter golf has started today.

With those who play in the La Copa group golf league arriving in larger numbers, the players got together at the Cottonwood golf course and played their first round of golf on Dec 30th.

The weather was mostly sunny with a few clouds and the temperature about 65 degrees and a light breeze blowing.

Kieth Bess , Joyce Foy and Richard Lampi from the La Copa were joined by Jim and Teresa Williams to play golf.

Keith had the lowest score of the day when he shot a 32, Jim had the only birdie of the day. He got that on the number seven which plays 95 yards.

Joyce and Richard both had 35s and Jim shot a 38.

The fairways and the greens are in good shape, the canal that runs through the middle of the course claimed a couple of balls during the days play.

Missing this year will be Sid Bina from North Dakota, George and Betty Coulson along with Gary and Helen Cook, from North western Ontario.

Week 2, Seniors golf

Vern Herbert Tee off on # 7 2

Week two of the seniors golf season

The weather looked like the rain would start at any time but 10 hardy golfers braved the cooler temperatures to play 18 holes of golf.
the format for the day was best ball , with the teams chosen by their handicap factor . The teams were scored on the team net score.
team 1 ,Vern Herbert , Jean Lambert and Ed Kennedy with a combined handicap of 54.
Team 2, Brian Mcleod, George Coulson and Vern Craven with a combined handicap of 69.
Team 3 , Wayne Thomas, Gary Ladoceur, Richard Lampi and Allan Bruyere with a combined handicap of 77.
Team 3 turning in a round of 68 with 5 birdies and only one bogie for a low net score of 9.
Team 2 shot an 81 and came in second with a net score of 12.
Team 1 had 3 birdies and an eagle for a round of 70. thier net score was 16,good for third place.
The eagle scored by team 1 on the 10th hole and was the first this year in seniors golf.
Jean Lambert chipped in from about 60 yards out for a great eagle, congrats to the # 1 team of Ed Kennedy, Vern Herbert and Jean Lambert.

Next Seniors golf is on thursday June 2, see you there.

Golfing Heron Landing

heron landing golf course

On Friday may 6th, a nice warm sunny day with a slight breeze on the front nine, turned into a windy day for the last nine holes..

Three senior golfers from little Falls golf club, Wayne Thomas, Richard Lampi and Ray Laquerre met up with Gordon Hoskins from the Kitchen Creek golf course to Play at Heron Landing which is on Frog Creek in the Couchiching First Nation Reserve.

Heron Landing Golf Course is a very well looked after course with 5 different tee off’s, with the black tees playing 7136 yards for par 72.

The reds play the shortest with a total of 4589 yards. We played the white tees with the total length of 6211 yards.

Wayne shot the lowest score of the day 88 and had 1 birdie, Gordon shot a 94, Richard shot a 98 with one birdie and Ray turned in a 101 with one birdie.

Each player sampled the water at least once as the water comes into play on 12 of the 18 holes. Ray tested out a few of the sand traps as well and visited some of the rough.

It was a pleasant day on the course, the course at Little Falls had not opened yet so the players drove 90 miles to play at Heron Landing.

Pre Season golf course repairs

For the first time in many years a group of senior golfers, were allowed to do some volunteer maintenance on the red tees on the first hole at Little Falls Golf Course.

This tee off had a slope which caused the right-handed golfers having to hit from a downhill lie and the left-handed had an uphill lie.

Now that the tee is level all golfers should be able to score at least one stroke better on this hole.

Thanks Goes to Ray Laquerre and the recreation director Nicole Halasz. of the Township of Atikokan as well as the Union for their cooperation enabling the senior golfers to do this work to make the golfing experience better for all the golfers.

Thanks also goes to Tramin for the loan of a front end loader to move the soil to the tee area and to Oggie’s Landscaping for his tools and expertise in removing and replacing the sod.

Many thanks to those who helped in the work, Ray Laquerre, John Williams, Pete Barna, Jean Lambert, Tod Bryck, Wayne Thomas, Larry Ogden, Richard Lampi, Rick Cain.