Spring Jack & Jill

Teams consist of a Male & Female

Sunday May 17th

2 pm Shotgun

Better Ball of Partners

Gross & Net Divisions

Cost: $95 per Team

1 Member: $70/ Team

2 Members: $45/ Team

Entry Fee Includes: Greens Fees &

Carts, Prizes, Favors, Snacks &

Drinks after Golf

Name_________________Hcp._________

Email________________Phone________

Name_________________Hcp._________

Email________________Phone________

Send Check w/entry to: Tanglewood Golf shop

653 Scotland Road

Quarryville, PA. 17566

Senior Spring Fling

Open to Ages 55 and over (Male & Female)

Friday May 1st, 2009

9 AM Shotgun

Format: Par 4’s: 1 Best Ball of 4

Par 3’s: 2 Best Balls of 4

Par 5’s: 3 Best Balls of 4

80% Handicap. Gross & Net Divisions

Entry Fee: $40/ Player

Includes: Greens and Cart Fees, Buffet Lunch, Prizes, Contests

If you don’t have a group, we’ll find one for you.

Please include each player’s name, email address, handicap and the Club they normally play.  Include one phone number for contact purposes. 

Please Return Entry with check to:

Tanglewood Golf Club

653 Scotland Road

Quarryville, PA. 17566

“Get A Grip” I will give you one free of charge

As the winter drags on, I can’t speak for you but I am starting to get “antsy”.  The holiday season has come and gone, football is over, and I have had enough of the indoors.  Last month, I wrote about exercise and/or flexibility regimens.  If you took my advice and began stretching daily: congratulations and don’t stop, your muscles will thank you when spring finally arrives.  When I write stretching daily, merely reaching for the remote on the coffee table doesn’t count.

 

This month I want to talk about the grip and how you can improve yours while you are trapped in your house.  First, maybe I should explain why the positioning of your hands on the golf club is important.  What other part of our bodies come in contact with the golf club during the swing?  I sincerely hope that your answer is the same as mine: no other parts of the body come in contact with the golf club during the swing. 

 

What is the hands function in the golf swing?  Your hands are ALWAYS being moved, not moving independently.  We will address this further in future editions of Swing Talk, but for now, take my word for it.  If your hands are not positioned correctly on the golf club what does it mean to you:  loss of distance, loss of accuracy, and for many of us loss of temper! 

I have a better idea, improve your grip!  Improving your grip will lead to a dramatic increase in the distance you hit the ball and much improved accuracy.  I do not know any golfers who would not like more distance and improved accuracy. 

 

As I wrote at the beginning of this edition, I am starting to get “antsy” and I am willing to bet that you too have had enough of this winter.  I am offering you some time out of the house and it won’t cost you anything (other than some time and gasoline!) 

 

Get in your car and come see me at Tanglewood.  I will position your hands on the golf club correctly.  I will also give you a drill that takes 15 to 20 minutes a day and if you do it for 3 weeks, you will have LEARNED the correct grip. 

I repeat, this will not cost you anything and it will help your game immensely.  You don’t even need to make an appointment!  Stop by our golf shop on ANY February or March Saturday morning between 9 am and 12 pm and I will be happy to help you with not only the grip but also any other swing questions that you may have. 

If Saturday morning doesn’t work for you, email me at richcarr1@comcast.net and we will find a time that suits your schedule.  A proper grip will produce astounding results in your game.

 

See You At Tanglewood,

 

Rich Carr

(717) 786-5054

richcarr1@comcast.net

I know it’s easy to get soft and “slouchy” during the winter time, especially when you watch too much TV and pack on a few pounds with the night time snacks.  But, this year, don’t do it.

Stay fit instead…

Here are a few tips:

Take your clubs out of the trunk and put them in the TV room.  Instead of being a couch potato, practice a few putts, work on your grip, lift a few weights or do a few ab crunches to keep active while you’re watching TV.

Set up a little putting area and use a quarter for the cup.  If you can consistently stop at the quarter, you will definetely make the putt.  By springtime, when you’re out on the green, the cup will look huge compared to the quarter.

Watch as much golf on TV (while you’re putting, etc.) as you can.  Even watching other players will help you keep your head in the game.

If all else fails, head South and play a few rounds.  18 holes and a dose of sunshine will fix your winter time golf doldrums.

Anyone want to go South with me to the Golf Show in Orlando?  I won’t be playing, but there’s lots of really great golf products to check out.

Rich Carr, Tanglewood Golf Director

Rich & Deb~
Please join me sometime for a Bikram yoga class.  There is a studio in Lancaster near Catholic High.  Bikram is a series of 13 standing and 13 floor poses done in a room heated to 98-110 degrees.  I have been doing it for 8 years and it is the best workout I have ever experienced!  Obviously I do it more in the winter than in the summer during golf season, but you are so right.  It increases and maintains flexibility, strengthens, cleanses and is a workout from the inside out.  I got so bored with the “gym rat” routine of the 80’s and 90’s then my sister introduce me to Bikram.  What a difference it has made in my life!

You can check out Bikram Lancaster at: www.lancasteryoga.com

Namaste,

Carla

Here’s a great response I wanted to share regarding my recent e-mail on doing yoga to help my golf game.  Thanks, Jim, for the response.  Rich Carr

Hello Rich & whoever suggested the Yoga,

My name is Jim McBreen; I worked for a brief period as the Director of Outside Services under Ron Brown.  I’m a certified Golf Teaching Pro and an avid yogi.  I had a wonderful experience and introduction to Yoga while in college and even though I could clearly see and enjoy the benefits of Yoga then, I simply just let it go while I got about the business of completing college and finding a job.

My wife Susan and I are now starting our 3rd year of Yoga.  Let me put it this way, there are two things that I plan on enjoying until the day they “send me up the chimney” … Yoga and Golf and I must say “in that order”.  

Yoga clearly benefits our lives in so many ways, not only does it improve my flexibility and range of motion for golf, but it applies to all bending, stretching, lifting and simply just moving one’s body.  I’m now in my “young 60’s” and have easily added 15 to 20 yards to each club and actually more to my driver.

So, just to confirm that “wonderful email”, I truly applaud the identification and recognition of Yoga as a great supplement to “golf instruction” and as a lifestyle addition that will add years of quality life to whatever we have left : )

Keep up the good work and even if you never pick up a club … DO YOGA!

All the best,

Jim McBreen

The Lanco Kelly Cadillac Open, hosted at Tanglewood Golf Course, showcased Lancaster County’s best golf abilities last week. Below is an article written by The Intelligencer Journal’s Jason Fulginiti and pictures taken by the Tanglewood staff.

Walters captures Open: Final-round 69 overtakes Texter for third title  

Intelligencer Journal

Published: Aug 09, 2008

By JASON FULGINITI, Sports Writer

It had all the makings of another epic, down-to-the-wire battle between two local golf icons. Until the creek on No. 17 got in the way.

Thanks to the day’s best round of 3-under 69 — not to mention a little help from first-round leader Jarred Texter, who made a critical double bogey on the par-4 17th to fall out of contention — Dan Walters won the Lanco Kelly Cadillac Open Friday morning at Tanglewood Golf Club by two shots.Texter, who took the first-round lead with 4-under 68 Thursday, carded a final-round 74 to finish alone in second.

Texter’s two-day total of 2-under 142 was two shots clear of Brixton Albert, a Radford University sophomore, who carded Friday’s second-best round of 1-under 71 to take solo third.

Friday’s Lanco Open title was the third in the last five years for Walters, who also won the event in 2004 and 2006. Perhaps even more important to the 23-year-old Hempfield graduate, however, was that it was his first victory as a professional.

That it came on home soil only made it sweeter.

“It’s definitely a little tougher coming home because, obviously, everyone’s expecting you to play well,” said Walters, who has played mostly on the Florida-based NGA Hooters Tour since turning pro last year. “So there’s some added pressure, and it was nice to come out and perform today under the gun. It was fun to come back and play well.”Starting the day three shots off the lead, Walters wasted little time forcing the issue Friday, when he birdied the first two holes en route to a front-side 34 that took him to 3-under for the tournament.

Meanwhile, Texter stumbled out to a bogey-birdie-bogey start, and when he three-putted for another bogey at the par-4 eighth to fall to 2-under for the tournament, his lead was gone.

“I felt like I played well (Thursday), and I really didn’t get anything out of my round,” Walters said. “So I was trying to give myself opportunities, hoping more putts would go in today than yesterday. And that pretty much happened.”

After both Walters and Texter birdied the par-5 10th and the short, par-4 11th, Texter regained a share of the lead at 5-under when he drove the green on the 291-yard, par-4 12th and two-putted from 15 feet for birdie.

And when both players bogeyed the par-3 13th to remain tied at 4-under, the stage was set for a dynamic duel.

One that officially ended on No. 17.

With Walters still at 4-under in the group ahead of him, Texter tried to hit a “five- or 10-yard” draw with a 3-wood off the severely-elevated 17th tee. Instead, his shot actually drew about 15 yards, he said.

When he reached the bottom of the hill, he learned his ball had found the creek that borders the left side of the fairway.

More bad news awaited.

After knocking his third shot 30 feet from the hole, Texter ran his par-saving putt six feet past and missed that one coming back, before tapping in for a double bogey that left him two shots off the pace.

“The most disappointed I am about 17 is … if I just make a bogey there, I can still birdie 18 to force a playoff,” Texter, a 22-year-old Penn Manor and UNLV grad who turned pro earlier this summer, said.

“That was just a really bad mistake on my part to three-putt. Of the whole day, that’s what I’m most disappointed about, thinking back on the tournament.”

Needing a miracle after Walters got up and down for par from just off the green on the grueling, uphill 549- yard 18th, Texter’s chances officially evaporated when his eagle chip from just short of the green came to rest on the front fringe.

Still, all in all, not a bad finish for a guy who had spent the better part of the last year struggling with his swing.

“I had a chance, and it was cool kind of being in contention again. It just didn’t go my way,” Texter said. “I won’t be disappointed when I go home tonight thinking I blew it and that I should be ashamed and all that. I mean, (Walters) got me by five shots today, so I got beat. There’s no question.”

 Max Fraker and Roula Groff won the gross division with a sizzling 68.  Tony Groff and Julianne Futcher won the net division with a 56.  We had 26 teams and each participant received a sleeve of Titleist balls (their choice).

The format was a two person scramble and its no wonder that neither of the winning teams were husband and wife. The event was a great time, after we were finished playing we had drinks and snacks at the Gallery Grille and everyone stuck around and traded stories of the day.  We had a nice awards presentation and everyone who participated were looking forward to the event next year.

June Activities

Greetings from Tanglewood Golf Club!  I hope the summer is treating you well.

 

 

June was a tremendous month to play the game we love.  At Tanglewood, we saw an increase in rounds played in June 2008, compared to June 2007.  I would attribute this to be the condition of our course – thanks to our Superintendent Dean!

 

I feel quite comfortable in saying that our conditions are the best in the region and that includes the private clubs!!!

 

We thank everyone who played Tanglewood in July and the staff looks forward to serving you in July and the rest of the summer.

 

June Contest

 

We had four winners for our June Contest of a free round of golf with cart.  The lucky winners are:

 

W. Foster from Wilmington, DE

Karen Reynolds from Lancaster County

Ronald Lantz from Quarryville, PA

Chris Enderle from Wilmington, DE

 

If you haven’t received your certificate via e-mail, please let me know so we can make sure that you enjoy your contest prize.

 

July Contest

 

Since we’re in the heart of the season you’re probably noticing several things you need to work on to improve your game.  So, for July’s Par the Course Contest, we’re going to be giving away a golf lesson a week from mid-July to mid-August.  So, four lucky golfers will be able to improve their game by winning a free lesson with our Tanglewood Pro – Rich Carr – at Tanglewood.  Don’t miss this chance to improve your game by e-mailing richcarr1@comcast.net and see if you’ll be a lucky winner.  You only have to enter once to be in the drawing every week.  Good luck!

 

Summer Events

 

We had some great events in June that were well attended.  We had over 200 players on the Tanglewood/Titleist Day and a whopping 38 teams for our inaugural Father-Son/Daughter Day. 

 

Our Junior Program is rolling along with about 20 junior golfers every Tuesday.  On a recent Tuesday, Don McVey, our head mechanic, made homemade ice cream for the kids and parents (it sure was gooooood.)  Thanks, Don.

 

The Junior Program is every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. and is conducted at our practice center.  It’s not too late for your junior golfer to join us!  The clinics cost $5 per golfer and provide basic instruction and lostsa fun.

 

We are holding a Jack and Jill event on July 19, 2008 with a 2:00 p.m. shotgun.  Each team is comprised of a male and female golfer.  This event is not limited to husbands and wives.  If you don’t have a partner, please email me at richcarr1@comcast.net and I will find a partner for you.  (No, we are not a dating service, but there are lots of people who want to play who may not have a golfing partner.)  Call today to sign up for the event.

 

Visit our Website and our Blog

 

Website: www.twgolf.com

Blog:  http://twgolftips.wordpress.com

 

Have a great summer and visit us often.

 

Rich Carr, PGA

General Manager/Director of Golf

Tanglewood Golf Club

 

Congratulations to our May “Par the Course” contest winners:

Mike Chalk, Stewartstown, PA – Glenn Vansickle, Oxford, PA – Robert O’Toole, Fallston, MD – Anne Dana, Manheim, PA

All of our winners have received a certificate for a free round of golf, with a cart included.  When you come to Tanglewood to cash in your certificate, please remind the Pro Shop staff that you’re a winner, so that we can take your picture.  We’d love to show all of our golfers who the lucky winners are.

June’s “Par the Course” contest starts today and everyone can enter this contest for four lucky golfers who will each win a free round of golf with a cart.  Just send your name, address and email address to richcarr1@comcast.net and you’ll be entered into June’s contest.  Good luck to everyone and one entry per person.

We also want to invite you to participate in the Father’s Day Special Shotgun Event on Saturday, June 14th at 2:00 p.m.  In this Two Person Scramble format we’ll have lots of prizes, take a picture of your team and you’ll have time to spend with family members in a memorable way.  Go to our website for more information:  www.twgolf.com and we look forward to seeing your team.

Come back soon to our blog and tell us what you think about Tanglewood.  We’ll be sending out a survey soon, so we can get your thoughts on how to continue to increase the value of our course to all golfers.

Rich Carr, PGA Professional