A Sierra Golf Club acquaintance who is in state of lingering illness requires the support and encouragement of those around him for his recovery to become satisfactory and fast.

To Tony Domingo, if you can read this message or someone relates this message to you, do not worry because you are not alone.  Your family who will always love you together with all the members of SGC accompany you and give you our support and wish you well. Do not forget that we always have you in our prayers.

In the distance, SGC is always reminded about your happy and friendly time with us that is not easy to forget. You are one in a million, Tony. SGC hopes to see you succeed fighting this ailment and to see you soon in good health.

Visitation: Lakeridge Health Oshawa Hospital, Palliative Care

ANNOUNCEMENT: This current blog about Tony Domingo will stay current until after the month of July to pay respect to an SGC member who is having a serious uphill battle with his precious life.

Here we were again folks. Monday through Saturday came without any hitch as far as inclement weather was concerned. But mother nature came haunting us at last Sunday’s round thirteen at Woodington Lake golf course with a brief thunderstorm packaged with threatening lightning. It got twenty players running for cover and unfortunately, only fourteen players selectively stayed and finished their respective rounds. The bright side of it all was, the presence of slim daylight when the last group finished the round. SGC played this golf venue way back in 2006. SGC asked almost every player who showed up what they thought about giving this golf course another shot in our schedule for next year. The consensus was actually pretty good even taking the account the time of travel to get to this location as it was a little bit farther away. Maybe we should play this course three times next year?

We have a first-time winner in Bingoy Peña. It was truly long time coming as he won the Nassau front with a net score of 32. Everyone was kidding about the blinding, glaring bright Ping Eye 2 iron set that he used. They looked like as if they were the set used by Goldfinger. Bert Cerrudo took the back nine as well as the total net score. Bong Munson was one of three players carding net score in the high 60s with posted round of 68 tying Bingoy for second overall.

Closest to the pin contest: Ron Protacio nearly got both par 3s won but he only ended winning hole number 3. Bert C. won the sixteenth hole.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Race to POY and SPOY still led by Mr. Consistent, Joey Cruz. To add to his repertoire, MIP award was not that far fetched either.

SGC appreciates the effort of Bong Munson for designing and handing each member a laminated SGC membership name tag. Beautifully done.

No rain. No disturbance. No interruption whatsoever from mother nature at last Sunday’s round 12 at Kingsforest. Merci beaucoup. With the sun beaming brightly at twenty-two players that showed up and played, we had all afternoon long with a slight breeze coming from the Hamilton peninsula at twenty-six degrees Celsius. All we gotta do was play and play good. Whaaat? Play good? This golf course somewhat got the best of us a lot of times. It was playing long and hard as indicated by high scores presented by the maddening crowd. A number of players were sighing grief about the slowness of putting greens. Good turn out by members as weather phenomena turning out to be in golfer’s favour………finally. It was not an ideal situation getting to the golf course as QEW traffic was quite heavy and infuriating at around noontime. This was the first time that SGC ever travelled to Hamilton at this time of day. Was it because of the tee off time change from AM to PM or Niagara had casino specials over the weekend?

Golf results: Mar Deveyra & Jojo Dizon carded the same net score of 71. Tying them for the day’s prize and of course the Nassau total net score. Bong Munson garnered himself another win by capturing Nassau front while our consistent always in the payroll every week member – Julio Rodriguez grabbed the back nine. Mind you, to add to his collection of “what more could you give me” moment, Julio also shot an eagle at the par 5 hole number four.

 

 

 

 

 

Closest to the pin contest: Seho Oh who we had not heard from for quite some time now, shot the closest at hole number 7 while Ed Ilao seized hole fourteenth.

 

 

 

 

Congratulations to the winners. Mucho abrigado to Ross Bautista for the round of drinks and food he provided. Remember his hole-in-one two weeks ago at Glen Cedars?

Announcement: For this Sunday’s round 13 at Woodington Lake, SGC contacted the golf course about certain holes having environmental areas setting. This is what they say: (SGC will once again confirm this situation when we get there)
1. Signs are posted around EA (environmental areas)
2. One stroke penalty if your ball enters EA.
3. Drop area is also available.
4. No entry to EA.

Additional info: I was checking their web site and these were the holes mentioned with EA: 5, 6, 8, 13, 14, & 15. You could help yourself by researching/asking them as well.

Please check the directions below of how to get to Woodington Lake. We are playing the Legend Course.

Address: 7110 4 Line, Tottenham ON L0G 1W0
Phone: 905-936-4343

From Toronto (East/ Central)
From Hwy. 401, take Hwy. 400 north for approx. 30 min.
Get off at Hwy. 9 (Orangeville / Newmarket exit)
Turn west (left) on Hwy. 9
Travel 17 km west on Hwy. 9
Turn north (right) on Tottenham Rd.
Proceed to Mill St. (second lights, 5 km north of Hwy. 9)
Turn west (left) on Mill St.
Travel 1.5 km west to Woodington Lake (7110 Mill St.)

From the Westend/Mississauga/Etobicoke
Take Hwy. 427 north to Hwy. 7 (end of Hwy. 427)
Turn west (left) on Hwy. 7 and travel 0.5 km to Hwy. 50
Turn north (right) on Hwy. 50
Proceed north for approx. 30 min. (through the communities of Bolton and Palgrave)  to Hwy. 9
Turn east (right) on Hwy. 9
Travel Hwy. 9 for 2.5 km to “Adjala-Tecumseth Townline”
Turn north (left) on Adjala-Tecumseth Townline
Travel 5 km north to the 4th Line, Turn right (north)
Travel 0.5 km east to Woodington Lake (7110 Mill St.)

Hopefully you got most of the info you need to play this course. Another public info from SGC.

To take up the mantle of keeping some of the most important work that is happening behind closed doors every week, these three members in likelihood deserve appreciation – Jojo Dizon, Bingoy Peña, & Jimmy Manguerra. Jojo, the smiling collector has shown without any qualms doing his job week in and week out. With that contagious smile who would turn Jojo down? For Bingoy, ‘the closest to the pin guy’ his busiest part of his job as SGC’s treasurer is the early part of the season – having everyone not miss out membership fees and contest entries. Is the golf course venue giving SGC a hard time to how many players are playing or what time do we tee off? Got a beef with your next foursome? Jimmy Manguerra must put up with all these concerns every time. Thanks to all three members for continued support.

 

 

 

 

 

Mother nature played a major role again as we rolled on to round eleven of our young season at Royal Woodbine golf course. First three foursomes of the twenty players who showed up were running for cover as a rain heavy downpour interrupted our round. The rain came early as some lucky players were still at the club house. As a matter of fact, from what we gathered two members went home without teeing off because of the rain. Fortunately, the rain did not last long and with almost twenty-six degrees Celsius plus the blue sky up above, provided us ideally perfect atmosphere ‘til the end our round.

It was getting closer to the halfway mark of our young schedule. For those who had not done their homework of not capitalizing grabbing few awards, it was time to make a move. You knew you could do it for sure. Some said it would only take just your wit. Good golfers knew how to grind. How you would handle adversity defined you just as much how you would handle success. A good example of that was the winner of last Sunday day’s prize to sit at 63 net score, Bong Munson. He duly delivered and might had turned a corner at Royal Woodbine. It took several attempts, but the trending Bong finally found his groove. Murmurs could be heard from him about not to be left out whilst everyone else was winning. He did grab the Nassau front nine plus the total net score with avenging performance.

It was important to remain fluid with your swing according to golf experts. By giving himself that resolute kind of consistency, Joey Cruz blitzed the Nassau back nine as well as winning one of the closest to the pin contests. With his steadfast demeanor on and before every round of golf, he rewarded himself by leading the two prestigious awards – POY & SPOY. Joey is going for his sixth POY title. It was never done winning both awards before. How about them apples, huh?

If I may add, Jojo D. eagled the par 5 hole number 12. Three other members scoring in the high net 60s – Bert Cerrudo 66, Joey Cruz 69, & Jimmy Manguerra 68.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Change of tee times at Kingsforest from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM due to booking error in the scheduling calendar by the golf course management. They apologetically informed us and gave us a break with the green fee rates: $48 riding, $43 walking.