Glendale Golfs – Winnipeg

Umbrella

The only long, stick-shaped object with a shaft and a handle routinely found in golf bags that is just as useless in getting the ball into the hole as a putter is.

Unplayable Ball

The rules of golf make the player “the sole judge” of whether his or her ball is unplayable and most players use this judicial power to waive the usual penalty for moving the ball in light of their standing in the community.

Up and Down

Holing out from off the green in two strokes: an approach shot and a single putt. It is more common for players to go “up, across, beyond, next to, around and down” or “up, way over, under, into, through, along, onto, beside and down.”

U.S.G.A

The United States Golf Association, which is responsible for drafting and enforcing regulations in America. It stands in the same relation to golfers as the Securities and Exchange Commission does to inside traders.

Vardon Grip

The almost universally used golf grip, in which the little finger of the right hand overlaps the forefinger of the left. Its invention is attributed to the legendary golfer Harry Vardon, a true innovator in the game who also developed an over the neck muzzlegrab for dislodging a ball from the jaws of a dog, a one-armed stranglehold for persuading recalcitrant golfers to recompute the totals on their scorecards, and two handed throatgrasp for throttling a caddy.

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The Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and Golf Canada is inducting the late Gord Witteveen (1934-2010), into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame.

A career superintendent with more than a half-century of service at golf clubs across Ontario and Quebec, Witteveen was the founding director of the Canadian Golf Superintendents Association (CGSA) and a renowned golf writer, author, featured speaker and educator.

Witteveen is being inducted in the builder category, becoming the 70th member of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame.

“The Canadian Golf Hall of Fame seeks to recognize excellence as golfers, contributors and supporters of the game,” said Ian Clarke, chairman of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame selection committee. “Gord Witteveen made tremendous contributions as a superintendent, author and educator and it is only fitting that as such, he is recognized for his accomplishments.”

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/sports/Witteveen+named+Hall+Fame/6272684/story.html

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Who needs complex explanation when you can learn golf with humor. Here’s another set of most common golf terminologies:

Take-away

The initial part of the backswing. The name derives from the fact that a property executed, ground-scraping, slow back sweep of the club with the club head pressed firmly on to the ground will “take away” most impediments interfering with the lie.

Tap-in

A putt short enough to miss one-handed

Target Line

An imaginary line from a player’s lie to the target which the ball would follow if an imaginary golfer hit it.

Tee

Small wooden peg on which the ball is placed for a drive from the teeing ground. The condition of the tee after the tee shot provides an indication of whether or not the ball was hit correctly, If the tee flips backwards and lands in one piece a few inches behind the place where it was inserted into the grass, the ball was probably hit well. If on the other hand, the tee breaks into three or more pieces is driven deeper, the tee breaks into three or more pieces is driven deeper than two inches into the ground, travels farther than the ball or catches fire, it probably wasn’t.

Tee Off

To drive a ball off a tee. Players who have made their drives off a tee are said to have teed off, but at this point it is almost always also correct to say that they are teed off.

Teeing Ground

A clearly defined rectangular area 2 club-length in depth from which players hit shots 20 to 30 dub-lengths directly forward or 5 to 10 flub lengths to either side.

Temper

Metal transformation into a heated state in which stiffness and strength are imparted to stee l club shafts. Mental transformation into a heated state in which bends and crimps are imparted to steel club shafts.

Three!

What many golfer, through habit, cry instead of Fore!

Tight Lie

Poor playing position in which the ball is lying low in the grass or sitting on a bald or bare spot. Also known as a “close lie” or, more commonly, as an “original lie,”"preliminary lie,”"previous lie” or “former lie.”

Timing

Precise control of the speed of movement in the swing to achieve the greatest possible power and accuracy. If a player’s timing is off, there is no way his or her shot will reach its…

Tip

A piece of advice, such as “You know, you need to work on your timing.”
…intended target

Top

To hit the ball well above its centerline, causing it to hop or trickle a few feet forward. Topping the ball is a problem that usually afflicts only beginning golfers and it is quickly left behind once a player has learned to master the hook, the slice, the shank and the airball.

Tournament

An elaborate, time-consuming but basically fair method used by many country clubs to decide which individual members will be stuck for the next 12 months with the job of polishing, dusting and displaying their huge collection of ugly silver trophies.

Triple Bogey

Three strokes more than par. Four strokes more than par- is a quadruple bogey, 5 more is quintuple, 6 is a sextuple, 7 is a throwuple, 8 is a blowuple, and 9 is an ohshutuple.

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The annual Manitoba Motor Dealers Association (MMDA) Charity Golf Tournament has always been an outstanding success and tournament organizers are ready to ‘up the ante’ a million times over in 2012!

The 24th Annual MMDA Charity Golf Tournament will take place on Wednesday, July 18, 2012, at the stunning Pine Ridge Golf Club. This year, they are proud to introduce our Million Dollar Hole-in-One Shootout, sponsored by the Winnipeg Free Press, where every golfer has a chance to win ONE MILLION DOLLARS, not to mention the all-important bragging rights. Some of the other exciting changes to this year’s tournament include individual or team/group registration; one in two chances of winning a team prize; new ‘on-course hole events’ including food, drinks and prizes.

This is a great way to get together with MMDA members, associate members and guests while at the same time supporting a wonderful charity that changes lives. This event has long been recognized as the premier charity golf tournament in the province, and is the one and only New Car Dealers Industry charity event. Tournament organizers hope to see all MMDA members come out and ‘drive’ your way to some cold, hard cash.

Since its inception, the MMDA Charity Golf Tournament has raised in excess of 1.2 million dollars in support of Special Olympics Manitoba. The funds raised at this event allow SOM to continue their mandate; enriching the lives of Manitobans with an intellectual disability through active participation in sport. With more than 2,100 athletes and 1,300 volunteers and coaches, Special Olympics Manitoba develops and delivers over 130 athletic programs in 18 sports. These programs accommodate all ages and ability levels, from grassroots to Provincial, National and International Games. The guiding principles are focused on improving physical fitness through sport, providing a wide variety of competitions and supporting the integration of athletes into generic sport. Special Olympics Manitoba is active in all regions of the province. For more information please visit www.specialolympics.mb.ca.

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Winnipeggers who oppose the possible sale and development of city-owned golf courses came away empty-handed and angry after councillors opted not to discuss the issue.

More than 70 people came to city hall on Tuesday morning to voice their concerns about the future of city-owned golf courses, which have been losing money and could potentially be redeveloped.

But not long after the Property and Development Committee meeting began, an agenda item recommending more public input into the golf course issue was nixed.

“This committee does not have the authority to deal with this item,” said Coun. Russ Wyatt.

Frustrated, the crowd exited the council chambers, with many wondering when they will have their say.

“We got toasted,” said John McLennan of OURS Winnipeg, a group that favours more green space in the city.

The group had brought a petition with nearly 6,000 signatures from people who support its cause. However, members had no place to drop off the signed petition.

Private proposals sought
This past fall, the city sought proposals for the development or operation of its seven golf courses: Canoe Club, Crescent Drive, Harbour View, John Blumberg, Kildonan Park, Tuxedo and Windsor Park.

The city invited bids from anyone interested in taking over operation of those golf courses, as well as bids from those who may want to develop the golf course lands into residential or commercial properties.

“They don’t have any public consultation about it,” said McLennan, whose home overlooks the Windsor Park Golf Course.

“They hold a meeting and then they tell everybody to go home because they don’t want to hear us. Bad politics.”

Coun. Jeff Browaty, who chairs the Property and Development Committee, acknowledged that the city handled Tuesday’s incident poorly. “There’s a lot of misinformation out there,” Browaty said. “The city, I do believe, has done a bad job getting the correct information on the process out there.”

However, Browaty said there has also been fear mongering that has led people to believe all of Winnipeg’s public golf courses will be sold off and paved off.

Final decisions could take months
Coun. Scott Fielding, who chairs the city’s finance committee, said he does not expect any final decisions to be made for months, since public consultations must be held first.

However, Fielding said Winnipeg cannot afford to keep all seven of its public golf courses, which he said have been losing about $1 million a year recently.

“It’s tough putting more police officers on the street and putting more money toward community centres and infrastructure when you’re losing a million dollars a year on golf courses — which, in my opinion, isn’t a priority for the City of Winnipeg,” he told CBC News.

Fielding said while it’s time to sell some of the city’s golf courses to private developers, he stopped short of suggesting the city should get out of the golf course business altogether.

“I don’t think we’d have the support of council to get rid of all of the courses, but I think we do need to make some changes,” he said. “Bleeding a million dollars a year for golf isn’t sustainable.”

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2012/02/14/mb-winnipeg-golf-courses-council.html

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Another set of golf words to laugh about.

Set of Clubs

A collection of no more than 14 golf clubs, usually consisting of three or four woods, nine or ten irons, and putter. The chief distinction among the types of clubs is that the woods make a sound like “sneck” or “frop” when the ball is improperly hit, whereas the irons emit a sharp “jink,” “fank” or “whenng” and the putter produces a soft “tilk.”

Shag

To retrieve golf balls. Golf is full of odd terms and expressions. After hitting a 5-iron shot right onto the green, for example, you might answer an opponent’s question about what club you used by saving. “The stick I used was 7-iron”; when citing a nonexistent rule to improve your lie, you might say, “I’m claiming relief from this lie under the rule covering tassleclots”; and after scoring a 6 on a hole, the right way to report your tally is to say, “I carded a five.”

Shank

The most dramatic and unsettling form of misplayed shot, in which as the clubshaft vibrates violently, the ball flies off to the right at nearly a 90 degree angle, embarrassing the golfer and endangering his or her fellow players. Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks- No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman or in extreme case, M.S. Howard’s excellent Tennis for Beginners.

Stance

The proper positioning of the feet for the golf stroke may seen a fairly complex matter, but there are really only a few basics to master: just remember to put the clubhead behind the ball with your left hand on the grip, then step forward with your right foot, bring up you left foot and grasp the grip with your right hand. Now line up the ball with your left heel, you left toe, the inside of your left foot, or between your feet with the left foot slightly forward, the right foot slightly forward, or both feet parallel. That’s all there is to it!

Strait Jacket

Confining garment that some golfers have found to be necessary after long periods spent attempting to master the stance.

Stroke

Any forward movement of the club that is made with the intention of hitting and moving the ball and is observed by another golfer.

Stymie

A ball whose path to the hole is blocked by another ball is said to be “stymied,” and under current rules the impeding ball is marked and moved. At one time, such shots had to be played by making the ball hop over or curve around the impediment, but a notorious, deliberately laid stymie during extra holes of the 1951 English Amateur Championship led to a modification of the rule, first in Britain and then, a little later, in the U.S. Other important rule changes and circumstances under which they were made.

Sudden Death

Term for the situation that exists when a match is tied at the end of 18 holes and the player who feels the least amount of confidence about beating the opposition in extra holes play suddenly remembers the death, earlier in the day, of a beloved aunt.

Swing

A full golf swing consists of the backswing that carries the clubhead up to the topswing point, the downswing that brings the clubhead to the point of impact, and the follow through. If the ball dribbles a few feet forwards or hooks or slices violently into the woods or rough, the follow through can be extended into the fore sling- a graceful, lateral motion that sends the club spiraling into the underbrush. Alternatively, the follow through may be stopped and the club brought up sharply in a vertical arc until the clubhead is behind the back, pointing at the ground, then swept smoothly up into the more classic topfling, which combines the power and accuracy necessary to send even the heaviest club into a distant water hard.

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Who needs complex explanation when you can learn golf with humor. Here are some of the most common golf terminologies to learn before you step in the course.

Sand Trap

A deep depression filled with sand filled with golfers in a deep depression.

Sclaff

Onomatopoetic Scottish word for a flubbed shot in which the ground is contacted before the ball is hit. The game’s Celtic inventors had plenty of time to develop a rich vocabulary for golfing mishaps, such as a ball topped lightly into the water, a ball hit a short distance through dense grass, straight into the air, into the word, into rocks and into other players.

Short Game

The short shots played around the green and the cheap shots taken between the green and the next tee.

Skull

To hot too far under the ball, causing a high, ballooning shot. You might try using your hands to open up the clubface a bit.

Slice

To hit the ball with too open a clubface. You might try closing it up a little.

Smother

To hit the ball with too closed a clubface. You might try opening it back up and hitting more on the upper part of the ball.

Sock

To hit someone under the chin or on the lower part of the face with a closed hand driven by a fast, upward-sweeping movement of the arm.

Spin

Professional golfers and other accomplished players can apply a variety of spins to the ball to make it curve around obstacles, turn in to the wind or stop dead where it lands. These shots take skill and practice, but most beginners have a bag of tricks, too! For example, even the rankest of amateurs can amaze their playing companions and themselves by making a ball run right across the center of the hole without going in, rise straight up into the air, execute unbelievably sharp left or right turns, travel sideways or even backwards or disappear entirely.

Score

The total number of strokes needed to complete 18 holes or three times the caddy’s tip, whichever is closest to 75.

Scorecard

A piece of paper on which a player’s opening offer is written prior to the commencement of serious negotiations.

Scratch Player

A player with a handicap of zero; a par golfer; a rat; a louse; a stinker.

Senior

A golfer who attributes poor play to the fact that he or she lacks the physique of a younger player.

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A coalition of community groups, labour organizations and neighbourhood activists will appear before city councillors on Tuesday to request public consultations about the possible sale or lease of financially troubled city golf courses.

In October, the city put out an expression of interest to see if anyone wants to purchase or take over the long-term leases of seven city-owned golf courses, including the Canoe Club, Crescent Drive, Harbour View, John Blumberg, Kildonan Park, Tuxedo and Windsor Park golf courses.

The move came several months after city auditors discovered the courses have racked up large debt and suggested Winnipeg sell some of its courses or convert them into parks.

Environmental group Save our Seine has voiced concerns Winnipeg plans to sell these properties without public input. The group circulated a petition, asking to be included in the development process.

Fort Rouge Coun. Jenny Gerbasi said the process has been “terribly mishandled” and Winnipeg should have conducted public consultations before it put out an expression of interest to developers.

“Green space is a long-term asset to our city. It should not be sold for quick cash to operate our community centres or anything else we need money for,” she said.

At last week’s city centre community committee, Gerbasi and Coun. John Orlikow (River Heights) voted in favour of a thorough public consultation process for alternative options for golf courses.

Council’s property and development committee, a more powerful body, will consider the plan at a meeting on Tuesday. As of Friday, 20 groups had registered to appear before the committee.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/groups-seek-input-on-city-golf-courses-139145729.html

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Here’s another list of common golf terms you shouldn’t missed.

R&A

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, founded in 1754 and the oldest golf club existence. As such it holds many “firsts” in the game of golf: first accusation of an altered scorecard (1754); first disqualification for use of improper equipment (1754); first suspension for profanity (1754); first caddy fired for accepting a bribe (1754); first expulsion for throwing clubs (1754);first properly replaced divot (1897); first twosome permitted to play through (1924); first totally restored bunker surface following the play of a sand shot (1946); first completely honest handicap claim (1957); and first lost ball recovered by a following golfer and returned to its rightful owner (1984).

Reading the Green

Since greens are rarely level and their surfaces vary in smoothness or “speed” depending on how moist the grass is and how recently it was cut, golfers must examine them closely to determine which way and how far the ball will roll. Even the “friendliest”- looking green will have some tricks up its sleeve, and many are downright ornery. Thus the “message” of any given green,as read by the well trained eye of the seasoned player, can range from “Aim a little to the left” or “Look out- anything more than a light tap will run right by the hole” to “The best thing you can do with that putter is make it into a decorative lamp base” or “You’ll be lucky to four-putt, and by the way, those are absolutely the ugliest panys I have ever seen.”

Recovery Shot

Any shot whose primary purpose is to get the ball out of a hazard or away from an obstacle and back into playable position on the fairway. The most important thing to remember when playing recovery shots is not to be greedy. It’s far easier to forget to include in your score a single short shot that put the ball into the middle of the fairway than to try to get away without counting half-dozen duffs, caroms or ricochets.

Relaxation

In golf, perhaps more than in any other game, relaxation is essential. Any tension in a player’s body is instantly transferred to the swing or the putting motion and the results are invariably disastrous. Even a slightly taut muscle can misdirect the path of the club head, sending an expansive ball into the water. An unnecessarily stiffened joint can lead to the kind of jarring, ground-hitting stroke that caused cumulative shaft-related damage to costly clubs and can lead to possible bone injury as well. And an overly rigid grip could, paradoxically, cause a muscular twitch that might allow the club to slip from the fingers during the follow-through, perhaps maiming another player and triggering a multimillion-dollar lawsuit. So for goodness sake, try to relax.

Rim

The edge of the hole. A ball that goes around the cup without falling in is said to have rimmed the hole or to have ringed, skirted, lipped, lapped or looped it. It may also be said to have curled, circled or rolled around it, or to have done a tour, a circuit, a round trip, an orbit or a buttonhook. There are one or two terms for a ball actually going into the cup, but they are used so seldom that it seems like a waste of space to include them here.

Rough

Unmown, naturally wild area bordering the fairway and sometimes separating the fairway from the tee. There are three basic types of rough: low rough, a narrow strip of 6 inch-high grass where the ball may be easily playable; high or deep rough, where the ball may be easily playable; high or deep rough, where the ball may be lost and even if found, may be obstructed or otherwise unplayable; and dark rough, where the ball may be eaten or stolen and used as an object of worship by primitive peoples.

Round

Eighteen holes of golf, played in their proper sequence, followed by one or more additional rounds at the 19th hole.

Rub of the Green

A phrase used in the rules of golf to describe a situation in which the flight of a ball is interrupted by anything other than other player in the match is continued and the ball is played from wherever it lands unless “whatever accidentally stopped or deflected the ball rattles, hisses, spits, growls or snarls; or stings, bites or drools; or makes menacing gestures or motions or circles or makes ready to pounce; or has claws, fangs, a gun, a badge or a lawyer.”

Rules

As currently constituted, the rules of golf consist of 34 basic regulations. The present record for breaking them in a single 18-hole round is an astonishing 31, with 69 penalty strokes, set in 1983 by H.B. Nichols at Bluster Bluffs C.C. in Smug Harbor, Long Island.

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Cross-country skiers in the Wildwood area have tried to keep it a secret for roughly 20 years now.
Sorry, folks — the cat’s out of the bag.

The cross-country ski track in the Wildwood Trails system is a 4.5-kilometre groove that winds through the Wildewood Club golf course, along the Red River and right up to the fields of St. John’s-Ravenscourt school. The idea for the ski track came about as residents wanted the opportunity to step off their front porch and into some outdoor winter activity.

“It’s a little pocket of people who enjoy being able to just walk down the street and go for a little ski,” said Harvey Peltz, one of the volunteers with the Wildwood Park Community Centre (WPCC). “I know we get a lot of people who now drive to our trails. You often see vehicles lined up along the streets at points of the day.”

There are three main trailheads available for people to jump into the track. The Wildewood Club (North Drive at Netley Street) has plenty of parking available for visitors, or interested skiers can get onto the tracks via the Netley and Oakenwald Avenue entrance or at the corner of Oakenwald and North Drive, near the WPCC.

Street parking is available at those two spots, as well, providing a easy setup for those looking to get a quick cardio workout in during the lunch hour.

“It’s really close — a 10-minute drive for me,” said Rose Ringor, right before she set off for an afternoon ski. “And for me, being a beginner, it’s a pretty easy trail. There are some people who are really good and have probably been coming here for years, but it’s not intimidating here. I like that.”

Three different groups organize the trail each winter. The Wildewood Club provides the golf course as the anchor stretch of track, while the WPCC and St. John’s-Ravenscourt help foot the grooming bill (the Cross Country Ski Association of Manitoba cuts the trail for the group). Most of the costs are covered through user generosity; envelopes can be picked up along the trail and sent in to the WPCC.

Last winter, one that had a lot more snow than this current season, the community centre received $3,000 in donations from 64 different people, a sum that ate up a nice chunk of the $4,200 tracking bill.

The walking trial, which winds up and down the banks of the river, was added three or four years ago, Peltz said. It came not from a demand but more of a necessity for the ski population, as over the years volunteers found some people liked walking their dogs along the trails, unintentionally ruining the track for those looking to glide.

That is a big deal for some skiers.

“People actually respect the ski trails here,” said skier Ron Simonite. “It’s really annoying when they do that (allow dogs on trails). I used to go to another place, but it just got so bad I had to go somewhere else. That’s why this place is nice with the separate trails.”

Dropping In is a ‘random act of journalism’ that starts with a thumbtack on a city map and ends with a story from the street

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/put-on-the-skis-hit-the-golf-course-138381959.html

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