DANVILLE, Calif. — For those unenlightened souls that still think G O L F stands for Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden, we have a message for you, We Are Back! The fifteen month siege officially ended on May 27th when our membership was able to have a Charm Day event complete with lunch and a general meeting. Our Captain, Paula Hamra, skillfully navigated this event back to normal and oh so familiar territory.

Check out these Charm Day winners:

• Overall Low Gross – Kim Roth – 93
• Overall Low Net – Lydia Shell – 67
• Flight A Low Gross – Sue Cookson – 84
• Low Net – Anna Li – 68
• Flight B Low Gross – Kim Davis – 95
• Low Net – Lisa Cook – 70
• Flight C Low Gross – Aly Baker – 100
• Low Net – Betsy Jenkins – 73
• Flight D Low Gross – Jan Lind – 108
• Low Net – Terry Portillo – 76

Our 2nd 2021 Guest Day event, A Day at the Beach, was held on June 3rd. These winning teams obviously had more fun in the sun and managed to stay out of the beach!!

Venice Beach Flight:

• 1st Place – Jill Austin, Amy Fox, Paula Hamra, Julie Perachiotti – 93
• 2nd Place – Anna Li, Zhaohui Liu, Qing Dan, Jin Xu – 93
• 3rd Place – Vail Dutto, Nikki Affinito, Kim Roth, Kathleen Jensen – 94

Miami Beach Flight:

• 1st Place – Nancy Lisiak, Gisela Coddington, Denise Benger, Lisa Pombo – 92
• 2nd Place – Marilyn Diamond, Susan Chang, Sue Takaichi, Cathy Raty – 94
• 3rd Place – Ronda Stroka, Sharon Sacks, Sherry Endicott, Ann Ditlevsen – 99

Waikiki Beach Flight:

• 1st Place – Judy Ma, Shirley Dou, Biong Shao, Ying Feng – 87
• 2nd Place – Linda Jaskolski, Maura Mendoza, Sandra Ingwers, Denise Pratt – 92
• 3rd Place – Irma Tidwell, Debbie Keener, Kathy Giroux, Kathleen Nagle – 95

As a reminder, and just so you don’t miss a thing, please avail yourself of the beautiful 2021 BWGA calendar on our web site. Web mistress Linda Jaskolski has expertly chronicled every opportunity to join in the fun and to make scheduling your golf life a breeze!

Exciting news for members who just love to work on their golf game. You will be thrilled to know the Blackhawk driving range is getting a significant re-do scheduled for the fall season. New solar panels along with state of the art technology will help analyze your golf shots while providing real time feedback; 18-20 individual bays, targets and a fairway bunker will complete the look. This may actually change hearts and minds for those of us who live by the motto, “the driving range never killed anyone, but why take the chance.” Perhaps this technology could also provide an entertaining in-club only Comedy Chanel where we could tune in at anytime and watch each other practice.

Hey BWGA, there is so much to share as we are on golf overload and doubling down on our shout outs to a game well played. Our monthly Charm Day tournament was moved up to June 17th.

A salute goes out to each and every winner:

• Overall Low Gross – Karen Dougherty – 80
• Overall Low Net – Lily Weng – 67
• Flight A Low Gross – Lydia Shell – 79
• Low Net – Denise Benger – 69
• Flight B Low Gross – Nancy Lisiak – 92
• Low Net – Anne Kuelz/Nicole Tucker – 76
• Flight C Low Gross – Michelle Stalker – 96
• Low Net – Nancy Levin – 77
• Flight D Low Gross – Julia Leng – 108
• Low Net – Mary Maag/Jo Peek/Mary O’Leary – 86

Our BWGA Classic Tournament rolled into Camp Blackhawk on June 23rd for afternoon cocktails, fun and games and a little shopping orchestrated by Camp Director Dawn Schaeffer. We jumped out of our bunks at sun-up with a 7:00am check in and a boxed breakfast to go from the chuck wagon. The campers geared up with their favorite bug spray, bear spray and hair spray and hit the links! We met back at the dining hall for lunch and cocktails provided by our own Nicole Tucker who made sure we did not go thirsty!

The fun continued that very afternoon as three of the top teams from each of the four flights qualified for the Horse Race. The final outcome was:

• WIN: Lydia Shell/Angie Friedrich/Amy Shell/Bonnie Shewchuck
• PLACE: Jill Austin/Linda Stubblefeld/Sallie Cooke/Kerry Singleton
• SHOW: Karin King/Rae Lynn Lambert/Jan Lind/Nancy Rattie

The final day of Camp gave us one more 18-hole round followed by lunch and a raffle with such great prizes! As for the two days of golf played, here are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners from each flight.

Grand Canyon Flight:

• 1st – Dwyer/Hafstad/Pastore/Zingg – 173
• 2nd – Bisnette/Dougherty/Hollingshead/Scott – 173
• 3rd – Austin/Cooke/Singleton/Stubblefield – 172

Yellowstone Flight:

• 1st – Kim/Maduwura/Zhang/Zocchi – 174
• 2nd – D’Orazio/Hinson/Kowalski/Schmal – 167
• 3rd – Baker/Kuelz/Millino/Shepperd – 166

Grand Teton Flight:

• 1st – Fudenna/Jordan/Portillo/Snyder – 171
• 2nd – Coddington/Karleskind/Lawson/Logan – 163
• 3rd – Enochian/Falvey/Giannini/Lawrence – 161

Yosemite Flight:

• 1st – King/Lambert/Lind/Rattie – 172
• 2nd – McGuire/Prakash/Winter/Wood – 164
• 3rd – Egan/Jones/Miller/Slinger – 162

Thankfully this was less boot camp and more glamping thanks to a very clever Dawn Schaeffer and her committee. As usual, our entire pro shop staff stepped up for all our needs. The kitchen never let us down with yummy BBQ style lunches and desserts for days. As the sun set on another BWGA Classic tournament, we were grateful to see old friends come back and very happy to make some new ones. Like the song says, “Happy Trails to You, Until We Meet Again.”

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