The Bulletin Board
2010 Events List
Annual
Course Clean-Up Day, Saturday March 27th
Opening
Day (Weather permitting), Thursday April 1st
Easter
Brunch, Sunday April 4th
Opening
Field Day Scramble, Sunday May 2nd
Opening
Lady's Day, Tuesday May 4th
Opening
Men's Night, Thursday May 6th
Mother's
Day Brunch, Sunday May 9th
Couple's
League Begins, Friday May 21st
Ladies
9 hole Member Guest Tuesday, June 15th
Ladies
Member Guest Tuesday, June 22nd
Edward
Jones Parent/Child Tournament, Sunday June 27th
"The
Chapman" Field Day, Sunday July 4th
Mixed
Scramble Sunday July 18th 12:30 Modified Shotgun
Deer
Park Pairs Field Day, Sunday July 25th
Club
Championships, July 31st, August 1st & 2nd
Field
Day SM's Revenge, Sunday August 15th
Mixed
Event, Sunday August 22nd
Lady's
Invitational, Tuesday August 24th
Field
Day Dramble, Sunday September 4th
Men's
Member Guest, Friday September 10th & Saturday September
11th
Men's
Night Closing Day, Thursday September 23rd
Closing
Lady's Day Shotgun & Luncheon, Tuesday, September 28th
Money
Scramble Field Day – Cash Only Sunday October 3rd
Closing
Field Day, Sunday October 17th
AGM
& Official course closing, Tuesday December 7th
Jim McNeil
The Men's
Championship Trophy has been renamed the Jim McNeil Award
It is with great sadness
that we announce the passing of Jim McNeil. Jim was one
of the finest golfers that our club had ever produced. He
was 9 time club champion, and a two time junior club champion.
He also won numerous amateur titles through out Southern
Ontario. Our condolences to all his family and friends.
He will be missed’
Former Niagara men’s tour points champion Jim McNeil
dies from heart attack
Posted By Bernie Puchalski
Golfers competing in the
opening event of the Nevada Bob’s Niagara Men’s
Tour Sunday at Peninsula Lakes will do so with a heavy heart.
At the tournament’s prize presentation, a moment of
silence will be held for Jim McNeil, the tour’s overall
points champion in 2004.
The 53-year-old died of a heart attack at his home in Beamsville
early this week.
“He will be missed,” tour organizer Bernie Bodogh
said.
Bodogh will always remember what McNeil did whenever he
hit a particularly good shot.
“He would stare it down and go “Yes! I hit it
just the way I wanted to.’ ”
The retired Stelco carpenter hit it just right thousands
of times in his illustrious amateur golf career.
The nine-time men’s champion and two-time junior champion
at Twenty Valley was consistently the top local golfer in
Golf Association of Ontario championships across the province.
He won the men’s division of the local Champion of
Champions tournament in 2004, 2006 and 2007 besting the
other club champions from across Niagara.
McNeil made two attempts at qualifying for the professional
European senior tour, advancing to the final stage once
and missing out on the final stage by one stroke on his
second try when he double bogeyed the final hole.
“He practiced, he played and he competed,” Bodogh
said.
It was his commitment to practice that made him such a good
golfer, Twenty Valley head pro Randy Taylor said.
“He was a happy-go-lucky guy with lots of great stories.
He was a great competitor and he liked to experience things,”
Taylor said.
Among his experiences were running in the Boston and Toronto
marathons and climbing mountains, including Mount Kilimanjaro
twice.
But his passion for running and climbing were secondary
to his love of golf.
“He lived for golf — that’s all he lived
for — and he couldn’t wait for this season to
start,” his mother Dorothy McNeil said.
Her son had a number of girlfriends but he was a confirmed
bachelor.
“A lot of his friends were divorced and him golfing
every day was no life for a woman unless she was a golfer
too,” Dorothy said.
John (Bingo) Watson, a former playing partner with McNeil
at Twenty Valley, described him as a quiet man who kept
to himself.
“He was always a true gentleman on and off the course,”
Watson said.
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