July 16 Grand Lake Golf Report

Speed of Play

1. Be early to your tee time

If your tee time is at 1:40, don't show up at 1:40. And there is no "5-minute rule" when it comes to grumpy starters. Your whole group should be at the first tee 5-10 minutes before your tee time (or within eye sight of the starter) and ready to have your peg in the ground at the starting time..

2. Learn how to share a golf cart

Drop your partner off at their ball and go to yours (and when they hit they can walk back to the cart). If being dropped off, always take a few different clubs to your ball. If you and your cart mate's balls are relatively close to each other, park in between them and you can get ready to hit at the same time.
Who says golf isn't a team sport?

3. Don't play balls you can't afford to lose

There is virtually no point to buying new golf balls until you can actually play with one for a few holes before it ends up in a back yard or at the bottom of a lake. Play balls you won't mind losing in the weeds, because your playing partners don't want to help you look for more than a couple balls during a round.

4. Instruction is for the driving range

I know, once you hit your seventh drive of the day dead left, you want to ask your playing partners what you're doing wrong. Chances are, we can offer a suggestion, and it might fix it for a hole or two, but you're better off with a lesson or group clinic at the range after work once a week or a couple times a month to gain any real improvement.

Cherokee Grove Monday Night League

Cherokee Grove Monday Night League..Hit the ball at 5:15. All are welcome. You can stop by the Cherokee Grove Clubhouse to sign up Results of Monday Night Skins game and Closest to the Pin were as follows: Skins winners were Hole #4 Jerry Ogden Jr and Hole #6 Don Larimore. CTP winners hole #2 Jerry Odgen Sr and on hole #8 Rod Bray.. We had a great turn out and weather was perfect. Nice breeze to keep you cool. Don’t miss out on the fun. It is not too late to join. See you at the Grove. You too can be a winner!

Cherokee Grove Saturday and Sunday Skins. 9 a.m. start time. Cheapest SKINS GAME you will find.

Wednesday Morning League for Senior men at Cherokee Grove. Just stop by the Cherokee Grove club house. This will be a Senior Men’s league for 60 and over playing 9 holes. $20 fee includes cart fee and entry in $5 skins game. (Members play for $10) Tee off each Wednesday promptly at 8 a.m.

Patricia Island Country Club Ladies Golf League
May 9 – Sept. 26 Wednesdays at 3:00 p.m. for 9 or 18 holes. There also will be 9 holes at 5:15 p.m. Please call or text Ileta Bray 918-801-5912 for details

Hole in One Report.
Trae Stanton hole #8 at Cherokee Grove Golf Course with a Pitching Wedge on
weekend loan by Kelly Golf. Witness Kerry Bass.. Congratulations.

Golf Joke of the week
A good golf partner is one who's always a little bit worse than you are.
Save the Date

12 TH Annual Mary Moore Charity Event will be held on Friday, August 17 th . 2018. This is a great chance to play SHANGRI-LA Golf Club. Plan on it!!

Lest We Forget Golf Tourney for our First Responders will be held on September 30th

Weather Talk
What did one tornado say to the other?
“Let’s twist again, like we did last summer
What’s the difference between a horse and the weather?
One is reined up and the other rains down.….”

Grand Lake Golf Venues
-Cherokee Grove Golf Course (Grove) @ 918-786-4100
-The Coves Golf Club (Duck Creek) @ 918-782-3220
-Grand Cherokee Golf Course (Langley) @ 918-435-8727.
-Patricia Island Golf Club (Grove) @ 918-786-3338
-Peoria Ridge Golf Club (Miami) 918-542-7676
-Shangri-La Golf Club (Monkey Island) @ 918-257-4204
-Eagle Creek Golf Club (Joplin) @ 417-623-5050
-Elk River C.C. (Noel) @ 417-475-3208

-Kelly Custom Golf (Grove) 918-787-7640 golf shop

Keep it in the Middle
Mike Kelly