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Gentlemen of the BTC
May 8, 2025

 

It was a beautiful day for our opening day of golf.  75 and sunny, one of the best that I can remember.  Of course, it didn't do my golf game any good as I hacked it up as usual.  But my foursome: Anthony, Lee Kaz, Bob Kennedy and I had lots of fun. Kennedy was the only one that golfed decent even though we all hit a few good shots.  On one par 3 we all were within 20 feet but only two of use made par.  Could have been all the pops we were drinking because Catherine, the best cart girl, was at our side every other hole. 

The pace of play was pretty good considering we had over 100 golfers and we got to eat early, around 3:30. The dinner was very good I thought and there was a very good crowd.  It was good to see all the faces that have not been around for a while and all the applicants that were there. For me, it was great to see Dave Downey, Jack Parisi and Dick Kerkstra.  And my good friend Andy Zilis was there who has been having heart problems and is looking at a possible heart transplant.  Let's hope for a great recovery.

Well, there weren't a lot of great scratch scores out there.  Three guys: Bob Kennedy, Scott Lee and George Les shot 80, Steve O shot 84 and Ron Kogut an 86.  Applicant Kevin Kennedy shot 84.  There were some good handicap scores with Derrick Bay who shot 69, Les Podlasek 71, and Arnie Carlstrom 71Jimmy "I can't stop talking"McDermott shot 72 as did Matt Janda, Bob Long, Jeff Quilici, and Jim Van Eck.  Dan Grimes had a 73.  John Boyle and Dan Raymond shot 74.  Last but not least, Corey Rob shot 70.  

The Ageless Wonder Club did all right.  Jack Heatter shot 77, Gar Ward 95-78, Don Franko 94-77, and Ron Abramowicz 98-81.  Hey, if you're over 85 and golf, let me know and you can be in the Ageless Wonder Club.

All and all, it was a great day, and I hope everyone had a great time.  Next week, we are at the sanctuary.  It's a relatively short course but you have to keep it straight cause there is trouble out there.  But as I say, Bogey is a good score.

Your secretary,

DJ

 

P.S. Whoops, I hit it right again.

 

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE

Gentlemen please welcome our newest applicants to the Club:

            Tony Clementi, Crestwood, IL 60418 Cell: 708-515-6311

            email address: tonyclementi@comcast.net  Sponsors: George Les and Jim McDermott

            Bruce Clark, Frankfort, IL 60423  Cell: 312-498-8000

            email address: bruceclark0@gmail.com  Sponsors: Bob Schaefer and Rich Schroeder

Let's make these gentlemen feel welcome in the Club and help them out as much as possible.

Sincerely,

Jerry Jasinski, Chairman

 

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Golf News:

We couldn’t have asked for a better day to kick off the 2025 golf season.  The weather was amazing.  We had 117 signed up to golf and 108 actually played.  Coincidentally enough, 108 was also the number of members that attended the dinner afterwards. 

Golf scores as well as daily game results are included in this newsletter as an attachment.  As for next week at Sanctuary, I am still receiving hotline requests to play Tuesday.  A separate email with tee times will be sent out either Friday or Saturday.  Golf emails outside of the newsletter will come from builderstee@gmail.com (Senders Name:  Builders Tee).   Please add that address to your email contacts list so that the golf emails don’t end up in your spam/junk folder.

The first round of the 2-Man Tournament will be June 3rd.  All members with an established Builders Tee Club handicap are eligible for the tournament.  If you have not submitted your team yet, please do so as soon as possible.  You can enter by calling the hot line (708-888-1355) or stop by the score table after golf.  The entry fee for the tournament is $100 per team ($50 each).  You can pay Scott or Anthony at the score table after golf.

We currently have 85 golfers signed up for golf at Sanctuary next week.  They are not going to let us tee off on holes 1 and 10.  Everyone will be starting on hole #1.  The first tee time will be at 8:30 and depending on how many groups we end up with, the final tee time will be somewhere around noon.

If you haven’t signed up yet and want to golf at Sanctuary, call the hotline right away.

Roster Books:

Those who were at dinner on Tuesday should have received a copy of this year’s roster/members book.  Everyone take a look at your name and make sure that the information is correct.  Let Anthony Serritella know if you find any errors.  I want to send a special thank you to Larry Garetto for not only the time and effort he put into preparing the roster book but also for taking time out if his busy day to drop the books off at the golf course Tuesday so they could be distributed.

If anyone has any questions, please don't hesitate to call Scott or Anthony.

Your 2025 Golf Guys, 

Scott Lee (312) 340-4171                                                                                                         

Anthony Serritella (630) 430-5742

 

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Sanctuary Tee Sheet as of 5/10/25

TEE SHEET  (Sanctuary-5/13/25),  updated as of 5/10/25
TIME HOLE GOLFERS
8:30 1 Downey Lee Les Parisi
8:40 1 Janda W Schlesser P Schlesser T Stewart
8:50 1 Day Konopacz Ostrowski Radcliffe
9:00 1 Clementi Kogut Vardikos Voutiritsas
9:10 1 Hammond McDermott Schaefer Zielinski
9:20 1 Furman Jenner Kennedy B Kennedy K
9:30 1 Elliott Pencak Rob  
9:40 1 Heraty Kossman Stanford Vizdal
9:50 1 Alexander Bandauski Jasinski Quilici
10:00 1 Conway Samoska D Sr Samoska R Younus
10:10 1 Franko Kampfert Kaz Serritella
10:20 1 Bondi Guarnieri Lewis Swintek
10:30 1 Breier Huddleston Moretti Ward
10:40 1 Kelly Kleinpaste Lambros  
10:50 1 Eppolito Joe Podlasek Stradal Tutka
11:00 1 Carioti F Carioti R Guest Guest
11:10 1 Bonarigo Carlstrom Long Marino
11:20 1 Carter J Flanagan Grimes  
11:30 1 Dzierwa Gagnon Krygowski  
11:40 1 Bewley Ganz Schroeder Van Eck
11:50 1 Boyle Christophersen Miller B Musser
12:00 1 Botwinski Chmelar Suntken Tomkins D
12:10 1 Banas Fowler Kern Miller R