Volume 5, Issue 12
Christmas 2006

IN THIS ISSUE:

 Golf Course News
Pro Shop Scoop
 The Grapevine


2006 Call for Submissions!!!

We’d like to hear your favourite stories and/or memories of your Cordova Bay experience! Maybe it’s a hole-in-one, a lifetime handicap achievement, or just a special moment you would like to share with our readers - we want to hear about them! Please send your stories to:


info@cordovabaygolf.com

"Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle, followed by a good bottle of beer."



 


M
anagement and staff at Cordova Bay Golf Course and The Ridge wish the happiest of the holiday season to our many customers and members. Thank-you for your patronage and we look forward to sharing time with you again in 2007.
 

How about a little golf before your Christmas turkey, kids? That's right, Cordova Bay Golf Course will be open for play on Dec. 25, but there is a twist -- you must make a prepaid booking with the pro shop.

The Christmas Day green fee is a minimum donation of $25 and, because all money will go to the Mustard Seed Food Bank, there will be no refunds on cancellations or no-shows.

The gate will open at 8:45 a.m. on Dec. 25 and the first tee time will be 8:58.

(NOTE: The pro shop and Bill Mattick's Restaurant will be closed on Dec. 25. No carts will be available.)

 

Bird fancier Alastair Urquhart had cause for concern when Gordie, our resident rooster, disappeared for a few days while the course was closed due to the heavy snowfall in late November. Alastair thought that perhaps one of the wolves spotted near the 14th hole might have had our Gordie for a light snack. But, as it turns out, Gordie had taken refuge up a tree (Foghorn Leghorn would have been proud) and eventually resurfaced, safe and sound and keeping a wary eye out for the big, bad wolves.

Notes, quotes and anecdotes from a holiday notebook ...

Wine and cheese, anyone? Apparently it's for everyone, because it was cheek to jowl in the pro shop and Bill Mattick's Restaurant at the annual Wine & Cheese bash on Dec. 4. The food was plentiful, as was the fellowship, and the pro shop cash register was ringing like the bells of St. Mary's. Yes, indeed, a good time was had by all. We'd especially like to acknowledge the two members who spent a good portion of the evening preventing the bar from collapsing. Thanks to all who attended . . . The great Guess When The Parking Lot Snowbank Will Melt lottery has come to a conclusion, and commissioner Jordan (Pops) McLean has declared the winners to be Gary Wilson, Mike Griffin and Brian Hann. Those three fellows gazed into a crystal ball and correctly predicted that the pile of white stuff would vanish on Dec. 17. If was a fun contest, but it's one that we would prefer not to repeat, because that would mean another dose of the white stuff from Old Man Winter.

 

(If you have any interesting morsels of information you'd like to pass along, The Grapevine would love to hear them. The more offbeat they are, the better. Contact dylan at 658-4444
or info@cordovabaygolf.com.)

 

POST-CHRISTMAS CLEAROUT

UP TO 75% OFF cost!

Our Summer Stock must GO!
Sale starts
9 a.m. Boxing Day
and continues until
Jan. 7, 2007

Get Your Daffy $!
Some might think we're daffy, but for every $50 you spend during our Post-Christmas Clearout (Dec. 26-Jan.7) we will give you $10 worth of Daffy Bucks. That's right, spend $50 and you will receive a $10 coupon. And why stop there? Spend $100 and get two $10 coupons; spend $150 and ... well, you get the idea. The coupons can be used toward the purchase of items in the pro shop spring line from Feb. 1-April 15, 2007.


Cordova Bay Wants You Back!

Don't look now, but the renewal date for membership in the Ladies' and Men's Clubs is looming. It's important that you renew sooner rather than later, because you need to be fitted for your 2007 members' gift -- a summer wind shirt. If you haven't been fitted prior to Jan. 15, there is no guarantee of proper sizing. Please see Dylan at the call centre to fill out the appropriate form.

For those of you planning to flee to warmer climes for the winter, please indicate your intentions to renew by calling (658-4444) or sending an e-mail (info@cordovabaygolf.com) prior to your departure.

 
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