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Bluffton's Crescent Pointe Golf Club has been named the Lowcountry Golf Course Owners Association Golf Course of the Year for 2010. The judges rated the local clubs based on quality of the course and management in addition to the facility's contribution to the community and the game of golf.
Recent winners include Harbour Town Golf Links, Palmetto Dunes and Hilton Head National. Over the past year, Crescent Pointe made improvements to its course, facility and followed a pro-active business strategy that led to an eight percent increase in rounds played in 2010 compared to 2009.
"It is an honor to be recognized (by the LGCOA) as the Course of the Year in the Lowcountry," director of golf Bill Layman said in a release. "The entire staff has worked hard over the past year to improve the conditions of the course and the club, as well as the service provided to our guests."
A new management company, Sequoia Golf Management, and new ownership, Great Oaks Golf, provided nearly $700,000 to improve the course's overall turf quality, aesthetics and playability. The clubhouse was also renovated with new paint, carpet and furniture, as well as granite countertops and flat screen televisions.
GOLF TOURNAMENT TO RAISE MONEY FOR ORGAN DONATION
The parents of Laura Gage hope celebrating the life of their daughter through a charity golf tournament will once again help bring life to others in need.
The fifth annual Laura Gage Golf Tournament is set for Oct. 14 at Rose Hill Golf Club in Bluffton.
Gage was 19 years old when she was killed in a 1995 traffic accident just outside of Amsterdam, New York.
The only silver lining around the tragic situation was the fact that she was an organ donor and she helped save and enrich the lives of eight other people.
Gage's parents, Bob and Fiona Grygiel, moved to the area in 2004 and have hosted a charity golf tournament each year to raise awareness of organ donation in her honor. The money from each event goes to the Children's Organ Transplant Association. This year's recipient will be Joseph Michael Pardue, a 22-year-old from Lancaster in need of a double lung transplant.
The golf tournament will start at noon on Oct. 14 at Rose Hill. The cost is $100 per person and includes dinner and prizes. For more information, contact Bob or Fiona Grygiel at 843-681-2180.
SHIPYARD MAKES COURSE IMPROVEMENTS
The tough economic times have not been enough to keep Heritage Golf from making improvements to its golf courses at Shipyard Golf Club on Hilton Head Island.
Over the past two years, all 27 greens on the three nine-hole courses have been upgraded with Diamond Zoysia grass. More than five acres of sod has also been put down to cover bare spots and drainage was improved on many fairways. The clubhouse has also been refurbished.
HHIJGA HANDS OUT AWARDS AT BANQUET
The Hilton Head Island Junior Golf Association held its annual awards banquet on Aug. 17 at the Moss Creek Plantation Clubhouse. The following awards were presented along with tournament trophies; Most Improved Female Golfer: Jacqueline Tobin; Most Improved Male Player: John Ziegler; Female Sportsmanship Award: Brandi Hammonds; Male Sportsmanship Award: Jake Minasi and the Patricia L. Kellogg Award: Lynda Budidharma.
The evening concluded with a raffle including 25 rounds of golf for four from the local golf courses plus several other items from restaurants and local merchants. Registration for the HHIJGA's 2011 summer golf program starts in May.
LOCALS TO COMPETE IN ASSISTANT CHAMPIONSHIP
Four local golfers will compete in the Carolinas Section Callaway Golf PGA Assistant Championship today and Friday at Beacon Ridge Golf and Country Club in West End, N.C.
Hilton Head Island's Jason Bova, Edward Sires and Robert Wilson are in the field. Bluffton's David Rodgers will also compete. The winner of the tournament will move on to compete in the 2010 Callaway Golf PGA Assistant Championship at the PGA Golf Club's Wanamaker Course in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
SIMMONS TIES FOR 10TH IN MID AMATEUR FOUR BALL
Beaufort's Rob Simmons teamed up with Greenville's Blair Scurlock to tie for 10th place in the South Carolina Golf Association's 16th annual Mid Amateur Four Ball Championship over the weekend at Yeamans Hall Club in Hanahan. The second day of the tournament was not finished due to lightning.
Simmons and Scurlock fired a 66, finishing four strokes behind winners Darrell Connelly of Mt. Pleasant and Matt Laydon of Charleston.
Donald Phillips of Lady's Island tied for 24th, and Beaufort's James Banyas tied for 33rd.
THORNE FIFTH IN SCJGA EVENT
Bluffton's Kathryn Thorn fired a 121 to take fifth place in the girls 8-10 flight in the South Carolina Junior Golf Association's Tommy Cuthbert All-Stars tournament last weekend at Ocean Winds Club on Seabrook Island. In the girls 11-13 flight, Hilton Head Island's Jacqueline Tobin was fifth with a 108.
HJGT EVENT COMING TO HILTON HEAD ISLAND
The Hurricane Junior Golf Tour will return to Hilton Head Island Sept. 11-12 for the second annual Hilton Head Junior Open at Golden Bear Golf Club at Indigo Run. The registration deadline is Sept. 1. The regional golf tour is for golfers between the ages of 10 and 19. Find more information online at www.hjgt.org. Reed Kerwin of Mt. Pleasant won last year's overall boys title with a 2-under-par 142.
HOLE-IN-ONE
Penny Calf sank a hole-in-one on Aug. 21 on the 105-yard No. 15 hole on the South Course at Moss Creek. Witnesses were Liz Ireton, Joan Heidacher and Jane Warren.
