Thursday, June 18, 2009

Torrey Pines Junior Golf Program - Weekly Upcoming Event Status

NIKE Summer Camps May Impact Pick-up Times on Monday and Wednesday

The 1st NIKE golf camp begins next Monday, June 22nd, and it’s going to be fairly large group. NIKE camps run Monday thru Thursday and include golf each day. This means the NIKE juniors will be utilizing the course about the same time as our local junior golf program on Monday and Wednesday afternoons. On top of that, we’re also experiencing significant numbers of adults playing late in afternoon to take advantage of the longer days of summer.

Together these conditions are conspiring to create delays for us as the city starters prioritize full paying adults and NIKE camps over local kids using 30 day golf passes. If we get word from the city starter that we’ll have a significant delay in getting on the course, our plan is to shuttle kids to the driving range to practice their skills until the course is ready for us. If a delay occurs pick-up times will likely be pushed out to 7 PM.

If delays in teeing-off become a regular occurrence we will probably need to split our juniors into early and late groups. Early check-in will likely be a group of 4 students at 3:45; and a late group of 4 to 8 students at 5:15 or so. More information regarding this proposed change to come as we see the impact of the NIKE camps during the coming weeks.

NEW -- Summer Camps for 5-8 Year Olds

Our 1st Mini-Camp for Mini-Golfers summer camp is just around the corner. Get a reserved spot for your child ASAP. Our half-day camps for kids 5 to 8 years old are perfect for introducing beginners to the game of golf. No equipment or experience required. Check out our camp features, prices and schedule at: http://torreypinesgolfcourse.com/juniorcamp .

RESERVE YOUR SPOTS EARLY

In order to maximize participation in our group events, we offer open spots in upcoming weekend skills clinics and weekday playing lessons to guests every Friday afternoon. Please take advantage of your ability to sign-up for junior group events well in advance using your smarterlessons.com account. (Saturday clinics and Wednesday playing lessons are especially getting tight right now.)

We publish the current and following month’s events on smarterlessons so you have plenty of opportunity to reserve your spots on your favorite days. If you need help using your smarterlessons account, just sent a reply and I’ll instruct the system to send you your child’s login name and password. The rest is a pretty straightforward step-by-step procedure to reserve a spot in a group event. If you have more than one child in the program, remember to book the 1st child into the events that you want, log out of that account and log back in with the next child’s account to reserve his/her spot in the same events.

JUNE GROUP CLINIC CANCELLATIONS

There are no anticipated interruptions in the regularly scheduled junior group events in June.

WEEKDAY PLAYING LESSONS

DROP-OFF: 4:30 to 5:00 PM - An event coordinator will be available at 4:30 PM to begin pairing up arriving participants into groups of four. Groupings will continue to be made until 5:00 PM. Each pairing will be accompanied by an instructor for 90 minutes of instruction, or approximately 3 to 5 holes of play.

PICK-UP: 6:30 to 6:45 PM - After 90 minutes of golf, instructors will escort all participants back to the putting greens next to the golf shop for pick-up.

Please note:

Participants may continue to play the golf course without an instructor only:

(1) if joined by a parent or guardian, or

(2) without an adult if approval is given to the event coordinator during check-in.

Parents or guardians may join their child to play on the golf course:

(1) only after the playing lesson has completed, and

(2) only after paying green fees to the starter.

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Weekend Skills Clinic Status

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This message is a status update only. If you have a junior on the roster for one of the upcoming events he/she will be listed below the event description.

Reserve your spots today! Any open spots in the following clinics will be offered to guests of the program this Friday afternoon. If you haven’t joined a clinic yet and you want your child's name added to a roster, please sign-up using your smarterlessons.com account. Alternatively, you can reply to this message or give me a call, but there will be no guarantee that you've made it on the roster if it was filled by users of the smarterlessons service.

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JUNIOR SKILLS CLINIC

Date: Saturday, June 20th

Check-in Time: 2:30 PM

Pick-up Time: 4:00 PM

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Please let us know you're coming if you are *NOT* on this roster!

Joe Balo

Brian Balo

Jack Behrend

Alarisse Lam

Blaine Lam

Philip Middleton

Nicholas Rowe

Kris Sander

Mitch Sigesmund

Grant Sigesmund

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JUNIOR SKILLS CLINIC

Date: Sunday, June 21st

Check-in Time: 10:30 AM

Pick-up Time: 12:00 PM

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Please let us know you're coming if you are *NOT* on this roster!

Caroline Garay

Madeleine Garay

Sam Worman

Tom Worman

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Weekday Playing Lesson Status

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This message is a status update only. If you have a junior on the roster for one of the upcoming events he/she will be listed below the event description.

Reserve your spots today! Any open spots in the following clinics will be offered to guests of the program this Friday afternoon. If you haven’t joined a clinic yet and you want your child's name added to a roster, please sign-up using your smarterlessons.com account. Alternatively, you can reply to this message or give me a call, but there will be no guarantee that you've made it on the roster if it was filled by users of the smarterlessons service.

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Date: Monday, June 22nd

DROP-OFF: 4:30 to 5:00 PM - An event coordinator will be available at 4:30 PM to begin pairing up arriving participants into groups of four. Groupings will continue to be made until 5:00 PM. Each pairing will be accompanied by an instructor for 90 minutes of instruction, or approximately 3 to 5 holes of play.

PICK-UP: 6:30 to 6:45 PM - After approximately 90 minutes of golf, instructors will bring participants back to the putting greens next to the golf shop for pick-up.

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Please let us know you're coming if you are *NOT* on this roster!

Joe Balo

Caroline Garay

Alarisse Lam

Blaine Lam

Megan McDuffie

Colin McDuffie

Gabriel Piscitello

Ben Weldner

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MONDAY WAIT LIST

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Behrend, Jack

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Date: Wednesday, June 24

DROP-OFF: 4:30 to 5:00 PM - An event coordinator will be available at 4:30 PM to begin pairing up arriving participants into groups of four. Groupings will continue to be made until 5:00 PM. Each pairing will be accompanied by an instructor for 90 minutes of instruction, or approximately 3 to 5 holes of play.

PICK-UP: 6:30 to 6:45 PM - After approximately 90 minutes of golf, instructors will bring participants back to the putting greens next to the golf shop for pick-up.

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Please let us know you're coming if you are *NOT* on this roster!

David Edwards

Bryan Edwards

Madeleine Garay

Nicholas Rowe

Mitch Sigesmund

Grant Sigesmund

Lorenzo Villela

Ben Weldner

Caroline Garay

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WEDNESDAY WAIT LIST

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