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2019 Tournament Schedule

Plan your spring and summer now.  Please see below for this season’s tournament schedule.

2019 RHGC Tournament Schedule (updated 4.1.19)

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2018 Membership Information

As 2017 comes to an end during this holiday season, Red Hook Golf Club is pleased to announce details for our 2018 Memberships, Dues Schedule, and Membership Drive.  The Installment and Early Payment Incentive programs are once again applicable to dues remittance.

There have been substantial changes to the Membership categories and dues so please review the documents below and contact us if you need further clarification or have any questions.

We look forward to seeing our 2017 Members in the Spring of 2018…hopefully among many new faces of those joining for the first time or returning after a season or more away!

Thank you.

-RHGC

RHGC – 2018 Memberships & Dues

RHGC – 2018 Value of Stock & Membership

RHGC – 2018 Membership Drive Details

RHGC – 2018 Early Payment Incentive Program

RHGC – 2018 Member Information Form

RHGC – 2018 Locker, Storage, Annual Cart – Registration Form

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2017 Red Hook Cup – Summary

Red Hook Cup Shootout

October 21st, 2017

Red Hook Cup Champion – Tim Forman

The top 10 players from the season long points race participated in our end of the season Red Hook Cup Shootout.

The Top Ten

1st     Aaron Pethic               1,470

2nd    Bill Hennekens            1,395

3rd    Keith Reichelt             1,290

4th     Kevin Hanlon              1,277

5th     Dan Lischetti               1,245

6th     Steve Clinton               1,235

7th     Tim Forman                1,233

*8th   Greg Rakow                 1,210

9th     Bob Speirs                   1,190

10th  Peter Barrow              1,125

11th  Rob Pagano                 1,122

*Did not participate in shootout

All ten players tee off on hole #1 with one player eliminated after each hole.  It came down to the final two of Keith Reichelt and Tim Forman with Tim winning after a putt off on hole #9.

Previous Winners

2014 – Per Paulsson

2015 – Taylor Keenan

2016 – Aaron Pethic

Red Hook Cup 2017 – Small

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RHGC’s 1930s Clubhouse

#TBT @ #RHGC A big thanks to member Karen C for bringing in this photo of the original #RedHookGolfClub #Clubhouse circa 1930s. Incorporated in 1930, RHGC's founding members completed and opened for play the original 9-hole course in 1931. Many current members' parents and family were instrumental in establishing the club during hard times across our great nation. Thankfully Red Hook Golf Club has stood the test of time, weathered the many economic peaks and valleys, and expanded to our current 18-hole layout and facilities. Last season RHGC celebrated the 20th anniversary of the expansion and acknowledged the dedication and contributions of so many loyal members of the club and local #community. Come visit us to see how we honor those memories and look ahead to many more decades of golf, friends and good times. Who can identify the car models in the lot?! #golf #redhook #rhinebeck #dutchesscounty #hudsonvalley #ny #iloveny

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2017 Ham Scramble

2017 RHGC Ham Scramble

What better way to kick off the 2017 golf season than to round up a few friends and play in Red Hook Golf Club’s annual tradition Ham Scramble?!  So your game isn’t in peak season form, so what?!  Ease into the season with 9 holes in a low-pressure friendly competition that’s as much about reconnecting and celebrating Spring as it is about birdies and eagles.  Last year saw record turnout and there is limited space so give us a call today to sign up your team! (845) 758-8652 www.redhookgolfclub.com

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2017 RHGC Member Tournament Schedule

Thanks to the work of the RHGC Tournament Committee, the 2017 Member Tournament schedule is now available.

We are in the process of updating the Events section.  We will provide a link to an electronic, shareable calendar (e.g. iCal) in the near future.  You will able to synchronize with the most updated version of the schedule on many of your electronic devices.

We hope and expect that all of our eligible members will plan their golf seasons accordingly so they can participate in as many events as possible and win the Red Hook Cup in 2017!

2017 RHGC Member Tournament Schedule

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TAKE A LESSON ! Improve your game !

We don’t often think about taking a golf lesson. After all, we all have a limited time to play with friends and family so we do not take the “extra time” necessary to improve our game. As I see it, the two things I can do to improve my game are: #1. spend time at the driving practice range, (use every single club in the bag; full swing, 3/4 swing, and 1/2 swing) —– and #2. take a lesson.

Over the last two weekends, our club, the Red Hook Golf Club, ran its annual Club Championship tournaments for men and women. I thought I was ready to play my usual game — in love with my long game and hating my short game. My state of mind is, anytime I can take a full swing at the green, I am happy. Anytime I need to cut back – to chip or half-pitch – I lose all confidence and hope for the best. Most often the best is not good. Then I recover with some decent putting. Not a great strategy for winning a match.

In a moment of inspiration or desperation, I decided to take a lesson. I hired Doug Wiltsie, our Club Pro, to give me a half hour lesson on chipping. Plain and simple. Fix this mess of mine. He quickly diagnosed my problems — decelerating on the downstroke (out of fear of messing up the shot) and often using the incorrect club. I asked him to take apart the proper swing, to tell me what the club should be doing and what that accomplishes with the ball. We went over setup, backswing, make contact, swing through. Then he asked me to follow the flight of the ball and he described it as a hop, skip, and run out. Because of his explanation I could see when I was executing the stroke properly simply by observing the flight of the ball. I do not use the traditional stance for chipping but Doug did not try to change my stance. I liked that about the lesson. He only addressed what needed to be addressed and did not try to make me into a textbook case of the “perfect swing.”

We practiced for a while from short grass, long grass, close up, and far away. We shot to the pins near the edge of the green and the pins much farther away. In my mind I had it!

As we started to end our half hour lesson, Doug asked if I had anything else on my mind. Yes, I admitted. I need help getting the draw back into my game. I love to shape the shot to the left. As Doug set me up for the shot, we I found I could relate the stroke to my former tennis game. He gave me three mental checkpoints and we practiced a couple of shots. I was beginning to see results.

Fast forward to the tournament three days later. I can honestly say I “won” the tournament because I went into the games without fear. I no longer cared where my shots landed on the green or near because I was not afraid of the “chip” to follow. My chips worked beautifully. I even chipped in a couple of times. The draws worked and I took advantage of them whenever I needed them to work for me.

What is the lesson here? The lesson from Doug was worth every penny and the time I dedicated to “fixing” my game. I payed for an hour lesson and came away with two new skills that I could use in my game — and it helped me win the matches to boot.

TAKE A LESSON ! Improve your game !!

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Spring Newsletter

Red Hook Golf Club’s Spring 2016 Newsletter is now available in PDF format.  Find out what’s new, what’s happening, and what’s coming up soon at the Club!

RHGC Spring 2016 Newsletter

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Tiger Woods isn’t playing in Masters but still very much present

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Welcome to the Tiger-free Masters. For the second time in three years, Tiger Woods is missing this tournament. We probably should start getting used to this, but let’s be honest: it’s weird.

Tiger is golf. Or at least he was golf. Now he’s the ghost of golf, the game’s greatest player whose back finally gave out, the cautionary tale now hovering over the first men’s major of the year as the most important player who isn’t here.

He’s missing, but he’s still very much present. There isn’t a news conference that goes by where his name doesn’t come up. The praise showered upon him by the young men who grew up idolizing him, the same men who are now taking over the game from him, is laudatory and enlightening. It’s part press conference, part oral history.

Tiger is gone, but he’s definitely not forgotten. Having recently turned 40, he is unable to play due to his bad back, but definitely not anywhere close to retired. As I said, it’s weird.

Phil Mickelson was asked Tuesday afternoon if it seems strange to him when Tiger misses a major tournament.

“Well, it’s not like we shared a house together, so I don’t notice it that way,” Mickelson said with a laugh.

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Following in Tiger’s footsteps, Jordan Spieth looks to win more Masters

Then he grew serious.

“I think we all appreciate what he’s done for the game of golf over the years,” he said. “We all miss him and want him back. He’s a big part of the game even when he’s not playing. So fortunately, I’ve heard from reports that he’s going to be able to play this year, which is great. We would love him to be here. … The Tour misses him. The game misses him. Hopefully he’ll get back to his winning ways.”

Tiger is like a Jeopardy answer here this week: he appears only in the form of a question. The youngsters speak about him in the past tense, one after another: Jason Day, Adam Scott, Rory McIlroy.

“It was fantastic golf to watch,” said Day, the 2015 PGA champion who has won his last two starts on tour this year. ”I mean, he did things that no one else could do: hit shots around the greens, shots from way off the green, approaches.  It was just amazing what he could do as an athlete in our sport. He changed the game of golf for the better.

“And now, you see the results of it,” he continued. “Because of what Tiger did back in the day, there’s numbers and numbers of guys that are young that got into the game of golf. The way that Arnold Palmer started the next generation and that generation started the next generation, and then finally Tiger Woods started our generation.”

See what I mean about the use of past tense?

At 35, Scott, the 2013 Masters champion, is closer to Tiger’s age than Day’s (28), yet he still is an integral part of the younger generation.

“The highlight reel, I watch it on YouTube at times, is endless, of all the great stuff that he has done,” Scott said of Woods. “I was really fortunate to get some front row seats at times to getting to play with him throughout those years and watching it close up. I think he made us believe it was going to go forever and ever. That was the incredible thing. You know, that’s probably not the reality of it, but it went for such a long period of time that we thought it was.”

Let’s not leave out four-time major winner McIlroy, still only 26, who found himself talking about the parity of today’s game.

“It is much different than the years Tiger dominated from ’97 to 2005 or 2007,” he said. “I don’t know if we’re going to see a 10-year stretch of golf like that in our lifetime. What he did in that time span was amazing.”

To be sure, Woods isn’t done yet. But he is missing what always is his best chance annually to win a major tournament by not being here this week.

Check that. He actually was here. He came in for the Masters Champions Dinner Tuesday evening.

Tiger Woods, Masters dinner guest. Now that’s a title that will take some getting used to.

Source: www.usatoday.com

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