Our 2023 Chapter Championship Recap
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What a Great Chapter Championship!
Thank you to all our members who played in the 2023 Chapter Championship "CHA CHA" at The Crossings at Carlsbad. Your dedicated support of these signature events makes all the hard work worth it for everyone involved in the planning. We had a great team of volunteers this year, the quality of golf was outstanding, and the 19th hole and awards presentation was a lot of fun for everyone. I want to thank Mike and Susan Crawford for once again hosting our group at their beautiful home.
Congratulations to our flight winners, especially our newly crowned Gross and Net Champions. Our Chapter has so many amazing golfers that our winners had to play solid golf for both days to finish at the top of the leaderboard. We also witnessed some inspired come-from-behind performances in the second round that resulted in some players being pleasantly surprised by their award placements. It made for an exciting atmosphere at the 19th-hole celebration.
On behalf of our entire Chapter, I can't thank Stacey Hayashi enough for all the time, hard work, and detailed planning she put into this year's Chapter Championship. It was a great success!
Jen Faye - Chapter President
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PLANNING…MORE PLANNING…GRIT…HUSTLE…EXECUTION = SUCCESS |
All of our birdies & eagles aligned for us to successfully host our Chapter Championship! Great golf weather, a challenging golf course, and a very early shotgun start on Sunday – all put together to make for a grinding competition for two days and many winners!
Thank you all for your participation!
- 54 players with five flights of play
- 13 players who didn’t play in last year’s CHA CHA
- First-time CHAPTER CHAMPIONS!
A big thanks to our Chapter Championship Planning Committee for a job well done! On the committee this year were: Karen Bridges (GG/Rules/Scoring), Brenda Scarth (Player Check-In), Cathy Wright (19th Hole), Chris Shorkey (Awards), Wendy Eagle (Rules/Scoring), Jane Langdon (Communications), Connie Pasterkiewicz (Sponsorship) & Jen Faye (Committee).
Big thanks to Mary Shepperd for her help with developing our tournament rules, and hard card and participating in our Players Zoom meeting.
Thank you to our event volunteers – These folks that brighten our player check-in & help make our 19th hole a success – Thank you! Jennifer Porter, Cretia Hadley, Denise Nelesen, Ashley Riggs-Zeigen & Pam Pongratz.
Stacey Hayashi - Events Director
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Chapter Championship Sponsor
Vessel has been an amazing sponsor for Women's golf and our Chapter Championship! A big Thank You to Vessel for their continued support and the awesome prizes!
Our top finishers in each flight received a fantastic Vessel magnetic towel, and our two Champions will receive a monogrammed Vessel Golf Bag. Please give Vessel a round of applause for their support.
Check out their great product lines for other sports, including pickleball and tennis, and soon-to-be-announced updates on Vessel golf bags! We are so fortunate to have Vessel as a sponsor!
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Events like our Chapter Championship cannot happen without the help of our volunteers. |
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Above - Pam Pomgrantz, Brenda Scarth and Jennifer Porter volunteered with registration on Saturday. .
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Once again, the 19th Hole party was at the home of Susan and Mike Crawford, and all had fun! Their backyard was the perfect venue and easily accommodated our 50 + players and volunteers. Susan arranged to have a food truck purveyor, Taquiza Caleb, Food Cart. They had something for everyone.
The pool was open, and since we had a shotgun, everyone was able to arrive close together. After lunch, we then rolled into the exciting announcements of all the winners. Pics follow!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HOSPITALITY SUSAN!
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Susan receiving a much deserved gift for letting us invade her home once again! |
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CHAPTER CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS |
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Congratulations to all of our top finishers. To see all of the final event results, log into your Golf Genius app and enter the event GGID CHACHA2023 and select Leaderboard. Here you go. |
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Low Gross Champion Over-the-Field
Nan Circo
79+79 = 158
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Low Net Champion Over-the-Field
Jane Langdon
75+65 = 140
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1ST PLACE FINISHERS LOW GROSS AND NET BY FLIGHT |
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Flight 1 - 1st Place Low Gross
Rachel Hunter
77 + 86 = 163
Hole in One on Hole 14!!!!
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Flight 1 - 1st Place Low Net
Mindy Sam Davis
72 + 72 = 144
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Flight 2 - 1st Place Low Gross
Jojo Hou
80+86 = 166
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Flight 2 - 1st Place Low Net
Jen Levin
67 + 75 = 142
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Flight 3 - 1st Place Low Gross
Marie Shannon
86+87 =173
Card off with Jax Jacquez
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Flight 3 - 1st Place Low Net
Jax Jacquez
74+72 = 143
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Flight 4 - 1st Place Low Gross
Taylor Coleman
88 + 96 = 184
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Flight 4 - 1st Place Low Net
Meinir Heilbrun
75 + 75 =150
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Flight 5 - 1st Place Low Gross
Kelly DeMello
90 + 109 = 199
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Flight 5 - 1st Place Low Net
Donna Evans
83 + 73 = 151
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2ND PLACE FINISHERS LOW GROSS |
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Flight 1 - 2nd Place
Low Gross
Deb Finlon
79 + 85 = 164
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Flight 2 - 2nd Place
Low Gross
Gina Menicucci
81 + 89 = 170
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Flight 3 - 2nd Place
Low Gross
Cathy Wright
91 + 93 = 184
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Flight 4 - 2nd Place
Low Gross
Ann Stephens
97 + 89 = 186
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Flight 5 - 2nd Place
Low Gross
Pat Haberman
110 + 95 = 205
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2ND PLACE FINISHERS LOW NET
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Flight 1 - 2nd Place
Low Net
Cindy Mason
74 + 73 = 147
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Flight 2 - 2nd Place
Low Net
Christine "Shimo" Shimasaki
74 + 76 = 150
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Flight 3 - 2nd Place
Low Net
Adrienne Acre
73 + 80 = 153
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Flight 4 - 2nd Place
Low Net
Connie Pasterkiewicz
79 + 71 =150
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Flight 5 - 2nd Place
Low Net
Michelle Schmidt
77 + 81 = 158
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CHAMPIONSHIP SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT |
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CHAPTER CHAMPIONSHIP FUN PHOTOS
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Laura Kampfhenkel in her standard beautiful pink colors, photobombing the picture. |
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Post Round festivities and story sharing and maybe some lamentation!! |
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Susan Hoffman and Ann Stephens, who had no idea she'd take 2nd place low
gross in Flight 4
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Taylor Coleman and Jen Faye catching up on some sleep that was rudely interrupted to get to the Crossings on time! |
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Players enjoying a drink after
Saturday's Round
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Lois Spence and Adrienne Acre, looking quite bright on Sunday morning |
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Congrats to Rachel Hunter, on the far right, for her hole-in-one. Is this one of the celebratory rounds she purchased for Bethany Selan, Deb Finlon, and Suzanne LaTour?
Probably more than just this!!!
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Oh, maybe this is a further celebratory hole-in-one round: Pam Pongratz, Soo Lee, Vida Vela, Jojo Hou, and (big bucks, very happily) Rachel Hunter. |
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Rachel Hunter Flight 1 - 1st place low gross and Deb Finlon, Flight 1 - 2nd place low gross. Way to take
it home girls!!!
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Karen Bridges, swallowing chicken taco meat, while acknowledging the thanks for her Golf Genius work. |
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Soo Lee and Cathy Wright smiling away so happy to get up before the
crack of dawn!!!
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Suzanne LaTour and Shimo so ready to get out there and try to tame The Crossings, or their game! |
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Stacey Musso, Wendy Eagle and Jane Langdon, Miss Low Net Overall!!! Jane, you can do a work out with your trophy! |
Marisa Farpon, Ann Stephens, Susan Hoffman and Laura Kampfhenkel |
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Kim Greco, Mindy Sam Davis and Deb Finlon enjoying some birdie juice? |
Dina Mauger, Adrienne Acre, Taylor Coleman and Laura Kampfhenkel |
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Karen Bridges, Suzanne LaTour, Rachel Hunter, and Jen Levin all smiles. This must have been after Rachel's hole-in-one. That is soo awesome! |
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Jackie Glynn, Mindy Sam Davis and Ashley Riggs-Zeigen and Marie Shannon chilling out in Susan's backyard. What a great great set up it was. And congrats to Mindy for her Flight 1 finish in 1st place low net. |
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Commiserating and Celebrating over some food and drink.
Nice way to finish a weekend of fun, competitive golf!
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A fabulous day outside after the tournament for the players, enjoying tacos and
recapping the two days of golf
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Eunhwa Lenehan and Tina Fletcher enjoying some lunch. |
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Someone had a great idea to do some line dancing and so ... it happened.
Not sure how good the dancing was, but fun was had!!
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And the 19th Hole continues...Kim Greco, Susan Crawford, Jax Jacquez, Bethany Selan, Pam Pongratz, Karen Bridges and Kelly DeMellow, post line dancing!! |
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Is this little crab lost? Perhaps it is going to Singing Hills to watch next year's CHA CHA. |
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Join Us Next Year for Our 2024 Chapter Championship
at Singing Hills!
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