Hello TekGolf Members!

We hope the Fall and Winter seasons have treated you well.


As required by the Tektronix Golf League bylaws, we will be holding the All Members Annual Meeting on Thursday, February 18, 2009 in the Bldg 50 Auditorium here at Tektronix.  Everyone is welcome to attend (non-Tek
employees will need to get a visitor badge from the receptionist), including current and new members.

The meeting will start at Noon and last about 45 minutes.  We will be reviewing the state of the club from last year, and announcing our plans for this upcoming 2010 season.  Current members will also be voting for the 2010 Tektronix Golf League Board members.  Please considering attending as your input and suggestions are what make the League better and better each year.

Renewing memberships, new members joining, and all League related information will be available.


If your email address has changed (or is going to change), please let Dale know directly. He maintains both mailing lists and can update your email address quickly.  If you wish to no longer receive updates regarding the Tektronix Golf League, please let him know that too.


The TekGolf.org web site will now be used for scheduling weekly tee times.  This is a self-serve scheduling process where you enter in which dates you are playing or not playing.  We will be demonstrating this process during the All Members Annual meeting on February 18, 2010.


Due to half the 2009 TekGolf Board members no longer being on the Tek campus, we are opening up nominations for current TekGolf Members to join the Board.

The Board meets once per month to plan the special events and provide a means for the members to communicate their needs and concerns.

Please submit your name to me to be included on the ballot at the All Members Annual Meeting.  Specific Board job duties will be determined at the March TekGolf Board meeting by the elected Board members.

If you have any questions, concerns or comments, please send them to the Board at Tek-Rec-Golf@tek.com

Just a quick note to welcome you to the 2010 golf season.

There are some changes we are making to try and lessen the impact on board members this year.

Watch your email for the announcement of this year's club meeting where we will announce these changes and show a demo.

Hope to see you all soon!

TekGolf Is pleased to announce our July 2009 special golf event at Camas Meadows Golf Club in Camas Washington on Saturday, July 25 beginning at 2 pm ( first tee time ).

This event will be a handicapped two-man best ball tournament*, prizes awarded to the top three teams. There will also be additional hole prizes for M/W long-drive, closest to the pin ( 2 holes ), and long-in/long putt. We have space reserved for 20 players, so sign up now and invite a friend. If you don't have a partner preference, we can assign you one based on combined handicaps.

Entry Fee is $65/player including prizes - carts are optional, and not included. They can be purchased for an additional $15 per person at the course on the day of play.

This is a beautiful golf course – if you’ve never played this course, you’re in for a treat. Read the details at camasmeadows.com

TekGolf members and guests are all welcome.

Please sign up with TekGolf ( send email to TEK-REC-GOLF ) no later than Friday, July 17. Include any partner preferences when you sign up.

Checks or cash should be mailed to Susan Goncher at MS 50-489.

Hope to see you out there!

Best ball can be played using 2-, 3- or 4-person teams. Each player on the team plays his or her own golf ball throughout the round, and on each hole the low score - or "best ball" - of the group serves as the team score. Player A gets a (net) 5, B gets a (net) 4, C gets a (net) 6, D gets a (net) 6, then the team score for that hole is 4, because the low score of the group was B's 4. Handicap allowances for Best Ball competitions can be found in the USGA Handicap Manual, Section 9-4 (www.usga.com).

Oktoberfest Golf Tournament And Beer Tasting

Monday, October 13
9:00 AM Shotgun

Celebrate Oktoberfest at Persimmon County Club for 18 holes of fun to benefit Children's Cancer Association, a great children's charity. Followed by a buffet, beer tasting and raffle.

Proceeds will benefit Children's Cancer Association's Caring Cabin
Helping Children and Teenagers with Serious Illness

Sponsored by: Persimmon Country Club, Columbia Distributing Company, General Distributors, Inc and Children's Cancer Association

Entry Fees:
$ 80.00 Non-Members Includes Golf, Buffet, Tasting & Raffle
$ 55.00 for Members Includes Golf, Buffet, Tasting & Raffle
$ 35.00 Members/Non-Members Includes Buffet, Tasting & Raffle

$15.00 from all entry fees and 100% of the raffle goes directly to Children's Cancer Association, donations are greatly appreciated.

The Children's Cancer Association was founded in Portland in 1995 and receives no national or state funding and 100% of the proceeds go the serving 12,000 seriously ill children and their families. The Alexandra Ellis Caring Cabin has been built solely with CCA funds and was built to welcome children, their caregivers and families for a weekend or week long get away. The first of it's kind on the West Coast, the cabin is located on 24 acres with a private lake and just one mile from the beach in Pacific City, Oregon. For more information about the Cabin or CCA go to their website at www.childrenscanerassociation.org


For More Information or to Register Call:
Jason Claflin: 503 674 3244
sales@persimmoncc.com

Fellow Golfers,

Just wanted to give you all a quick update on the upcoming Bingo-Bango-Bongo event at the Reserve.

We are playing the North Course at the Reserve Golf Club & Vineyards on Saturday, September 27th.

We have five tee times, starting at 11:42 A.M. (the start time may fluctuate slightly as some folks from the prior major event make the turn). Groupings are pre-assigned (see your tee times, below). We will have special tournament score cards that have the names pre-printed and have a place to record the Bingo-Bango-Bongo points. We will have two prizes per foursome, one for most B-B-B points and one for 2nd most. We'll award them in order of most points for 1st place prizes, then most B-B-B points for 2nd place prizes - that way the ones with the most points will get earlier picks of the prizes.

We have 8 hole prizes (TekGolf Balls), 5 KPs (holes 3, 5, 11, 14, & 16 are all par 3's), Men's long Drive (hole 9), Women's Long Drive (hole 8) and one Best 2nd (hole 4). We will also have a simple prize for low net (a sleeve of balls, not a TekGolf shirt).

They are reserving space in the Restaurant for us after the round for our prize awards (they have a larger event using their big tent and other facilities). The entry fee does not include any food or drinks. The last group should be off the course by 5:00 and we should conclude the prize awards by somewhere around 5:30.

The Reserve has a dress code that requires shirts with collars and does not allow denim. Be sure you have appropriate clothes!

Come early enough to hit some range balls - they are included in the package.

Upon Arrival - Green Fees are pre-paid - Just get your clubs to the Cart pick up area - they have assistants that will take them down from the Bag Drop out front if you want (tips are appropriate). Find the cart with your name on it and load up. Make sure you connect with your cart partner and head on over to the driving range (there should be a small net-bag of range balls for each of you already on the cart). Les Grove will meet your group between the range and the first tee and get you the score card to use.

We will meet briefly at 11:15 (in the cart parking area between the driving range and the practice green next to the 1st tee box on the North Course) to clarify the B-B-B format, to make sure everyone knows how to enforce strict order of play, to be clear on how to record the B-B-B points on the scorecards, and to make sure everyone knows when and where to meet after the round. Strict order of play must be followed at all times (not "Ready" golf ). For order of play - we'll apply the following rules:

• Teeing order must follow "Honors", based on prior hole gross scores. This is essential on Par 3's, but should be practiced on all holes (in case some fool actually drives a green on a par 4 - I've seen it happen on that very course). We won't worry too much about order on the first hole - its a par 5. They can spin a tee or just go in whatever order they agree on. Foursomes using different tee boxes will only enforce this on Par 3's unless two or more players want to declare they are "going for the green" (not real likely).
• Throughout ALL play, the player whose ball (as it lies, if played, or where it is dropped) is furthest from the pin (not the edge of the green) ALWAYS hits first - no exceptions. If there is any doubt or dispute on this, simply ask someone else in the foursome to make a call, either by their visual judgment, or by pacing off the distance, which ever of these two methods the players in question agree upon for that particular call (if they're both 400 yards from the pin, pacing may not be the right option). Once the call is made, its final - PLAY (we're here to have fun). A Bingo is scored when any player's ball comes to rest on the green first.
• Around the green, the player whose ball is furthest from the pin still hits first. If someone’s ball is on the green and is farther away from the pin than another ball that is not on the green, they would putt before the player with the closer ball hits onto the green. Once the ball off the green becomes the furthest away, put the flag back in the hole and they hit onto the green. That means someone could actually win the Bango with a putt, even though they were a long way from the pin when they first landed on the green.
• Once all the balls are on the green, a Bango is awarded to the player who’s ball is closest to the hole. Again, any question about who is closer must be resolved by having someone else in the foursome make a measurement (using their feet) to determine the Bango winner.
• Once the Bango winner has been determined, play proceeds, always with the player whose ball is furthest from the pin putting first - again, no exceptions. If there is any doubt or dispute on this, again ask someone else in the foursome to measure the distance and establish who putts next. A Bongo is scored when any player's ball goes in the hole first. You generally want to mark your putt, no matter how close it is to the hole, until the Bongo is awarded - anyone who chooses to “tap-in” & finish their putt out of order, before the Bango is awarded, is not eligible for the Bongo, even if everyone else’s last putt is shorter.
• Weird things that can happen... - if someone actually gets in the hole with a chip or with a long putt while someone else is off the green, they can actually win the Bongo before a Bango is awarded. Also, if anyone holes a chip before a Bango is awarded, they inherently win both the Bango and the Bongo. If two people hole their chip before any putts drop, the first one wins the Bongo and they would tie for the Bango (they'd both be in the hole once everyone is on the green - this is not likely, but can happen). If this happens or the group determines more than one ball on the green are essentially the same distance from the hole, the Bango point is split between them (each get a share of the point).

Tee Times:

• 11:42 AM
  • James Monaghan
  • Don Miller
  • Gary Richmond
  • Mark Richmond
• 11:51 AM
  • Brent Brewer
  • Howard Wood
  • Rob Moore
  • Jon Manor
• 12:00 PM
  • Judy Snider
  • Christine Telfer
  • Bob Fitzsimmons
  • Litong Li
• 12:09 PM
  • Dale Nemec
  • Rob Nishida
  • Kevin Cassidy
  • Doug Blegen
• 12:18 PM
  • Les Grove
  • David Hurt
  • Darren McCarthy
  • John Noble

Please bring your digital cameras, take some shots, and share them (get the files to me & I'll get a collection published).

See you Saturday morning!