Wharton Golf Club starts year off with MBA Ryder Cup win
Sid Khanna, WG'07
Issue date: 9/25/06 Section: Insider
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It's been quite the successful summer for the Wharton Golf Club. Our boys played the lead role in bringing home the MBA Ryder Cup, providing just the right kind of motivation, with Tiger and Phil and Co. at the K Club in Ireland.
Hot on the heels of that triumph comes the first tournament of the year - the Turtle Creek Invitational on September 29th. Turtle Creek Golf Club (check out www.turtlecreekgolf.com) is a Championship Par 72 woodland course situated on 200 plus acres of Limerick, PA.
The 2006-07 edition of the Zagat Survey of America's top golf courses ranked "the Turtle" as one of the top six golf courses in the Philadelphia area.
The tournament will be held in "4-person" scramble format, which means that each player in the team hits his shot and the team then decides which is the best shot and the four players play from that spot for the next one. This allows golfers across a mix of skill levels to team up and have a good old-fashioned go at the pins. And it makes for low scores.
Imagine walking up to your cohort mates on Monday and proclaiming that you shot an under par score at one of the East Coast's premier courses.
There are normally prizes for longest drive, allowing all the Tiger and Ernie wannabes to really have a bash with their big stick (I mean the driver, fellas!) on the Par 5s. And for those who see themselves more in the Seve Ballesteros mould, there's the opportunity to win honors for "closest to the pin" on select Par 3s.
Most importantly, the Wharton Golf Club allows each team to play under the "John Daly" rules i.e. feel free to tee off all liquored up, or proceed through the day with a greasy burger in one hand and a pint of Pennsylvania's best in the other.
So come along, enjoy the sunshine (while we still have it) and bring the Wharton party mood to "the Turtle's" fairways. Entries must be made via the WGA store before Sunday, September 24th at 11:59 pm to be included in the tournament. The cost is $50 per player and there are 72 places.
See you all there!
"They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken."
- Raymond Floyd
Hot on the heels of that triumph comes the first tournament of the year - the Turtle Creek Invitational on September 29th. Turtle Creek Golf Club (check out www.turtlecreekgolf.com) is a Championship Par 72 woodland course situated on 200 plus acres of Limerick, PA.
The 2006-07 edition of the Zagat Survey of America's top golf courses ranked "the Turtle" as one of the top six golf courses in the Philadelphia area.
The tournament will be held in "4-person" scramble format, which means that each player in the team hits his shot and the team then decides which is the best shot and the four players play from that spot for the next one. This allows golfers across a mix of skill levels to team up and have a good old-fashioned go at the pins. And it makes for low scores.
Imagine walking up to your cohort mates on Monday and proclaiming that you shot an under par score at one of the East Coast's premier courses.
There are normally prizes for longest drive, allowing all the Tiger and Ernie wannabes to really have a bash with their big stick (I mean the driver, fellas!) on the Par 5s. And for those who see themselves more in the Seve Ballesteros mould, there's the opportunity to win honors for "closest to the pin" on select Par 3s.
Most importantly, the Wharton Golf Club allows each team to play under the "John Daly" rules i.e. feel free to tee off all liquored up, or proceed through the day with a greasy burger in one hand and a pint of Pennsylvania's best in the other.
So come along, enjoy the sunshine (while we still have it) and bring the Wharton party mood to "the Turtle's" fairways. Entries must be made via the WGA store before Sunday, September 24th at 11:59 pm to be included in the tournament. The cost is $50 per player and there are 72 places.
See you all there!
"They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken."
- Raymond Floyd
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