LETTER from - Binghamton Country Club

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September 2016
Clubhouse 797-2339
Pro Shop 797-5828
Dear Fellow Members,
This season marks Rick Keding’s 25th year of dedicated service to our club. In an era when people change jobs with
increasing frequency, 25 years of service is an amazing accomplishment. Rick’s tenure as our Pro and General Manager
is a testament to his unwavering commitment, ability to grow and adapt with the times.
Putting things in perspective, when Rick came to the BCC:
• Callaway just introduced its “revolutionary” stainless steel Big Bertha driver
• We were playing golf with metal spikes
• There were no Titleist Pro V golf balls
Off the course even more has changed. When Rick arrived at the BCC…
• There were no cell phones.
• WalMart stores were in a handful of small towns.
• Technology meant fax machines, VCRs, Sony Walkmans, and IBM Selectric typewriters. Cameras used film, and
disposable cameras were the latest thing.
• Smokers could still light up on airplanes, in offices and restaurants.
• Men wore ties to the office.
• You could buy a new Pontiac or Oldsmobile and you could fly on Pam Am or TWA.
• You could drink a Schlitz and watch “Dallas” on a Zenith.
• Television offered only a half-dozen channels; cable TV had not yet come into its own.
• Junk mail consisted of circulars and catalogues delivered by the postal carrier, and Spam was something your
mother once bought in the grocery store.
• Microwaves were a new gadget that some people already had in their kitchens.
• Water came out of the faucet, not a bottle.
• No one had heard of the Internet, Google, Starbucks, Silicon Valley, Harry Potter, global warming, .com, the
Weather Channel, online dating, Seinfeld, BlackBerry, Facebook, Enron, email, and business casual.
Through it all, one thing has remained constant...Rick’s dedication to the BCC and its membership. Our Club, community and membership have changed tremendously over the past 25 years. Rick’s counsel, insight and tireless efforts
have positioned the BCC as one of the preeminent country clubs in Upstate New York.
We also owe a debt a gratitude to MaryLee Keding. From planning our fabulous children holiday parties to making
hundreds of calls to find substitutes for league, and everything in between, MaryLee has been there every step of the way.
Please mark your calendar for Friday, October 7th and join your fellow members in a special happy hour celebration in
recognition of Rick’s 25 years of service to our Club. Details to follow.
See you at the Club,
Jim Peduto
President, BCC Board of Governors
REPORT from the GENERAL MANAGER
With the celebration of Labor Day, we are also having one of the
hottest and driest summers come to an end. The pool has had
over 5,000 visitors this summer which is an amazing number
considering its size. I am very proud of the entire pool staff for
the job they did this year. The golf course remains in great condition even during the drought like weather. Rocco and his crew
have done an outstanding job keeping the turf healthy and at the
same time continuing forward with the course restoration.
With the fall season approaching we will be modifying some of
our hours of operation to better match up with our usage. This is
necessary to stay within our payroll budget. I apologize if this creates an inconvenience. There is still a lot of fall golf to be played
so come out and enjoy it.
Rick Keding
Men’s One Day Member-Guest
Fri. Sept. 23rd
Pro Shop News
Men’s Sr. Club Championship
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Super Senior Division – 65 and above
Low Gross:
1st Dr. John Benware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2nd Lee Brearsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Low Net
1st Bill Grosso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2nd Mike Pandich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Congratulations!
2016 Overall Senior Club Champion–
Dr. John Benware
Crazy Pin
Tournament
Saturday Sept. 24th
More Details to Follow
Entry Fee for 1 Guest is $120 which includes
Lunch, Golf, Prizes & Appetizers after Golf.
Bring 3 Guests for $220!
Please call the pro shop to sign up
Senior Division – 50-64
Low Gross:
1st Dave Maione . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2nd Dr. Bill Marusich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Low Net:
1st Dave Stella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2nd Dan Babcock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11:30 Lunch & 12:30 Shotgun (new times)
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141
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Twilight League Finals
League I:
Dennis McKillop – Dave Hover . . . . . . . 130.5pts
1st
2nd Chris Palmer – Mike Yannuzzi . . . . . . . . 126.5pts
3rd Charles Morgan – Theo Totolis . . . . . . . . . . 126pts
League II
Dr. Larry Kiley – Dr. Jim Farrell . . . . . . . . . 125pt
1st
2nd Bill Atkin – Mark McDonough . . . . . . . 117.5pts
3rd Jon Pille – Jim Hayes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114.5pts
League III
Steve Scoville – Tim Schum . . . . . . . . . . . . 141pts
1st
2nd Dave Maione – Armond George . . . . . . . . . 132pts
3rd Rob Salamida – Carl Roma . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129pts
League IV
Adam Comfort – Dave Jones . . . . . . . . . 127.5pts
1st
2nd Dr. Mike Perna – Joe Mancini . . . . . . . . 124.5pts
3rd Nelson Van Atta – George Akel . . . . . . . 121.5pts
League V
Dan Polhamus – Justin Guiles . . . . . . . . . . 126pts
1st
2nd Jim Peduto – Gary Pucedo . . . . . . . . . . . 119.5pts
3rd Mike Costantino – Mike Iversen . . . . . . . . . 118pts
League VI
Dr. Jim Marusich – Clark Giblin . . . . . . . . 126pts
1st
2nd Ed Michalek – John Bordages . . . . . . . . . . . 122pts
3rd Kyle McKillop – Dr. John Benware . . . . . 121.5pts
Men’s 3 Day Member-Guest Results
Masters Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pts.
Grant Gulick – Brandon Matthews . . . . . . . . . 3.5
1st
2nd Bill Grosso – Keith Chesk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0
Congratualtions
to the Overall
Winners!
U.S. Open Flight
Ray Barnard – Craig Mabee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1st
2nd Corey Taylor – Andy Hutchings . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5
PGA Championship Flight
1st Rob Dykema – Tom Hackett . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.5
2nd Andrew Reid – Garrett Feduke . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5
British Open Flight
1st Jim Marusich – Matt Stasiak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2nd John Benware – Jake Sladish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Ryder Cup Flight
1st Andy Geiser – Phil Geiser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2nd Carl Roma – Dave Sonday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.5
Players Championship Flight
1st Mark Westcott – Scott Westcott . . . . . . . . . . 12.5
2nd Anthony Palombaro – Jeff Good . . . . . . . . . . 10.5
Photo above:
Grant Gulick &
Brandon Matthews
Scratch Division Champions
Photo right:
Dan Polhamus &
Jim Blodgett
Handicap Division Champions
Jason Day Flight
1st Mike Perna – Mark Murphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5
2nd Jake Leet – Bob Cibulsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5
Dustin Johnson Flight
1st Adam Comfort – Shawn Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2nd Larry Brooks – Lorne Brooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5
Jordan Spieth Flight
Tom Harding – Rob Moyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
1st
2nd Mike Lane – Ryan Hurba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Hole in One!
Rory Mcilroy Flight
Tom Pasquale – Chris Pasquale . . . . . . . . . . . 17.5
1st
2nd Ken Wong – Ramon Deleon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
August 15th – Mike Comfort
Hole # 18 – 210 yards, 4th in career
Congratulations Mike!
Bubba Watson Flight
1st Frank Fuller – Jeff Paske . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2nd Jeff Mirabito – Brett Sherman . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.5
August 31th – Kay Manley
Hole # 2 using 7 Hybrid, 3rd in career
Congratulations Kay!
Rickie Fowler Flight
1st Dan Polhamus – Jim Blodgett . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.5
2nd Payam Goudarzi – Kirk Hinkley . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Adam Scott Flight
1st Jim Peduto – Marty Hudy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2nd Lee Bearsch – John Fitzsimmons . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Justin Rose Flight
John Matthews – Jon Pageler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
1st
2nd Joe Mahon – Bob Brazill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5
Overall Scratch Champions:
Grant Gulick – Brandon Matthews
Overall Handicap Champions
Dan Polhamus – Jim Blodgett
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Women’s 9 Hole
We are having a great season with continued beautiful weather. Upcoming events include Summer Round Up September
7th and Couples Tournament Saturday September 10th.
For future planning as well, our End of Year Dinner Celebration is scheduled for September 28th. Please remember to
sign up ahead for these last events.
German
Dinner
Specials
Women’s 18 Hole
Another great season is coming to an end …
Congratulations to the 5 Club Team on another win this year!
Friday September 16th
Spicy Mustard Beer Cheese Dip
Beer Braised Bratwurst
Pork Schnitzel & More
German Beer & Drink Specials
Please call Susan at the Club Office
for reservations: 797-2339 ext.1
Congratulations to Robin Mead
for winning the Club Championship.
Upcoming September Events:
September 8th & 9th: Sr. Club Championship
September 13th: Ladies 18 & 9 Scramble
September 20th: Year End Tournament, Luncheon & Awards
Kids Summer Fun Camp
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Such A Night:
Revisiting the Stan Shawkey Memorial Sports Dinner at BCC
by: Louis R. Panigrosso, Esq., Club Historian, Raconteur and International Man of Leisure
Fourteen years ago, Historian Emeritus
Dick Ringwood wrote a fantastic retrospective about the Shawkey Sports Dinner
that was held annually at BCC from
1959 through 1971. As always, Ringy’s
account was complete, informative and
entertaining. This subject is worth revisiting because we have recently uncovered
some interesting documentation from this
event. Historically, BCC’s past efforts in
delivering this gala event has documented
an era in sports right before sport became
big business and arguably the dominating
factor in popular culture.
Initially called “Sports Night”, the evening
would feature speeches by three to four
A-List sports celebrities and also award
a local individual. The annual event was
renamed The Stan Shawkey Memorial
Sports Dinner after the 1963 passing of
Mr. Shawkey. Mr. Shawkey was a respected and successful restaurateur, but he was
also a motivated promoter of BCC. As
events chairman he was able to persuade
two World Golf Hall of Famers in Gene
Littler and Arnold Palmer to play an exhibition match in 1961 for $3,700.00. At
the time Littler was the US Open Champion and Palmer, already “The King”,
won the Open Championship. Even with
inflationary adjustments, what would it
cost to arrange for current champs Dustin
Johnson and Henrik Stenson to play
BCC? Seven figures?! Mr. Shawkey was
an amazing man; looking back he was the
namesake of an amazing evening.
The correspondence between BCC and
the various entities necessary to arrange
for talent to speak at the event survives
in our archives. These letters document
events that would never happen today. At
the time, agents were not prevalent and
often teams arranged for their players to
earn extra money on the lecture circuit.
NFL Hall of Fame owner of the Bills, the
late Ralph Wilson corresponded directly
with BCC on behalf of quarterback Jack
Kemp. Mr. Wilson’s letter states Kemp
would be allowed to speak provided he
was back in time for practice at week’s
end. The Bills also gave BCC Mr. Kemp’s
home telephone number and address for
arrangements.
The New York Football Giants similarly
gave BCC the personal contact information for kicker Pete Gogolak and also
negotiated his appearance fee of $250.00.
To bind the deal, BCC sent Mr. Gogalak a
letter for him to countersign. We have that
letter as well as others from a wide range
of celebrities. The most interesting is from
NFL Hall of Famer Don Maynard. The
former Jets wide receiver countersigned
a letter agreeing to appear void of an appearance fee or travel arrangements. When
he returned the letter, Mr. Maynard hand
wrote a PS stating, “Pickup would be best
at Shea about 4:30 pm (maybe or 4:00) or
we can get to airport ourselves”.
When teams did not provide access to
their players, BCC turned to another
resource, the players’ corporate sponsors.
We have a telegram from General Motors
arranging for Tom Harmon’s appearance.
Sheraton Hotels made arrangements
for Bob Rosburg. Monsanto Company
worked on behalf of Doug Ford. As
personal services contracts have become
highly collectible, it would be interesting
to have the letters from players, teams and
sponsors professionally appraised.
Baseball’s first prominent agent, Frank
Scott corresponded often with BCC. Mr.
Scott previously worked for the Yankees
and once when visiting Yogi Berra, Yogi’s
wife noticed he was not wearing a watch.
Mrs. Berra offered Mr. Scott his choice
of watches from a tray of over twenty. Up
until that time, Yogi most often received a
cheap wrist watch as payment for personal
appearances. When Scott was fired by
the Yankees shortly thereafter, he decided
to arrange for better appearance fees for
baseball’s stars and became the sport’s first
agent. Yoo Hoo ended up paying Yogi
more then the Yankees. Of all Mr. Scott’s
correspondences with BCC; however, the
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most interesting are on behalf of Yankees
Hall of Famer and former Binghamton
Triplet Whitey Ford. There was a lot of
back and forth about BCC not revealing
Mr. Ford’s appearance fee (It was $500….
SSSHHHH).
While not collectible like the service
contracts, our archives also have some
financial records for a few of the events
which are extremely interesting. Fans of
the television show Restaurant Impossible
will know that to maximize profits most
restaurants price menu items at one-third
food cost, one-third labor and one-third
profit. BCC was able to account for the
additional entertainment expenses and still
deliver a profit to the club. For example,
the 1970 ticket cost was $13.00 and the
cost break down was: $5.00 food; $1.00
tip and tax; $2.00 for 2 included cocktails;
and $5.00 for the celebrity costs. Additional bar sales accounted for labor and
also delivered a tidy profit for the club. It
pays to cater to those who like to party.
It would be virtually impossible for
BCC to put together an event such as
the Stan Shawkey Memorial Sports Dinner on an annual basis. Today’s athlete
makes so much money that most no
longer need to “barn storm” for extra
money in the off season and those that
do command unreasonable fees. But,
maybe if we got creative like the past
membership did when they solicited
the athletes’ sponsors, something could
materialize. Maybe the parent club of
the Binghamton Stud Muffins would
like to supply speakers in an effort to
boost attendance at NYSEG Stadium.
Maybe some of the pros playing the
Dick’s Open would like to arrive early,
play a round at a true Tillinghast and
stick around for a lively evening of food
and merriment. Maybe history can
repeat itself.
Postscript:
Positive feedback always encouraged
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september
Monday
Sunday
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Lunch menu
served until 6pm
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Ladies 9
Summer Round Up
Open for Lunch
Service
Ice Cream
Sundaes
at the Pool
New Fall
Menus!
Last day of Pool
Season!
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Lunch menu
only until 4pm
Thursday
Friday
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2
3
8
9
10
Ladies 18
Sr. Club
Championship
Lunch Menu only
until 6pm
Ladies 18
Sr. Club
Championship
New Fall
Menus!
No dinner
specials
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12
13
Clubhouse Closed
Ladies 18 & 9
Scramble
Saturday
New Fall
Menus!
No dinner
specials
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Ladies 9
Couples
Tournament
No dinner
specials
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Closed –Wedding
Lunch Menu only
until 6pm
German
Nite
Dinner
Specials
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Lunch menu
only until 4pm
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Clubhouse Closed
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Ladies 18
Year End
Tournament,
Luncheon &
Awards
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Lunch Menu only
until 6pm
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Men’s One Day
Member Guest
Wing Night
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Lunch menu
only until 4pm
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Clubhouse Closed
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Ladies 9
Year End
Dinner
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Lunch Menu only
until 6pm
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Crazy Pin
Tournament
2016 Binghamton Country Club
Board of Directors
James Peduto
John Martin
Thomas Savoldy
Robert Madigan, Jr.
Kevin Blake
Richard Jacobs
Carolyn Mancini
David Maione
Jeffrey Mirabito
Jim O’Brien
Carl Roma
Dr. James Terzian
Dr. Mark Westcott
The Binghamton Country Club
1401 Robinson Hill Road
Endwell, NY 13760
Clubhouse 797-2339
Pro Shop 797-5828
www.binghamtoncountryclub.com
President Vice President & Events Committee Chair
Treasurer
Secretary
Membership Committee Greens Comm. Chair
House Committee & Greens Committee Events Committee
Assoc. Member & Membership Comm. Vice Chair
House Committee Chair Events Committee Events Committee
Membership Comm. Chair & Greens Committee