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34 | Four Seasons Hemet Herald | JULY 2017 | | Four Seasons Hemet Herald | JULY 2017 | 35 From the President – Ron Leatherman: Hi neighbors. We held our Memorial Tournament and had a great BBQ. What a lot of fun and great food with beer, wine and soft drinks. The winners of the tournament will receive embroidered shirts. This is a very social group and we welcome all levels of golfers. See you on the course. From the Tournament Chair – Addis Scott: You may sign up at our prior Tuesday golf event, or contact the Tournament Committee by email at hemet4sgc@gmail.com. July 4: Independence Day – No Play! July 11, 7:30 am: Team – Best 2 Net Scores – Hdc = 12 percent Team Total Hdc July 18, 7:30 am: Partner Scramble – Hdc = 12 percent Partner Total Hdc, Minimum of 6 tee shots each. July 25, 7:30 am: Team – One, Two, Three Net Scores, Hdc = 12 percent Team Total Hdc From the Membership Chair – Elliot Yaeger: There has been no change in membership since last month. Our membership remains at 151. We have tournaments every Tuesday throughout the year including individual play, as well as team play. Tee times are 7:30 am from April through Sept and 8 am from Oct through March. It is not too late to join. Just stop by the front desk at The Lodge and pick up an application. Complete the application and return it to The Lodge with a check for $66. This will include membership in the club as well as membership in SCGA, who will provide you with an official handicap bi-monthly. If you have any questions please contact Elliot Yaeger, (951) 223-3735 or email: ey1611@gmail.com From the Rules Chair – Tom Johnson: It is very important to declare a provisional before you hit and you need to use the term provisional. If you do not use the term provisional, then you are in effect abandoning your ball. If you hit a provisional and you find your ball in bounds, you have to play your original ball. If you do not declare that you are hitting a provisional before you hit, then you cannot play your original ball no matter where it is. Both a provisional and abandonment carry a one- stroke penalty. The player alone is the one who can determine if their ball is or is not playable. If you have an unplayable ball, you can, with a one-stroke penalty, drop a ball up to two club lengths away, no closer, to the hole. If two club lengths do not get you to a place where you can hit, you cannot go further and need to go back to the point where the previous shot was hit taking the same one stroke penalty you would if you were dropping within two club lengths. From the Handicap Chair – Lynn Smith: The USGA has advised us for various reasons, score posting and other features will be offline at various points during the rest of 2017. The most prevalent action that might occur is related to scores being posted at golf course computers. If this happens, the posting computers will be placed in a "cache" mode, thereby holding members scores until the program is again online, most likely the evening of the same day. Club members will be aware when this happens via messaging during the posting process- "your score has been saved." During this same downtime, guests will not be able to post at course computers and will need to find alternative means to post their scores (scga.org, thin.com, mobile app, etc.). The USGA is modifying its entire handicap platform in connection with the GHIN service and hopes that this will be a non-issue beginning in 2018. In the interim, periodic downtime will happen, and unfortunately we are not given notice on this. Please be aware of this likelihood and prepare for it. Tennis Friends The New Guy: Steve Rostoker He started out as a basketball player, earning first team for San Diego CIF in 1967, and then playing in college. At Madison High School, he made a five point play. How did he do that you say? While making a two point basket, he was fouled. He missed the free throw, but he recovered his own rebound and scored two more points, at which time he was fouled again. This time he made the free throw for one more point, which equals a five point play. At age 22, because of a back injury, Steve switched to tennis, and by the age of 27, he was playing semi-pro tennis in Denmark. He never quit tennis, but along the way, he was a computer programmer for 25 years, and then a professor of math for over 15 years, teaching college algebra, statistics and his favorite… numbers theory, at various community colleges. A quiet, humble man, Steve graces our Four Season's tennis courts with his powerful serves and his quick moves. Unfortunately for us, Steve and his wife Grace are soon moving to Pasco, WA. We will miss you! You might be wondering what a poodle is doing in the Healthy Living input in the Hemet Herald. The influence of animals on our health has been an ongoing discussion – pros and cons. We were delighted to have two standard poodles in our class last week and learned some interesting information. A True Best Friend – benefits of pets: "To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace." With these words, novelist Milan Kundera described a sentiment familiar to many over the ages. Medical science is gathering similar conclusions about the relationship between humans and animals, even though a little less poetically. • Improved cardiovascular health • Relief from stress • Expanded connection to the outside world • Increased physical activity Is there a downside? Pet ownership requires time and resources. Pets need to be fed, housed, groomed and taken regularly to a veterinarian. According to one estimate, the average lifetime cost of an average-sized dog can be around $10K. For a cat -- $8K. Our special guests today, Noble and Diabaho, are wonderful examples of the loving care of those who take the time to train our fledging guide dogs. Both of these standard poodles are in the process of being "groomed" to be official guide dogs as they mature. Thank you, Dee Reno and Char Weakley for joining us with your special "charges." We meet every Wed. at 9 am in the Multipurpose Room. If you have any questions about our program, please call: Dave and Karen Duvim, 599-4236 HEALTHY LIVING "Walk-Fit" Exercise Club Grab a bottle of water, put on a comfortable pair of walking shoes and join us for an hour of great cardio exercise. Rain or shine you will see a group of "happy walkers" burning calories and building strength. Please try the class. There is no obligation for trying and you may be surprised at what the class entails. The "Walk Fit" Exercise Club offers you 180 minutes a week of low impact aerobic activity. You can tailor the class to your own needs and schedule. The full one hour class is a four mile walk three times a week, but you can join us for as much as will work for you. You can leave early or arrive later to shorten your walk. If you can only be there one or two days a week, that's okay too. New members — both men and women — are welcome. We meet Mon., Wed. and Fri. from 7:45 to 8:45 am in the Lodge Ballroom (for the full hour). We are free. For more information contact Karen Tuvim (951) 599-4236 or Kay Masonbrink (951) 223-3047. Friends and relatives, including tennis and pickleball enthusiasts, celebrated the "match" of Trish Egan and Graham Moorhouse as they were united in marriage by Pastor John Bunge, on May 27. This couple met on the sports courts in Hemet Four Seasons. There is no "spin" on this story; Trish and Graham are both winners! Congratulatons to Mr. and Mrs. Moorhouse! "Tennis Balls are recyclable," says Four Seasons tennis player Dennis Uhlken! He would like all to save old tennis balls and he will get them sent to a company that recycles them: usually they are ground up to make soft under-mats. Dennis hopes to get a container by the tennis courts to put them in, but until then he will get them from you. Email him at dennisdu07@gmail.com. For more information, see www.tennisballrecycling.com.

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