MEMBER GUEST 2019

The 2019 Member-Guest was held from August 8-10. There were 36 teams participating in 6 flights with each team playing every other team in their flight in a 9-hole match play competition. The weekend began on Thursday night with the Calcutta with lots of food available. The golf began early on Friday morning. Each team played 27 holes on day 1. Friday featured a social with music provided by Brian Evans and heavy hors d’oeuvres. Golf was completed on Saturday with the awards ceremony conducted at the scoreboard. While the golfers were playing the annual Ladies Luncheon and Shopping event was held in the ballroom. The highlight the weekend for the Dinner/ Dance on Saturday. Chef Emily provided a feast for everyone. Music was provided by the Magic Pipers accompanied by Chad Johnson. A great time was had by everyone who articipated. Flight winners:

NEW MEMBERS

Welcome to our newest members Bo and Kelly Barefoot. We are happy to have you in the Coharie family!

GEORGE WILLIAMS INVITATIONAL UPDATE

To Tournament Participants: All of us in this region of North Carolina know the effect of hurricanes. While we do not know exactly where Dorian will track, I want to let you know that we are monitoring the storm closely. Every possible scenario will be studied in depth as the storm draws closer to come up with a plan that will enable us to play the tournament. Hopefully it makes a turn and we have minimum exposure to the storm. I will keep in contact with you as the week progresses.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEORGE

LUSH ART

Coharie Country Club and Lush Art of Clinton will be hosting a painting party, September 12th starting at 7pm. Come a little early with your friends and enjoy a cocktail or just mingle before the painting starts. All art supplies are included with purchase. If you have any questions please email me at jodiemnelson@aol.com. To reserve your spot please go to http://lushartofclinton.weebly.com/pumpkin.html and click the BUY NOW button. All reservations must be made by September 6th for sketching purposes.
Looking forward to starting the painting season with all of you!

GEORGE WILLIAMS INVITATIONAL

Decades ago, eastern North Carolina was a hotspot for invitational golf tournaments. On that circuit, Coharie Country Club held a prominent spot as a location that all of the top amateur golfers wanted to play. Mr. George Williams was always a contender in these highly competitive events, and you could find his name at or near the top of the leaderboard on a regular basis. For many reasons the golfing landscape changed over the years and nearly all of the invitationals went away.

Many members of Coharie Country Club have spoken fondly of their memories from those tournaments dur-ing recent years. During those conversations, the Coharie men’s Golf Association decided that it was time to rejuvenate the invitational tournament. While discussing this, it became clear that if this was going to happen, that it should be done as a means to honor our very own George Williams. The Coharie Men’s Golf Associa-tion decided that the invitational would be named: The George Williams Four Ball Invitational.

During a recent conversation with Mr. Williams he had this to say about bringing back our invitational, “The Coharie Men’s Golf Association has done a fantastic job putting Coharie Country Club back on the golf map with a two-man invitational tournament with a full field of outstanding golfers. Congratulations guys for a job well done! Hopefully this will become an annual event and attract golfers from all over! I look forward to see-ing everyone.”

If you are not busy, come out on September 7 & 8 and see some outstanding golf.

COHARIE COUNTRY CLUB PRESIDENTS PLAQUE

Stop by the clubhouse to visit the Coharie History Wall and the newly added plaque featuring the Coharie Country Club presidents from 1947 to the present. A special THANK YOU to Gary Wayne Hall and the Ses-soms Jewelry staff for restoring our original plaque!

LABOR DAY BUFFET AND POOL ACTIVITIES

On Monday, September 2 Coharie held it annual Labor Day Celebration. There were pool activities, slip and slide, and a buffet dinner in the ballroom. As the pictures show is was a lot of fun.

SOCIAL COMMITTEE REVERSE DRAWING

The Social Committee Reverse Drawing has be rescheduled on November 8. There will be a cocktail hour from 6:00-7:00 with the drawing and dinner beginning at 7:00. Tickets are now available. Please be sure to see a committee member or Richard in the Pro Shop to secure your place for dinner, entertainment and a change to win $3000. There will be a movie in the pro shop for our younger guests.

NEWS FROM THE POOL

Another summer at the Coharie pool is almost at an end…wasn’t it a fast one? Thanks to all of you who came out to enjoy the pool…we had overall great attendance this summer...and lots of parties! Thanks also to the lifeguards who made sure everything was clean and everyone was safe. I heard many compliments about the lifeguards this year, and we all appreciate them. They have done a great job!

If you have any suggestions in reference to the pool, please let me know. Have a great school year, and we’ll see you next summer for fun ‘n’ sun at the Coharie pool!

Susan Sautter, Pool Manager

NEWS FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT

Fall is arriving soon. The grass will begin to shut down and growth will slow. While this will decrease our mowing, it is also a time to be aware of the damage that can be caused by cart traffic, ball marks and divots. I ask that all golfers be vigilant about where you drive carts to limit the this damage.

We will be doing our fall preemergent for weeds and fertilization to feed the turf through the winter. This will allow the turf to get through the winter with the nutrients it needs to come out strong in the spring.

We are looking forward to the George Williams Invitational tournament to honor an extraordinary man and his life. We will doing a lot of prep before the event to have the course in the best shape possible. Please allow the time to get things completed.

Thank you, Kevin McCamy, GCS

HOLE IN ONE ALERT

On Saturday, August 31 Shawn Matthews scored a hole in one on hole #4. The hole measured 192 yards and he used a 4 iron. He was playing with Ken Yang, Michael Mason, and Randy Wiggins. Congratulations Shawn!

NEWS FROM THE CMGA

Birdies at 5:30 has been a huge success so far this summer. We will be having a nine hole mini golf outings on Monday, September 9 and September 23. We would love to have more players join us in September. They are hosted by the CMGA. Call in by 3 PM on the day of the outing if you want to play. Format changes each time and food will always be provided for players. This is open to anyone that would like to play. CMGA members receive a discount on entry fee. If you would like to join the CMGA please contact Tim Pope or see Richard Kimble.

The CMGA has paid for half of the cost of sand that was used to repair bunkers on the back 9.

The construction of the needed green tees is planned to start early next year. Plans are to have the tees built and ready for sod by the spring growing season.

The CMGA is sponsoring the inaugural George Williams Invitation on September 7 & 8. We are pleased to announce we have a full field. Keep your fingers crossed that we dodge the weather.

NEWS FROM THE PRO SHOP

New merchandise coming in about weekly now. Stop by the Pro Shop and check out what is new. Also remember that if you need anything ordered that we do not carry in stock then you can get it for cost plus 10% and tax. This is a great savings for our members. See Richard to get you items ordered.

Pro Shop specials:
All Golf gloves in stock are $3 per glove off sticker price
Srixon Q Star golf balls Dozen Reg price $29.95 on sale while supplies last for $14.95
Srixon Soft Feel reg price $29.95 on sale while supplies last $14.95
Titleist Hats Reg $25 on sale for members $20 Stop by and check out our sale table for lucky size Golf shirts

PICTURE FROM THE NEW UPDATED WALL OF FAME

NEW MENUS ARE NOW AVAILABLE

We have new menus for Dinner, Lunch, and the Lounge. Here are copies of each.

Dinner Menu

Lunch Menu

Lounge Menu

NEW POOL PARTY RENTAL FEES

We have changed the rental contract to only allow pool parties on Monday and Wednesday night from 6-8 PM. The rental fees for members will be $150 for the first 2 hours and non-members rate will be $250 for the first 2 hours. Each additional hour will be $50 for members and $75 for non-members. Every party will have at least 2 lifeguards on duty and the lifeguards will be paid by the person renting the pool at a fee of $15 per hour per lifeguard. The lifeguards will be paid in cash or by check at the end of the party.

NEW CREDIT CARD PROCESSING FEE

For those that pay their monthly house account with a credit card Starting Jan 1, 2019 the club will start charging a 4% credit card processing fee to cover our cost to process credit cards. If you have any questions about this please speak with Richard.

RANGE USERS

We are now able to practice from the grass tees. Thank you for only using the mats this winter.

Also we have purchased more range balls to get us through the winter. During the spring we will be getting more new range balls. Range balls will be distributed over the counter from now on. So see any pro shop staff to get your range balls.

MAILING LIST REMINDER

If you are not receiving our email updates from the new server (there have been several to go out at this point), please check your SPAM or JUNK mail folder and mark COHARIE COUNTRY CLUB as a “SAFE SENDER”. This will ensure that your emails from Coharie get sent to your appropriate inbox.

If you have received no emails from the new server, please contact Heather Port at info@cohariecc.com directly, or at 910-592-6745.

2019 TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE

Click here to view the 2019 Tournament Schedule at Coharie Country Club.

2017 CGA AGRONOMIST REPORT
We invite you to read the agronomist report about Coharie from Bill Anderson, CGCS Agronomist of the Carolina's Golf Association. Click here to read report.

2016 BY-LAWS
Review the 2016 by-laws that were approved at the last board meeting (click here).

Coharie Country Club - 101 Coharie Lane - Clinton, NC 28328 - Office 910.592.6745
- Pro Shop 910.592.2951 - Pool 910.592.2384