Labor Day was too hot. The next weekend it rained out.
This is the weekend you can save!
Saturday and Sunday Morning:
Open till Noon – 18 holes w/cart $25
9 holes w/cart $19.50
Noon till 6 pm – 18 holes w/cart $21
9 holes w/cart $15
Labor Day was too hot. The next weekend it rained out.
Open till Noon – 18 holes w/cart $25
9 holes w/cart $19.50
Noon till 6 pm – 18 holes w/cart $21
9 holes w/cart $15
With the rain out of our way we are ready for you to come and play some golf.
Weekday mornings 18 holes w/cart $21 and 9 holes with cart $15.
This weekend we will try our special again and pray that it’s not to hot or to wet.
Open till noon 18 holes w/cart for $25 and 9 holes w/cart $19.50 and Noon till 6 pm 18 for $21 and 9 for $15.
Make a tee time online or call us at 330-335-3375
September 10, 2018
By The Associated Press
He’s the final wild-card pick for U.S. Captain Jim Furyk
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — Tony Finau has been named to the Ryder Cup team, the final pick by U.S. captain Jim Furyk.
Finau, who is fourth in the FedExCup standings, joins Bryson DeChambeau, Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods as Furyk’s four wild-card selections. Finau has 11 top-10s this season, including three in majors.
“There won’t be any locker room noise with me,” Finau said Monday. “I can play with anyone. I feel that my personality is just that way. I can bring the best out of different guys playing with them, and them the same to me. I’m pretty easy to play with. And I’m playing some good golf, some world-class golf.”
His appeal is that he makes a lot of birdies, which is critical in match play. He was paired with Furyk the first two days at the PGA Championship, and struggled in the opening round before he tied a championship record by making 10 birdies in the second round.
“He has an unbelievable body of work this year,” Furyk said. “All those top-10 finishes, the play in big championships and the majors, and then his current form, a second, a fourth and an eighth in the Playoffs. He checked a lot of boxes and made it impossible not to pick him.”
Eight automatic qualifiers were set after the PGA Championship, so the start of the FedExCup Playoffs was effectively an audition. Finau was runner-up (by four shots) in THE NORTHERN TRUST, and then he tied for fourth at the Dell Technologies Championship.
The Ryder Cup team includes three rookies (Finau, DeChambeau and Justin Thomas) and nine major champions (with 31 total major victories).
The matches are Sept. 28-30 outside Paris.
September 10, 2018
By Sean Martin, PGATOUR.COM
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. – It’s easy to blame the belly putter.
Keegan Bradley used that club to win three times in his first two seasons, including a major and World Golf Championship. Then his promising career took a downturn, just as the debate about anchoring was beginning to heat up.
He was finally barred from using his beloved belly putter on Jan. 1, 2016. The ban became official in the midst of his worst season. By that summer, he was worried about missing the FedExCup Playoffs for the first time.
The putter wasn’t the only problem, though. His full swing was in disarray, as well.
Ball-striking, especially long and straight tee shots, had always been his strength. It allowed him to conquer tough tracks like Firestone and Atlanta Athletic Club.
So, when his swing left him, doubt crept in.
“I had missed over 10 cuts. I was in jeopardy of not making the Playoffs. I was really struggling,” he said. He finished outside the top 100 in the FedExCup for the first time in 2016. “I wasn’t really aware of how far off I was. I had to really get serious and put a lot of work in.”
Bradley’s strong will allowed him to make the PGA TOUR despite growing up in the cold weather of Vermont and playing college golf at a school, St. John’s, located in the midst of New York City. He used that same determination to fight out of this lengthy slump.
His victory at the BMW Championship on Monday, where he beat Justin Rose in a playoff, was his first in more than six years. He jumped to sixth in the FedExCup standings to qualify for the TOUR Championship for the first time since 2013.
“A lot has happened to me over these six years,” he said. “The belly putter was a tougher transition than I thought, and I kind of fell off the radar there for a little while. It’s tough to go from being on Ryder Cup teams, being on Presidents Cup teams to outside the top 100 in the world. That was difficult. I had to really sit down with my coach Darren May, and we put a schedule together.”
Bradley figured out his full swing about eight months ago. That allowed him to focus on the putter. He finally settled on the arm-lock method used by Matt Kuchar and another player impacted by the anchoring ban, Webb Simpson.
Watching Simpson hole puts from across TPC Sawgrass at this year’s THE PLAYERS Championship strengthened Bradley’s belief in his new putting method. Like Bradley, Simpson had won a major with the belly putter but struggled after that club was made illegal. THE PLAYERS was Simpson’s first win in more than four years.
“When I used the belly, I just putted,” Bradley said. “There was no thought process. And I had to really sit down and focus in on my putting stroke, which was something I had never done.”
Bradley is still near the bottom of the TOUR in Strokes Gained: Putting but has enough good weeks on the greens to contend. His runner-up finish in his second event of this season, the CIMB Classic, was his best since 2014. In July, he finished fourth at the RBC Canadian Open with the sixth-best Strokes Gained: Putting performance of his career.
His strong long game – he’s second in Strokes Gained: Approach-the-Green and sixth in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green – takes pressure off his putting. He can still have a solid week with mediocre putting and contend when he gets hot on the greens.
That’s what happened at Aronimink. Bradley finished sixth in Strokes Gained: Putting this week. It was the third-best Strokes Gained: Putting week of his career. He holed 11 putts outside 10 feet this week, one short of his career-high.
Bradley almost didn’t have the opportunity to win this event. Constant rain forced the final round to be pushed back a day. But, with one eye on the FedExCup standings, Bradley sank 7-footers for par on Saturday’s final two holes to grab the 30th spot in the projected standings. Those crucial makes increased his confidence entering the final round. On Monday, he sank five putts outside 10 feet, including birdie putts of 17 feet and 10 feet on the back nine’s two par-3s.
“It’s scary when I look back because I didn’t know I needed this much improvement,” Bradley said. “But to put it all together, especially with the putter the way it was this week and the way it’s becoming, is so gratifying, because for a little while, I didn’t know if I was going to be able to get back to this spot, and today I did it.”
The Montana State Department of Fish and Wildlife is advising golfers to take extra precautions, and be on the alert for bears while playing on Gallatin, Helena, and Lewis and Clark National Forest’s golf courses.
They advise golfers to wear noise-producing devices such as little bells on their clothing to alert, but not to startle the bears unexpectedly.
They also advise golfers to carry pepper spray in the case of an encounter with a bear.
They say that it’s also a good idea to watch for signs of bear activity on the courses. They recommend that golfers be educated so that they can recognize the difference between Black bear and Grizzly bear droppings.
Black bear droppings are smaller and contain remains of nuts, berries and possibly squirrel, rabbit or gopher fur.
Grizzly bear droppings have small bells, golf-gloves, sunglasses and other similar golf items in them and they usually smell like pepper spray.
Pine Valley is OPEN today but due to the very wet conditions we will allow only walkers today. We do have pull carts that can be used at no cost to our golfers.
As always if you have a question or you want to book a future tee time give us a call at 330-335-3375.
Jesus and Moses are playing golf in Heaven when they come to the par-3 17th hole, a long carry over water to an island green. Moses tees off with a 3-wood and hits the green. Jesus takes out his 5-iron and says, “I’m going to hit a 5-iron because Arnold Palmer would hit a 5-iron from here.”
Jesus tees it up and hits a lofted iron shot that finishes 25 yards short of the green and in the water.
Jesus turns to Moses and says, “How about parting the water so I can play my ball where it lies?”
Moses says, “No way. You foolishly chose the wrong club because of your Arnold Palmer fantasy and I’m not going to be a party to it!”
Jesus shrugs and starts walking on the water to where his ball went in. Just then, a foursome approaching the tee box sees Jesus walking on the water.
One of them asks Moses, “Who does that guy think he is, Jesus Christ?”
Moses turns and says, “No, he thinks he’s Arnold Palmer!”
Due to the weekends rains Pine Valley is only allowing walking today. It is extremely wet and to risky to allow the power carts on the course. We thank you for your understanding.
Any questions call the clubhouse at 330-335-3375 or Steve at 330-205-8120
September 07, 2018
By The Associated Press
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk had an easy time deciding on three of his four picks for the Ryder Cup.
Xander Schauffele is making the last one a little more difficult.
Schauffele nearly holed a wedge on his second hole, rolled in a 40-foot birdie putt in the middle of his round Friday and wound up with a 6-under in the BMW Championship for the lowest 36-hole score of his career and a two-shot lead over Justin Rose.
“I’m sort of in a position where I feel like a win is the only way I’d even be in consideration,” Schauffele said.
I’m sort of in a position where I feel like a win is the only way I’d even be in consideration
He also made it more difficult on Woods, who again goes into a weekend have to catch up to the leaders.
One day after he opened with a 62 — his lowest score since his last victory more than five years ago — Woods went eight holes before his first birdie and didn’t make many after that. He finished with two straight bogeys for a 70 and left him five shots behind in a tie for 12th.
“Very simple. I didn’t make any putts,” Woods said. “I hit a lot of beautiful putts that were on the top of the edge, and then obviously hit a couple bad ones on the last hole, but looked like all the putts were going to in. But they didn’t go in today.”
Schauffele was at 13-under 127 and will be paired in the third round Saturday with a familiar figure in Philadelphia. Rose, who played bogey-free for a 64, won the AT&T National at Aronimink in 2010, and he captured his only major at nearby Merion in the 2013 U.S. Open.
“Cheese steaks, I guess,” Rose said. “I played well. The crowd latched onto it, for sure. I get good support around here. It’s nice when they’re reminding you all the time that it’s your town, as well. It’s nice to have the added bit of enthusiasm from the crowd.”
Aronimink was even softer than the opening round from a burst of rain overnight. Starting times were moved up four hours because of a forecast for more rain. The trick Friday, when the average score was 67.33, was to avoid wedges that spun too much to back pin positions.
Hideki Matsuyama, who started the FedExCup Playoffs at No. 76, had a 64 and was in a group three shots behind that included Keegan Bradley, Alex Noren and Rickie Fowler. Matsuyama suddenly is in position to be among the 30 players who advance to East Lake in Atlanta in two weeks for the TOUR Championship.
The same is true for Bradley and for Noren, the Swede who makes his Ryder Cup debut at the end of the month. Noren holed out for eagle on the par-5 ninth for a 66, while Bradley keeps flirting with contention in these playoff events.
Rory McIlroy (67), FedExCup champion Justin Thomas (67) and Jason Day (64) were at 9-under 131.
Schauffele also needs a good week to get to East Lake, though he would like to extend his season an additional week in France at the Ryder Cup.
A runner-up at The Open Championship, the 24-year-old from San Diego finished 12th in the Ryder Cup standings. Furyk used three of his picks Tuesday night on Bryson DeChambeau, Phil Mickelson and Woods — Nos. 9, 10, 11 in the standings — and has one more pick after the BMW Championship.
Tony Finau is regarded the leading candidate, and he did nothing to hurt his chances. Finau made seven birdies in his round of 64 and goes into the final 36 holes at Aronimink just five shots behind.
“The possibilities are cool, the potential of what could happen,” Finau said. “But nothing good comes from thinking too far ahead. I got a couple rounds in front of me, 36 holes to try and win this tournament. And winning takes care of everything.”
Woods once used that phrase — “winning takes care of everything” — when he returned to No. 1 in the world after his injuries in 2013. Winning remains elusive, a cold putter didn’t do too much damage after starting with a 62.
He missed a 4-foot par putt on the par-3 fifth hole and didn’t convert any of the birdie putts from the 20-foot range. What he made on Thursday, he missed on Friday.
“I hit it just as good and putt it just as good,” Woods said. “Nothing went in. That’s the way it goes.”
Schauffele said he was on a mission, and the Ryder Cup was merely a byproduct. He was the PGA TOUR rookie of the year last season after winning the TOUR Championship for his second PGA TOUR title. Now, results are harder to find.
His mission?
“Just prove to myself that I can win again and just be clutch,” he said. “I always thought I was rather a clutch player coming down the stretch and this year has said otherwise. I’m trying to prove it to myself again.”
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