Come one, come all! Come to Big Fish Golf Club on July 18 to enjoy a great day of golf and a hot dog as we celebrate National Hot Dog Day!
July 21 & 22 · 3 Person Scramble · $300 a team
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Saturday, August, 25, 2018
Four (4) Person Scramble
Shotgun Start at 10:00 a.m.- $500 per team
Green Fee/Cart, Lunch & Dinner, Prizes, and Raffle
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Sunday, August 26, 2018
Register your foursome ASAP!
Seats available for Saturday Night’s 20 Gun Raffle drawing, plus the Brownings, Glock’s, Tikka’s, Begara’s, Howa’s etc. On the gun board, Games, Silent Auction and other prizes which are only for the attendees Saturday night.
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Big Fish Golf Course
Saturday, August, 25, 2018
Four (4) Person Scramble
Shotgun Start at 10:00 a.m.- $500 per team
Green Fee/Cart, Lunch & Dinner, Prizes, and Raffle
$3600 Prize Pool
Skins Game/ Players Cash Pool: $40 team entry for each (50% payback)
Putting Contest: $200 Cash Prize
Help contribute to Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Immersion School and their outdoor activities.
Contact: Jason Schlender (715) 209-1649 or Mark Montano (715) 699-2574
In 2007, the Tribal Governing Board established the Lac Courte Oreilles Annual Youth and Education
Golf Classic to raise funds for education scholarships and youth activities. Last year alone, we raised approximately $50,000 in gross revenue, including $5,000 that was donated by a business partner to fund two-$2,500 education scholarships to Lac Courte Oreilles tribal members. From the tournament proceeds, the Tribe also awarded twenty one-$500 education scholarships and was able to contribute to various programs within the Tribe. This would not have been possible without the support of our business partners, participants and community!
We would like to invite you to partner with us by participating in this year’s tournament, which will take place on Saturday, June 2, 2018 at the Pete Dye designed, award winning Big Fish Golf Club adjacent to the Sevenwinds Casino, Lodge and Conference Center (formerly LCO Casino, Lodge and Convention Center) located in Hayward, Wisconsin. Enclosed is the 2018 tournament sponsorship packet. Review the packet for an opportunity that matches or best meets your business goals or contribution. If you have any questions, please contact:
Ariana Johnson, Tournament Coordinator
(715) 558-7423 Office, (715) 699-3381 Cell
or via email: Ariana.Johnson@lco-nsn.gov
Support our tournament, but more importantly support education scholarships and youth activities. We
welcome you and look forward to seeing you at this year’s tournament!
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July 21 & 22 · 3 Person Scramble · $300 a team
NWTF Hackin 4 Habitat Golf Outing Sunday 8/26 Hayward WI
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Seats available for Saturday Night’s 20 Gun Raffle drawing, plus the Brownings, Glock’s, Tikka’s, Begara’s, Howa’s etc. On the gun board, Games, Silent Auction and other prizes which are only for the attendees Saturday night.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Though John Smoltz may have felt very much alone on the wind-whipped, sun-baked Broadmoor course, he wasn’t.
The pitching Hall of Famer spent Day 1 at the US Senior Open in much the same position as the rest of the field — gouging out of ankle-high rough, then scrambling to put himself in position for par putts on tricky, mountain greens that left player after player shaking his head.
“I’m just being honest,” Smoltz said after a round of 15-over 85 that left him tied for 150th place. “I don’t have enough game for this course yet.”
He wasn’t alone.
The ultimate test for the seniors produced only eight below-par scores Thursday, and not a single player — not even leader Jerry Kelly — finished 18 holes without a bogey on his card.
Kelly gave it a run, though.
After saving par from the rough on the 559-yard, par-4 17th — he was holding his right elbow after digging out the approach — Kelly was one 4-foot putt away from going bogey-free. But when that slid a fraction to the right at the cup, his flawless day was history.
Kelly still shot 4-under 66, which was good enough for a two-shot lead over Miguel Angel Jimenez, Kevin Sutherland, Deane Pappas and Rocco Mediate.
“I was pretty disappointed with that three-putt on the last hole,” Kelly said. “But it gave me a lot today. I played very well, but it gave me some shots, too.”
Mediate found himself in the mix again for a national championship 10 years after his epic, 19-hole playoff loss to Tiger Woods at the US Open at Torrey Pines. Whether it’s the regular Open or the seniors, Mediate insists the tough USGA setups suit him, even though he missed the cut the last two years in this event.
“It looks like a US Open golf course,” Mediate said about the Broadmoor. “It is a US Open golf course. It will show you quickly that it is, if you hit it in the wrong place. That’s what I love most about the setup.”
Also lurking was defending champion Kenny Perry, whose 71 included only a single birdie.
“Here, the greens, they’ve got you on edge,” said Perry, whose title last year gave him entry into the US Open earlier this month. “I feel like I’m at Shinnecock again.”
Smoltz, whose day job is broadcasting baseball games for Fox, walked onto the Broadmoor for the first time this week. He hired a local caddie, Colin Prater, who was a Division II All-American at Colorado-Colorado Springs.
Almost immediately, though, the pitcher-turned-golfer received a crash course in the difference between casual rounds of golf and the sport at its most difficult.
“I never expected to get that many bad lies,” he said. “Nothing I could do about it. And I had a lot of tough shots that I have not practiced and that I am not used to hitting.”
A few times during the round, Smoltz had to stop, take off his shoes and tape up his toes, which were raw and aching. Lesson: Don’t break in new golf shoes at the US Open.
“It was fun to have him out here,” said Bob Ford, who was in the threesome with Smoltz. “But I didn’t expect him to break 80. I know how good he is. But this is just another world. It’s not his world.”
Smoltz’s first turn through this world will end after Friday’s round.
Kelly — he set himself up to be in a good spot heading into the weekend.
“I hit three bad shots, and I shot 85,” Smoltz said. “It just tells you, from an amateur standpoint, and for people sitting at home, how great these players are.”
Sources: nypost.com
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Wisconsin’s centerfold golf courses, those celebrated layouts that host major tournaments and draw golfers from across the land, get a lot of attention, for good reason. But this state is blessed with many more deserving golf destinations any state golfer would enjoy experiencing. In this ongoing series we call “Hidden Gems,” we will highlight some of those courses on what might be viewed as a Badger bucket list.
In a sense, Big Fish Golf Club is named for its chief competition.
The Hayward Lakes are filled (or so assures the local Chamber of Commerce) with prized muskies and tasty walleyes, as are the walls of every bar in town. But any golfer who comes anywhere near Hayward to fish would be remiss in not also setting aside a few hours for a round at this course designed by the legendary Pete Dye, who was also the mad genius behind Whistling Straits, Blackwolf Run, TPC Sawgrass, the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island and a host of other great layouts.
Dye’s name alone is enough bait for many golfers. On Trip Advisor, one visiting golfer declared, “what a treat to witness firsthand the genius of a Pete Dye creation…”
But while a famous designer’s name can be a draw, it also creates high expectations for visiting players, said Chris Hofer, director of golf. He freely acknowledged that a few years ago, management issues that led to legal proceedings left insufficient funds for the kind of maintenance a big name course demands and course conditions suffered.
But Hofer said the ownership group began a reinvestment effort in course maintenance, facilities — a new event space was added for weddings and other gatherings — tournaments and more.
Now, “things are headed in the right direction,” Hofer said, and if Dye could see his design today he would be proud of what he has built.
Nothing in my recent round would dispel that. Big Fish is fun, challenging without edging toward punishing and worthy of the many accolades and top ratings it has collected from national golf magazines since it opened in 2004.
Not to confuse the matter, but the course itself is really two courses in one.
The front nine is wide open, mostly flat and almost entirely treeless, resulting in a links style nine that Hofer says many Wisconsin golfers have never experienced. Playing at 3,012 yards from the white tees (or 3,606 from the blues), the front nine closes with a benign little par 3 of just 104 yards in front of the halfway house called Mulligan’s Pub.
If the first nine might have suggested golf in the UK, however, the back nine immediately assures players that they are indeed in Wisconsin’s north woods.
It is every bit as rolling and tree-lined as the front nine was open and barren. There are elevated tee boxes on some holes, blind shots from tees and on fairways and it can be challenging to find many flat lies. Dye’s signature pot bunkers can be found on both nines, but there aren’t many other similarities.
Surprisingly, Hofer said, “the front nine, even though it has no trees, is harder for our members … just because we’re not used to (that style) up here.”
My experience was just the opposite. I struggled more on the back but think a bit more course knowledge would help on those holes.
Despite the closing of several courses in recent years, the Hayward area bills itself as Wisconsin’s golf capital; in addition to Big Fish the regional menu includes Hayward Golf and Tennis, Spooner CC and Telemark GC and Lakewoods Forest Ridges GC, both in Cable. While Hayward Golf gets much of its play from a sizable local membership, Hofer said, 80 percent of the play at Big Fish comes from zip codes outside the area.
“It’s a great variety, and a great place to come for people who are golfers,” said Hofer, who grew up in nearby Winter — the community, not the season — and was first part of Big Fish “when it was still covered in dirt and Pete Dye was walking the grounds with his dog.”
If the Hayward lakes are sometimes competition, they can also be an asset in attracting golfers to the area. Many days, Hofer said, morning play is heavy but by afternoon the golfers become fishermen and trade a golf cart for a fishing boat. Accordingly, Big Fish offers lower greens fees in the afternoon to attract more family play and nine-hole rounds.
Big Fish has a fully stocked pro shop and conveniently located practice range. Mulligan’s Pub offers both food and drink, including on a second-floor deck that provides great views. Stay-and-play packages are available with several local resorts, including with the Seven Winds Casino Hotel just across the highway.
Not to be missed: in downtown Hayward, the famed Moccasin Bar has a number of world class stuffed muskies hanging on its walls and stuffed animal dioramas including chipmunks playing music, yodeling and, of course, drinking beer. And nearby, the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame is housed in a fiberglass muskie that rises four stories high and stretches the length of a Boeing 757.
That is, you have to admit, a big fish.
For more information, www.golfbigfish.com.
Source: www.wisconsin.golf