Membership Specials
Win a Cart and Range Pass!
Pay your 2014 Dues in full by April 15th and you will be entered into a drawing for a cart and range pass, a $185 value. If you have already paid your 2014 dues in full THANK YOU! Your name will also be entered into the drawing.
If you are unable to pay all of your dues at this time 1/2 of your dues will be due by April 15th with the full payment due by May 15th. After May 15th anyone with an outstanding dues balance will need to pay a green fee to play.
Veterans Membership Special
Veterans who are either new members to the Club or are returning after taking last year off are being offered a one time membership special if they join by Memorial Day, May 26th. We appreciate the service of all veterans and to our current members we ask that you help us in recruiting your fellow service members. By increasing the number of memberships in the Club you will be helping to keep your dues a great golf value.
Veterans, SAL and Auxiliary Members can join the Club in 2014 for $490 for a single membership and $160 for their spouse. If you join as a 4-some with other veteran friends you save another $25 each, making a single membership $465 and a spouse $135. This is a tremendous one time offering we hope you will take advantage of and again, THANK YOU for your service!
Shoulder Season Outing Pricing
We pride ourselves in the service we provide to groups who play in golf outings at the Liberty Country Club. For a limited time, we are offering an outing special for groups who join us before June 1st or after October 1st. For just $22 ($10 for LCC members) your group of 20 or more will have your cart and green fees covered and our help in making your event a memorable one for all. We will assist you from the initial planning to scoring the event and anything in between that you may need assistance with. We have assisted in literately hundreds of events and would like to help you with yours. Please contact Bruce Gregory for more information or to book your group.
Opening Day
Men's opening day will be Saturday, April 19th with a 2-man scramble format. Look for more information at the clubhouse. The Ladies Wednesday morning group will start the 2014 season on April 30th.
BBQ, Bogeys, and Beer
In addition to our Family Friendly Friday nights where members can rent a family golf cart for $5 after
5:00 pm. We will be offering a $20 family package that includes cart rental and food ( BBQ plates as often as possible), and beverage of choice for up to 2 adults and 2 kids. Members, bring your family out for some golf on Friday nights this season and take advantage of a great family recreational value. More information on this, and a new Slow Play Sunday beginner lesson package will be coming soon.
Passing of Glade Montgomery
Long time Pro-Manager and friend of the Liberty Country Club, Glade Montgomery, passed away this past winter in Florida. Glade, along with past superintendent Chuck Frasur and many member volunteers were responsible for adding the 2nd nine holes at Liberty in the early 1970's. Glade was active in the Club as a member in the early 1950's before serving the Club for 31 years as pro-manager prior to his retirement in 1986. A memorial event will be held sometime this summer. Please look for details in future newsletters and in signage at the Club.
Controlling Wedge Distances -
Developing the ability to hit accurate scoring shots– and dial in
your distance within 2-3 yards most of the time – will make anyone’s
scoring much better in a hurry. And I call the ‘scoring shots’ all
those made with your clubs over 40* of loft, which will include your
9-iron.
- Many golfers try to hit their scoring clubs too far. A “full” shot with a scoring club is made with much less effort than a “full” shot with a middle-iron or hybrid. That reduced swing speed allows you to better control the trajectory, which in turn makes the distance more consistent. If you hit these high, ballooning wedge and short iron shots, you will never get consistent on your distance. Work on your swing pace, tempo and power application. Throttle back and you will see your trajectories come down and distance control improve significantly. You’ll also see that accuracy improve.
- Many get too “hands-y” with these shots. As you move into the shorter clubs, that are used for precision shotmaking, you must quiet your hand action and control the swing more with the body core, the big muscles. They are less likely to “twitch” and manipulate the clubface. What you are after in the scoring clubs is a controlled swing that repeats reliably. To really understand what I’m talking about, watch this Steve Stricker video — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic5EljdJWUQ — and pay attention to the extreme simplicity of his move back and through the ball. Watch it over and over and over and over . . . And watch this one to learn what is really going in Steve’s technique — http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=HAaLWGGDj2A&NR=1
- Take Dead Aim. This was the famous advice of the legendary Harvey Penick. It applies on every shot, but is even more important on your precision scoring shots, where you want the ball to fly to a very precise spot and end up close to the hole. The Mel Gibson movie, “The Patriot”, offered a bit of golf advice in the early scenes, where he reminds his young boys to “aim small, miss small”. I’ve referenced that before. When hitting scoring club approach shots, really fine-tune your aim to a specific point, whether the flag or a spot just left or right, short or long of it.
One final note on getting great with your scoring clubs. If it’s important to you that you can hit a pitching wedge over about 125-130, then you’ll not likely ever get that good with these short clubs.
They are not meant to be hit that hard.
And finally, the News we have all been waiting for:
Winter likely to keep a frigid grip on Indiana into late March
Article from: Purdue Agriculture News (2/27/2014)WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Despite a couple of recent mild weather days that made us think spring could be near, the Indiana State Climate Office says winter isn't going away anytime soon.
While it isn't abnormal in Indiana for snow and cold temperatures to linger into mid-March, current weather models suggest spring weather might not move in until even later.
"A few days with temperatures in the 50s and 60s might have led us to believe spring is right around the corner," said Ken Scheeringa, associate state climatologist for the Indiana State Climate Office based at Purdue University.
"Not so fast," he quickly added. "The snow and cold of winter usually continues into the first half of March. Based on the latest weather outlook, it could even persist late into the month."
Monthly and seasonal weather outlooks from the Climate Prediction Center show a colder-than-normal, but mostly dry start to March. The cold trend is likely to continue throughout the month, but forecasters are less certain about precipitation later in March.
Moving on to spring, the outlook calls for a slight chance of a colder-than-normal spring in northern Indiana and wetter-than-normal conditions in the southern part of the state.
Early March temperatures in Indiana typically range from 40 degrees in the north to 50 degrees in the south and increase toward the end of the month to a range of mid-50s in the north to the mid-60s in the south. March precipitation normally varies from about 2.5 inches in far northern Indiana to about 4.2 inches in the far southwest.
If winter weather sticks around later than normal, farmers antsy to start planting their corn and soybean crops might have to wait a little bit longer for optimal planting conditions, including soil temperatures of at least 50 degrees at seeding depth.
But according to Purdue Extension corn specialist Bob Nielsen, while a colder March could affect planting dates, the bulk of the state's farmers don't get serious about planting corn until the third week of April. That means weather in early April is likely to influence planting far more heavily than the weather in March.
"The fact that March is colder than normal might or might not impact planting dates, depending on how cold we're talking," he said. "But if we get to a point where it looks like planting might be delayed, it's important to remember that planting date is only one of many factors that influence crop yields."
As an example, Nielsen compared the 2012 cropping year, when farmers planted one of the earliest crops on record before drought decimated yields, with the 2013 cropping year, which started off with delayed planting and ended with above-trendline yields.
In Indiana, the earliest dates farmers can plant corn and still be eligible for crop insurance are April 1 in southern Indiana, April 5 in central and April 10 in northern. Soybean dates are April 15 in southern Indiana, April 20 in central and April 24 in northern. That means farmers have much more time to wait and see how the weather actually plays out.
Forecasters will continue to watch long-range weather models, which Scheeringa said take into account global weather signals, including storm activity in the far west Pacific, surface ocean temperatures and conditions over North America. So far, water temperatures are normal in the Pacific Ocean with a lack of El Niño - a rise in surface water temperatures near the Equator - and La Niña - a drop in surface water temperatures in the same region.
"Neutral El Niño and La Niña ocean patterns are expected to continue as non-players in the spring forecast," Scheeringa said. "But storm activity in the western Pacific should impact the path of the jet stream in the eastern Pacific and over North America. The path would re-establish the old dominant winter pattern of warm conditions in western states and unusual cold east of the Rocky Mountains."
Writer: Jennifer Stewart, 765-494-6682, jsstewar@purdue.edu
Source: Ken Scheeringa, 765-494-8105, kens@purdue.edu
Bob Nielsen, 765-494-4802, rnielsen@purdue.edu
Ag Communications: (765) 494-2722;
Keith Robinson, robins89@purdue.edu
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