General - 7. page

The Mexican Golf Federation has rerated El Tigre, and new scorecards reflecting the changes are currently being printed. Hopefully they will arrive in the next week or so. You will notice that the slopes and ratings of all tees have increased, and that the stroke indices (aka “hole handicaps”) have changed significantly.

This website’s Handicap calculator has also been updated with the new slopes and ratings, so they will be used in calculating the “differentials” for scores you enter from now on.

A friend of Rod Spence is helping the La Cruz Kids Club Education Program. They have a fundraiser and have a gift certificate donated to them for 2 rounds of golf at Punta Mita Golf Course. It is valid until December 6th 2020. The cost is $350 US. Contact Rod (rod.spence@myaccess.ca) if you are interested.

I wanted to let everyone know that one of our members, Jim von Gremp, is currently undergoing treatment at the MD Anderson cancer center in Houston. He and Susan are living in an apartment near the hospital.

Jim will turn 71 on October 21st. I think it would lift his spirits if he received a LOT of birthday wishes next week. If you want to send him a card, here is his mailing address:

850 Old Main St
Apt 3203, Houston, TX 77030

Or, if you want to send birthday wishes via email, his email address is jim@vg-llc.com.

Dear Members,

Your generous contributions were recently shared with members of the El Tigre Golf Course staff. Ever staff member that received a payment was very touched and deeply appreciate of all of your support. Steve Johnson and all of his staff were tremendously appreciative of the outpouring of support that they received from League members in this time of need. I have attached an email from Jose Torres, who wrote an email on behalf of his colleagues thanking all of the members.

Markus

Subject: Thank you

Hello everyone! I’ll speak for everyone in the staff (golf  services, pro shop , cart girls , & cleaning girls) . Thanks for all the people that are involved in collecting money for us. One  more time each.  Each one of you show us how much you care for us , how much you’re worried about us.
 I got no words to say but thank you very much .. god blessed every single one .. this encourages us to give a better service for all you guys & gals , but the most important this is done with lot’s of love to us, got a big heart 

& it means a lot for us.
 I been speaking mostly to everyone & they are doing fine, hope you guys are the same, your families…

     You guys are great 

Please if I forgot to mention someone, let them know ..

I am very pleased to report that El Tigre Golf Course League members have provided tremendous financial support to the Relief Fund that was established in late March. The fundraising campaign ended earlier this week and the total amount on contributions received to date is $118,400 pesos. Steve Johnson and his staff will make the collected funds available to the impacted staff members in the very near future. The collected funds will be made available to the caddies, the beverage cart ladies, golf shop staff members and a few additional operational employees. Since the golf course is now closed for the month of April (and possibly longer), and all impacted staff members are unable to work, your contributions will provide much needed support to our dear golf course friends during this time of need. Steve and his staff are tremendously appreciative of all of your kindness and generocity.

Paradise Village Group also recently communicated that they would not be collecting any monthly Social and/or Golf membership dues, during the period that the impacted facilities are closed. For those members that have prepaid their annual dues in advance, the next annual statement will reflect a credit that will cover the time that the facility was closed to the public. For those members paying their membership dues on a monthly basis they will either, 1) get a credit for any monies already paid (when the facility was closed), 2) not receive a future bill if the facility was closed for the duration of that billing period, or 3) a combination of the above, if appropriate. Several members have already ask Steve if they could possibly donate any of their future credits to the current Relief Fund campaign. While Steve is extremely appreciative of this generous offering, it would be logistically and administratively very difficult to implement this initiative with the current accounting systems at hand. As such, it will not be feasible to implement this program at this time.

Steve and I want to thank everyone for their amazing support during this difficult period. We are all looking forward to the Fall when we will all be back together again and hopefully enjoying our beautiful golf course and being together again. In the meantime, we thank you very much for your generocity and for your caring. Most importantly, we wish all of of you and your families the best of health.

Markus & Steve