Aries Engineering Golf League: Officers meeting and other info

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Officers meeting and other info

A reminder:
The annual Officers Meeting is this Sunday at 1pm at our usual location. Looking forward to getting the season underway!

Also, because of changes in the economy, we have lost the income from our normal sponsor for the 2009 season. If anyone would like to sponsor, or help sponsor in part, please email me asap!!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: I guess we have to play for "the love of the game" now. Let's get the Hooter's girls to sell 50/50 tickets for us Sunday stay late and run off with the money before the drawing. Or we can check to see if there are any provisions for struggling golf leagues in the new recovery stimulus bill. I mean if 8 billion goes for a high speed rail line from LA to Las Vegas, then there should be something in there for us, right?

Pat; February 18, 2009 at 10:20:00 AM EST

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League History

The Dura Golf League (sponsored by Dura Corp.) was established in 1946, and played at Ottawa Park Golf Course until 1956. In 1957, the league moved from Ottawa Park to Chippewa Country Club, and remained there through 1967.

In 1961, league member and Dura worker Pat Upton passed away. Pat was an excellent amateur athlete and golfer who’s family ancestors have Upton Avenue named for them. In 1962, the league dedicated the current trophy to Pat’s memory. Since 1962, the annual champions names have been engraved on the trophy.

In 1968, the Dura League moved from Chippewa Country Club to the newly opened Whiteford Valley Golf Course. As of 1979, there was no more room on the trophy for the champions names, so the league had an extension attached to the original base of the trophy. In 1992, the league lost the sponsorship from Dura Corp. when the company closed their plant in Toledo. In 1993, Jim Wilcox, a former Dura employee and machinery broker, took over the sponsorship of the newly designated Wilcox Machinery Golf League.

In 2001, Jim went into semi retirement and the league went through another sponsorship change. Systems control entrepreneur Mike Nagy Sr. assumed sponsorship of the newly named M&N Controls Golf League beginning in 2002.

During the 2004 season, the Pat Upton Memorial Trophy was refurbished through the efforts of league officers Russ Bohland, Tom Tinta, and Jim Wilcox.

In 2009, Todd Brieschke and his company, Aries Engineering, took over sponsorship of the league. A year later, (in 2010), the league members voted to move to Giant Oaks Golf Course in Temperance, Michigan, where it remains today.

Many of the league members have been involved for decades, and can recant many stories from far back, making this one of the oldest and most historic leagues in this area.