Aries Engineering Golf League: Apps and course information

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Apps and course information

As I get the season underway on my end, I need to update you on a few items.

The applications are being put in the mail no later than Saturday. If you know anyone that wants to join the league, we do have some openings, so get their info to me as soon as you can, or have them email me. If you need another app, it is available on the sidebar to the right ------->

Next, I spoke with Nelson at the course today. Whiteford Valley is officially open for play as of today, and it's dry enough that they are letting carts out!

As far as our league officers meeting at the course, Nelson is not going to have it until the first week in April. We have a tentative start date of April 23rd, so this means, once again, I'm into crunch time to get things organized and kicked off. I will get the schedules out sometime around the second week of April.

I'm really looking forward to the start of the golf season - my favorite time of year! See you soon!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Whiteford opens the couse and lets carts out as soon as Nelson deems the grass grazeable.

Pat; March 6, 2009 at 5:06:00 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.