Ron Schulte, left, is the new president of the Twin Village Golf Club Board of Governors. Board officers to his right include Vice President Ralph Kirchner, Secretary Bill Knipscher and Treasurer Chuck Husson III. 
Dan Baldo, retiring president of the Roscoe Twin Village Golf Club.New President Takes Over At TVGC
The Twin Village Golf Club (TVGC) at Roscoe has a new Board President with Ron Schulte taking over for retiring president Dan Baldo.
Baldo chose not to continue as president after 15 faithful years but he will continue to head the clubs Greens Committee.
Baldo took over the Presidency of the TVGC Board of Governors from Monteen Elliot in 1995. Dan credits the late Fran "Rooster" Temple and his brother, the late Paul Temple for encouraging him to take an active part with the club.
Dan noted that "Rooster" had a long and dynamic relationship with the greens keepers and wanted that relationship continued. He also credits "Rooster" with putting him in contact with people who could help with questions concerning course maintenance.
Baldo noted that what made all those years so meaningful were the other eight Board Members with whom he served. "It's been an experience I have enjoyed and now look forward to seeing you all out here on the course.," Dan noted.
Sixth-year-old Ron Schulte has been a member of the Board of Governors at Twin Village since 2004 and just this year retired from 37-years of teaching at Liberty Central High School where he also coached six sports including football, wrestling, track, cross country, baseball and skiing.
Ron noted that he has a special interest in the club "because this is my hometown course and I even caddied here as a boy."
Schulte has been playing golf since a teenager and golf, hunting and fishing are his hobbies. "Golf is a common interest that I share with my two sons, Ron and Brian and whenever we get together golf is on the agenda.
The new Twin Village President currently plays in the Twin Village Monday Men's league, the Tuesday Night Swan Lake Country Club league and is a sub in the Thursday Men's league at Tennanah Lake.
Ron is also a member of the Liberty Elks Club.
Troy J. Kirchner is the club house at the Roscoe Twin Village Golf Course.
The recent changes to the course includes starting their fairways about 50 yards in front of the tee boxes instead of having them go right up to the tee box.
The course has 9 new tee signs that have the TVGC logo, hole #, par, distances to holes fromred, white, and blue, and the layout of the hole so people can visually see it on the sign.
Golfers will also notice that TVGC has designed a new logo that will be on all nine tee signs and the new logo will also be on all of the shirts in the "pro shop", on all the golf carts, on all letter heads, on all nine flags and other random places throughout the course.
Another improvement includes adding blue tee boxes and every hole will have its own red tee box as well.
The concessions is completely operated by TVGC.
A weekday special, excepting holidays, offered by the club this year is 18-holes of golf for 2 with cart for $35 but you must call the club for cart availability.
The nine-hole 2,045-yard par 32 TVGC has added several changes including some narrow fairways and adding rough where open fairways use to be. Cutting of the greens, fairways and rough and adding of a 90-degree cart policy also added to the beauty of the fairways and a better playing surface for all golfers.
The course features five par fours and four par threes. The longest hole on this course is the 349-yard par 4 ninth hole, where golfers have to remain accurate and stay away from hooking shots into a brook on the left side of the fairway. If the tees are set way back on the ninth, this also presents a very narrow entrance and tee-shot onto the fairway. A pond on the right and the small brook with soft wet marsh on the left presents a "don't make a mistake and you better hit a straight shot" from the fairway to the green.
A trap in front of the ninth green prevents the chip, bump and run shot. The need for accurate wedge shots to the green can help when going for the par 4.
One of the more difficult par 3 holes on the course is the 210-yard third hole. Again, the golfer must keep center or right to avoid going left out-of-bounds into the cornfield. There is a long trap in front of the green and if you shoot for the green on any shot, you better not go over the green or you will have a wet ball since it will lane in the small brook immediately behind the green.
In fact, this brook also runs in back of the 168-yard par 3 sixth hole and the 180-yard par 3 eighth hole, making the smart golfer lay up in front of the front edge of these greens.
The smaller size greens and pin placements add to difficult chip shots and the need for an accurate short game to score well on this course.
For all tournament or TVGC information or tee times call the clubhouse at 607-498-5829 .
The Golf Tip
By Robert Menges
Use your putter. When deciding to put or not from just off the green, the first thing to remember is that anytime you can putt, do it.
Keeping the ball on the ground and using the most reliable club in your bag---the putter--is a logical and smart choice. A good putt will always get you closer to the hole than a good running shot with one of your irons.
The biggest factor is determining whether to putt or not is what lies between you and the hole. Most important is the grass surface. If the path is clear, the ground relatively smooth and the grass is short, choosing your putter is an easy choice.
Another factor to look closely at is how the ball is sitting. Remember, if the conditions are good, we want to putt the ball.
When making these putts from off the green, it is very important to keep our concentration and use good putting fundamentals.
Robert Menges is the head golf professional at the Swan Lake Golf & Country Club, Mt. Hope Road, Swan Lake. He is available for private lessons and if you have a question or subject you would like covered, he can be reached by phone at 292-0323 or via e-mail at menges@hughes.net
Ed's Outlook
The Twin Village Golf Club (TVGC) at Roscoe has a new Board President with Ron Schulte taking over for retiring president Dan Baldo.
Baldo chose not to continue as president after 15 faithful years but he will continue to head the clubs Greens Committee.
Baldo took over the Presidency of the TVGC Board of Governors from Monteen Elliot in 1995. Dan credits the late Fran "Rooster" Temple and his brother, the late Paul Temple for encouraging him to take an active part with the club.
Dan noted that "Rooster" had a long and dynamic relationship with the greens keepers and wanted that relationship continued. He also credits "Rooster" with putting him in contact with people who could help with questions concerning course maintenance.
Baldo noted that what made all those years so meaningful were the other eight Board Members with whom he served. "It's been an experience I have enjoyed and now look forward to seeing you all out here on the course.," Dan noted.
Sixth-year-old Ron Schulte has been a member of the Board of Governors at Twin Village since 2004 and just this year retired from 37-years of teaching at Liberty Central High School where he also coached six sports including football, wrestling, track, cross country, baseball and skiing.
Ron noted that he has a special interest in the club "because this is my hometown course and I even caddied here as a boy."
Schulte has been playing golf since a teenager and golf, hunting and fishing are his hobbies. "Golf is a common interest that I share with my two sons, Ron and Brian and whenever we get together golf is on the agenda.
The new Twin Village President currently plays in the Twin Village Monday Men's league, the Tuesday Night Swan Lake Country Club league and is a sub in the Thursday Men's league at Tennanah Lake.
Ron is also a member of the Liberty Elks Club.
Troy J. Kirchner is the club house at the Roscoe Twin Village Golf Course.
The recent changes to the course includes starting their fairways about 50 yards in front of the tee boxes instead of having them go right up to the tee box.
The course has 9 new tee signs that have the TVGC logo, hole #, par, distances to holes fromred, white, and blue, and the layout of the hole so people can visually see it on the sign.
Golfers will also notice that TVGC has designed a new logo that will be on all nine tee signs and the new logo will also be on all of the shirts in the "pro shop", on all the golf carts, on all letter heads, on all nine flags and other random places throughout the course.
Another improvement includes adding blue tee boxes and every hole will have its own red tee box as well.
The concessions is completely operated by TVGC.
A weekday special, excepting holidays, offered by the club this year is 18-holes of golf for 2 with cart for $35 but you must call the club for cart availability.
The nine-hole 2,045-yard par 32 TVGC has added several changes including some narrow fairways and adding rough where open fairways use to be. Cutting of the greens, fairways and rough and adding of a 90-degree cart policy also added to the beauty of the fairways and a better playing surface for all golfers.
The course features five par fours and four par threes. The longest hole on this course is the 349-yard par 4 ninth hole, where golfers have to remain accurate and stay away from hooking shots into a brook on the left side of the fairway. If the tees are set way back on the ninth, this also presents a very narrow entrance and tee-shot onto the fairway. A pond on the right and the small brook with soft wet marsh on the left presents a "don't make a mistake and you better hit a straight shot" from the fairway to the green.
A trap in front of the ninth green prevents the chip, bump and run shot. The need for accurate wedge shots to the green can help when going for the par 4.
One of the more difficult par 3 holes on the course is the 210-yard third hole. Again, the golfer must keep center or right to avoid going left out-of-bounds into the cornfield. There is a long trap in front of the green and if you shoot for the green on any shot, you better not go over the green or you will have a wet ball since it will lane in the small brook immediately behind the green.
In fact, this brook also runs in back of the 168-yard par 3 sixth hole and the 180-yard par 3 eighth hole, making the smart golfer lay up in front of the front edge of these greens.
The smaller size greens and pin placements add to difficult chip shots and the need for an accurate short game to score well on this course.
For all tournament or TVGC information or tee times call the clubhouse at 607-498-5829 .
The Golf Tip
By Robert Menges
Use your putter. When deciding to put or not from just off the green, the first thing to remember is that anytime you can putt, do it.
Keeping the ball on the ground and using the most reliable club in your bag---the putter--is a logical and smart choice. A good putt will always get you closer to the hole than a good running shot with one of your irons.
The biggest factor is determining whether to putt or not is what lies between you and the hole. Most important is the grass surface. If the path is clear, the ground relatively smooth and the grass is short, choosing your putter is an easy choice.
Another factor to look closely at is how the ball is sitting. Remember, if the conditions are good, we want to putt the ball.
When making these putts from off the green, it is very important to keep our concentration and use good putting fundamentals.
Robert Menges is the head golf professional at the Swan Lake Golf & Country Club, Mt. Hope Road, Swan Lake. He is available for private lessons and if you have a question or subject you would like covered, he can be reached by phone at 292-0323 or via e-mail at menges@hughes.net
Ed's Outlook
President Obama was in Moscow recently and was asked what he disliked about himself. The first Lefty replied that he didn't care for his golf swing.
"I have been playing golf lately, and I don't like my golf swing," he said.
"You probably don't have that much golf weather in Russia, but it's a game that I keep on thinking I should be good at, and somehow the ball goes this way and that way and never goes straight," he noted.
It's good to know the President is frustrated by some of the same things as the rest of us.
This column is written by Ed Townsend, who is a consultant to the amateur and professional sport of golf and to several golf writers associations. If you have a topic that you believe would make good reading or have league standings and tournament information, please call Ed at 439-8177 or send an e-mail to bowlgolfect1@yahoo.com
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