The gals were in the restaurant waiting to see what they were going to do. The Day League were at Heatherglen May 21st, the wind was almost blowing them over and it was extremely cold. It was interesting to look back at our newsletter for 2002, the weather challenges have not changed that much. This was the year that Brian Fast started his teaching career at Cottonwood, and he is still teaching for us fourteen years later. We continued to add golf courses to our schedules and golf professionals to our teaching team. We have a domain name and website thanks to Kim Worth who we met at AWE, Alberta Women Entrepreneurs so let’s go for it, a league of our own. We have been doing this now for five years and we are thinking we really do have a viable business opportunity. Well we survived Y2K and our computer systems are still intact, wow that was a relief. Tiffany Gordon was always there to help and offer great advice. Shelly Charlton and her team at Country Hills gave us great instruction and we started to improve our game. We offered two choices a week in the evenings at 16 different courses and a choice of 7 courses once a week for the day league. In 1999 we expanded our evening league to accommodate 80 women and we started a day league. We had our first tournaments at Carstairs and Sundre and a wind-up hosted by one of our members, Ellen Janzen. 1998 was a very successful year and the start of great things to come. The twelve grew to 40 with some spares and Golfaround was born. In 1997 we were 12 beginner golfers who wanted to get better and have some fun, we called ourselves the Dirty Dozen”.
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