Welcome,
here is more information about our club than you would ever
think to ask.
We
have ALL skill levels. We are a small group that has been
in operation since 2007 at Kokopelli. We are at around 50
members. We usually have around 24-40 members playing on
any given Tuesday and around 8-20 in the summertime. So,
you can see that we don't all play every Tuesday. We are
a ladies league club that stays open all year around and
plays every Tuesday morning no matter what at Kokopelli.
Our maximum handicap allowed is 40 for all events and play
of the day.
We
have golfers that stay out here all year around and we have
golfers that take off for their other home in the summer.
We love how the club treats us here at Kokopelli ... they
are just terrific. You can bring guests each week because
you don't have to officially join us to come every Tuesday.
Guests, of course, cannot participate in the members only
events of the day. Membership events will be explained below.
Just let me know to pair a guest up with you. I mix up the
pairings so you can get to know everyone.
You
will get an e-mail from me each week telling you that I
have posted the tee times. I pair us up and send the pairings
to the clubhouse on Sunday. Email me on Saturday before
high noon, if you want to play and did not sign the clipboard
the previous Tuesday. I send out the first rough draft of
pairings to our ladies on Sat. This will remind you if you
remembered to sign up for Tuesday. If you are not on the
list, just drop me an email and I will add you at: nancylynellis@gmail.com
. or you can text
me 480-695-1504. Remember that the time given is your tee
off time so give yourself plenty of time to pay and get
set up to play. Get there at least :30 minutes before the
tee time because we all tee off at the same time. We tee
off every Tuesday, all year around. We encourage all member
to post their scores with the app
GHIN. You should
always post your scores on the same day that you play. You
will receive an official GHIN number when you join us. Our
Kokopelli forward tees are silver. Ask me about posting
and I will explain it to you.
In
Nov. thru April, many just show up at 8:00 (or earlier to
hit balls on the range) and tee off at 8:30 together and
the club has our names on the golf carts, we all gather
and chit chat or hit practice balls before teeing off. I
pair everyone up each and every week rotating everyone around
so they can meet and greet new golfers. They give us lunch
free so we all stick around after we play and eat together.
There is a different buffet each week and it is always delicious
and it is free. We have 2 groups at hole one (1A, 1B) and
then they send us back to 18, 17, and 16 if needed (with
2 groups each, A and B) so we can all finish at about the
same time. Our food and drink is ready when we come in so
there is no waiting for any orders to eat lunch. During
the summer time (May, June, July, and August), we tee off
at 7:00. During the official season, which runs from September
thru April, we tee off at 8:30 all together in a shotgun.
We
stay open all year around and those exact play of the days
are located at the play of the day page when you go to our
webpage.
You can click on the links on the left side of the page
and see all the things we have posted.
Prices
we pay for playing golf are listed on the tee times page
also, just scroll down. Also posted on our homepage.
The
prices include: lunch and it is a great buffet and a salad,
range balls, tax, $3 prize money for play of the day, and
a 20% discount in the Pro Shop. The membership fee to join
our ladies league is $75 of which $40 goes to the AGA (you
receive a $5 discount for online registration) for that
membership and gives you a GHIN number and an official handicap;
$8 goes to the CAGD membership; a bag Tag, and $1 goes into
the hole in one fund and a fantastic free lunch. You will
officially join online in October and I will send out instructions
to everyone how to do this during the first week in October.
If you already belong to another club then the AGA only
charges you $15 and not $40 and the $35 to our club so it
is $50 and not $75 if you already belong to another club
and have a GHIN number. Actually I have the online registration
at the end of this welcome letter.
Play
of the day and proxy events are only available for members.
The 29 putt club is only available for members from September
thru April but open to anyone in the summertime. The 50-50
is open to anyone all the time.
Prices
are for 2025 Jan, Feb., & March for $59
April
for $50
May for $39
June thru September for
$30
October for $37
November for $47 and December
for $50. These prices may change every January 1st.
Our
members also participate in a match play league for our
better golfers: Click on Match Play on the left side of
the page. If you are interested in playing different courses
against new and different ladies in a match play team format
each month, Nov. thru March, this is your chance. As of
now we have 4 teams: Golden Hills, Apache Creek, Queen Valley,
and us-Kokopelli. Sally Christensen is in charge of the
match play league. The top 8 best players are where we start
and then we ask others if they cannot make it.
If
you did not golf the week before then please shoot me an
email or text Friday or Saturday to add you to the next
week. Sign up to play by high noon on Saturday and then
I send out the pairings Saturday afternoon to all of our
ladies. I like to send the Kokopelli office our official
line up on Sunday. During lunch, we just sign the clipboard
at our table to play the following week. The clipboard has
all the dates behind the front page and some gals just sign
up for a couple of week out if they know they are going
to be out of town.
For
MEMBERS, the first Tuesday of each month, your prize money
(from winning play of the days) will be on gift cards found
on our table. This club allows you to use that money for
green fees so pick up your gift card before you pay. Again,
this only applies to our members and not our guests. You
do not receive your winning money each week but only on
the first Tuesday of each month. I send out an email as
to who the winners are each week and how much everyone won.
Each time you play, $3 of your money goes into our account
for the winners; we give winnings for 3 places in 2 to 3
flights. If you are not there on that first Tuesday when
I pass out the gift cards, I will save it for you. The winnings
are good for a year.
If
you want to join us in golf, just send me a text or an email
to play the next Tuesday or whatever Tuesday you are free.
You
are welcome to come and play all year around as a guest
whether you officially join us or not. You may also bring
guests as often as you want also. We are a ladies league
so no male guests. If you are not a member, then you may
NOT participate in the play of the day, the proxy event,
or the 29 putt club during our official season but we love
to have you play with us as often as possible. During the
summertime, we open up the 29 putt money to anyone. We have
a 50-50 money pot each and every week and this is open to
anyone, guests or members all year around. We give out 50%
of the money collected that day to someone, $5 for 8 tickets.
The winner comes away with around $20-$60 give or take a
little depending on how many buy tickets. Hole in one money
(right now $50) is only available to members and members
also get $10 for Eagles on any league day (Tuesday) when
playing with us. Our hole in one money goes up $50 every
January. Once someone gets a hole in one we start over again
at $50.
When
you first come in you will see the ladies putting their
name on the 29 putt club envelope and they also put $1 in
that envelope. If you get 29 putts (for 18 holes) or fewer
on that day, you will earn a share of the final pot. If
no-one has 29 putts on any given Tuesday during our season,
the pot grows and your shares are worth more money. Yippee.
This is available only to members until the end of April.
During the summer months anyone can play in the 29 putt
club so even if you are not a member, please participate
in our 29 putt club money. In the summer time, the lowest
putts win the money or share in the profits if there is
a tie. Anyway, we have our final party on the last Tuesday
of April and we pass out this 29 putt club money and other
awards. So many of our golfers leave to go back home in
May but we will still keep playing. In May and during the
summer months, the 29 putt club money is passed out on the
same day to the lowest putter and shared by anyone who has
29 OR LESS or the lowest number of putts for the day. We
do not carry it over in the summer months. A fun thing that
we do. Again, in the summer months, guests may participate
in the 29 putt club. Our proxy events stop at the end of
April when our official seasons ends.
We
also have a 50-50 drawing each week. 8 tickets for $5.00.
50% of the money goes to someone every Tuesday. And this
keeps our proxy event at $10 each week (2 flights) and our
hole in one fund is always at least $50. It goes up $50
on January 1st each year.
My
e-mail is: nancylynellis@gmail.com
. and my cell is
480-695-1504.
You MUST TEXT me if you have signed up to play and cannot
make it as you wake up sick. Do not call the clubhouse,
text me.
I
think you will love our little group. Please feel free to
ask any question or concerns and I hope you will enjoy our
league.
When you officially join us, you will get a GHIN number
and get an official handicap and be eligible to play in
AGA and CAGD tournaments. If you already have a GHIN from
another state or country, you will use that GHIN #.
WELCOME
---- just email me when you want to play with us and I will
put you on our schedule.
Also
when you join us as an official member, I will show you
how to post your scores on the USGA GHIN app that you will
add to your phone.
PLEASE
EMAIL ME BEFORE SATURDAY HIGH NOON before the Tuesday that
you want to join us so you are on the tee time sheet I send
out on Saturday. You will notice that I repeat myself several
times in this welcome letter and this is because I taught
high school for 40 years and my students only picked things
up when I repeated them many many times. ?????? :):):)
Most
everyone signs the clipboard on Tuesday, during lunch, for
the following Tuesday. The clipboard has several months
on it so you can always sign up ahead of time.
I
do the pairings but if you wish to play with someone, link
the two to four names together on the clipboard sign up
sheet so that I will know when I do the pairings. You will
be playing with everyone eventually but you might want to
play with someone you have not played in a while.
My
job is to shuffle everyone around and let you play with
everyone. You can ask to play with someone you have not
played with in a while by connecting your names on the sign-up
sheet.
For
Members, we do Ringers (during our official season) and
please ask me about that once you have joined. Only members
are involved in this event. We only do Ringers from September
thru April. A ringer notebook is where you circle your best
score on each hole each and every week and at the end of
the season, we total up all your best scores on each hole
and give you a score. We give awards in 3 flights from the
ringer notebook. Shalayne Green does this on her computer
as I text her all the scorecards and you do not have to
log into a notebook anymore.
Well
you now know more than you ever thought of asking and we
hope to see you playing at Kokopelli soon. I save my pups
from hole 11 and thus their names: Koko & Pelli
Online
registration at: membership
Kokopelli Link
The
AZ Golf association always sends me an email when someone
joins our club so if you join, I will know it and I will
add you to our roster and all events.