Head Golf Professional Greg Yeomans captured the 2011 Cape Cod PGA Wessner Player of the Year title for a third time.  Greg finished in first place well ahead of second place finisher Tom Tobey, Bay Pointe Country Club Head Professional.  The Herman “Dutch” Wessner Award is presented annually to the Class “A” PGA professional who accumulates the most points based on individual performance in Chapter events.  Greg earned two first place and three second place finishes in chapter events this season and has won the Wessner award consecutively since 2009.

Outstanding job Greg!

The Bay Club at Mattapoisett is conducting a series of interactive workshops this spring and summer focusing on developing the golfer’s mindset for optimal performance.  These sessions will be led by Dr. Adam H. Naylor,  a sport psychologist from Boston University, who has worked with professional and amateur athletes from many arenas.

Dr. Naylor will be providing mental coaching in a variety of forums throughout the season. Each session will be conducted either on the course, range or short game area.  In one workshop, The Body->Mind Connection participants will meet at the Driving Range and explore how the body’s responds to stress and how this influences good swings and putts. Each golfer will learn about his/her optimal energy levels for solid swings. Another workshop being held at the Driving Range is Routine Reconstruction. The pre-shot routine is the anchor that keeps one’s game steady throughout the course of a round. Too often routines are built without purpose, being filled with superstitions and random actions. This workshop will highlight the value of having a consistent and purposeful pre-shot routine.

The Bay Club at Mattapoisett is a country club with an eighteen hole championship level golf course and residential property located in Southeastern MA.   To arrange a private tour please contact Dave Andrews via e-mail or phone, 508-758-9543.

The Bay Club is holding a special Dinner and a Movie night at the Golf House restaurant in celebration of our most accomplished member, Peter Uihlein.  In rather convincing fashion Peter won the 110th United States Amateur Championship at Chambers Bay this past summer on his 21st birthday. As a result of his victory, Peter received a coveted invite to the 2011 Masters!

Members will gather to watch his U.S. Amateur victory as they prepare to chair him on at the Masters Tournament in Augusta on August 7 – 10.   Chef Mercer and his team will prepare a buffet dinner to be served prior to the viewing of the final round.

Peter was recently featured in Golf Magazine. To view the full article, please click here.

The Bay Club at Mattapoisett is a country club with an eighteen hole championship level golf course and residential property located in Southeastern MA.   To arrange a private tour please contact Dave Andrews via e-mail or phone, 508-758-9543.

Dave Maloney, Fitness Director, Bay Club at Mattapoisett offers this months golf exercise of the month, “Spine Angle Turns”.

One of the most common swing faults shared by inconsistent golfers is coming out of your spine angle or loss of posture.

1) Place one of the padded bars behind your upper back so it is crossing your shoulder blades.

2) Now maintain your spine angle while you are turning into your backswing.

If you are coming out of your posture, the padded bar will be almost parallel to the ground at the top of your backswing.

The Bay Club at Mattapoisett is a country club with an eighteen hole championship level golf course and residential property located in Southeastern MA.   To arrange a private tour please contact Dave Andrews via e-mail or phone, 508-758-9543.

The Bay Club at Mattapoisett recently re-opened its Winter Indoor Practice Center.  This facility allows members to practice with a P3Pro Swing Desktop Simulator, three independent hitting stations, a 40 x 20 putting carpet and multiple swing training aids.

Head Golf Professional Greg Yeomans takes advantage of the indoor practice facility to provide complimentary clinics for Bay Club members.  Greg works with members offering instruction which includes swing tips, winter practice strategies and skill contests.  The facility is open to members 7 days a week until the golf course opens in April.

The Bay Club at Mattapoisett is a country club with an eighteen hole championship level golf course and residential property located in Southeastern MA.   To arrange a private tour please contact Dave Andrews via e-mailor phone, 508-758-9543.

For the second year in a row, Bay Club Head Golf Professional, Greg Yeomans captured the Cape Cod Chapter of the New England PGA’s Wessner Player of the Year Award! Earning points for his performance in Cape Cod Chapter events played throughout the year, Greg surpassed the second place finisher by 65 points.

Highlights of the season included winning both Cape Cod Chapter Majors – the Chapter Championship played at New Seabury and, for the third year in a row, the Chapter Match Play played at the Golf Club of Cape Cod.   Contributing to the overall results were several  Pro-Am team events, of which Bay Club members were able to join Greg as he defended his title.

In addition to Greg’s performance on the course, he was recently elected Cape Cod Chapter President after previously serving as the Tournament Chair this past season.

Greg recently sat down with Goldie of   95.9 WATD’s Goldie Bounce Golf host Liza Churchill for a friendly chat about his year and the future of the NEPGA. To listen to the interview please click on the gray bar at the bottom of this post.

Congratulations Greg on a great year on the links!

The Bay Club at Mattapoisett is a country club with an eighteen hole championship level golf course and residential property located in Southeastern MA.   To arrange a private tour please contact Dave Andrews via e-mail or phone, 508-758-9543.

Bay Club of Mattapoisett Director of Fitness, Dave Maloney, works with members on their golf and fitness conditioning to improve their overall strength and lower their golf scores.  Certified by the Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) Dave offers this exercise to develop core stability and strength.

1. Set the functional trainer arm to be level with your chest height while sitting on a stability ball.

2. Lift one leg off the ground and rotate as far as possible across your body.

3. Perform 2 sets of 15 repetitions with your left leg elevated and repeat with your right leg elevated.

4. You just want enough weight, so that you feel your core is needed to stabilize you on the ball.

The Bay Club is a golf and country club community with 625 acres of wooded and gently rolling terrain, that includes 200 acres of open space and 175 home-sites in Mattapoisett along the SouthCoast of Massachusetts. To arrange a private tour please contact Dave Andrews via e-mail or phone, 508-758-9543.

While celebrating his 21st birthday, Bay Club member Peter Uihlein won the 110th U.S. Amateur 4 and 2 over David Chung Sunday afternoon .  Uihlein was leading the match play event by two after the first 18 holes on Sunday morning, and claimed the event on the 34th hole when Chung’s tee shot landed into the deep, fescue grass. This first major championship win for Peter Uihlein, considered one of the top young players in the world for many years, solidifies his Number 1 ranking in the world by the Royal & Ancient.

Uihlein’s victory coincides with the announcement by the USGA that he and David Chung (along with NCAA champion Scott Langley) will represent the U.S. in October at the 2010 U.S. World Amateur Team Championship in Buenos Aires Golf Club in Argentina.

The Bay Club at Mattapoisett is thrilled for Peter and his family.  Our sincere congratulations and best wishes for your continued success!  And Happy Birthday!

The Bay Club at Mattapoisett is a country club with an eighteen hole championship level golf course and residential property located in Southeastern MA.   To arrange a private tour please contact Dave Andrews via e-mail or phone, 508-758-9543.

The Mental Golf Workshop™ Profile is now available through Dave Maloney, Head Fitness Professional at the Bay Club.  This 37 page booklet was developed by Bobby Foster, formerly a teaching professional and golf coach at the University of South Carolina.  His coaching career included both Men’s and Women’s NCAA championships.

Bobby has spent the last fifteen years building a successful management consulting practice and is a Certified Behavioral Analyst specializing in the DISC Behavioral Style Model.    Bobby explains,  “I built the golf profile system so that golfers and golf instructors could enjoy the same benefits we’ve experienced with work related profiles. I wanted to build a profile system that would give golfers a framework for  understanding the “what’s and why’s” of their mental golf traits, and our DISC based golf profile does just that. I also wanted to provide improvement ideas tailored to each person’s individual golfing personality and ideas they could implement right away”.

The Bay Club at Mattapoisett is a country club with an eighteen hole championship level golf course and residential property located in Southeastern MA.   To arrange a private tour please contact Dave Andrews via e-mail or phone, 508-758-9543.

Bay Club Head Professional, Greg Yeomans recently shot 1 over to capture the Cape Cod Pro Am held at the Golf Club of Cape Cod in East Falmouth, MA.  Yeomans teamed up with bay Club members Ron Dias, John O’Connor and Dick Reilly finishing 13 under par to place 2nd in the Best Ball of the Foursome Net event.

The Cape Cod Chapter of the New England PGA holds a combination of Pro Am, Pro Junior and professional only tournaments from late April into early November.  This past week the Bay Club at Mattapoisett hosted a Pro – 3 Amateur with twenty-four teams competing from the South Coast area including several courses from the Cape.  Last year, Bay Club at Mattapoisett Head Professional, Greg Yeomans captured the title of 2009 Cape Cod Player of the Year.

Yeomans was recently profiled in an article in the New Bedford Standard Times talking about the Cape Cod Chapter of the New England PGA.  He is quoted as saying:

“It’s fun to be able to play in a competitive environment against some great players and bring some members along,” said the head pro at The Bay Club in Mattapoisett. “I work with a lot of our members and it gives me a measuring stick to see how I’m doing with my students. I also like to see how they respond to playing in a tournament.”

Yeoman’s foursome fared well on their home course finishing in a tie for 7^th place. Fellow Bay Club professionals, Tracy Djerf and Ryan Payne also participated with each of their teams also sharing in 7^th place.  In the individual professional competition, Yeomans finished tied for 3^rd at even par with Djerf finishing at plus one. The event was shortened to 13 holes due to lightning and darkness.  Tom Tobey from Bay Pointe earned medalist honors at 2 under par through 13 holes.

Congratulations to Peter Uihlein!

Bay Club Member Peter Uihlein captured the 17th Sahalee Players Championship on Friday, July 9 at The Home Course in DuPont, Washington.  Peter fired a final round 4-under par 68.  Shooting a tournament record 17-under par 271 to win by seven shots, he was under par in each of his four rounds this week.   For complete results, please click here.

The Bay Club at Mattapoisett is a country club with an eighteen hole championship level golf course and residential property located in Southeastern MA.   To arrange a private tour please contact Dave Andrews via e-mail or phone, 508-758-9543.

The Bay Club at Mattapoisett was featured in the June 2010 issue of Cape Cod Magazine on their commitment to “Green Life” and their continuous recognition from the National Audubon Society.

The Bay Club at Mattapoisett was ’going green’ long before the term became a constant in the national energy conversation. When construction began in 2003 on the nearly 700 acre private club featuring a championship golf course, restaurant,  fitness center, swimming pool, tennis courts, and lots for 175 homes, the club’s owners were already following guidelines established by the National Audubon Society to insure the least possible impact on the environment.

Including the managed landscape of the golf course, 93 percent of the acreage was preserved and remains green. “We followed the guidelines 100 percent,” says Jon O’Connor, Bay Club Golf Course Superintendent.”

>Follow the link to read the entire article: Bay Club Mattapoisett Audubon Society Silver Certification in Cape Cod Life Magazine 2010.

The Bay Club at Mattapoisett is a country club with an eighteen hole championship level golf course and residential property located in Southeastern MA.   To arrange a private tour please contact Dave Andrews via e-mail or phone, 508-758-9543.

Peter Uihlein continued his strong consistent play by claiming individual medalist honors in the just completed 2010 NCAA Southeast Regional.  Peter fired rounds of 68-70-68 for a four under total on the very challenging Crabapple Course of the Capital City Club in Georgia. The team score is based on the best four of five scores from each team and the Cowboys won that title by a slim two shots over Clemson.  Stay tuned as the Oklahoma State Cowboys and Peter Uihlein take a run at the NCAA Championships at the Honors Course in Tennessee from June 1 through June 6.

Read more about the tournament, or or read Peter Uihlein’s 2009 Walker Cup Success, Peter Uihlein WAGR #1 Rank previously posted on this blog.

The Bay Club at Mattapoisett is a country club with an eighteen hole championship level golf course and residential property located in Southeastern MA.   To arrange a private tour please contact Dave Andrews via e-mail or phone, 508-758-9543.

The Bay Club at Mattapoisett is once again offering members golf clinics during late Spring and early Summer.  These clinics are designed and organized by the Bay Club Professional Golf Staff to educate students in a relaxed learning environment.  The drills are designed to help members improve their game using actual scenarios encountered on the course.  The instruction provides information on the various shot options, how to select the right club for your game and how to most effectively complete the hole.  These highly effective clinics are well attended by all levels of golfers at the Bay Club at Mattapoisett.

The Bay Club at Mattapoisett is a country club with an eighteen hole championship level golf course and residential property located in Southeastern MA.   To arrange a private tour please contact Dave Andrews via e-mail or phone, 508-758-9543.