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"we bring youth to the game"

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January 2011 Schedule.

We will continue to meet on Tuesday's at Golden Era from 2:00 pm until dark - January 4, 11, 18 and 25.

On Saturday's we will meet at Soboba from 2:00 pm until dark - January 8, 15, 22 and 29.

On January 8, 2011 Grandfathers For Golf will have open play at Golden Era starting at 7:00 am - Youth on Course players no charge - adults 30 dollars for 18 holes including Golf cart - if you plan to play please make Tee Times with Tony Viola at 909 754 4148 - proceeds will help fund Junior Golf Tournaments.

Schedule Update Nov 24
Because of the shorter days the fall schedule has been changed and will remain in affect through March 2011, we will use Soboba and Golden Era on Tuesdays, from after school until dark, approximately from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm. Thursday schedule has been moved, Soboba has agreed to let G4Golf use the course for instruction and on course play on Saturdays from 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm . Special note on course play will be limited to 12 to 15 players depending on availably - no limit to the driving range and chipping area.

November schedule Tuesday 11/16/2010 at Soboba / Saturday 11/20/2010 Soboba - Tuesday 11/23/20
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PGA Player Brendan Steele with "GfG" Instuctors Tony Viola and Danny Crosser @ Goose Creek Golf Club . Brendan hosted the "Golfor a Cure" Fundraising Tournament
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New Schedulele
Beginners
Tues and Thurs 3 pm @ Golden Era Golf Course Starting Tues. Nov. 30 then Thurs Dec. 2nd

    Rest of Dec then 7,9 14, 16
    Jan 4,6,11, 13, 18, 20, 25, 27
    Feb. 1, 3, 8,10, 15, 17

Inremediate
Every Thursday 3pm   Soboba Springs Country Club

Advanced
Every Tuesday 3pm Golden Era Golf Club

They are The Steeleheads.
See Story HERE

10:00 PM PDT on Friday, July 9, 2010

By BOB PRATTE
The Press-Enterprise
Kids and volunteers in the Grandfathers for Golf organization have a new name.

The name was coined by organization president Tony Viola in honor of 27-year-old Brendan Steele, the pro golfer from Idyllwild who was a star competitor at Hemet High and UC Riverside. He presently is swinging on the Nationwide Tour, which is the professional tournament series one step away from the big-time PGA events.

Story continues below

2009 / Special to The Press-Enterprise
Brendan Steele, of Idyllwild, reads the green at last year's Soboba Classic at the Country Club at Soboba Springs.
His $36,908 in winnings this year ranks 68th on the Nationwide money-winning list going into this week's Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic in Ontario, Canada. He made the tourney's cut Friday with competition continuing today and Sunday.

He definitely will have a big gallery on hand when at the Soboba Golf Classic, which begins Sept. 30 at the Country Club at Soboba Springs. The Grandfathers printed 200 Steelehead shirts that will be handed to kids participating in a junior golf clinic that will be led by Nationwide pros, hopefully including Steele, on Sept. 28.

Grandfathers for Golf is a volunteer organization that introduces kids to the sport by giving them clubs and a series of lessons. Participants proudly call themselves Steeleheads for good reason.

Steele serves on the organization's board of directors and conducts clinics for the kids when he's not on the Nationwide Tour, which is a season-long qualifying series for the PGA Tour.

As a kid, he and his father, Kent Steele, donated his clubs to the Grandfathers program as he grew out of them.

Viola said that kids and the volunteers who teach eagerly follow Steele's progress on the Internet and television. They cheer his success. They make use of his trying rounds as examples for the kids. "Kids learn that you have to contain yourself and if you have a bad day, you have to let it go," he said.

Viola, ever The Steelehead, is certain that Steele has lots of good days ahead of him and will play his way onto the PGA Tour.

It will be fun to watch The Steelheads cheer on their buddy from in the gallery at the Soboba Classic.

GfG Board member and PGA Nationwide Tour Player Brendan Steele has done it again. After a brilliant 66 on Saturday at the "Mexico Open Bicentenary" he has moved up the scoreboard 41 spots. Just 5 strokes behind the leader.

All of us Brendan Steele fans here at GfG along with all of you will from this point forward will be known as the : "STEELEHEADS". You can follow Brendan in real time on-line atwww.pga/nationwidetour.com .

Lets all get together and root for our favorite son.

Tony Viola- President

PLEASE SUPPORT THE KIDS
Grandfathers for Golf
Marty Finn Memorial
Tournament

4 Ball Scramble
Soboba Springs Country Club

June 21, 2010 – 12:00 P.M. SHOTGUN START
REGISTRATION AND CONTESTS START AT 9:30 A.M.
Entry fee of

$65 per player, includes a light lunch, Dinner following play, Great
Door Prizes. Hole-In-One, Closest to the Pin, Closest to the Line, and a Putting
Contest.
No handicap required.
ALL PROCEEDS GO TO OUR VALLEY YOUTH GOLF PROGRAMS TARGETING
MIDDLE SCHOOL AGED STUDENTS FROM LOCAL SAN JACINTO AND HEMET
SCHOOLS

ESPECIALLY AT RISK KIDS). YOUNGSTERS ARE INTRODUCED TO
THE GAME OF GOLF AND TAUGHT THE ETIQUETTE, RESPECT AND
SPORTSMANSHIP THE GAME REQUIRES. THE PROGRAM IS OPERATED BY
UNPAID VOLUNTEERS ONLY. call

1-909-659-6707
Leave a message and your call will be returned.

Tournament
Registration
On Line HERE

Grandfathers For Golf
"we bring youth to the game"

Wanna Join?
Apply Here

(909) 754-4148
grandfathersforgolf@yahoo.com

Our mission is -
"to attract young people to the game of golf, provide opportunities to enhance their skills in the game, and promote their continued interest and involvement. "
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Announcement: Formation of a new Mens Club on Thursdays Mornings it will be called
"Golden Era Mens Club" 2 flights 1 for 9 holes 1 for 18 holes
Cost: $20.00 for 18 holes $15.00 for 9 holes. $5.00 of which will go to prizes!
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Singular Sunday changes Steele's career Click Here

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Soboba Steelehead School
Press Enterprise
Soboba Classic organizers want kids at their Junior Golf Clinic before this week's Nationwide tourney. Tony Viola will deliver.
Viola, who heads nonprofit Grandfathers for Golf, plans to show up with as many as 200 kids for the free clinic, which will feature instruction from Nationwide pros at the Country Club at Soboba Springs in San Jacinto on Tuesday from 4 to 5:30 p.m.
Tournament play is Thursday through Sunday.
The Nationwide tour is one step from the big-time PGA tour. Golfers will swing for $1 million in prize money on the course owned by the Soboba band of Luiseño Indians. Top 25 money winners over the Nationwide season step up to the PGA tour next year.
The first 200 kids who arrive at the clinic will receive free T-shirts. Free pizza will be served after the event.
Grandfathers for Golf, which is helping present the clinic, provides free lessons and equipment for kids. Viola asks kids to leave their clubs at home.
The Grandfathers golf will have clubs on hand to use.
Nationwide pro Brendan Steele, who grew up in Idyllwild and was a standout golfer at Hemet High and UC Riverside, will star at the clinic. Steele is on the Grandfather's board of directors. Kids in the program will wear Steelehead T-shirts to cheer him on at the tournament.
Steele finished ninth last weekend in Boise and ranked 35th going into this weekend's tourney in Texas. With the big purse and chance to play on his high school course, Viola hopes Steele's Soboba Classic performance will move him into the top 25.
"This is his home course," Viola said.
"With one shot, he could launch his PGA career big time."
Reach Bob Pratte at 951-763-3452, bpratte@PE.com or 474 W. Esplanade Ave., San Jacinto, CA 92583.

"GfG" co-sponsoring of the Soboba Classics's Jr Clinic was a tremendous success. In attendance were over 270 kids. The PGA provided 11 Pro's to work with the kids.

The kids were not only treated to expert golf instruction but each child received a complementary souvenir shirt, snow cone, cotton candy, pizza, beverage along with several kid oriented activities (Kids Tattoos, Games of skill and chance, Mtn Climbing wall, giant slide and a tunnel exploration ride)

The "Kid's Corner" will be open to the public the entire 4 days of the Soboba Classic Tournament.

Tony Viola

YOUTH PROGRAMS

Golf is a perfect activity for youth of all ages. It provides whole-body exercise and muscle development, it promotes a spirit of friendly competition, and the sport relies on total honesty and courtesy. Overall, golf is an environment in which young players develop values that will lead to an outstanding adulthood. Grandfathers For Golf (GFG) works to develop strategic programs that introduce juniors to the game. These programs provide the young participants with the foundation for a lifetime of enjoyment on the links, and the industry benefits by ensuring that the next generation will continue to expand upon the golf traditions of the past. Careful research has revealed that junior golf programs have a remarkable rate of success in terms of generating adult players. Only 30 percent of young people who are introduced to the game outside of a structured program continue playing in adulthood. But 60 percent of participants in a structured program will become active adult players.
GFG offers 2 levels of instruction:
GFG School is for beginners

Youth on Course is for players who have completed GFG School and/or can demonstrate a skill level to play on the course independently.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY

GRANDFATHERS FOR GOLF

Golden Era Golf Course together with "GfG" is pleased to announce the formation of :

                                  Golden Era/GfG Mens Club
                                     Every Thursday AM
                                  2 Flights  18 Hole and 9 Hole
                    $25.00/$15.00 includes,Golf w/cart , Coffee,Doughnuts
                                        AND FREE LUNCH !!!!!!!!!!

Call Tony @ 909-754-4148    All proceeds go to "GfG"

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Support Grandfathers for Golf...
PLAY
GOLDEN ERA GOLF COURSE

APRIL: $20 for 18 holes
~ Open to the public ~

CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS!

Grandfathers For Golf "we bring youth to the game"

Wanna Join?Apply Here

(909) 754-4148 grandfathersforgolf@yahoo.com

Grandfathers For Golf
"we bring youth to the game"

Wanna Join?
Apply Here

(909) 754-4148
grandfathersforgolf@yahoo.com