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Greg Ohlendorf

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Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - NEW DATE - Tuesday 2/15/11
« on: January 04, 2011, 03:02:42 PM »
Fellow Board Members,

Jack Crisham and I would like to invite you to the 2nd annual GCA Chicagoland Dinner on February 2, 2011.

Dinner will be held at the Erie Cafe, 536 W. Erie St., Chicago, as it was last year. We will plan to meet at 6 pm. The Erie Cafe is wine friendly and will allow us to bring wine for a reasonable corkage fee.

I have asked fellow board member Dan Moore to speak to the group. Dan is working on a book on the earliest courses in the US and has done extensive research on a number of courses in Chicago. He mentioned that he may talk about the influence HJ Tweedie had in the area, which was the topic of a recent GCA thread.

Please let me know if you can make it and I will post a running list of participants. Reply or PM me if you have any additional questions.

Look forward to seeing all of you in the dead of the Chicago winter!!

Best,

Greg
« Last Edit: February 02, 2011, 04:46:21 PM by Greg Ohlendorf »

Jud_T

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2011, 03:09:43 PM »
Greg-count me in.  Thanks for organizing.  I'll be along with another sampling from the wine cellar and perhaps another Tweedie as well...
Golf is a game. We play it. Somewhere along the way we took the fun out of it and charged a premium to be punished.- - Ron Sirak

PThomas

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2011, 03:32:54 PM »
thanks Greg and Jack, I'll be there...if I can help in any way pls let me know
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Rob Bice

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2011, 03:46:15 PM »
I would like to join the dinner.  Thanks for organizing.
Rob Bice
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Phil McDade

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2011, 03:48:45 PM »
Folks:

It's worth it just to see what kind of wine Tigerman will dig up for this year's dinner.

Terry Lavin

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2011, 04:12:39 PM »
I'm in.  Thanks for organizing!  I'll make sure Rick Holland attends.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.  H.L. Mencken

JR Potts

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2011, 04:23:40 PM »
I'll be there.

If anyone has any interest, I can bring a director of the Ryder Cup effort so we can discuss what's going on from a preparations standpoint - or if not, he's still good company but watch the scotch bottles.

Greg Ohlendorf

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2011, 04:30:18 PM »
Does anyone work!! You guys are great in getting back so soon. So far...

Clint Squier
Jack Crisham
Jud Tigerman + 1 (Jud, confirm with me when you know)
Paul Thomas
Rob Biice
Phil McDade
The Honorable Terry Lavin
Ryan Potts + 1 (Ryan, would love to have your Ryder Cup director. Let me know his name if he can make it)
Dan Moore
Greg Ohlendorf

Hope we get a great turnout!

Greg

Sven Nilsen

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2011, 04:35:13 PM »
Count me in, last year's event was a great intro to the Chicago GCA crowd.

Sven
"As much as we have learned about the history of golf architecture in the last ten plus years, I'm convinced we have only scratched the surface."  A GCA Poster

"There's the golf hole; play it any way you please." Donald Ross

C. Squier

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2011, 05:22:14 PM »
Would be cool to hear Dan or Ryan's friend speak.....but then again, if we don't have a golf oriented speaker we'll have to settle for Crisham lecturing on what's new in dentistry.  So yeah, let's find a golf speaker.

K. Krahenbuhl

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2011, 07:58:06 PM »
I'll send the proxy for my share of the wine drinking along with Squier and be thinking of you guys while I'm on the course.

Terry Lavin

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2011, 09:17:29 PM »
Josh Lesnik of Kemper Sports will join us and give an update on Bandon Dunes and Chambers Bay and a sneak preview of Cabot Links.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.  H.L. Mencken

J_ Crisham

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2011, 09:36:04 PM »
Terry , Thanks for lining up Josh for the 2nd- should be an enlightening evening.
                                                                            Jack

George Freeman

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2011, 09:43:14 PM »
Wouldn't miss it.  I'm in!

Greg and Jack, thanks for organizing!
Mayhugh is my hero!!

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Greg Ohlendorf

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2011, 09:45:38 PM »
We've got quite a program in the making. Our own, Dan Moore, an update on the Medinah Ryder Cup thanks to Ryan and a Bandon et al report thanks to Terry.

Appreciate all of the help and look forward to seeing everyone.

Greg

JR Potts

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #15 on: January 04, 2011, 11:06:03 PM »
My guest, Jason Kinander, has confirmed.

Looking forward to it.  Thanks for organizing.

PCCraig

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #16 on: January 05, 2011, 09:40:55 AM »
Sign me up.

Thanks for planning everything guys, looking forward to it! 
H.P.S.

Bill Seitz

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #17 on: January 05, 2011, 11:05:07 AM »
I'm pretty sure I'm available that evening if there's still room available. 

Tim Nugent

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #18 on: January 05, 2011, 12:40:52 PM »
Looks like I can make it.  Still lamenting that I'll be overseas for the Mashie :-[
Coasting is a downhill process

Greg Ohlendorf

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #19 on: January 05, 2011, 12:55:13 PM »
Guys,

I have added you all to the list. Glad you can make it.

Ryan, I've got you guy down too. Looking forward to hearing his comments 

Greg

SL_Solow

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #20 on: January 05, 2011, 01:47:44 PM »
Barring a last minute business conflict I am in.

Mark Smolens

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #21 on: January 05, 2011, 02:25:01 PM »
Cold beer, steak, and golf talk. In.

Greg Ohlendorf

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #22 on: January 05, 2011, 07:02:48 PM »
Updated list...

Clint Squier
Jack Crisham
Jud Tigerman + 1 (Jud, confirm with me when you know)
Paul Thomas
Rob Biice
Phil McDade (maybe)
The Honorable Terry Lavin
Josh Lesnik
Ryan Potts
Jason Kinander
Dan Moore
Greg Ohlendorf
Sven Nilsen
George Freeman
Pat Craig
Bill Seitz
Tim Nugent
SL Solow
Mark Smolens
Steve Salmen
Bill Gifford

Let me know if anyone else is interested.

Greg

Kevin Cahoon

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #23 on: January 06, 2011, 12:36:55 AM »
Greg and Jack,

We can talk about golf and drink wine, I can not think of a better way to spend a cold winter's evening. Sign me up.

Thanks for setting up the second edition.

Rob_Waldron

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Re: Chicago 2nd Annual GCA Dinner - February 2, 2011
« Reply #24 on: January 06, 2011, 09:59:37 AM »
Greg

If only your get together was a week earlier....
I am in Chicago for conference Jan 26-29.
I certainly would enjoy getting together for dinner with fellow GCAers that week!
Thanks

Rob