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| Golf director at Abacoa club loves teaching, promoting game Posted: 20 Jul 2010 06:20 AM PDT By Jodie Wagner Palm Beach Post Staff Writer For Warren Bottke, golf and service are closely linked. The longtime director of golf at Abacoa Golf Club, Bottke works with a handful of service and charitable organizations each year, including Urban Youth Impact, Place of Hope and Youth for Christ. The Jupiter resident helps organize and conduct golf tournaments for the charities and also does promotional work. "It's something that I've always enjoyed -- giving back and playing and being around the game," he said. Bottke, 54, has been around golf for more than 40 years. "I was 11 years old and I started to caddy at a golf course in New York," he said. "The pro there befriended me, and I started to get very passionate about golf, and caddying, and people, and the business of golf. From there, the rest was history." Soon after graduating high school, the Pennsylvania native began playing golf professionally. He competed in a few tournaments before deciding to pursue a career in golf instruction. "After a couple of tournaments, I knew right then and there my passion was more inside, servicing people and teaching the game, not as much playing the game," he said. Bottke, who has two grown daughters, began working as a teaching pro and later became director of golf at Schuylkill Country Club in Orwigsburg, Pa. He followed a colleague to Hideaway Country Club in Fort Myers and then moved to Palm Beach County, where he was the director of golf at Greenview Golf Course in Wellington, Wycliffe Golf & Country Club in Lake Worth and Tradition Golf Club in Royal Palm Beach before arriving at Abacoa Golf Club in 1999. "It's been fun," Bottke, a PGA Master Professional, said of his 35-year teaching career. "I instill new programs, try to oversee some of the teaching and try to encourage other guys to do the teaching." Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Posted: 20 Jul 2010 11:58 AM PDT A golf benefit benefiting the Alexandria Volunteer Fire Department and Alexandria Firefighters Union Local 4185 will be at Hickory Sticks Golf Club in California Friday, Aug. 27. The firefighters' fundraiser is seeking $50 per hole sponsors and door prizes or a major prize for the golf benefit. The firefighters use the money to buy equipment and supplies and help the needy in the community at Christmas. To make a donation, sponsor a hole, or find out more information about playing in the golf benefit call Sandy Decker at the firehouse at 635-5991. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Golf is serious business in Shelby Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:41 AM PDT (2 of 3) For a few years, the expanded golf course made decent money. It helped that the Montana State Golf Association allocated the Men's State Mid-Amateur tournament to Marias Valley in 2003, and the Men's State Amateur two years later. "Our best year was the Mid-Am year when we probably netted between $65,000 and $70,000," said Brice Kluth, a local banker who serves as treasurer of the board of directors. "We knew when the new course opened that we wouldn't double the revenue, but we didn't think the costs would be double, either," said Kluth. "We just didn't have a real good feel for what the expenses would be. And we really never had a firm number on what our membership (total) was." A downturn in the economy affected virtually all businesses — golf included — and by 2006 the revenue picture was headed the wrong direction. The club lost about $50,000 combined in the 2006-07 seasons and nearly $100,000 in 2008. "It was just a culmination of things," said Kluth. "But we had to do something to turn things around." What the board did was turn to Western Golf Management, a small corporation whose partners are Newell, Doug Sheppard and Jim Kato. The group previously owned and operated the Beaver Creek course in Havre, and Newell also ran the Bill Roberts municipal course in Helena. Sheppard is a PGA pro who works in Shelby and Havre, and Kato is a former pro who is a CPA in Havre. Former Marias Valley pro Travis Clark told Newell and his partners that Marias Valley might be interested in a lease agreement. "At first, I said no, because I wanted to retire," said Newell. "But my other partners wanted to try it, so we made the arrangement." The Marias Valley board and WGM signed a 15-year contract that allows company to collect almost all revenue — and pay almost all bills — over the term of the deal. "There will be a kickback to the board (golf course) when we're able to take a profit," said Newell. "And they'll spend it on the golf course." Kluth said it might take 10 years before WGM turns a profit. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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