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Committees: Country Club Management Committee Country Club Management Committee 2011 Annual Report
Jay McGrail, Director of Operations, Joe Keefe, PGA Golf Professional, Chris Riley, Assistant Golf Professional and Jake Silva, Golf Course Superintendent, continue to improve the golf course, the facilities and the recreational opportunities available at South Shore Country Club ("South Shore") for the families of Hingham to use and enjoy. Again this year, we enjoyed an increase in the number of golf rounds played on our course. We believe this reflects the improving condition of the golf course, as well as the enhanced value of our golf programs. Further positive recognition came this year with requests that South Shore host several important regional amateur golf events. This past summer we hosted the highly successful Mass Golf Association 2011 MGA Public Links Championship. (Scott Congdon from Foxboro won the event with a final score of -6 for two days.) In 2012 we look forward to hosting the second round of the Southeastern Amateur as well as several other tournaments open to South Shore members and Hingham residents. We are particularly proud of improvements achieved this year in our professionally run junior and adult golf programs, our upgraded driving range and practice areas, our expanded beginner and advanced swimming lessons, continuing tennis lessons and our enhanced dining and banquet facilities. South Shore's golf course is now open for year-round golf, weather permitting. We also have three "state of the art" indoor golf simulators and operate a new golf and sports bar and restaurant ("The Tour"). This allows seasoned golfers and beginners to play golf on over 30 different and challenging golf courses, such as Pebble Beach, Spyglass and St. Andrews, or work on their game in our simulator practice range. The golf simulators enable us to offer private golf lessons year-round. The Tour offers pub food and big screen TV's to watch sporting events while using the golf simulators. The Tour is also available for leagues and parties. This past July we launched a new venture when we acquired the 10 lane candlepin bowling operation here at South Shore, "The Alley at SSCC". We then completed a renovation of the bowling facilities that included new carpeting, wall coverings, TV's and a sound system, as well as a new and expanded party room. This new venture further helps us provide quality year round fun for Hingham residents and visitors. As an example, we now have bowling and birthday party programs that customize each party based on themes chosen by the bowlers and birthday celebrants. We also continue to grow our league business, with several new leagues commencing last fall. Raffael's, the operator of the Greenside Grill, The Tour and event and banquet facilities at South Shore, had a banner year, including the first musical events in our brand new Outdoor Pavilion (the summer concert series). The Greenside Grille, open to the public for Lunch, Dinner and Sunday Brunch has customers coming in both day and night to enjoy the refurbished outdoor patio, main dining room and the piano bar. The Greenside Grill also serves as the 19th hole for golfers (and others), serving beverages and food before and after a round of golf. Our outdoor pool had its best year on record. We are proud of our relationship with the South Shore YMCA, which allows us to provide more efficient scheduling of swim lessons, swim team activities and open swim times. Improvements, such as a complete repainting and clean up of the locker rooms, the addition of a protective, permanent sunshade area and snack shop also led to continued growth of our pool membership base and increased swim team participation. Finally, we increased and enhanced our community activities and events, including: our annual Kite Day Festivities in the spring; and our new annual Halloween Hayride Extravaganza and Party in the fall. (We welcome suggestions from town residents of other activities that might increase utilization of the South Shore facilities.) These are but a few of the exciting developments occurring here at South Shore in 2011. We anticipate an even more exciting 2012 at your South Shore Country Club. Come join the fun. The Country Club Management Committee
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