July 2003 Golf Outing Sunday

July 2003 Meeting
Sunday, July 20, 2003

Irv Otis Student Scholarship Golf Tournament

Sunday Afternoon Golf Outing

With the Detroit Chapter IIE
at Sylvan Glen Municipal Golf Course in Troy

The Irv Otis Scholarship Golf Tournament keeps getting better every year. This year we featured more prizes and even included guests from as far away as Cleveland Ohio. For a full list of prizes check out our Tournament announcement flyer - and its not to late to start to begin offering your sponsorship of holes or events for the 2004 tournament.

The weather this year was the best in the history of the tournament - we started at Sylvan Glen Golf Course in Troy Michigan with a pleasant 83 degrees at 1pm, got a brief shower on about the 14 hole, which gave the groups a nice cool-off for their final drives into the clubhouse. Some of the players are presented below.

(Top Left) The Wasniewski foursome (left to right) with Brian O'Niel, Chris Wasniewski, Jan Wasniewksi, and Stan Wasniewski

(Top Right)The Regional VP foursome with Jordan Gonsalves, Richard Hutchins, Georgette Diab, and Dr. Jayant Trewn

One of the big features this year was a Hole in One contest which gave everyone a chance for some great prizes. The Big Prize was the $10,000 on #10. No one won, but our overall champion, Brian O'Niel came within 6 ft, netting him a Senior Tournament Players hat and ball mark. We want to thank Dr. Bijay Nayak for acting as independent observer (required for our insurance policy) to oversee the $10,000 hole-in-one contest. Bijay stayed on through the back nine - coaxing our lagging teams to speed up play - and then enjoyed a cold adult beverage at the end.

Brian O'Niel observes Chris Wasniewski's shot on #10 for $10,000 hole-in-one

Brian's overall win for overall low score was actually a tie with Richard Hutchins (Richard was overwhelming votes as Rookie of the year and most fun on the golf course). Using our tie breaker rules, Brian ended up winning. A great effort by both of these newcomers to our IIE tournament.

Above Left - Overall low score winner Brian O'Niel is presented the golf bag and putter by Co-Exec VP's Dr. Jayant Trewn and Dr. Bijay Nayak

Above Right - Longest Drive winner (336 yards on #18) Chris Wasniewski receives his prize from the Exec VP's

Our special guest this year was our Regional VP - Georgette Diab. Georgette brought a dash of excitement to the outing. We greatly appreciate her making the long drive from Cleveland to have a great afternoon of fun with the Detroit Chapter. Georgette's golfing highlight was a chip in on #9 - a great way to finish off before the turn. Being the highest ranking IIE officer, it was only right for Georgette to select our random numbers from the phone book (pictured below left).

The winner of the Random Score drawing was Dr. Jayant Trewn. Above right, Jayant is presented his prize by Bijay Nayak. Of course after the serious matters of the random score drawing, Georgette relaxed with a cigar, complements of the Detroit Chapter.

As great as this year's tournament, prizes, and cameraderie was, we expect next year to be even better. Maybe we'll even have a $10,000 winner next year.

If you have recommendations, improvements, or suggestions for next year's tournament, please let us know (Contact Vito Wasniewski at vitowas@infonetics.net). We want to make next year's tournament, bigger and better for everyone to benefit. Thanks to all tournament attendees for supporting our important cause (Irv Otis Scholarship) and to our observer Bijay for ensuring fair and balanced play.

Sylvan Glen Municipal Golf Course
5725 Rochester Road, Troy, MI
Corner of Rochester Road and Square Lake Road