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Cape golf team finishes matches with winning record
By Fritz Schranck - May 18The Cape Henlopen High School Vikings golf team won three of its last four matches, assuring the squad of a winning season record for 2012.After ...
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Vikings golf team reaches .500 for the season
By Fritz Schrank - May 11The Cape Henlopen High School Vikings golf team managed to reach the .500 mark for the 2012 season, with only a few matches left to go. The ...
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Cape golfers bounce back with victory
By Fritz Schranck - May 04This year’s Cape Henlopen High School Vikings golf team has experienced the occasional stumble in their conference matches. Nonetheless, an April ...
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Vikings golfers can’t quite compete against Sussex Tech
By Fritz Schrank - Apr 27The Cape Henlopen High School Vikings golf team lost its April 18 match 172-198 against a strong Sussex Tech squad in damp and cool conditions at ...
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Annual YMCA tournament coming soon
By Fritz Schranck - Apr 20Some folks really know how to take a hint. In last week’s column, I discussed two upcoming Cape Region charity golf tournaments. I also mentioned ...
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Spring charity golf tournament schedule filling up
By Fritz Schranck - Apr 13It is spring, and a young man’s fancy lightly turns to love. It is also spring in the Cape Region, when a tournament committee’s fancy turns to ...
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Cape golf team goes 2-1 before spring break
By Fritz Schranck - Apr 06The Cape Henlopen Vikings golf team followed up its opening-day victory over Woodbridge High School with another win, but then stumbled as spring ...
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Cape golf team wins first match of the season
By Fritz Schranck - Mar 30The Cape Henlopen High School Vikings golf team won its first match of the 2012 season March 27, with a 162-213 victory over host Woodbridge High ...
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They figured out the new name and are taking it from there
By Fritz Schranck - Mar 23The folks at The Rookery Golf Course near Milton have been spending a lot of time at their new place, and it shows. They recently settled on the ...
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Cape golf team coming together for 2012 season
By Fritz Schranck - Mar 16As the Cape Henlopen High School golf team continues its spring practice, the likely varsity players are beginning to make themselves known. Noneth...
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Cape Henlopen golf team readies for 2012 season
By Fritz Schranck - Mar 09March 1 is the traditional starting date for high school spring sports in Delaware. A large crowd of Cape Henlopen kids showed up that day at ...
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Golf etiquette and other short subjects
By Fritz Schranck - Mar 02Bill Maxwell, a longtime golfing buddy of mine, happens to be a CPA in real life. He recently took a break from his massive pile of tax returns to ...
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The Rookery II?
By Fritz Schranck - Feb 24Chris Adkins isn’t yet sure what they’ll name it, but at least the owners of The Rookery Golf Course near Milton now have a second golf layout ...
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USGA’s membership and marketing campaigns are fully modernized
By Fritz Schranck - Feb 17It’s just amazing what a $100 membership in the United States Golf Association brings you these days. I have been an Eagle-level member of the ...
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How brown is my turf - at least in the off-season
By Fritz Schranck - Feb 10I took advantage of a slight uptick in the winter weather recently and played nine holes on the brown stuff at Shawnee Country Club. That color ...
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A step or two beyond the normal winter golf rules
By Fritz Schranck - Feb 03The Cape Region has enjoyed some unseasonably pleasant weather in recent weeks, and I am sure that dozens of local golfers have taken advantage of ...
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When to putt on frost asks the wrong question
By Fritz Schranck - Jan 27A recent Ruling of the Day at the United States Golf Association website missed an opportunity to remind golfers of a basic requirement of golf ...
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Shawnee Country Club shareholders vote to go public
By Fritz Schranck - Jan 20The shareholders at Shawnee Country Club, including many Cape Region residents, voted Jan. 12 to convert from a private club to a fully public ...
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USGA adds instructional feature to its website
By Fritz Schranck - Jan 18The United States Golf Association added a new video clip feature to its popular website for 2012. Based on the first example, the addition looks ...
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Taking off for golf now has a whole new meaning
By Fritz Schrank - Jan 06With gale-force winds now hitting the Cape Region in earnest, many local golfers have put up their clubs for a while. Most of those folks have ...
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Cape Region Golf Year in Review
By Fritz Schrank - Dec 30This week marks the end of this column’s 13th year. 2011 was a busy and eventful 12 months in Cape Region golf. January - A steady onslaught of ...
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Christmas carol parodies
By Fritz Schranck - Dec 23Best wishes for the holiday season to you and yours! Here are some Christmas carol parodies for golfers. Versions of these song spoofs funfests ...
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Christmas golf gifts with one week to go
By Fritz Schranck - Dec 16The continuing recession reduced the Christmas golf gift options for Cape Region golfers a bit, with the closure of the Tee II Green golf store ...
Just when you thought golf gifts couldn’t be more wretched
By Fritz Schranck - Dec 09Dear Santa, Maybe it’s the lingering recession this year, but it seems that the folks offering Christmas gift items for golf lovers are more ...
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The balls are in our courts
By Fritz Schranck - Dec 02Dec. 7 marks the 224th anniversary of the First State. There’s an old political joke that says that while Delaware was admittedly the first to ...
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It’s usually not the piano, it’s the player
By Fritz Schranck - Nov 30When you have a chance while out on the golf course, take a look at the clubs in your playing competitors’ golf bags. This is especially helpful ...
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Ain’t had enough fun
By Fritz Schranck - Nov 18Longtime readers of this column may recall that for a two-year stretch near the turn of the century, I served as the club president at Shawnee ...
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Van Sant Memorial Scholarship event boosts junior golf
By Fritz Schrank - Nov 11Dozens of golfers played in the Battle of the Bell Tournament November 5, benefiting the Steve Van Sant Memorial Scholarship fund, at Shawnee ...
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More discussion of the revised Rules of Golf for 2012
By Fritz Schranck - Nov 04As noted in last week’s column, the United States Golf Association and Great Britain’s R & A recently published revisions to their common Rules of ...
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New edition of the Rules of Golf eases up a bit
By Fritz Schranck - Oct 28The United States Golf Association and Great Britain’s R & A announced this week a new set of revisions to their common Rules of Golf, the 34-rule ...
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If you're willing to embarrass yourself, you can go far in golf
By Fritz Schranck - Oct 21(Note to readers: my schedule this week didn’t give me time to write a new column, so I thought you might enjoy one that some folks still fondly ...
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ALS Fundraiser tournament set for Baywood Greens Oct. 28
By Fritz Schrank - Oct 14Mark Coty is the general manager of Baywood Greens, the exclusively public golf course near Millsboro. He’s also a friend of Iron Mike DeStasio of ...
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Competitive season ending for local clubs
By Fritz Schrank - Oct 07The season for competitive tournaments at Cape Region golf clubs is coming to a close as fall settles in. The Kings Creek Ladies 9-holer group ...
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Lightships, battleships, pole dancers and golf
By Fritz Schranck - Sep 30Chuck Patalive is one of those folks whose volunteer activities add so much to the Cape Region’s reputation as a great place to live. I first ...
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Tee It Forward won’t help a wayward swing
By Fritz Schrank - Sep 23This summer, the United States Golf Association and the Professional Golfers Association encouraged golfers to play their regular rounds on a ...
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More charity golf options
By Fritz Schrank - Sep 16The Village Improvement Association is holding its 13th Annual Charity Golf Tournament Monday, Sept. 19, at The Peninsula, near Millsboro. The ...
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One ball to rule them all
By Fritz Schrank - Sep 09We all need to change sometimes, but knowing how and when to do so can make all the difference. Consider the humble golf ball. Most golfers ...
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Patriot Golf Day back again for another charitable round
By Fritz Schranck - Sep 02The Labor Day weekend is developing a rewarding new reputation as the chosen time frame for another kind of celebration, in addition to honoring ...
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Did the Earth move for you, too?
By Fritz Schranck - Aug 26Unfortunately, I was not in Martha’s Vineyard about to start a round of golf with President Obama when the Aug. 23 earthquake hit the Mid-Atlantic ...
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Fall charity golf events in Cape Region now open
By Fritz Schranck - Aug 20Cape Region golf courses are favorites for the local charities in the spring and especially in late summer and early fall. For many locals, ...
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Cape Region loses a real gem
By Fritz Schranck - Aug 13Tom Derrick was not the finest golfer I have ever met, but he certainly was among the finest gentlemen I have known. The longtime CEO of the ...
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Cape Region golfers represented in Delaware Open
By Fritz Schranck - Aug 05The Delaware State Golf Association’s Delaware Open golf tournament took place Aug. 1-2 at Kings Creek Country Club. Justin Martinson of ...
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Despite the heat, Cape Region club players press on
By Fritz Schranck - Jul 30Mad dogs and Englishmen are not the only ones that go out in the midday sun. Dozens of Cape Region club golfers hit the links during the recent ...
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A spot of trouble
By Fritz Schranck - Jul 22Although many golfers enjoy an occasional round with a bit of wind and rain to test their skills, most of the game’s players are predominantly ...
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Tournament honors a classic Cape Region golfer
By Fritz Schranck - Jul 16The Cape Region has a great reputation as a welcoming environment for all kinds of folks. Retirees from the surrounding states in the Mid-Atlantic ...
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Hot enough for you?
By Fritz Schranck - Jul 09The recent heat wave in the Cape Region presents a risk of injury or illness for those choosing to play golf. These risks can be managed with some ...
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Holes in one and other notables
By Fritz Schranck - Jul 02World Golf Hall of Famer Gary Player is often cited as the originator of the phrase, “The more I practice, the luckier I get.” Claudio Smarrelli,...
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New Golf Magazine book pounds on putting
By Fritz Schranck - Jun 25From what I saw during this year’s U.S. Open, it doesn’t look like Rory McIlroy needs any new putting lessons. Then again, with so many of his ...
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A lesson or two from this year’s Junior Open
By Fritz Schranck - Jun 18Adam Chandler was not a happy junior golfer when he approached the scorer’s table at this year’s Rehoboth Beach Junior Open. As he explained to ...
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Devin Medd earns top DSGA Scholarship award
By Fritz Schranck - Jun 11Devin Medd’s schoolwork interfered with his playing in the state high school golf championship, but it paid off for him in other ways. As ...
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Testing schedule doesn’t help Cape in state tournament
By Fritz Schranck - Jun 04Schedules are funny things. Sometimes you just have to keep to them and see what happens as a result. Senior Devin Medd earned First Team ...
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More fun from the correct tees
By Fritz Schranck - May 30The blue tees at Shawnee Country Club stretch out to just under 6,400 yards for the par-70 18-hole course. You won’t find me there. I once ...
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Cape goes 3-1 in matches
By Fritz Schranck - May 23The Cape Henlopen High School golf team posted a 3-1 record in the Vikings’ most recent outings, leading to a 10-4 record for the season thus ...
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Henlopen Conference loses longtime golf coach
By Fritz Schranck - May 16The Henlopen Conference lost one of its longest-serving golf coaches May 8, when Steve Vansant passed away at the Delaware Hospice Center in ...
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Cape squeaks by Delmar, then splits tri-match
By Fritz Schranck - May 09The Cape Henlopen High School Vikings golf team added a pair of victories to its 2011 record while dropping a very close match to Dover High ...
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Cape loses to conference rival Caesar Rodney
By Fritz Schranck - May 02For the dozen or so years of this column’s existence, the Riders of Caesar Rodney High School have been the premier Henlopen Conference rivals for ...
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Cape golf team earns split against Tech, Laurel
By Fritz Schranck - Apr 25Cape Henlopen High School golf coach Dave Inglis felt his Vikings handled themselves fairly well during their recent matches against Sussex Tech ...
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Cape golf scores another win
By Fritz Schrank - Apr 18The Cape Henlopen High School varsity golf team won another away match April 6, defeating Polytech High School’s Ravens 184-208 at Jonathan’s ...
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Pinehurst course delights golfers in full bloom
By Fritz Schranck - Apr 11When 50 or so golf writers descend upon a golf course for a friendly three-day competition, the urge to come up with a new phrase or two can ...
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Cape golf team wins matches, goes 3-0 on season
Apr 04The Cape Henlopen High School golf team picked up right where the Vikings left off with their first-match March 22 victory over Smyrna, earning ...
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Cape golf team wins first match
Mar 28The Cape Henlopen High School golf team won what turned out to be a relatively easy first match of the 2011 season over the Smyrna High Eagles, ...
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Time to shape up for the new spring golf season
Mar 21Preparing for this year’s new golf season will be a little harder than usual, and I prefer to blame it on the weather. Unlike prior Cape Region ...
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New Cape golf coach looking forward to season
Mar 17There are a lot of similarities between ice hockey and golf, and the new coach of the Cape Henlopen High School golf team is particularly well ...
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Preparing for golf and tax season, and more Oscar fun
Mar 10Cape Region golfers are finally in a position to finish and file their federal income tax returns, especially for those seeking a refund of ...
“Golf Without Fear?” Where’s the fun in that?
Feb 25I love playing the golf course at Shawnee Country Club, but sometimes the golf course doesn’t love me. One of my most daunting challenges at the ...
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LPGA veteran pens fond Hogan memoir
Feb 18Among all of the biographies, sports stories and columns written about the famous Ben Hogan, one of his personality traits stood out.This was not ...
