CALENDAR
• July 10-16. Take Your Daughter to the Course Week. A weeklong celebration of growing the game of golf, sponsored by the National Golf Course Owners Association.
• July 26-30. U.S. Kids Golf World Championship at Pinehurst Resort in the Village of Pinehurst, North Carolina.
• Aug. 21-27. World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio.
• Aug. 31-Sept. 4. 18th Annual Wine and Food Weekend at Pinehurst Resort in the Village of Pinehurst, North Carolina.
• Sept. 14-17. Golf & Sporting Clays Championship at The Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia.

ACURA CLUBCORP CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
• July 12-16. Business/Sports Club/Society Team Championship at Pinehurst Resort in the Village of Pinehurst, North Carolina.
• Sept. 6-10. The 20th anniversary playing of the Country Club and Resort Team Championship at Pinehurst Resort in the Village of Pinehurst, North Carolina.

CLUBCORP NEWS
• ClubCorp has reached an agreement with developer KSI Services Inc. to manage Harbor Station Golf Club, scheduled to open in 2007. The club is under construction in Dumfries, Virginia, about 40 miles south of Washington, D.C. The club will include a 35,000-square-foot clubhouse, a Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course, and a 15,000-square-foot sports club. The sports club will feature indoor and outdoor pools, yoga studio, tennis courts, cardio and circuit training, and juice bar. Casual and formal dining, a pro shop, and banquet facilities also will be available.
• ClubCorp recently donated $19,500 to the United Service Organizations (USO), a nonprofit organization that provides programs and services to the military and their families. The funds represented proceeds from the 14th annual Lobster Feast held at more than 160 clubs, which donated $3 from the cost of each meal. Since its inception in 1992, Lobster Feast has raised more than $180,000 for various charities.

RENOVATIONS
• Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California, has opened a $4 million, 17,000-square-foot spa and sports center, which includes massage and treatment rooms, a hair and nail salon, and an extensive fitness facility with Technogym equipment, including Kenesis, a new resistance weight-training system.
• The golf course at Canyon Creek Country Club in Richardson, Texas, is closed for renovations until Oct. 1. The project involves the replacement of the fairway grass and rebuilding of the greens. Other changes include concrete cart paths on six holes and new sand for bunkers.
• The Country Club Course at Stonebriar Country Club in Frisco, Texas, is slated to reopen July 1 after renovations that included restoration of the greens.

MEMBERSHIP NEWS
• Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio, is offering international memberships to anyone residing outside North America. Individual and corporate memberships with full club privileges are available. Non-resident memberships are available for those who live and work more than 50 air miles away from the club. For information, call 330.644.8441.
• A limited number of non-resident memberships at Pasadera Country Club in Monterey, California, are available to members who do not own or occupy a primary or secondary residence and/or business within 75 miles of Pasadera Country Club. The National ClubCorp Golf Membership allows non-resident individuals and families who are existing members in good standing to apply for the golf membership privilege at Pasadera. For more membership and pricing information, contact Pasadera’s membership office at 831.647.2400.

AFFILIATE NEWS
• The Celebrity Chef Tour benefiting the James Beard Foundation will “Cruise the Mediterranean” with Regent Seven Seas Cruises. The seven-day cruise, departing Aug. 19 from Monte Carlo, features David F. Holben, executive chef of Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House in Dallas.
• Members with Signature Gold benefits can call the ClubLine to receive VIP access to five Culinary Institute of America restaurants. In Hyde Park, New York: American Bounty Restaurant, Escoffier Restaurant, Ristorante Caterina de’ Medici, and St. Andrew’s Café. In Napa, California: Wine Spectator Greystone Restaurant.
• Members with Signature Gold benefits can now call the ClubLine to book reservations at four of the Lark Creek Restaurant Group restaurants in California: Lark Creek Inn (Larkspur), Lark Creek (Walnut Creek), One Market Restaurant (San Francisco), and Yankee Pier (two locations, Larkspur and San Jose).

TIGER DEFENDS TITLE
Tiger Woods will defend his title at the $7.5 million World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational slated for Aug. 21-27 at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. The Golf Channel will telecast the first two rounds, with CBS Sports broadcasting the weekend rounds.

RESORT NEWS
• Golf schools are under way at the resorts. Call the individual resort for more details.
• Members receive discounted room rates and select resort packages. For these benefits and other special packages from ClubResorts, visit www.clubline.com.

Barton Creek Resort & Spa
Austin, Texas
• Barton Creek will celebrate its 20th anniversary at a party Oct. 5. That’s also the weekend the national championship football team from the University of Texas at Austin will play the University of Oklahoma in the traditional “Texas-OU” game in Dallas.
• Enjoy the “Great Sunday Golf Escape” package at Barton Creek, with “value dates” through Sept. 3. The package includes Sunday night accommodations and breakfast Monday morning, plus two rounds of golf or a 50-minute spa service.
• Internet specials for room rates and packages are available and updated every week on the Barton Creek Web site. Visit www.bartoncreek.com.

The Homestead
Hot Springs, Virginia
• The Homestead has restored the Cascades course to the original 1923 vision of designer William S. Flynn. The bunkers have been reshaped and repositioned on this mountain course consistently ranked in the top 100 in the world.
• Summer golf, shooting, and fly-fishing packages are available with a variety of amenities. Call the resort for details.

Pinehurst Resort
Village of Pinehurst, North Carolina
• Golf legend Arnold Palmer will serve as honorary chairman of the 2006 U.S. Kids Golf World Championship slated for July 26-30 at Pinehurst.
• Delta Air Lines, through its carrier Atlantic Southeast Airlines, now operates one round-trip flight six days a week from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to the Moore County Airport, located seven miles from the resort.
•The 9th annual National Hickory Championship will be played at Pinehurst July 28-30. Players will turn back time, dressing and playing golf as it was done a century ago. Entry fees for the golf tournament begin at $543 and include two-night accommodations, a practice round, two 18-hole tournament rounds, a welcome reception, a tournament dinner, and an awards ceremony. For details, call 800.487.4653.
• Summer family specials. Children under 17 with playing parents eat, stay, and play golf at no additional fee. Beach volleyball, games, and family activities are included in the price. KidsClub and Oakley’s Adventures for Teens programs are available with a fee. Specials are for members with Associate and Signature Gold benefits.
• Pinehurst’s 18th annual Wine and Food Weekend features White House pastry chef Roland Mesnier, restaurateur and educator chef John Ash, and more than 20 international wineries. Rates begin at $270 per person per night and include accommodations, breakfast, dinner, wine events, seminars, and culinary demonstrations. The final evening will feature the “Wine and Food Showdown,” a competition among six ClubCorp chefs. Each chef will be given a mystery basket to prepare a hot and cold display. Festival participants will then vote for the best chef.

SOCIETY CALENDAR
Where can you get the best seats and the hottest tickets in town? Through your area Society, that’s where. Call your Society about the events listed below.

Capital Society
Washington, D.C.
• July 22. Enjoy Little Women — The Musical at the Kennedy Center.
• Aug. 31. Tickets are available at Wolf Trap’s Filene Center for Beauty & the Beast.
• Tickets are available for upcoming Wolf Trap concerts: Beach Boys (July 29), Trisha Yearwood (July 30,) George Benson/Al Jarreau (Aug. 6), Chicago (Aug. 9), Chris Isaak (Aug. 20), Lyle Lovett (Aug. 22), Steve Miller Band (Aug. 23).

Compass Society of Northern California
San Francisco
• The Eagle Vines Golf Club in Napa, California, has become part of the Compass Society of Northern California.
• Box-seat tickets are available for San Francisco Giants baseball through Oct 1.

River Society
Cincinnati/Dayton, Ohio
• Oct. 4-8. The Tall Stacks Music, Arts & Heritage Festival returns to Cincinnati. Join other Society members at the Oct. 6 Tall Stacks Celebration Belle Dinner Cruise.

Tampa Bay Society
Tampa Bay, Florida
• July 11. Tickets are available to see the classic rock bands Def Leppard and Journey at the Ford Amphitheatre.
• Aug. 9. Great seats are available for the George Benson/Al Jarreau concert at Ruth Eckerd Hall.

STATE DINNERS AT CLUBS
“The American Chef” Walter Scheib, White House executive chef from 1994 to 2005, will prepare special State Dinners at six clubs. Sponsored by Acura, the events will include a reception, commentary by the chef on the significance of each course, and a Q&A session. Dates and locations:
• Aug. 26. 410 Club & Conference Center, Chicago.
• Sept. 8. Granite Bay Golf Club, Granite Bay, California.
• Sept. 15. City Club on Bunker Hill, Los Angeles.
• Sept. 22. La Cima Club, Irving, Texas.
• Sept. 28. Buckhead Club, Atlanta.
• Oct. 6. Coto de Caza Golf & Racquet Club, Coto de Caza, California.