Welcome to ARFAX

We are hallway through our 62st season of ARFAX golf. One of our big news items this month is that the Executive Committee voted to add a new ARFAX Club. The Golf Club of Lansdowne, near Leesburg, has joined ARFAX, with 18 members, as of July 2024.

We now have 354 ARFAX members in our 17 clubs in 2024. 

Please note that registration closes on July 30, 2024, on the ARFAX website at www.arfaxgolf.org for the August Cup at International on Tuesday, August 6. There will be a waiting list, if necessary.

We held our June Cup at Army Navy Country Club in Arlington on June 5, 2024, with 77 golfers.

Winners of the June Cup Tournament:

• A Cup: Danielle Hetzler, Army Navy
• B Cup: Beverly Ryczck, Hidden Creek
• C Cup: Anna Cho, Army Navy
• D Cup: Annette Turgeon, Springfield

We had the Two-Lady Cup Tournament at Chantilly on July 2, 2024, with 94 golfers with Ling Wong of Chantilly as a great host. Winners of the Two-Lady Team Cup Tournament:

• Cup Winner and 1st Net: Jayoung Cho and Eunyoung Kim, Lansdowne
• 1st Gross:  Diane Garstka and Kyong Chang, Springfield

We held our July Cup at Belle Haven Country Club on July 11, 2024, with 103 golfers. Winners of the July Cup Tournament:

• A Cup: Kyong Chang, Springfield
• B Cup: Seung-Ae Chung, Lansdowne
• C Cup: Betsy Micklem, Belle Haven
• D Cup: Helen Waters, Springfield

Our final 2024 tournament, after the August 6 August Cup at International, will be the Two-Lady Ryder Cup at Evergreen on Thursday, September 26, 2024. 

Further results and pictures of the tournaments are on our website at www.arfaxgolf.org. We hope you will continue to use the ARFAX website. In addition to including the ARFAX tournaments registrations and results and our Bylaws and Rules, the website includes a description of the Roles and Responsibilities of each member of the Executive Committee. Please let me know if you want to join other ARFAX volunteers on our committees.

We are successfully using Golf Genius to record scores during the tournament play and for scoring to speed up results. Make sure that you have the Golf Genius app for tournament play.

We have encountered a few instances in events in which the scorecards did not match the Golf Genius results. Please take extra care in reviewing your scorecards before signing off on them.

I sense that you are being more vigilant in addressing Pace of Play. I told you that the presidents of the leagues playing interclub events, such as ARFAX, each received a letter on March 29, 2024, from 13 local golf professionals urging the leagues “to adopt the pace of play policies of each facility to align with the pace of play expectations adopted at each club.” I believe that we are doing that in our ARAX events. For our tournaments, we ask that you continue to watch the foursome in front of you. If you keep up with them, you will not have to worry about anyone behind you. Remember that we are the guests of the host club.

You, the members of our 17 clubs, are the heart of ARFAX. I have been reminding you that we should remember to be respectful of each other and our courses, and to be polite at all times. 

See you on the courses…

Carolyn K. Offutt, President

ARFAX