A Chamber of Commerce-esque weather week last week until Sunday! We were busy with groups from GolfQuest and Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley had their brokers from around the country here in the Coachella Valley for the past two weeks. We played host to their first wave Thursday and Saturday, with the Saturday group buying out the golf course and practice facility in the afternoon. We will host one final group from Morgan Stanley this Wednesday.

GolfQuest’s Golf Outing for Coca-Cola on Friday provided us with some excitement. Pat Fitzsimmons, former winner of the LA Open, and Dick Gott both recorded Hole in One’s. Dick aced #6, while Pat Holed out on #11. Golf Quest, who has been doing corporate outings for the past 12 years, had never recorded a Hole in One with any of their groups, much less two in one day!

This week we will also be entertaining Portland Cement on Wednesday. Saturday April 5^th we will be entertaining the Women’s Golf Assocation of Southern California. The 112 ladies are playing in an afternoon shotgun at 1:00pm.

Today starts the Men’s Club Championship. This three day event has over 50 players entered. The final two days will be this Thursday and next Monday.

As of April 1^st the Azul Restaurant will only be open for Breakfast, Lunch and our Red Basket Menu from 3 to 5 pm.

Chef Roy is planning on rolling out a variety of specialty dinner nights. I will be reporting those in next week’s blog and it will also be posted on the Trilogygolfclub.com and azulattrilogy.com websites.

The golf course continues to be busy, and in great shape. We are pleased to report that the project to fix some of the dry wells is going very well. #8 was completed, and the new sod is down. The hole looks great, and a gives everyone a little of a reprieve for missed shots off of the tee. Holes #7 and #13 and #15 are still in the process of being worked on.

April is shaping up to still be a very busy month, including the companies that I mentioned earlier in the blog, plus the Gridiron Classic, and Lumpy’s Annual Scramble for Autism and The Ladies Invitational.

The Gridiron Classic is a fundraiser for a couple of charities that deal with children in need. We are anticipating a variety of celebrities and former NFL Football players. The event is scheduled for April 16^th.

We are proud to be a part of the Lumpy’s Scramble for Autism. This event raised over $80,000 for the Coachella Valley’s Autism Foundation last year. The event is scheduled for Friday April 25^th, and is already sold out with a 144 players participating.

On the Anthony Kim watch, Anthony unfortunately missed the cut at the Zurich Championship in New Orleans this past week. Even more disappointing than reporting this is that he 4-putted the last green to miss the cut by one shot! Anthony plans to be participating in the Shell Open in Houston this week.

We at Trilogy are proud to announce that Chef Roy is a Finalist in the Entrée Category for this year’s California Date Chef Competition. This is the third time Roy has been a finalist for this competition. This event is April 27^th. The annual California Date Chef Competition attracts top professional chefs from across the Coachella Valley and California to compete with their original date recipes for top prizes. A panel of food experts in a blind tasting selects first place winners in Appetizer, Entrée and Dessert categories, as well as Best of Show. After the professional judging is completed, chefs offer their entries for the public to taste at the Gala Champagne Awards Reception, where they compete for the People’s Choice vote.

The Competition, open to professional chefs currently working in a restaurant or hotel, is designed to encourage chefs to be creative and adventuresome with California Dates. Top winners will be required to feature their dishes at their respective establishments for a month. This event will be at the Fantasy Springs Resort Special Events Center. Tickets will be about $25.00. Entry fee will allow you to meet the Chefs and sample the entrée they have created.

The landscaping team members are keeping up with the ever-growing plant life around the golf course. They are currently finishing up #10 this week and will move on to #11 some time next week.

I am just about to get to our website to update some exciting specials for the next week. Check out our upcoming specials for March, lots of great golf, golf balls and lunches! Don’t miss out: www.Trilogygolfclub.com/laquinta

A final note to the community members, over the next couple of weeks many of you will be receiving the AVID Survey. Like any successful company we strive to identify every need of our customer, and we also appreciate the feedback from the community members to help us move the bar upward each day. We appreciate your support by filling out the AVID and returning it.

Until next week, keep rolling the rock!