Save the Date
Welcome to the 31st ANNUAL ARCHANGEL MICHAEL GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH WATSONIAN GOLF OUTING being held June 6, 2024 at the Plandome Country Club. Below is the schedule of events.
Please sign up here. If you are registering for a foursome PLEASE MAKE SURE to email Susan@archangelmichaelchurch.org with the names of your foursome after you have registered and paid.
10:00am-11:15am REGISTRATION
10:00am-11:30am Breakfast/Brunch
10:30am-12:00 noon Putting Contest (on the practice Green where the carts are located.
12:00 noon – Meet for the Shotgun Start-Go to carts & ready for your hole assignment.
Registration for Sponsors is open.
Registration for Golfers only, will open on May 1, 2024. Donation is $550 for golfers which includes, brunch, green fees, golf cart, all food, beer & drinks, barbecue at the turn, dinner with open bar. Golf skills, team and four hole in one prizes being raffled.
REGISTRATION IS LIMITED to the first 128 golfers. Golfers are expected to wear appropriate attire to golf.
All golfers and participants and dinner guests must park their vehicles on the Plandome country club premises parking lot. Any off premise parking in Plandome Village commuter lots will be ticketed by the town.
History of the Watsonian
In 1993 the first Archangel Michael Golf outing was held at The Sheraton Wind Watch in Hauppauge, Long Island.
Cliff Katsimakis chaired the first event in which 35 golfers attended.
As time moved on the event grew and moved to other golf courses on Long Island, including Lido Beach Golf Course, Colonial Springs Golf Course, and Stonebridge Golf Course.
In 2001 the Golf Outing was re-named the “Watsonian” after Beloved parishioner, golf committee member and avid golfer Carl Watson.
From 2007 to 2011 the outing moved to the Towers Country Club. Attendance increased to 90 golfers and an additional 30 parishioners and guests attending the after golf dinner, raffle and awards presentation.
In 2012 the outing moved to the exclusive Plandome Country Club where the outing has seen it’s greatest success.
Nearly 130 golfers now attend this sellout event with an additional 50 parishioners and guests attending the after golf dinner. In the first year at Plandome Country Club the fund-raising event raised over $50,000.
The list of sponsors include very generous Parishioners as well as so many other Individuals, Merchants, Businesses and Friends of the Archangel Michael that help make this fund-raiser the longest continuous annual event that supports the church’s operating budget.
