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Monday afternoon, April 21 The AAIS Golf Outing The Lagoon Course at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club
The course places a premium
on accurate drives and thoughtful approaches. Water Our 12:15 p.m. shotgun
start will give participants plenty of time to complete Monday
afternoon, April 21
Freedom is a
72', double masted, Participants on the cruise will depart from conference hotel by bus at noon and return at approximately 4 p.m. Lunch will be provided, and the cruise itself will run from approximately 1-3 p.m. Registration is limited to 32 people. Tuesday,
April 22 A bus will depart our conference hotel at 9 a.m. for an entertaining guest/spouse tour through history and culture.
For lunch our group will dine at Alfred duPont's former home, now the Epping Forest Yacht Club, one of the South’s grandest estates. This special place has been the site of summit meetings between world leaders, and an oasis for visiting heads of state, political leaders, and captains of American industry. Situated in gardens of beauty and grace, it overlooks a spectacular view of the St. Johns River.
The bus returns to the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club at 2:30 p.m Beach Party closing event Break out the shorts and the flip-flops for our closing reception and dinner. In addition to food and drink, our evening will feature horseshoes, volleyball, music and dancing, along with a classic beach bonfire just beyond the Surf Club patio.
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Participants
in this year's golf outing won't have to travel far. The event takes
place onsite at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club at The Lagoon Course,
a 6,022 par-70 masterpiece. This course, restored in 2007, features
new tees, fairways and greens, new turf standards, improved irrigation
and drainage, and a greatly enhanced landscaping theme.
Attendees
who are not participating in the golf outing have the option of spending
time on their own, or joining others for a cruise aboard the schooner
Freedom, a replica of a 19th century blockade runner.
A professional tour guide will lead the group through downtown Jacksonville and tell of the exploits of Andrew Jackson, and of the famous architects that descended upon the city after the Great Fire of 1901.
Our
first stop will be the Merrill House, where we go back to 1903 to see
how people lived when Jacksonville was the most modern city in the world.
We drive past Jacksonville's unique Memorial Wall and the sports complex
where you will hear the city's own version of Bull Durham. We stop outside
the Florida Theatre to elaborate on the “"first Hollywood"
before the “"talkies" .
