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Mill Creek

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In This Issue

May 13, 2012

Sign-up to Play the Next Major at Mill Creek - 1:30 PM Shotgun
Read the Bentwinds Story
Rules Review: Hitting a Moving Ball in the Water Hazard.
A Few of You Need to Complete Your Tour Application
2012 Tour Schedule Via Link
Only Two Ways to Play At The Hilton Head National Final
Tour Weather Guidelines Reminder

Mill Creek

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Congratulations to all golfers that played well at Bentwinds.

Next week you are at Mill Creek and the 2nd Major of the season. Millcreek is a beautiful course, it can be challenging but good scores can be had.

Where are you in the end-of-year Point Standing Race? See links at bottom of e-newsletter to see where you stand.

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2012 GOLFWEEK AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

SATURDAY, MAY 19

MILL CREEK GOLF CLUB

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Mill Creek Golf Club

Mill Creek Golf & Country Club, established in 1995, has tree-lined fairways and hilly terrain. TMill Creek will test your course management skills and will force you to consider, if not use every club in your bag. If you can execute what you visualize, great scores are available.

Plus, this is the sceond major of the season where double points are awarded to everyone who plays and flight winners get their tickets punched with an automatic invite to the year-ending National Tournament at Hilton Head.

If you have not signed up, you are in luck as a few spots remain.

To sign-up, call or email Bruce at 336-495-6556 or behgolf@aol.com.

Club Address:

1700 St. Andrews Drive

Mebane, NC 27302

Phone: (919) 563-4653

To reserve your place and to sign-up, please reply to this email, sign-up on-line, call or mail a check to Bruce Hallenbeck.

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Bruce Hallenbeck Sandhills Golf Pro 736 Mallard Dr. Randleman, NC27317
336-495-6556

behgolf@aol.com

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Event Info:

Mill Creek Golf Club

Saturday, May 19 2012

Fees: $75.00 Time: 1:30 PM Shotgun

Physical Address:

1700 St. Andrews Drive

Mebane, NC 27302

Phone: (919) 563-4653

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6 HOLE PLAYOFF DETERMINES GOLFWEEK TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT WINNER

Fuquay-Varina, NC

May 12, 2012

Fayetteville's James Prasse and Neal Faulkner of Gibsonville got to play some free golf in the Golfweek Amateur Golf Tour event contested at Bentwinds Country Club. After finishing regulation play with identical 73s in the Championship Flight, they headed back out for a sudden death playoff that proved to be anything but sudden. After matching scores on the first 5 extra holes, their bonus golf came to an end with a "kick-in" birdie by Prasse on their 6th playoff hole.

Faulkner did get some good news however after getting "nipped" in the playoff. He won one of the Closest-to-The-Pin prizes available and also held up for a "skin" in the optional Skins Pool.

Raleigh's Paul Harmon kept a streak going for the Golfweek Tour and it's sister - The Senior Amateur Tour by registering a hole-in-one. It was the third consecutive event in which an ace has been scored. Last week Terry Evans of Apex knocked one in at The Meadowlands Golf Club during the Saturday Golfweek event, while Advance's Dawson Strider holed one out with the Seniors on Thursday at Sapona Country Club in Lexington.

Harmon used an 8-iron on the 15th hole for the 157 yard shot. "We didn't see it go in" said playing partner Bill Berry, who had earlier put one on the green tight. "When we got to the green and only saw one ball, we knew one of us was in the cup". It was the B Flighter's 5th career "ace".

While all that excitement was going on, Godwin's Jay Yergeau steadied out a 79 to take top honors in the B Flight. He was 1 stroke clear of Raleigh's Brannon Lambert and Greensboro's Robin Gomez.

Bentwinds Winners (Left to Right)

A Flight -Jon Blum; B Flight - Jay Yergeau;

C Flight - Rob Bulgarino; D Flight - George Greer

Jon Blum of Tampa has won numerous times "on-Tour" and his 76 today in the A Flight did the trick again, besting Raleigh's Rob Reynolds by 3 shots.

The two other flight winners enjoyed their initial Tour triumphs: Rob Bulgarino of Raleigh in the C Flight, and Fayetteville's George Greer in the D Flight.

Bulgarino was a "walk-over" winner over Wake Forest's Darien Upchurch, who left after posting the same 86 as Bulgarino. By Upchurch not being available to play it out on the course, Rob got his 1st Tour win.

Tour veteran George Greer has been posting some nice scores this season, and has been "in-the-money" on a number of occasions, but had never brought home a first place trophy - that is until today. "George has been with us a long time, noted Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck. "Up to this point, his finest moment 'on-Tour' was taking a 7th place finish in the National Tour Finals at Hilton Head. Now he's got a win under his belt as well". His 87 was a comfortable 10 strokes clear of Fayetteville's Ricky Tate.

Next stop for the Golfweek Tour is the season's 2nd Major Championship at Mill Creek GC in Mebane.

Double points for all competitors and automatic qualification to the National Tour Finals for all flight winners helps make this one of the biggest and most important events of the year. There are still spots open, contact Hallenbeck at 336-495-6556 to guarantee entry.

THE GOLFWEEK AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

BENTWINDS COUNTRY CLUB EVENT

TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT

CHAMPIONSHIP (6880 YDS)

James Prasse, Fayetteville 73

Neal Faulkner, Gibsonville 73

Dan Holland, High Point 76

Crews Miller, Raleigh 81

Chris Harris, Graham 83

A FLIGHT (6345 yds)

Jon Blum, Tampa FL 76

Rob Reynolds, Raleigh 79

Vic Mastrucci, Bunn Level 80

Seth Wilson, Waxhaw 80

Scott Mankins, Raleigh 81

B FLIGHT (6345 yds)

Jay Yergeau, Godwin 79

Brannon Lambert, Raleigh 80

Robin Gomez, Greensboro 80

Spurling Cook, Raleigh 81

Jim McLean, Hillsborough 81

C FLIGHT (6345 yds)

Rob Bulgarino, Raleigh 86

Darien Upchurch, Wake Forest 86

Jim Stanley, Raleigh 89

Shirral Davis, Raleigh 91

Jason Goodwin, Fayetteville 92

Chris Vogts, East Bend 92

Adam Boggie, Fayetteville 92

D FLIGHT (6345 yds)

George Greer, Fayetteville 87

Ricky Tate, Fayetteville 97

Issac Kinnard, Fayetteville 105

Chad Burton, Pittsboro 106

Garrett Domingue, Fayetteville 107

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ONLY TWO WAYS TO GET TO THE GOLFWEEK NATIONAL TOURNAMENT AT HILTON HEAD

Where are you in the

2012 Point Standings Race?

There are only two ways to get to the year ending National Tournament - win one of the four majors (only 3 remain) or be one of the Top 10 point earners in your flight. We are almost half way and there are some great battles shaping up for the Top 10 golfers in each Flight.

Do you know how many tournaments you will need to play and what place you will need to finish to ensure you have your automatic invitation? Don't be left out.

To see where you stand today* click below:

Raleigh/Pinehurst Tour Point Standings

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Rules Review

It has been suggested that there should be a series of Rules scenarios for you to solve. So begins a series of problems titled What's the Score? Doc Miller has graciously agreed to allow me to share these with you that he has been sending since July 2009. I will include one each week. You should try to determine the answer based upon your knowledge of the Rules when ever possible and then use your Rule book to confirm. There will be no trick questions or hidden information.

If you do not have a Rules of Golf book handy, go to: usga.org/Rule-Books and-Decisions

Question from week #145 It is virtually certain Larry has hit his drive into the creek that crosses the fairway of the second hole. When he arrives at the creek he finds a ball that is slowly trickling downstream in shallow water. Being a manly kind of guy, he quickly grabs his wedge and executes a stroke that gets the ball clear of the water hazard. Once he gets to the other side he discovers the ball played from the creek was not his ball.

Larry:

A. Is penalized two strokes for playing a wrong ball and must find his original ball or return to the tee (R27-1), playing his fifth stroke.
B. Is penalized two strokes for playing a wrong ball and if he cannot play his original ball he may proceed under R26-1. His next stroke would be his fifth.
C. The stroke made with the wrong ball counts, but there is no penalty for playing a wrong ball that was moving in water in a water hazard. If he cannot play his original ball, he may proceed under R26-1. His next stroke would be his fourth.
D. The stroke made with the wrong ball does not count and there is no penalty for playing a wrong ball that was moving in water in a water hazard. If he cannot find or play his original ball, he may proceeded under R26-1. His next stroke would be his third.

Answer

Answer D is correct.
It is the player’s responsibility to assure a ball played from any hazard is not a wrong ball. This ball is in motion and the player may only lift a ball at rest for the purpose of identifying it (R12-2). So for this special circumstance of a ball in motion in water in a water hazard, because we are prohibited from identifying it, we have a specific Rule that exempts the player from any penalty for playing a wrong ball. The player is authorized to lift the moving ball if he intends to proceed under Rule 26-1. This information is referenced by reading the following Rules: 14-5, 14-6 and 15-3 (Exception).

Tour Weather Guidelines:

Primarily, we adhere to the same guidelines that the PGA Tour uses: If the course is open, we're going to play.

The only exception to this is that I'll never put any of you in harm's way during an event because of dangerous weather. (i.e. - lightening or severe cold and wetness).

In other words, I won't let the course "bully" us into playing where an unsafe condition might exist.

Because I arrive at every event at least two hours prior to the start time and I generally have to leave my house at least an hour before that to get to the course, there is no sense calling me just before the event, because I won't be at the office. The best avenue to take is to call the course if the weather seems threatening.

If you are on the roster for the event, and you do not get a cancellation notice from the course after calling them, you are expected to show up in time for the scheduled shotgun start.

Bruce

GolfWeek Amateur Tour Full Leaderboard

Bentwinds Country Club*

May 12, 2012

Tees by Flight:

Champ: Black Tees; Rating- 72.8; Slope- 137; Yardage - 6880 A, B, C, D: Blue Tees; Rating- 71.0; Slope-126; Yardage - 6345 *Had Technical Difficulties With Computer System and Unable to Provide Full Leaderboard. Will Attempt To Post On-line Early Next Week and Will Include in Next Week's e-newsletter. My apologies. (chill)

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