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Anderson Creek   

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August 22, 2012

• Sign-up To Play Anderson Creek - August 25
• Carolina Trace Results & Full Leaderboard
• Improve Your Golf Skills - Six Inches Between Your Ears
• Quick Links to Sign-up and To View Tour Schedule
• Where are you in Year Long Point Standings Race?
• Golf Rules Q&A - Embedded Ball?
• Protect Your Identity 
• Tour Weather Guidelines Reminder

Congratulations to all the winners on the GolfWeek Amateur Tour and the great scores at Carolina Trace.  

Where are you in the end-of-year Point Standing Race?  Will you secure your spot to the National Tour at Hilton Head? See links at bottom of e-newsletter to see where you stand.

Rules Review question this week helps you understand if you can move the markers on the Teeing ground.

Check the  Full Leaderboard at the bottom of the newsletter to see how you fared against the competition in your flight. 

We see more of you getting comfortable with clicking and buying online from the comfort of your home and having products shipped to your door. 

 Protect your identity and secure your data on your PC. See the two protects to the right.

Other products and services will continue to be added and we know you will find these services and prices to your liking and advantage as well.  Let us know what other products you would like to see added and your experience when ordering here.

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Anderson Creek Golf Course             Davis Love III, 1997 PGA Championship winner, designed Anderson Creek Golf Club, his first signature course in North Carolina.   Anderson Creek was rated 4 1/2 stars by Golf Digest in 2008 and was the winner of the "Best New Course in NC" award for 2001. This traditional layout reflects all that is great about golf in the Sandhills – rolling fairways lined with longleaf pines, natural areas highlighted with love grass.   The greens’ large roll-off areas and significant undulations offer a challenge to those who miss their approach shot to the greens.    Low scores are attainable in all flights but this course will bite if you blink.  Plus, all of you should be playing your best game now anyway.   P.S. Double Points awarded to all who play.   P.P.S. Sign-up early as the Final Major usually sells out.   To sign-up, call Bruce Hallenbeck at 336-495-6556 or email him at behgolf@aol.com. To sign-up, call Bruce Hallenbeck at 336-495-6556 or email him at behgolf@aol.com.

"Improve your golf mental toughness 10-fold"

Every golfer has heard the saying "It's all in your head" or "Golf is 90% mental" or "Golf is the most mentally demanding sport in the world." Yet what do golfers do about it? Well, most often absolutley nothing! Not necessarily because they don't want to, but sometimes golfers actually think the mental game doesn't matter to them!

Click Here to Unlock Your Mind and Shoot Better Golf

EVERY golfer can benefit from increasing their mental toughness and harnessing the full power of thier mind!

Many golfers naively get stuck into thinking that the mental game only matters for elite players or pros who make a living golfing. Nonsense! EVERY golfer needs to use their mind properly.

• It is your mind that determines how well you learn when taking lessons. (and this training course is packed with accelerated learning techniques that will have you absorbing more from lessons)

• It is your mind that will allow you to set up to the ball correctly and commit to your swing (or not!).

• It is your mind that will either stay focused under pressure and get you to make a smooth, fluid stroke when you need to drain an 8 footer for the win, or have you choking like a dog and collapsing like a house of cards when the heat is on!

Click Here to Unlock Your Mind and Shoot Better Golf

"When you have a chance to shoot the lowest score of your life you won't choke - You Will Go Low!"

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GOLFWEEK CURRENT NEWS

TO All NEW & RETURNING GOLFWEEK AMATEURS MEMBERS:  A 2012 APPLICATION IS REQUIRED.

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

Where Are You In The

Year-End Point Standings Race?

There are only two ways to get to  the year ending National Tournament - win one of the four majors (only 1 remains) or be one of the Top 10 point earners in your flight. 

We have reached halfway into the season and some of the point races of who will be #1 in the Flights and places 7 - 14 are very tight.  As little as 25 points separate tour competitors.

Do you know how many tournaments you will need to play and what place you will need to finish in each tournament 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

Triad Tour Point Standings

* Points from this week's tournament may not have posted.

Click Here for

2012 GolfWeek Amateur Golf Tour Schedule  Pinehurst/Raleigh/Triad Tours 

Questions from week #159

Decide the following concerning a possible embedded ball.

1. I am taking relief under R28 for an unplayable lie in the rough, when I drop my ball it embeds in loose soil. I am entitled to take relief:

A. Yes, Under R25-2, Embedded Ball

B. Yes, under R20-2, Dropping and Re-dropping

C. Yes, if the Local Rule for Embedded Ball Through-the-Green is in effect.

D. No, loose soil does not qualify.

2. My ball has rolled into a sand-filled divot in the middle of the fairway and the ball sits with about 1/3 of it below the surface of the sand. I may take relief under R25-2, Embedded Ball.

A. True

B. False

3. I am taking relief for an embedded ball. I know I must drop the ball as near as possible to the spot where it was embedded. Besides cleaning the ball, I may also repair the embedded ball’s pitch mark before I drop.

A. True

B. False

4. Select the single correct statement

A. When dropping under relief for an embedded ball, if it comes to rest a few inches forward of where it was embedded, the ball is not in play and I should re-drop.

B. I saw my tee ball bounce in the fairway a couple of times. When I reach my ball in the fairway I see it is embedded in a pitch mark. I am entitled to relief under R25-2.

C. I have done the following: I am taking relief under R25-2. The first time I drop my ball, it again embeds. I lift it, clean it again, and drop it a second time. It again embeds. I once more lift and clean my ball and place it as near as possible to the spot where it first touched a part of the course on the second drop even if that spot is a couple inches behind where the ball originally lay embedded. I have proceeded correctly.

Answers

1. Answer C is correct. Remember, you get basic R25-2 relief for a ball embedded in its own pitch mark in the ground only in areas cut to fairway height or less (closely mown areas.) In all other areas, like the rough, to be entitled to embedded ball relief, the Local Rule for Embedded Ball Through the Green must be in effect. For those of you who actually looked up the Local Rule for extending Embedded Ball Through the Green (Appendix I, Part B, 4a) you might also have read Exception 1 which does not afford the player relief if his ball is embedded in sand in other than a closely mown area. Think of this as sand you might find in waste areas like at this week’s PGA on Kiawah Island. Loose soil would not be considered sand.

2. The statement is false. This ball is not embedded in its own pitch mark.

3. The statement is false. You must not repair any irregularities of surface prior to dropping the ball including the pitch mark made by your ball. If the ball again imbeds, re-drop. Do repair your pitch mark after you play your stroke as a courtesy to other players.

4. Statement C is correct. Statement A is not correct because even though the ball has rolled nearer the hole and must be re-dropped, it should still be treated as “in play”. Anytime a ball is dropped, it is in play when dropped. Statement B is not correct because the ball is not embedded in is own pitch mark. My ball is in all probability in some other player’s pitch mark as my ball was observed to bounce in the fairway a couple of times. If the ground were soft enough to allow a ball to embed after bouncing a couple of times, it is most likely an area of casual water for which relief is taken under R25-1.

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.

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