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e-newsletter Summary

September 18, 2012

• Sign-up for Local Finals at Bryan Park - September 22-23
• Hyland Hills Results & Full Leaderboard
• Sign-Up for Nationals at Hilton Head Island
• Improve Your Golf Skills - Six Inches Between Your Ears
• Quick Links to Sign-up and To View Tour Schedule
• Where Are You in the Year Long Point Standings Race?
• Golf Rules Q&A
• Protect Your Identity 
• Tour Weather Guidelines Reminder

Congratulations to all the winners on the GolfWeek Amateur Tour at Hyland Hills.  

Where are you in the end-of-year Point Standing Race?  Will you secure your spot to the National Tour at Hilton Head?  registration has begun.

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Please check out Rules Review question this week.

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

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STRICKLAND GOES LOW FOR GOLFWEEK TOUR WIN

 

Southern Pines, NC

September 15, 2012

 

Bennett's Mark Strickland started quickly today at the Golfweek Amateur Golf Tour event held at Hyland Golf Club, posting 3 birdies on the front side to help him post an overall 2-under par score of 70 in the Championship Flight competition. Crews Miller of Raleigh finished 2 strokes back, a model of consistency with even par scores on both the front and back nines. Miller's score was even more impressive when you consider his group finished the entire 18 holes in a Tour record 3 hours and 15 minutes!

 

 

Champion Flight Winner:  Mark Strickland

 

You had to go low in every flight today to grab the top spot, which is what Chuck Poole of Wake Forest did for his A Flight win. Poole's 73 edged Greensboro's Coray Mitchell by 2 strokes. Poole, a charter member of the Tour when it was still called The Carolina Blonde Tour fourteen years ago, was playing in his first return event in 10 years.

 

While Raleigh's Paul Harmon played from tees about 400 yards shorter than the Championship and A Flights, the B Flight "top-dog" still impressed with his solid 78. He was the only flight member to break 80, although 4 players did hit that number "on-the-nose".

 

The top two spots in the C Flight went to Fayetteville residents Joe Cho and Henry Lech. By far his best score on tour this season, Cho's 81 edged Lech by a single stroke.

 

C Flight Winner: Joe Cho

 

Garrett Domingue grabbed his first Tour win ever with a 93 that put him 3 shots clear of Candor's Chuck Hutchings in the D Flight. "It always feels good to hand a guy his first winner's trophy", stated Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck.

 

D Flight Winner - Garrett Domingue

 

Next week the Golfweek Tour will be playing at Bryan Park in Greensboro for the 2-day Local Finals, a chance for players "on the bubble" in the season long points race to qualify for the National Finals at Hilton Head in October. The Local event is open to any Tour member and there are still open spots available.

 

THE GOLFWEEK AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

HYLAND GOLF CLUB EVENT

TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT

 

CHAMPIONSHIP (6620 yds)

Mark Strickland, Bennett 70

Crews Miller, Raleigh 72

Henry Lister, Chapel Hill 74

Geroge Shadwick, Jackson Springs 75

Neal Faulkner, Gibsonville 75

 

A FLIGHT (6620 yds)

Chuck Poole, Wake Forest 73

Coray Mitchell, Greensboro 75

Bill Berry, Garner 77

David Randall, Pinehurst 77

Mike Groenewald, Morrisville 79

 

B FLIGHT (6255 yds)

Paul Harmon, Raleigh 78

James Adamski, Fayetteville 80

Nick Slager, Winston-Salem 80

Jack Frazier, Clemmons 80

Jim McLean, Hillsborough 80

 

C FLIGHT (6255 yds)

Joe Cho, Fayetteville 81

Henry Lech, Fayetteville 82

MIke Hawkins, Pittsboro 84

James Eatmon, Sims 84

Darien Upchurch, Wake Forest 85

 

D FLIGHT (6255 yds)

Garrett Domingue, Fayetteville 93

Chuck Hutchings, Candor 96

Keith Thomas, Greensboro 98

Mark Wamsher, Hope Mills 98

Rick Tate, Fayetteville 98

 

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Year-End Point Standings Race?

There are only two ways to get to  the year ending National Tournament - win one of the four majors (none remains-you are on your own) or be one of the Top 10 point earners in your flight. 

We have reached the end of 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 some of those fighting for the Top 10.

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Question from week #163

Larry has found his tee ball up under a bush where he has determined it is unplayable. Under penalty of one stroke he has opted to drop using option “c” from R28 and marks the limit of his two club-lengths from the spot of his ball for his drop.

Select from the following statements all correct answers:

1. Larry marked the limit of his two club drop with a tee, if his ball comes to rest against the tee, he should re-drop.

2. Larry marked the limit of his two club drop with a club, if his ball comes to rest against the club, he should re-drop..

3. Larry marked the limit of his two club drop with a pine cone, if his ball comes to rest against the pine cone, he may remove the pine cone. If his ball moves, there is no penalty.

4. Larry marked the limit of his two club drop area with a coin. His ball rolled overtop the coin and came to rest about a foot away. Provided his ball did not come to rest nearer the hole than where it originally lay and did not roll more than two club-lengths away from the point where it first struck a part of the course when dropped, it is in play and he need not re-drop.

Answer

The correct answers are 2 and 4.

Answer 1 is not correct. If a tee, coin or other small object is used to mark the extent of an area for dropping a ball, by exception it is temporarily not classified as equipment (see Definition: Equipment). This is important because if a dropped ball comes in contact with the equipment of any player, it must be re-dropped (R20-2a). There are no limits as to the number of times a ball must be dropped if it comes in contact with equipment.

Answer 2 is correct. A club is not a “small object” typically used to mark the extent of a drop. So if Larry’s ball comes in contact with his club, it must be re-dropped.

Answer 3 is not correct because, like the club he used in #2, a pine cone also does not change descriptive category to that of a small object; it remains a loose impediment. So now, with Larry’s ball against the pine cone, if he moves the pine cone and his ball moves as a result, he has breached R18-2a. (See R23-1)

Answer 4 is correct. Any time a ball is dropped it may roll up to two club-lengths away from where it first struck a part of the course on the drop. The coin at this point is not equipment, so the fact that his ball rolled overtop the coin is of no concern. Since he got to drop in an area extending 2 club-lengths from where his ball originally lay and the ball could roll another two club-lengths after being dropped, Larry’s ball could come to rest essentially 4 club-lengths away from where it originally lay without needing to be re-dropped.

When marking the extent of an area for dropping a ball, the idea is to follow the recommended practice as implied in the Rules and mark using a tee, coin or similar small object (divot repair tool). A ball can roll up to two club-lengths on any drop, so a tee or coin won’t have much influence on the movement of a dropped ball. A club or other large piece of equipment could have significant influence, however, and for that reason, if used for that purpose would require the player to drop again if his ball came in contact with the equipment.

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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