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e-newsletter Summary

February 3, 2013

• Sign-up For 2013 GolfWeek Amateur Golf Tour
• Sign-up To Play Longleaf County Club February 16, 2013
• Legacy Winners
• Do This By March 20th and Play All the Tour Golf You Want! Need a Gift For Valentines?
• Its All about the Year Long Point Standings Race
• Golf Rules Q&A - A Review - Where is Your Ball?
• Tour Weather Guidelines - Review and Reminder

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Longleaf Golf and Country Club The second Pre-Season Tournament of the 2013 Amateur and Senior Golf Season will be held at Longleaf Country Club. Third generation golf course architect Dan Maples, brought his talent to Southern Pines with Longleaf Golf & Country Club. Built on the site of one of the Village of Pinehurst's former horse training estates, Longleaf shines.. Many of the original features -- the white fences, rail post and hedgerows -- have been carefully retained as a tribute to the original site. 170 acres of the Club at Longleaf development were sold to Dan Maples, golf course architect, with the provision that he build and operate a golf course, including a clubhouse, driving range, tennis courts, swimming pool, and a pool house. Work in the 6600 yard 18 hole design began in February 1988 and its grand opening was held on November 4th of that year. The golf shop and cart storage were temporarily housed in the Tate horse barn until the present clubhouse was finished in early 1990. (Historical information provided by Jean Walker, longtime Longleaf member) A 1974 photograph of Starland Farm shows a one-mile long track, which was built on a former steeplechase track, and a three-quarter mile turf race course with a show ring in the in the center. Today, some of the hedge and water jumps can still be seen on the #1 and #8 fairways and the #9 back tee. Portions of the Starland Farm track fence serve as a backdrop for the front nine holes. This is a pre-season event to which both the Golfweek and Senior Tours. Because of that mix, no points will be awarded, but the prize pool is generally one of the largest of the season. Historically this event sells out, so if you have interest in playing, you know the drill. To register and to sign-up to play, call or email Bruce at 336- 495-6556 or behgolf@aol.com.

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Do This One Thing With Your Significant Other Before March 20, at a Special Discount and Play All the

Tour Golf You Want in 2013.

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Take your wife or significant other to see Biltmore again or for the first time and earn a year-round "kitchen or get out of jail pass" from her to play Tour Golf all season.

P.S. It's important for her not to know why you are going to the Biltmore. And if you have extra time, consider indulging in the Spa at Grove Park Inn.

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"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!

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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!

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

GOLFWEEK AND SENIOR AMATEUR TOURS "KICK-OFF" 2013 SEASON

Aberdeen, NC

February 2, 2013

While early morning temperatures lingered in the teens, conditions improved in the afternoon to allow a large field of Tour members to complete their first competitive round of golf in 2013 on the Golfweek and Senior Amateur Golf Tours today at The Legacy Golf Links. B Flight winner James Dockery, a long-standing Tour veteran, stated "Once we got going conditions were OK".

While the temperatures were reasonable to play in, they did contribute to the higher scores that were posted in each flight. All you had to do to be "in the money" in the Championship flight was break 80, in the D Flight, break 100. No golfer in the B Flight broke 80, and none in the C Flight broke 90.

Pre-Season Winners at Legacy (Left to Right)

B Flight - James Dockery, D Flight - Charlie Brodie;

Championship Flight - John East

Not Shown:: C Flight - Bill Wikinson

While scores were higher, it didn't stop 2 Tour members from hitting impressive shots. Wendell's Bob Dail eagled the the 347 yard, par 4, 10th hole with a 7-iron from 128 yards out. "The wind was directly in our face, so I used more club", stated Dail. Meanwhile, Greensboro's Coray Mitchell used an 8-iron with the wind at his back from 145 yards to produce the same result - an eagle 2 - on the 375 yard, par 4, 1st hole.

Pre-Season Winner at Legacy: A Flight: Jay Yergeau

Rockingham's John East took top honors in the Championship Flight with a 73. The A Flight belonged to Godwin's Jay Yergeau. As mentioned earlier, Southern Pines' James Dockery won the B Flight, while Bill Wilkinson was victorious in "C". Tour newcomer Charlie Brady of Oxford won his first Tour start as a D Flight member.

The regular season starts on March 7 for the Seniors at Bryan Park, while the Golfweek Tour gets things going at the Challenge on March 2. There will be one more preseason event held for both Tours at Longleaf on February 16. Openings are available for that event.

Any amateur golfer interested in joining either Tour can contact Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck at 336-495-6556, or by emailing him at behgolf@aol.com.

THE GOLFWEEK AND SENIOR AMATEUR GOLF TOURS

PRESEASON EVENT AT THE LEGACY GOLF LINKS

TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT

CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT

John East, Rockingham 73

Mark Macejko, Vass 76

John Franklin, Danville VA 77

David Williams, Apex 79

Trip Barclift, Raleigh 80

Gene Queen, Advance 80

A FLIGHT

Jay Yergeau, Godwin 75

Cecil Lockley, Creedmoor 78

Cliff Nance, Lumberton 78

Jay Campbell, Fayetteville 79

Steve Smith, Pinehurst 81

B FLIGHT

James Dockery, Southern Pines 81

Tom Fagerli, Yadkinville 84

Neil Bleau, Durham 85

Randy Robbins, Smithfield 85

Perry Laymon, Wilmington

Dan Whalen, Greensboro 85

C FLIGHT

Bill Wilkinson, Rolesville 91

Henry Dirkmaat, Pinehurst 92

Mike Hinson, Myrtle Beach 92

John Hall, Raleigh 92

Roger Ammons, Wagram 94

Donald Brown, Kernersville 94

Bobby Hutchison, Walnut Cove 94

Jason Stutts, High Point 94

Landon Wilkes, Apex 94

D FLIGHT

Charlie Brodie, Oxford 91

Mark Wamsher, Hope Mills 96

Kurt Bryant, Fayetteville 99

Greg Green, Apex 105

Gerg Dauscher, Zebulon 106

GOLFWEEK CURRENT NEWS

TO All NEW & RETURNING GOLFWEEK AMATEURS MEMBERS: A 2013 APPLICATION IS REQUIRED.

ONLY TWO WAYS TO GET TO THE GOLFWEEK NATIONAL TOURNAMENT

Where Will You Be In The

Year-End Point Standings Race?

Here Are the 2012 Point Standings Winners

Raleigh/Pinehurst Tour

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

As you plot your tour schedule be cognizant of the fact, only the top 10 are guarenteed access. Usually, most flight races are tight and depends on how well you play and of course how many tour dates you participate in during 2013.

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.

During the 2013 Tour, To see where you stand* click below:

Raleigh/Pinehurst Tour Point Standings

Triad Tour Point Standings

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

2012 Point Standings Winners

Raleigh/Pinehurst Tour: Flight Winners

Triad Tour: 2012 Point Standing Flight Winners

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2013 GolfWeek Amateur Golf Tour Schedule Pinehurst/Raleigh/Triad Tours

• Nearly all conditions and features of a golf course are comprised of a closed loop. This is true for the course (closed loop defined by OB stakes), all hazards (water and bunkers), areas of GUR or casual water, teeing grounds, putting greens, dropping zones, etc. If your ball is touching the loop that defines the condition, then it is IN or ON that condition.
• Do not think of the fairway as a condition that is closed, if you look closely enough, you find in nearly every case it is not. However, when your ball touches both the fairway and the first cut of rough, it is deemed in the fairway. If the margin of the fairway coincides with the margin of another “loop”, such as putting green, hazard or teeing ground, then that other feature determines the position of the ball.
• There is a hierarchy that ranks the loops with OB on top. In a descending order, OB is followed by water hazards, then Abnormal Ground conditions, then bunkers. This means, for example, if your ball is in a bunker but also touches a red painted line that defines an adjacent lateral water hazard, your ball is in the lateral water hazard.
• #7, the margins of a water hazard extends in the vertical dimension both up and down. So if your ball is suspended above but within the margins of the water hazard, it is IN the hazard (DEF: water hazard)
• #8, anything growing (grass, bush tree) rooted within the area of GUR is considered part of the condition. However, the margins of GUR extend only downward but not upwards. So if your ball is suspended in a bush above and within the margins of the GUR but the bush is rooted outside the margin, you get no relief under this Rule. (DEF: Ground Under Repair
• #9, it is the position of the ball only that determines whether or not a player must take relief for interference with a wrong putting green (R25-3). Unlike interference with Immoveable Obstructions (R24-2) or Abnormal Ground Conditions (R25-1), interference with a wrong putting green is ball position only with no regard to a players stance.
• #10, the margins of a bunker, unlike its cousin the water hazard, do not extend vertically upwards, only downwards (same as GUR). Only OB and water hazards extend vertically up.

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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February 2, 2013

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2013 Amateur Golf Tour Schedule

Raleigh/Pinehurst and Triad Tours

New course and Major* Tournaments in Blue.

* Major Tournaments reward double points to all players and flight winners earn automatic berth to National Championship

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