GOLFWEEK 2013 AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

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March 10, 2013

Warmer Weather Forecasted For Saturday!

• Sign-up For FoxFire (West) March 16, 2013
• The Tour Has Started - Where Are You InThe Point Standings Race?
• Golf Rules Q&A - A Review - Ball Moved By Outside Agency - Dog - What Would You Do?
• Tour Weather Guidelines - Review and Reminder

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FoxFire Resort (RedFox Course) Hole # 14 - Par 5 Foxfire Resort and Golf Club features 36 holes of world-class, North Carolina golf. For nearly four decades golfers from across the globe have come to Foxfire, seeking their unique blend of layout, natural beauty and high-quality service. Hall of Fame architect Gene Hamm designed these 36 holes to take full advantage of the rolling hills, soft sandy soils and plentiful area lakes. The course you will be playing this week is the West Course, now called The Red Fox Course which is the members’ favorite. This course offers wide manicured fairways and large elevated fast rolling greens. Water comes into play on 6 holes requiring forced carries from the back tees but with the option of going around the hazards from the forward tees. Fairway bunkers are strategically placed to grab the wayward shot and there is no lack of sand guarding the greens. This beautiful Gene Hamm design offers plenty of “bail out” places to avoid the most severe drop offs and deep faced bunkers. However, be careful while on the greens. The G-6 hybrid bent grass greens hold shots well, but may confound even the best of putters with their characteristic subtle breaks. The Red Fox offers its fair share of risk/reward shots often daring the advanced players to cut corners or play it safe. The 2nd hole is the most difficult at Foxfire. With water on the left and a steep climb to a huge green with a deceiving false front, this par 4 plays much longer than the 408 yards on the scorecard from the back tees. The longest hitters may attempt to carry the water, but they need to fly the ball over 260 yards from the back tees to clear the hazard. The 12th hole measures 573 from the back tees with a tight second shot and a challenging uphill approach to a triple tiered green. We hope you have signed-up and over a beer afterwards hear what is your favorite hole but also your most challenging hole. To register and to sign-up to play, call or email Bruce at 336- 495-6556 or behgolf@aol.com.

LOCAL GOLFERS WIN 4 OF 5 FLIGHTS IN GOLFWEEK BRYAN PARK EVENT

Browns Summit, NC

March 9, 2013

Oxford's Jeff Silver beat Durham's Lanny Ealey on the first hole of a sudden death playoff with a simple 2-putt par to determine the winner of the B Flight in the Golfweek Amateur Golf Tour event held at Bryan Park on the Players Course today.

Both players were the only flight members to break 80 with identical 79s in regulation play. Silver thus became the only flight winner not from the Winston-Salem or Greensboro area.

The first two places in the Championship flight went to Gene Queen (75) and Zach Arms (76) both of whom hail from Winston-Salem (it should be noted that Arms was able to claim 2nd place by virtue of a card playoff between himself and two players: Wake Forest's Jason Ray and Gibsonville resident Neal Faulkner.

In the A Flight it was Greensboro's turn with Ken Carlyle taking the top spot with a 75, one stroke clear of Tour veteran Cuong Ton.

Another Greensboro player turned Champion was Ken White in the D Flight with a 93. Greg Green of Apex broke the local trend with an 94 - good for 2nd.

Chris Cox of Archdale was C Flight "top-dog" for the 3rd and last time this year, shooting an 83. "I've been looking to improve", said Cox. "I figured I was headed for the B Flight. I almost could have finished 'in the money' there today. I look forward to the competition". The C Flight runner-up was Corey Carson of Vana, VA who finished 2 strokes behind Cox with an 85 - his best score in 4 years of Tour competition.

The Golfweek Amateur Tour will next play Foxfire Resort - The Red Course - on Saturday, March 16. Any amateur golfer interested in playing in that event, or any other venue on the Tour schedule can contact Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck at 336-495-6556 or by emailing him at behgolf@aol.com.

THE GOLFWEEK AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

BRYAN PARK (PLAYERS COURSE) EVENT

TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT

CHAMPIONSHIP (6791 yds)

Gene Queen, Winston-Salem 75

Zach Arms, Winston-Salem 76

Jason Ray, Wake Forest 76

Neal Faulkner, Gibsonville 76

Sean Pardue, Greensboro 78

A FLIGHT (6393 yds)

Ken Carlyle, Greensboro 75

Cuong Ton, Greensboro 76

Lee Penland, Randleman 77

Anthony Powell, Colfax 78

Clint Hall, Fieldale, VA 79

Coray Mitchell, Greensboro 79

Robin Gomez, Greensboro 79

B FLIGHT (6393 yds)

Jeff Silver, Oxford 79

Lanny Ealey, Durham 79

Wayne Ferrell, Danville, VA 81

Jim McLean, Hillsborough 82

Tom Vasseur, Raleigh 83

Brett Simon, Kernersville 83

C FLIGHT (6393 yds)

Chris Cox, Archdale 83

Corey Carson, Vana, VA 85

Charles Gunn, Greensboro 86

Charlie Brodie, Oxford 86

Darrell Smith, Julian 87

Landon Wilkes, Apex 87

D FLIGHT (6393 yds)

Ken White, Greensboro 93

Greg Green, Apex 94

Greg Dauscher, Zebulon 97

Greg Dotson, Raven, VA 98

Jeff Jackson, Randleman 98

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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 2013 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.

2013 Point Standings Winners

Raleigh/Pinehurst Tour: Flight Winner

Triad Tour: 2013 Point Standing Flight Winners

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

Questions from week #189

In a 2012 event, Paul Casey’s ball, at rest on the putting green, was picked up by a dog. The dog had a good time of it, running around and was finally nabbed by a spectator. The dog is deemed an outside agency.

Consider the following statements and decide for each if they are True or False:

1. After Paul retrieves the ball, he must replace the ball at the known or estimated spot on the putting green. There is no penalty.

2. If no one, including Paul, had actually seen the dog take the ball, and the ball was not found, it would be deemed lost and Paul would have to proceed under stroke and distance, playing another ball under R27-1.

3. If Paul’s ball were in motion after a stroke from off the putting green and the dog picked it up and ran some distance with it before dropping it, Paul would have no choice but to play the ball from where it was released by the dog.

4. If Paul’s ball were in motion after a stroke from on the putting green and the dog picked it up and ran some distance with it before dropping it, Paul would have no choice but to replace the ball on the estimated spot where the dog first scooped it up.

Answers:

1 and 2 are True.

Because we are concerned with a ball at rest moved by an outside agency, we refer to R18-1. Short and sweet.

For #2 it must be known or virtually certain the ball was indeed moved by an outside agency or the ball would be deemed lost. (See Note to R18-1).

3 and 4 are False.

Because the ball is in motion when deflected/stopped by an outside agency, R19-1 is the reference for both questions.

For scenario “3”, where we are off the green when the stroke is made, Paul must determine where the ball was when the dog picked it up and drop the ball, unless that spot is on a putting green, in which case he would place it on the estimated spot (R19-1a).

For scenario “4” we are on the green and the stroke is cancelled. The ball is replaced and replayed (R19-1b).

Take some time to read the Note attached to Rule 19-1. While this act of picking up the ball would seem to be a deliberate act by the dog, this Note only applies to humans.

For example, if a ball hit by Bubba Watson is purposely deflected by a spectator (an outside agency), the spot where the ball would have ended up would need to be estimated, as per the guidance in the Note. The dog is an animate outside agency and thus covered under the main body of R19-1, not the Note.

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.

GolfWeek Amateur Tour Full Leaderboard

Bryan Park (Players)

March 9, 2013

Tees by Flight:

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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