2013 GOLFWEEK AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

e-newsletter Summary

April 14, 2013

• Sign-up For Bentwinds - April 20, 2013
• Sapona Ridge - Winners and Full Leaderboard
• Improve Your Golf Swing and Your Golf Mental Toughness
• The Tour Has Started - Where Are You InThe Point Standings Race?
• Golf Rules Q&A: Ground Under Repair (GUR) or Loose Impediments - What Should you Do?
• Tour Weather Guidelines - Review and Reminder

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FOUR 1ST-TIME WINNERS HIGHLIGHT GOLFWEEK AM TOUR EVENT

Lexington, NC

April 13, 2013

Four Golfweek Amateur Golf Tour members who had never entered the winner's circle "on-Tour" before, walked away with 1st place trophies today at Sapona Ridge Country Club.

Claiming the top spot in 4 of the 5 flights contested were: Fayetteville's Ryan Hair in the A Flight, Eddie Warren of Kernersville in "B", the C Flight's Jim Mercer from Alexandria Ohio, and finally Kurt Bryant of Fayetteville in the D Flight.

The lone previous winner was Advance's Mike Meadows in the Championship Flight who has claimed multiple Tour wins, including a previous 1st at Sapona Ridge.

Of the 4 "first-timers" all posted career low scores. Hair shot 75, Warren a 79, Mercer an 85, and Bryant a 93.

Grant Powell of Colfax was 2nd in the A Flight with a 76. Jeffery Silver of Oxford and Jimmy Adams of Greenville were runners-up in "B" with 80s.

The C Flight saw Greensboro's AJ Haardt finish "in-the-money" for the 1st time in his rookie campaign as he tied Fayetteville's Will Staten for 2nd with 87s.

Last week's D Flight winner, Zebulon's Greg Dauscher, was 2nd this time with a 97.

Kyle Gee of Lewisville and Neal Faulkner of Gibsonville finished tied for 2nd in the Championship Flight with 79s.

Next week the Golfweek Amateur Tour takes it's show to Fuquay-Varina to play Bentwinds Country Club, another private venue "on-Tour".

Openings are available for that event and any amateur golfer interested in playing can contact Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck at 336-495-6556 for information on how to enter.

THE GOLFWEEK AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

SAPONA RIDGE COUNTRY CLUB EVENT

TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT

CHAMPIONSHIP (6631 yds)

Mike Meadows, Advance 78

Kyle Gee, Colfax 79

Neal Faulkner, Gibsonville 79

Mike Smith, Lewisville 80

Ron Hockensmith, Whispering Pines 80

A FLIGHT (6218 yds)

Ryan Hair, Fayetteville 75

Grant Powell, Colfax 76

David Randall, Pinehurst 78

Terry Newsome, Winston-Salem 79

Dan Anthony, Thomasville 79

B FLIGHT (6218 yds)

Eddie Warren, Kernersville 79

Jeffrey Silver, Oxford 80

Jimmy Adams, Greenville 80

Richard McMinis, Raleigh 82

Bob Sheahan, Apex 83

C FLIGHT (6218yds)

Jim Mercer, Alexandria, OH 85

AJ Haardt, Greensboro 87

Will Staten, Fayetteville 87

Paul Chanthaphone, Greensboro 89

Landon Wilkes, Apex 90

D FLIGHT (6218 yds)

Kurt Bryant, Fayetteville 93

Greg Dauscher, Zebulon 97

Elvis Sheahan, Apex 100

Byron Talton, Greensboro 105

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"Improve your golf mental toughness 10-fold"

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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

2013 Year-End Point Standings Race?

Here Are the 2013 Point Standings By Tour

Raleigh/Pinehurst Tour

Triad Tour Point Standings

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.

To see where you stand* during the 2013 Tour, click your Tour city below:

Raleigh/Pinehurst Tour Point Standings

Triad Tour Point Standings

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

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

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Question from week #195

Patti’s drive comes to rest in the fairway in an area where the club’s resident Canada Geese gaggle apparently held a party and sleep-over. She believes this area should be deemed ground under repair, and that she is entitled to relief under R25-1, Abnormal Ground Condition.

She lifts, cleans and drops her ball free of the area. It is then that a fellow competitor tells her that the goose droppings are loose impediments and not GUR and that she must play the ball from her original position.

So Patti again lifts her ball, uses her foot to remove a couple of the “loose impediments”, and replaces her ball on its original spot. She hits her next ball onto the green and takes two putts to complete the play of the hole.

What is Patti’s score for the hole?

A. 4

B. 5

C. 6

D. 7

Answer

B. Patti made four strokes at her ball and had one penalty stroke for a total of 5.

Patti’s mistake was assuming the area her tee ball ended up was GUR. An area that is not marked as GUR by the Committee cannot be deemed so by any player, only by a member of the Committee or a designated representative. Had she asked her fellow competitors, she likely would have learned the proper designation for the droppings are loose impediments. As disgusting as that effort may seem, the player is allowed to move them at will.

Since she could not take relief under R25-1, when she lifted her ball she breached R18-2. She is penalized one stroke and must replace the ball. Even though her ball is in play where she dropped free of the area, R20-6 affords her the authority to correct her error.

If she fails to correct her error, her 1-stroke penalty becomes a Loss of Hole penalty in match play or 2-stroke penalty in stroke play for playing from a wrong place.

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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

Sapona Ridge

April 13, 2013

Tees by Flight:

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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