2014 GOLFWEEK AMATEUR GOLF TOUR 

Tournament at Bryan Park (Players)  

Saturday, March 8, 2014

March 2, 2014

e-newsletter

• March 8 - Bryan Park (Players) Sign-up
• March 15 - Devils Ridge Country Club
• 2014 Golfweek Tour Schedule Attached
• Its All about the Year Long Point Standings Race
• 2014 Golfweek Application Needs to be Completed
• Golf Rules Q&A: A Ladybug on Your Ball?
• Tour Weather Guidelines -Reminder

As always, if you have any questions, or need any assistance, please call me at 336-495-6556, or email me at behgolf@aol.com. I look forward to hearing from you.

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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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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!

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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!"

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GOLFWEEK CURRENT NEWS

TO All NEW & RETURNING GOLFWEEK AMATEURS MEMBERS:  A 2014 APPLICATION IS REQUIRED.

ONLY TWO WAYS TO GET TO THE GOLFWEEK NATIONAL TOURNAMENT

Where Will You Be In The

2014 Year-End Point Standings Race?

Here Are the 2014 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 guaranteed 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 2014.

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.

Check here often to see where you stand* during the 2014 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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PLAYOFFS, "RING-RUST" SHOW IN GOLFWEEK TOUR EVENT

Bermuda Run, NC

March 1, 2014

After having three potential event dates knocked out by unseasonable weather conditions already this year, the Triad and Raleigh/Pinehurst Divisions of the Golfweek Amateur Tour finally got their season rolling at Bermuda Run West Country Club. Even though conditions were suitable for play, temperatures still hovered near freezing at the outset of the shotgun start. While some respectable scores were turned in despite the chill factor, overall scoring was modest, probably due in part to the lack of available warm weather practice time recently.

For two of the 5 Flights contested it took extra holes to determine a winner. In both of those flights the eventual Champion benefited from the generosity of their opponents.

Brian Sepich of Greensboro was joined by Charlotte's David Schmidt and Fayetteville's Larry Hardee in the Championship Flight sudden death shoot-out after all three posted regulation 73s on the par 70 tract. Sepich was conceded a birdie putt to win the match after both playing partners hit their tee shots out-of-bounds on the 1st extra hole.

Raleigh's Matt Pridgen took advantage of a similar situation in the B Flight playoff in his very first Golfweek Tour event as Pinehurst's Tom Kubla took a 3-putt double bogey on his 1st extra hole which allowed Pridgen to claim victory with a 5 on the par-4 1st hole. Both players shot 82 during regulation play.

Joining Pridgen as first time winners "on-Tour" were Atlanta's Wayne Barfield in the C Flight and Fayetteville's Bernard Broadnax in the D Flight. They shot 89 and 92 respectively. Laurenburg's Robin Neverve, a 10-year Tour veteran, shot an 81 - two shots clear of a group of four tour members who posted 83s to emerge victorious in the A Flight.

The Golfweek Tour will tee it up again next Saturday, March 8 at Bryan Park on the Players Course. Openings are available for that event by calling Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck at 336-495-6556.

THE GOLFWEEK AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

BERMUDA RUN (WEST) COUNTRY CLUB

TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT

CHAMPIONSHIP (6547 yds)

Brian Sepich, Greensboro 73

David Schmidt, Charlotte 73

Larry Hardee, Fayetteville 73

Andrew Seefield, Durham 74

Neal Faulkner, Gibsonville 78

A FLIGHT (6547 yds)

Robin Neverve, Laurenburg 81

Dan Anthony, Thomasville 83

Terry Newsome, Winston-Salem 83

Dennis Killough, Pinehurst 83

Ken Carlyle, Greensboro 83

B FLIGHT (6147 yds)

Matt Pridgen, Raleigh 82

Tom Kubla, Pinehurst 82

Burt Flowers, Lewisville 83

Jack Frazier, Clemmons 83

Greg Martin, Whitsett 84

C FLIGHT (6147 yds)

Wayne Barfield, Atlanta 89

Steven Russ, Advance 90

Andy Bousman, Kernersville 91

Greg Dauscher, Raleigh 92

Landon Wilkes, Apex 96

D FLIGHT (6147 yds)

Bernard Broadnax, Fayetteville 92

Joe Henderson, Greensboro 95

Keith Thomas, Greensboro 98

Mike Charles, Piney Point, MD 108

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Question from week #240

Decide True or False for the following:

1. My ball lies in the fairway and there is a ladybug on my ball. I may touch the ladybug with my finger to remove her from my ball.

2. My ball lies in a fairway bunker and there is a ladybug on my ball. I may touch the ladybug with my finger to remove her from my ball.

3. My ball lies on the putting green and there is a ladybug on my ball. In the process of waving my hat to remove the ladybug, I accidentally move my ball. I am penalized one stroke and must replace the ball.

4. My ball lies on the fringe and there is a cloverleaf stuck on the back of my ball. I may use a tee to remove the leaf.

Answers:

1. True – The Rules do not specify how a player may remove an insect from their ball. Therefore most any method is permitted: blowing, using a tee or even a finger. However, the player is responsible for not moving the ball in the process. R18-2a specifically states the player is not to purposely touch the ball. So if you plan on using your finger or tee, be very careful not to touch the ball in the process. This is why you see most pros blow or wave a had to get a bug off their ball. See Definition: Loose Impediment and R23-1.

2. False –Yes the lady bug is a loose impediment, but with our ball in a hazard, we are prohibited from touching any loose impediments. Unlike a leaf, the insect is perfectly capable of leaving under her own will, so the player is not prohibited from employing some other method to get her to “bug off” like waiving hand, hat, towel.

See Decision 23-1/5 for more detail on the first two questions.

3. False. There is no penalty. Read R23-1. On the putting green, even if the ball is not marked, the player is not penalized if the ball moves as a direct result of removing a loose impediment. The only requirement is to replace the ball.

4. False – anything that is adhering or “stuck” on the ball is not deemed a loose impediment (see Definition: Loose Impediment). Things like grass clippings or even small leaves may stick to a ball in wet or damp, dewy conditions. We should expect such things to happen and deal with them accordingly. If the player were to remove the item it is a 1-stroke penalty for cleaning the ball other than when permitted by R21.

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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

Bermuda Run (WEST)

March 1, 2014

 
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2014 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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