2014 GOLFWEEK AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

Tournament at Stoney Creek Golf Club

Saturday, June 28, 2014

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June 24, 2014

• June 28 - PineWood Country Club (3rd Major)
• July 5 & July 12 - Bye Weeks
• July 19 - The National GC
• Stoney Creek Leaderboard
• Golf Rules Q&A: 14 Clubs and Rule 4 - 4?
• Please add the following email to your address book: sandhillsgolf@amateurgolftour.net
• 2014 Golfweek Tour Schedule Attached
• Its All about the Year Long Point Standings Race
• 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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This private course offers enough variety of terrain to challenge all of the flights within the tour. There are trees and water hazards that come into play throughout the course. However good scores can be had - just look at the defending flight winners from last year.

• Also, this is the 3rd major of the season where double points are awarded to everyone who plays and flight winners get their tickets punched with an automatic invite to the year-ending National Tournament in Pinehurst.

Over twelve years ago, the course underwent several changes. "If you played the course then, you noticed that a pretty good shot near the middle of some fairways would sometimes take an erratic bounce and roll into the rough. Many fairways were too high in the middle, sloped too severely to the sides. They fixed that and also did some mounding on the sides along with some waste bunkering to alleviate some good-shots-gone-bad situations.

In addition, they reshaped the greens areas and put in some bunkers to catch errant shots that would ordinarily be in deep trouble."Plus, they redid the greens and installed A-1. Pinehurst No. 8 has that grass, and it was put in at Pinehurst No. 2 during their recent renovation. The signature hole is #8, a 215-yard, par 3 from the back tees, requiring a tee shot over water.

You should enjoy this course for its challenge to your game and the fact it was recently rated 4 stars by the Triad Golf Panel. What a treat.

In the last few years, Pinewood has hosted the following events:

• 1997 NC Junior Amateur
• 2000 Club Pro-Amateur Championship
• 2006 NC Amateur Qualifying
• 2007 NC Senior Amateur
• 2007 Wyndham Championship Qualifying for PGA Tour
• 2008 US Senior Open Qualifying
• 2009 NC Mid-Amateur
• 2010 US Junior Qualifying
• 2011 US Amateur Qualifying
• 2011 NGA Hooters Tour Tournament
• 2011 NC Womens Senior Amateur Tournament
• 2012 NC Junior Qualifying
• 2013 NC Mid Amateur Qualifying
• 2013 NC Amateur Qualifying
• 2013 NC Women's Amateur Championship

Expect your peers to have already signed-up.

Call Bruce Hallenbeck at 336-495-6556 or email him at behgolf@aol.com.

Pinewood Country Club

247 Pinewood Road

Asheboro, NC 27203
PH: 336.629.4266

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Tournament at Pinewood

Event Info:

Saturday, June 28, 2014

Pinewood Country Club

Fee is $75.00

1:30 PM Shotgun

Physical Address:

247 Pinewood Road -

Asheboro, NC 27203
PH: 336.629.4266

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• 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!).

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THE GOLFWEEK AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

STONEY CREEK GOLF CLUB

TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT

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CARLYLE MAKES IT 2 GOLFWEEK WINS IN-A-ROW AT STONEY CREEK

Whitsett, NC

June 21, 2014

Greensboro's Ken Carlyle took the top spot in the A Flight for the second consecutive week on the Golfweek Amateur Golf Tour. After winning the flight last week at Bryan Park - The Champions Course, Carlyle simply reloaded and turned the same trick today at Stoney Creek Golf Club. His 77 was 3 shots clear of Raleigh's Spurling Cook.

While Carlyle was continuing his winning ways, a newcomer stepped into the winner's circle for the first time "on-Tour". Jeff Shanberg of Browns Summit took home his first Tour trophy in the C Flight with a 90. He too enjoyed a 3-stroke margin of victory. Raleigh's Shirral Davis, a long-standing Tour veteran was runner-up to Shanberg.

The most closely contested flight was the D Flight where Mike Charles of Piney Point, Md and Greg Green of Apex finished tied for first after their original 18 holes, both shooting 96. The sudden death playoff was finished in short order on the first hole of extra play with Charles emerging as the victor.

It was also a pretty tight finish in the B Flight with Albemarle's Rick Honeycutt edging two players - Jimmy Adams of Greenville and Whispering Pines' Eric Friar by a single stroke - 78 to 79. After securing the win, Honeycutt stated "I'll play A Flight next week at Pinewood".

Another player slated to play next week at the Tour's Third "Major" of the season at Pinewood Country Club is Winston-Salem's Gene Queen, winner of the Championship Flight. Queen's 72 was 2 clear of Gibsonville's Neal Faulkner - last week's victor at Bryan Park.

THE GOLFWEEK AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

STONEY CREEK GOLF CLUB EVENT

TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT

CHAMPIONSHIP (6627 yds)

Gene Queen, Winston-Salem 72

Neal Faulkner, Gibsonville 74

Jared Chinn, Fort Bragg 76

Park Williams, Kernersville 77

Kevin Bowman, Summerfield 78

A FLIGHT (6627 yds)

Ken Carlyle, Greensboro 77

Spurling Cook, Raleigh 80

Cuong Ton, Greensboro 81

Joe Magyar, Burlington 84

Terry Newsome, Winston-Salem 86

B FLIGHT (6327 yds)

Rick Honeycutt, Albemarle 78

Jimmy Adams, Greenville 79

Eric Friar, Whispering Pines 79

Greg Martin, Whitsett 80

Quinton Tolar, Benson 81

C FLIGHT (6327 yds)

Jeff Shanberg, Browns Summit 90

Shirral Davis, Raleigh 93

Jason Beeson, Clemmons 94

Landon Wilkes, Apex 96

Howard Williams, High Point 96

D FLIGHT (6327 yds)

Mike Charles, Piney Point, Md 96

Greg Green, Apex 96

Keith Thomas, Greensboro 97

Bernard Broadnax, Fayetteville 98

Frank Mitchel, Mebane 101

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GOLFWEEK CURRENT NEWS

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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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THE RULES OF GOLF

Rule 4-4

Over a recent crowed and busy weekend, your helpful Golf Rules Committee did a random club count on member’s bags. Out of slightly over 100 checked, 11

were found to have in excess of 14 clubs. If that less than scientific survey is accurate, then approximately 10% of the membership knowingly breaches Rule

4-4 every time they play.

You may be thinking, sure they had more than 14 clubs, but on the first tee, they declared the excess clubs out of play. Guess what? That does not comply with

the Rule.

Rule 4-4, Maximum of Fourteen Clubs, states in section “a”, very first sentence:

The player must not start a stipulated round with more than fourteen

clubs.

That’s it. It doesn’t say he can show up with more than fourteen, provided the excess clubs are declared out of play. It is clearly written that way for a reason.

If you start the round with more than 14 clubs, there is no way you can avoid the penalty. And the penalties for not complying are severe:

· In Match Play – At the conclusion of the hole at which the breach is discovered, the state of the match is adjusted by deduction one hole for each hole at which the breach occurred; maximum deduction per round of two holes.

So in the case of showing up at the tee for a match, acknowledging to your opponent you have in excess of 14 clubs, and after declaring the excess clubs out of play, at the conclusion of the 1st hole, you will have

one hole deducted. If you win the first hole, you would be all square; if you halve the first hole, you would be one down; and if you lose the first hole, you would be two down.

· In Stroke Play – Two strokes for each hole at which any breach occurred; maximum penalty per round – four strokes (two strokes at each of the first two holes at which the breach occurred.)

If you show up at the first tee for a stroke play event with more than 14 clubs and despite declaring the excess clubs out of play, you will still have to add two strokes to your score on the first hole.

· Fourball Match Play & Stroke Play – If one partner breaches Rule 4-4, then the side is penalized. That means you and your partner suffer identical penalties as

described in the top two bullets.

This is the lesson you must understand…if you are playing in some sort of official event, particularly with prizes or trophies for the victors, then the event probably has an official Notice to Competitors or Conditions for the Competition in print.

Guaranteed; 99% of the time the notice will state something to the effect that the competition being conducted under the Rules of Golf as written by the USGA. It may also include a reminder to all competitors that a maximum or 14 clubs is in effect. This is a no-brainer, all you fellow competitors. Do not begin the

stipulated round with more than 14 clubs—you cannot avoid a penalty if you do.

If you have a weighted training club that meets the definition of a club as published in Appendix II of the Rules of Golf, then it counts as a club.

You may carry such a club during the round, but it counts as one of your 14 clubs. Make sure the training club conforms if you take this path. You may not place the excess club somewhere in your cart and escape the fact that you still have more than 14 clubs in your possession.

Give it to the starter, or better yet, leave it in your car, locker or with the shop before you arrive at your starting hole. This is particularly critical for shot-gun starts as there is nobody to give it to.

Rule 4-4c states that upon discovery of more than 14 clubs, the player must declare the excess clubs out of play to his opponent in match play or to his marker/fellow competitor in stroke play. Failure to act immediately after discovery results in disqualification.

Once discovered and a club is selected and deemed out of play under Rule 4-4c, it may not be used for the remainder of the stipulated round under penalty of disqualification. (There is one special exception to that last sentence, which I am reluctant to bring up; but for the curious, see Decision 4-4c/2).

Finally, what you do in your casual, non-event rounds is your business when it comes to your club count. If your playing companions tolerate your excess clubs, then it makes little difference to the Handicap Committee or Rules Committee.

What does matter is that you know you have to clean up your act for certain events.

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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

Stoney Creek

June 21, 2014

Tees by Flight:

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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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