2014 GOLFWEEK AMATEUR GOLF TOUR 

Tournament at Pinehurst #9

(Formerly The National Golf Club) 

Saturday, July 19, 2014

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June 29, 2014 

• July 5 & July 12 - Bye Weeks
• July 19 - Pinehurst #9 (Formerly The National GC)
• July 26 - Chapel Ridge
• Pinewood Leaderboard
• Golf Rules Q&A: Penalty Stroke Question?  
• 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

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Hole #2, Par 3 - 191 Yds (from the back tees)

Pinehurst has added a new course to their stable, a championship layout, the former National Golf Club, now known as Pinehurst No.9.

The design is a Jack Nicklaus Signature layout of 7,122 yards, 75.5/138, course/slope from the back tees with four shorter tees, and is one challenging layout. It’s reminiscent of Nicklaus’ layouts with generous fairways, strategic bunkering and water features with undulating greens over slightly rolling hills.

"The National property is absolutely beautiful. Its rolling hills, magnificent pines and variety of lakes provided us with elements we needed to design a golf course that would be extra special. The idea has been to preserve and build upon the great golfing tradition which is the Sandhills." - Jack Nicklaus

Legendary in his golf achievements and golf course designs alike, Jack Nicklaus constructed a masterpiece set amidst the long leaf pines of Southern Pines. This 18-hole championship layout will test your mind and your true golfing ability.

There’s plenty of room off the tee, the real challenge is on and around the greensites with severe sloping and undulations with significant collection areas. The back 9 winds through some rolling hills with magnolia, azalea, and dogwood tree lined fairways, and is more challenging than the more straightforward front.

Each hole at Pinehurst No. 9 is unique and isolated, and provides various options and strategies to the hole and par. The course is visually stunning with the tall pines, grassy swales, groomed waste areas and a variety of lakes and stream, and well landscaped throughout.

Expect your peers to have already signed-up.

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

National Golf Club

One Royal Troon Drive

Village of Pinehurst, NC 28374

910-295-4300

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The Tournament at Pinehurst #9 (Formerly National GC)

Event Info:

Saturday - July 19, 2014

Pinehurst #9 (The National GC)

Fee is $80.00

1:30 PM  Shotgun

Physical Address

One Royal Troon Drive
Village of Pinehurst, NC 28374
910-295-4300 - 1-800-471-4339

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THE GOLFWEEK AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

PINEWOOD COUNTRY CLUB

TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT

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IMPRESSIVE DEBUT FOR GOLFWEEK ROOKIE AT PINEWOOD COUNTRY CLUB

Asheboro, NC

June 28, 2014

Photos By Rob Andrews

Sumner Tate of Raleigh got his Golfweek Tour career off to a great start today at Pinewood Country Club. The Championship Flight member not only fired a 1-under 71 for a victory in his first Tour start, but due to the fact that this event was a Major Championship, he also earned himself a spot in the year ending National Championship event in Hilton Head this fall. "That's great, 'cause I really want to compete in that", said Tate.

Tate was 1 shot clear of High Point's Dan Holland for the win due in large part to hitting the fairways consistently. Tate explained "Because I was in the fairway on most holes, I hit some pretty good approach shots. Three of my birdies were tap-ins".

Pinewood Winners: A Flight - Hollis Peery

Championship Flight: Sumner Tate (not shown)

A one stroke win is close, but three of the other four flights were even closer, being settled with sudden-death extra hole playoffs. Hollis Peery and Woody Bullard, both from Fayetteville, finished their A Flight rounds with 76s. Peery emerged the winner in the playoff. It was a good day for Peery who collected $610.00 in Prizes for the day.

Pinewood Winners (L to R)  C Flight - Jason Beeson

B Flight: Steve Marinelli

Mebane's Steve Marinelli was the class of the B Flight with his playoff win over Fayetteville's Lanzo Wallace, while the D Flight king turned out to be Elvis Sheahan of Durham. He likewise took an extra hole to edge Richland, VA's Greg Dotson after both carded regulation 95s.

Pinewood Winner: D Flight - Elvis Sheahan

The only other player to gain an automatic invitation to the Nationals was Jason Beeson of Clemmons. He had a relatively comfortable 4 shot win over Fayetteville's Johnny Sears as the only C Flight player to break 90 with an 89.

The Tour will be taking the next two weeks off, returning to play at Pinehurst #9 (formerly The National) on July 19. There are spots available for that event.

THE GOLFWEEK AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

PINEWOOD COUNTRY CLUB (MAJOR) EVENT

TOP FIVE SCORE BY FLIGHT

CHAMPIONSHIP (6791 yds)

Sumner Tate, Raleigh 71

Dan Holland, High Point 72

Stephen Pippen, Shannon 73

Dan Smith, Kernersville 73

Jared Jewett, Greensboro 74

A FLIGHT (6395 yds)

Hollis Peery, Fayetteville 76

Woody Bullard, Fayetteville 76

Terry Newsome, Winston-Salem 77

Cuong Ton, Greensboro 78

Ryan Hair, Hope Mills 79

B FLIGHT (6395 yds)

Steve Marinelli, Mebane 78

Lanzo Wallace, Fayetteville 78

Joe Rollison, Christiansburg, VA 81

Lanny Ealey, Durham 81

Robert Harty, Charlotte 81

C FLIGHT (6395 yds)

Jason Beeson, Clemmons 89

Johnny Sears, Fayetteville 93

Carlos Simpson, Pittsboro 94

Howard Williams, High Point 94

Andy Bousman, Kernersville 96

James Lingo, Rocky Mount 96

D FLIGHT (6395 yds)

Elvis Sheahan, Durham 95

Greg Dotson, Richland, VA 95

William Beck, Columbia, SC 99

Steven Shadwick, Jackson Springs 100

Bernard Broadnax, Fayetteville 100

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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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Nate is playing a par 3 over a pond marked with yellow stakes.  He skulls his tee shot into the rocks that line the far-side bank and the ball bounces back over the pond coming to rest on the tee side of the water, but still a couple feet inside the margins of the hazard. 

He feels he can play the ball as it lies even though it is on a steep slope.  After removing a couple of leaves he steps about a foot away and takes two practice swings, hitting the ground each time.  Nate then hits this shot fat and it ends up in deep water. 

Nate moves  back about four yards into the fairway, keeping the spot where his ball last crossed the margin of the hazard on his tee shot between him and the flag, and drops a ball which slightly embeds in soft turf.  When he lifts the ball to clean and re-drop a fellow competitor tells Nate there is a Drop Zone to his right about the same distance to the flag. 

So Nate goes to the DZ and drops the ball. The ball rolls 1 1/2 yards towards the hole and comes to rest outside the DZ’s painted white line.  Nate retrieves his ball and re-drops.  This time the ball remains where it was dropped.  He hits this ball onto the green and takes two putts to complete the play of the hole.

In stroke play, how many penalty strokes did Nate just incur?

A. 4

B. 6

C. 7

D. 9

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Answer:

C. 7

1. Moving leaves inside hazard, breach of Rule 13-4c = 2 penalty strokes.

2. Touching ground in hazard while making practice swings, breach of Rule 13-4b = 2 penalty strokes (multiple breach of same Rule, related acts, single penalty.  This could also be construed as testing the condition of the hazard, R13-4a, but would still be considered related acts and single breach.  See Decision 1-4/12)

3. Relief from water hazard, R26-1 = 1 penalty stroke.

4. Playing from wrong place after his dropped ball embedded = 2 penalty strokes.  When he first dropped the ball, it was in play.  He is not “re-dropping” a ball (R20-2c) as a part of the relief procedure from R26-1.  He is taking relief for an embedded ball, R25-2, so any thought of using the DZ should never have come up.   When he played from the DZ he played from a wrong place (R20-7).  Likely not a serious breach. But a 2-stroke penalty under R25.

I have already explained the fact that it is inapplicable to use the DZ as intended.  Thus, at this juncture, the DZ is nothing more than part of the area through the green.  When he dropped the ball in this area, he was doing so under Rule 25-2.  Thus when the ball rolled closer to the hole, the player was required to re-drop (R20-2c).  So what he did was correct under the circumstances even if he though he was probably doing it for the wrong reason. 

If by chance, as you play a hole, your ball comes to rest in a Dropping Zone, treat it like any other part of the course.  The special dropping and re-dropping Rules from Appendix I only apply if the player is dropping a ball in the DZ as an option under whichever Rule is applicable to that DZ (water hazard, TIO, etc.)

Nate should have recorded a 12 on the hole

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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.

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Pinewood Country Club

June 28, 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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