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Grandover Resort (West) 

e-newsletter Summary

July1, 2012

• Sign-up for Grandover Resort (West)
• Bryan Park (Players) Results and Full LeaderBoard
• Golf Rules Q&A - Playing From the Hazard 
• Quick Links to Sign-up and To View Tour Schedule
• Where are you in the Year Long Point Standings Race?
• Do You Have Problems With the Mental Side of Golf?
• Need Back Pain or Leg Pain Relief?
• Concerned About Identity Theft & Cybersecurity?
• Tour Weather Guidelines Reminder

Congratulations to all Bryan Park (Players) Major Winners.  

Where are you in the end-of-year Point Standing Race?  Will you secure your spot to the National Tour at Pinehurst? See links at bottom of e-newsletter to see where you stand.

Rules Review question this week helps you better understand when you can and can not add a club during a round.

Check the  Full Leaderboard at the bottom of the newsletter to see how you fared against the competition in your flight. 

We see more of you getting comfortable with clicking and buying online from the comfort of your home and having products shipped to your door. 

 A new product helps reduce back and leg pain.   Please click on the video link.

Other products and services will continue to be added and we know you will find these services and prices to your liking and advantage as well.  Let us know what other products you would like to see added and your experience when ordering here.

Don’t miss playing this beautiful course in Greensboro.

Grandover is always in pristine condition, is a great course to play and one that can challenge you if you don't keep it in the fairway. It was designed on rolling terrain in 1997.

The course is lined with towering hardwoods, and most of the elevated greens have moderate undulations and can be fast but true.

This is a favorite for all who have played.

Event Info:

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Grandover Resort (West)

Fee is $65.00

10:00 AM Shotgun

Physical Address:

One Thousand Club Road
Greensboro, North Carolina 27407
Toll Free: (800) 472-6301

Directions to Grandover Resort

To reserve your place and to sign-up, please reply to this email, sign-up on-line or call Bruce Hallenbeck.

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336-495-6556

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To reserve your place and to sign-up, please reply to this email, sign-up on-line or call Bruce Hallenbeck.

"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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Several who had been suffering from various types of back pain and sciatica noticed immediate improvement.

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BURLINGTON'S ROBERSON "CLEANS UP" IN SENIOR TOUR MAJOR

Browns Summit, NC

June 28, 2012

It's not like he hadn't won anything "on-Tour" before. Burlington's Gary Roberson had already tasted victory this season at Forest Oaks Country Club. But the way he accomplished his win at Bryan Park, The Players Course, in the season's 3rd Major Championship was somewhat special.

He was the only player in the field to post a sub-par round with a 71 to take top honors in the Championship Flight. Also, in a field of 109 players, all of whom were eligible to win one of the four closest-to-the-pin prizes, Roberson managed to walk away with 2 of them, including a triple-matted and framed large picture of one of the holes on which he was closest - the 174 yard, 11th hole.

Roberson needed every good shot that he hit, edging fellow Burlington resident Craig Cathey, Danville's Kevin Kiser, and Raleigh's Doug Michal, who all finished at even-par.

The A Flight was just as hotly contested, as Pinehurst's Richard Gant earned a 1 stroke victory over Charlotte's Billy Poteat, 74 to 75. Six others were 2 strokes back at 76. It was Gant's first Tour win. Gant, like the other 3 flight winners today, because of the "Major status of this event, guaranteed himself a spot in the season-ending National Tour Championship event to be held in Pinehurst in early November. That event brings together the top players from all 13 senior Tours up and down the East Coast.

It took extra holes for Glenn Wright of Pittsboro to "punch his ticket" to the Tour Finals in the B Flight. Wright finished regulation play tied with Cary's Russ Padgett and Greensboro's Tim Ward after all 3 posted 77s. As is the case with all 1st place ties on-Tour, they headed out for a sudden death playoff. Wright ended it quickly with a par on the 1st extra hole. Ironically, Wright had less playoff experience than either of his opponents, with Padgett winning last week's event at The Dormie Club in a playoff, and this being the 4th playoff in which Ward has competed. "Heck, not only is this my first win, this is the first time I've broken 80 on-Tour", said Wright.

Competition in the C Flight was close as well as three Tour veterans vied for the top spot, with Archdale's Elby Hatfield emerging as the winner. His 81 nipped both Graham's Richard Farrington and John Hall of Raleigh by a single stroke.

The Tour takes next week off for the 4th of July holiday and resumes play at Grandover resort on July 12. There are openings available for that event.

THE SENIOR AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

BRYAN PARK - PLAYERS COURSE

MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIP

TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT

CHAMPIONSHIP (6371 yds)

Gary Roberson, Burlington 71

Craig Cathey, Burlington 72

Kevin Kiser, Danville 72

Dou Michal, Raleigh 72

Mark Craige, Apex 74

Eddie McBride, Lewisville 74

Rick LaFata, Raleigh 74

A FLIGHT (6371 yds)

Richard Gant, Pinehurst 74

Billy Poteat, Charlotte 75

JIm Alford, Zebulon 76

Dale Casey, Zebulon 76

Jose Vigil, Fayetteville 76

Raymond Newman, Danville 76

B FLIGHT (6182 yds)

Glenn Wright, Pittsboro 77

Russ Padgett, Cary 77

Tim Ward, Greensboro 77

Jeff Moore, Burlington 78

Dawson Strider, Advance 78

C FLIGHT (6182 yds)

Elby Hatfield, Archdale 81

Richard Farrington, Graham 82

John Hall, Raleigh 82

Bill McGee, Durham 83

Dennis Bryant, Sophia 84

Where are you in the Point Standings Race?

There is great competition for the Top 10  golfers in each Flight which gets you a berth to the National Tournament in Pinehurst.

To see where you stand click here: 

Raleigh/Pinehurst Senior Tour Point Standings

Triad Senior Tour Point Standings

Click Here for Sr. Tour 2012 Schedule

Senior Amateur Golf Tour Schedule

Triad and Raleigh-Pinehurst Tour

ONLY WHEN THE FORM OF PLAY IS A FACTOR WILL IT BE STATED

If you do not have a Rules of Golf book handy, go to:

http://www.usga.org/Rule-Books/Rules-of-Golf/Rules-and-Decisions/

If you have any questions pertaining to this or previous quizzes, please ask.

Questions from week #153

Part I: Sue hit her tee ball ball into a lateral water hazard where she thinks it is playable. She then makes a stroke at this ball but it does not clear the hazard margin, but she still feels it is playable. Her next attempt is successful and she gets the ball back onto the fairway.

What does Sue lie in the fairway?

A. 3

B. 4

C. 5

Part II: Sue hit her tee ball ball into a lateral water hazard where she thinks it is playable. She then makes a stroke at this ball but it does not clear the hazard margin, but she still feels it is playable. Her next attempt is worse yet and now the ball is not playable. Without marking the position of her ball, Sue lifts her ball, cleans it, and drops it back in the hazard at the spot from which she just played. After the drop she decides it is not playable. She again lifts the ball without marking its position, exits the hazard and drops a different ball within two club-lengths of and not nearer the hole where her tee ball last crossed the margin of the lateral water hazard.

Sue made a stroke at this ball and hit it just short of the green, what doe she lie short of the green?

A. 5

B. 6

C. 7

D. 8

Answers:

Q 1. A., Sue lies 3. No Rule breaches, just count the strokes.

Q2. B, Sue lies 6 short of the green. She will have made four strokes at her ball and has two penalty strokes. The first penalty stroke occurred when she took relief under R26-1a, dropping at the spot of her previous stroke (the spot of her first stroke from within the hazard). When she decided she could not make a stroke at this dropped ball she incurred a second 1 stroke penalty under R26-1-c, by dropping outside the hazard within two club-lengths of the point where her ball last crossed the margin of the hazard on her original tee ball.

~~If a ball is to be lifted under a Rule that does not require it to be replaced, there is no requirement to mark before lifting.

~~Any time a player lifts a ball under a Rule, with three exceptions, they may clean it. The three exceptions are listed in Rule 21.

~~Anytime a player proceeds under one of the relief options for R26, they may substitute a ball.

When Sue decided she could no longer attempt to play the ball from the hazard, since this is a lateral hazard, she had three relief options all under penalty of one stroke. Two of the options are based upon where her ball last crossed the margin of the hazard and one is based upon the spot of her last stroke from outside the margin. In Sue’s case, all of these spots are associated with her tee ball. To take relief out side the margin,

Sue can either:

• Return to the spot of her last stroke made from outside the margin of the hazard (the teeing ground) and put a ball into play, or
• Locate the spot on the margin of the hazard where her ball last crossed the margin, and keep that spot between her and the hole, retreating behind the hazard as far as she chooses to drop a ball, or
• (For lateral water hazards only) locate the spot on the margin of the hazard where her ball last crossed the margin, and drop within 2 club-lengths of that spot, no closer to the hole or if she desires on the opposite margin within 2 club-lengths of the point on the margin that is equidistant from the hole.

The reference for this information is found in Rule 26-2. To fully understand what you are reading in this Rule, pay close attention to the paragraph and sub-paragraph structure or it gets very confusing.

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Senior Amateur Full Leaderboard

Bryan Park (Players)

June 28, 2012

TEES BY FLIGHT:

Champ & A: White Tees; Rating - 70.4; Slope -; Yard - 6371        B & C: Gold Tees; Rating- 67.7; Slope- 116; Yards- 6182

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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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