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September 16, 2012

• Sign-up for Crooked Creek - October 4
• Hyland Hills Results and Full LeaderBoard.
• Golf Rules Q&A - Dropping Your Ball?
• Quick Links to Sign-up and To View Tour Schedule
• Where are you in the Year Long Point Standings Race?
• Secure Your PCs and Secure Your Identity!!
• What's the Hottest Tool That's Responsible for Low Scores this Season - Improve Your Mental Side of Golf.
• Consider the Medicus Driver for Longer Drives
• Identity Theft & Cybersecurity is Out of Control?
• Tour Weather Guidelines Reminder

Congratulations to all Winners and low scores at Hyland Hills.  If you did not win a Major this year and want to attend the National Finals, you need to be in the Top 10 in your Flight.  

So, 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 is about options when dropping your ball.

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

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Event Info:

Crooked Creek

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Fee is $55.00

10:00 AM Shotgun

Physical Address:

Crooked Creek Golf Club
4621 Shady Greens Drive
Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526
(919) 557-7529
(919) 557-7530 (fax)

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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.

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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.

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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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• 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!"

RENTED CLUBS, PLAYOFF BIRDIE, SUB PAR ROUND TOP SENIOR AM TOUR EVENT

Southern Pines, NC

September 13, 2012

On a day when winning scores were impressive in all four flights contested during the Senior Amateur Golf Tour event held at Hyland Golf Club, interesting stories were not hard to find. While many low scores were posted throughout the flights, three particular incidents caught most of the attention.

In the A Flight, Greensboro's Jim Finnegan rented a set of golf clubs to compete in today's event. He was having new shafts put in his regular "sticks". All Finnegan did with the rentals was fire a 73 to win his first A Flight event "on-Tour" and register his personal best score ever. One of his fellow competitors quipped that he ought to consider taking out a long-term lease on the clubs he used today. He needed every good shot those clubs produced as narrowly edged out two other Tour members - Randy Jones of Greensboro and Rockingham's James McMillan by a single stroke.

Playoff magic was produced in the C Flight by Pittsboro's Dick Schuler. Schuler finished regulation play tied with Raleigh's Benny Miller. Both had posted extremely low scores for the C Flight with 82s just to get into the playoff. On the first extra hole of "Sudden Death", Schuler won the playoff in Championship Flight style by rolling in a 15-foot birdie putt right after Miller had lipped his own birdie out from 2 feet further away. "Both of these guys showed some pretty strong C Flight golf today" said Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck.

In mentioning "Championship Flight style", David Williams of Cary produced some of his own in the Championship Flight by posting a 1-under par round of 71 to take top honors in the top flight. Three birdies helped him to a 3-shot win over Jackson Springs' George Shadwick and Richard Gant of Pinehurst.

Greensboro's Tim Ward also had to post an impressive score to prevail in the B Flight. He responded with a 75 to beat last event's winner at Anderson Creek, Louis Herndon of Graham, by 2 strokes. "You gotta be tough to beat Louis recently", stated Hallenbeck. "Tim was obviously up to the task today".

The Senior Tour will once again be taking a two week break from competition and will resume play with an October 4th date at Crooked Creek Golf Club in Fuquay-Varina. There are openings for that event.

THE SENIOR AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

HYLAND GOLF CLUB EVENT

TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT

CHAMPIONSHIP (6155 yds )

David Williams, Cary 71

George Shadwick, Jackson Springs 74

Richard Gant, Pinehurst 74

John East, Rockingham 76

Mark Craige, Cary 77

Arch Reed, Pinehurst 77

A FLIGHT (6155 yds)

Jim Finnegan, Greensboro 73

Randy Jones, Greensboro 74

James McMillan, Rockingham 74

Dean McCoy, Pfafftown 75

Mike Johnson, Knightdale 75

B FLIGHT (6155 yds)

Tim Ward, Greensboro 75

Louis Herndon, Graham 77

Glenn Wright, Pittsboro 79

Mike Garber, Carthage 79

Sam Carpenter, Charlotte 80

Neil Bleau, Durham 80

Randy Robbins, Smithfield 80

C FLIGHT (6155 yds)

Dick Schuler, Pittsboro 82

Benny Miller, Raleigh 82

Richard Hartley, High Point 84

James Eatmon, Sims 84

Mike Robinson, Greensboro 86

Brian Costine, Durham 86

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.

Question from week #163

Larry has found his tee ball up under a bush where he has determined it is unplayable. Under penalty of one stroke he has opted to drop using option “c” from R28 and marks the limit of his two club-lengths from the spot of his ball for his drop.

Select from the following statements all correct answers:

1. Larry marked the limit of his two club drop with a tee, if his ball comes to rest against the tee, he should re-drop.

2. Larry marked the limit of his two club drop with a club, if his ball comes to rest against the club, he should re-drop..

3. Larry marked the limit of his two club drop with a pine cone, if his ball comes to rest against the pine cone, he may remove the pine cone. If his ball moves, there is no penalty.

4. Larry marked the limit of his two club drop area with a coin. His ball rolled overtop the coin and came to rest about a foot away. Provided his ball did not come to rest nearer the hole than where it originally lay and did not roll more than two club-lengths away from the point where it first struck a part of the course when dropped, it is in play and he need not re-drop.

Answer

The correct answers are 2 and 4.

Answer 1 is not correct. If a tee, coin or other small object is used to mark the extent of an area for dropping a ball, by exception it is temporarily not classified as equipment (see Definition: Equipment). This is important because if a dropped ball comes in contact with the equipment of any player, it must be re-dropped (R20-2a). There are no limits as to the number of times a ball must be dropped if it comes in contact with equipment.

Answer 2 is correct. A club is not a “small object” typically used to mark the extent of a drop. So if Larry’s ball comes in contact with his club, it must be re-dropped.

Answer 3 is not correct because, like the club he used in #2, a pine cone also does not change descriptive category to that of a small object; it remains a loose impediment. So now, with Larry’s ball against the pine cone, if he moves the pine cone and his ball moves as a result, he has breached R18-2a. (See R23-1)

Answer 4 is correct. Any time a ball is dropped it may roll up to two club-lengths away from where it first struck a part of the course on the drop. The coin at this point is not equipment, so the fact that his ball rolled overtop the coin is of no concern. Since he got to drop in an area extending 2 club-lengths from where his ball originally lay and the ball could roll another two club-lengths after being dropped, Larry’s ball could come to rest essentially 4 club-lengths away from where it originally lay without needing to be re-dropped.

When marking the extent of an area for dropping a ball, the idea is to follow the recommended practice as implied in the Rules and mark using a tee, coin or similar small object (divot repair tool). A ball can roll up to two club-lengths on any drop, so a tee or coin won’t have much influence on the movement of a dropped ball. A club or other large piece of equipment could have significant influence, however, and for that reason, if used for that purpose would require the player to drop again if his ball came in contact with the equipment.

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Senior Amateur Full Leaderboard

Hyland Hills

September 13, 2012

TEES BY FLIGHT:

 All Flights:  White Tees; Rating - 69.5; Slope - 133; Yard - 6155

TTour 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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