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SPECIAL NOTICE & INVITATION:
SENIOR TOURNAMENT AT THE PENINSULA CC AT LAKE NORMAN ON AUGUST 25, 2014
For Immediate Distribution & Action:
To Triad, Triangle/Pinehurst Senior Tours Take Advantage of Your Bye Week To Play
The Peninsula Country Club at Lake Norman
10:00 AM Start Time
Monday, August 25, 2014
Seniors,
You are being invited to play on Monday August 25th at Lake Norman and the beautiful Peninsula CC. The Peninsula put in Champion Bermuda greens last year so expect spectacular putting surfaces.
Please email back ASAP if you are playing The Peninsula as it always fills up fast! dmac@amateurgolftour.net
Peninsula Tournament: Pay On-line Here $88.00
Peninsula practice round rate is $60 (Tuesday-Thursday Only)! Your name must be on the player list with the course to be able to play a practice round.
Tee Boxes:
Champ & A Flight: Black Tees (6393)
B & C Flight: White Tees (6150) Play #9, 10 and 18 par fives from the Blue Tees
Dennis McCormac
Tour Director 704-844-8264
dmac@amateurgolftour.net
Sandhills Golf Pro
736 Mallard Dr.
Randleman, NC27317
336-495-6556
behgolf@aol.com
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SENIOR TOUR MEMBERS GAIN PROMOTIONS AFTER FOREST OAKS TOURNAMENT
Greensboro, NC
July 31, 2014
Playing on some of the best fairways the Tour has seen in recent memory, Sanford's Chuck Smith and Dennis Bryant of Sophia both moved up a notch to a higher level of competition with their results on the Senior Amateur Golf Tour event held at Forest Oaks Country Club. Both golfers had their Tour handicaps lowered enough with today's scores to gain promotions to the next level of competition.
Smith, who is competing in his first year "on-Tour", will go from B Flight to A after posted a 76 that was 3 strokes better than Graham's Daniel Floyd and High Point's Homer Baker. Smith has been a consistent force in the B Flight since the season's start.
Bryant, who has been a C Flight regular for quite a few years, fired a 78. He also enjoyed a 3 shot margin of victory over Pittsboro's Dwight Davis. "Both Smith and Bryant hit the ball a long way", noted Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck. "That's always been there. The improvement with the rest of their game has been noticeable".
Playing from almost 500 yards further back than the B & C Flights, Champ and A Flight winners produced the same winning scores. 76 was enough to take the top spot in both flights, although the Championship Flight winner, Craig Sturdivant, had to do a little extra for his win. The Sanford resident had to hold off High Point's Joey Moffitt in a sudden-death playoff for the win.
Raleigh's Don Moore in the A Flight didn't have to put in that "overtime" as he was 2 shots clear of Zebulon's Jim Alford and Rockingham's Sonny Rose after regulation play.
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THE SENIOR AMATEUR GOLF TOUR
FOREST OAKS COUNTRY CLUB EVENT
TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT
CHAMPIONSHIP (6380 YDS)
Craig Sturdivant, Sanford 76
Joey Moffitt, High Point 76
Terry Collins, Pinehurst 77
Johnny Adams, Cary 77
Hugh Beckwith, West End 79
A FLIGHT (6380 yds)
Don Moore, Raleigh 76
Jim Alford, Zebulon 78
Sonny Rose, Rockingham 78
James Jones, Raleigh 79
Cecil Lockley, Creedmoor 79
B FLIGHT (5906 yds)
Chuck Smith, Sanford 76
Daniel Floyd, Graham 79
Homer Baker, High Point 79
Bob Talbot, Charlotte 80
Russ Priddy, Salisbury 80
Charles Smith, Durham 80
Louis Herndon, Graham 80
Dick Kuehl, Sanford 80
C FLIGHT (5906 yds)
Dennis Bryant, Sophia 78
Dwight Davis, Pittsboro 81
Mike Hunter, Greensboro 82
Len Bullock, Greensboro 83
Richard Glick, Raleigh 84
Dan Harness, Wake Forest 85
Brian Costine, Durham 85
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Senior Amateur Tour Full Leaderboard
Forest Oaks Country Club
TEES BY FLIGHT:
Champ & A - White Tees: Rating-71.5; Slope-133; Ydg- 6380
B & C- Gold Tees: Rating- 69.2; Slope-126; Ydg-5906
Pos
Name
Flight
Score
1
Moffitt, Joey
CH
76
Sturdivant, Craig
3
Adams, Johnny
77
Collins, Terry
5
Beckwith, Hugh
79
6
Reed, Arch
82
7
Nemenz, Howard
85
Moore, Don
A
2
Alford, Jim
78
Rose, Sonny
4
Jones, James
Lockley, Cecil
Hiner, William
80
McKenna, Mark
Whitt, Parker
LaFata, Rick
Ward, Tim
Brady, Ron
Jones, Preston
13
Johnson, Mike
81
Stanley, Jack
15
Robinson, Mark
Shelton, Wilson
17
Dail, Bob
84
Shermer, Jim
Denton, Wayne
Alford, Gus
21
Robinette, Ken
22
Welch, John
86
Avent, Twig
24
Johnson, Eddie
87
25
Blaylock, Jim
88
Barbee, Dexter
27
Gaisbauer, Mike
89
28
Bunn, Randy
90
Raye, James
Wright, Glenn
Kelly, Larry
Smith, Chuck
B
Floyd, Daniel
Baker, Homer
Talbot, Bob
Priddy, Russ
Smith, Charles
Herndon, Louis
Kuehl, Dick
9
Robertson, Vic
Warren, Patrick
11
Mosher, Tim
Kubla, Tom
Burton, Edward
83
Schuler, Dick
Tesch, Jim
Macy, Frank
Herndon, Mack
Bleau, Neil
Scales, Jim
Burgman, Lewis
Deaton, Bob
McFarland, Barry
23
Wilson, Lewis
Gill, Sonny
Jones, Travis
Strider, Dawson
Ringen, Larry
Wallace, Mike
Strickland, Grady
30
White, Larry M
91
31
McPherson, James
93
Harvey, Doug
Bryant, Dennis
C
Davis, Dwight
Hunter, Mike
Bullock, Len
Glick, Richard
Harness, Dan
Costine, Brian
8
Scism, Tim
Hall, John
Cates, John
Smith, Lee
Gunn, Charles
Wisniewski, Bob
14
Shows, Steve
Moore, Kenneth
Chapman, Gary
Pearson, Steve
18
Robinson, Mike
Denton, Mark
Harris, Theodore
Hutchison, Bobby
Brady, Willie
Eatmon, James
92
Prouty, Jim
Holland, Bill
Hatfield, Elby
Brown, Donald
McKean, George
Hartley, Richard
Leung, Kam
94
Michaux, Don
96
Wilson, Mike
33
Smith, Curtis
98
34
Whitesell, Barry
100
35
Farrington, Richard
101
36
Curtin, Dan
102
37
Pritchett, Jim
104
38
Cifranic, Dennis
110
39
Mitchel, Frank
111
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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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Sanford, NC (August 14 , 2014) - Everything worked out perfectly today for Graham's Wilson Shelton in the Senior Amateur Golf Tour event held at Carolina Trace (The Lake Course). Not only was the course in superlative condition with sunny skies and mid-70s temperatures, but in addition to that Shelton was able secure his first A Flight win of the 2014 campaign. Not that Shelton hadn't tasted victory before "on-Tour' - he had 4 top finishes under his belt going into this year, but this one was special as he recorded his lowest Tour score ever with a 71.
"The key to today was my irons", said Shelton. "I was hitting it close all day. On one par 3 I was about 5 feet away and on another it was slightly more than 7 feet". (The second held up for a closest-to-the-pin prize). "My putting was pretty good too".
Creedmoor's Cecil Lockley fired a 73 for solo second place. A total of six A Flight members broke 80, but in the B Flight, Columbus, Ohio's Bob Ubbing was the only player to surpass that mark with a 79. Ubbing was 3 strokes clear of Sanford's Dick Kuehl, who was literally playing in his backyard as a resident of Carolina Trace.
It took three extra holes to determine a C Flight Champion as Pinehurst's Marty Carpenter outlasted Pittsboro's Dwight Davis in a playoff after both had posted 85s during regulation play. Greensboro's Mike Hunter was 2 back of the duo.
Once again the Championship Flight played from tees that were almost 400 yards longer than that of their lower flight counterparts. "Those guys were playing a different golf course", stated Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck. High Point's Joey Moffitt emerged as the victor over Sanford's Craig Sturdivant by one shot - 75 to 76.
Next week the Tour will play the season's 4th and final Major Championship at Anderson Creek GC in Spring Lake. Limited spots are still available for that event.
CAROLINA TRACE EVENT (LAKE COURSE)
CHAMPIONSHIP (6283 yds)
Joey Moffitt, High Point 75
Doug Michal, Raleigh 78
Steve Lambert, Greensboro 80
Bob Kober, Colfax 80
A FLIGHT (5873 yds)
Wilson Shelton, Madison 71
Cecil Lockley, Creedmoor 73
Homer Baker, High Point 75
Rick LaFata, Raleigh 76
Twig Avent, Pinehurst 77
B FLIGHT (5873 yds)
Bob Ubbing, Columbus, OH 79
Dick Kuehl, Sanford 82
Tom Olson, Hillsborough 83
Jack Reaume, Durham 83
Tim Mosher, Greensboro 84
Daniel Floyd, Graham 84
Neil Bleau, Durham 84
C FLIGHT (5873 yds)
Marty Carpenter, Pinehurst 85
Dwight Davis, Pittsboro 85
Mike Hunter, Greensboro 87
George McKean, Raleigh 88
James Eatmon, Sims 89