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Senior Amateur Golf Tour
Triad and Raleigh-Pinehurst Tours
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WELCOME TO THE
2014 SENIOR AMATEUR GOLF TOUR
Hyland Golf Club
September 18, 2014
e-newsletter
September 5, 2014
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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Raleigh/Pinehurst Senior Tour Point Standings
Triad Senior Tour Point Standings
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WELCOME
2014 Senior Tour
CELEBRATING
THE 20th SEASON OF THE AMATEUR GOLFWEEK TOUR!
Hyland Golf Club is often referred to as “the player’s” course for its playability, affordability and excellent conditions. This unique Tom Jackson design is a North Carolina Sandhills must play golf experience. Enjoy rolling terrain set amidst longleaf pines, and a great test of Senior Tournament golf!
Of surveyed golfers, 75% rate Hyland "Excellent or Very Good" .
A few Comments:
“Wonderful Golf Experience”
Reviewed March 17, 2014
Have played just about every course in the Sandhills and many in the Myrtle Beach area and Hyland ranks with the best. Overall conditions are superb with the best greens around. Beautiful views from several locations as the course is on one of the highest points in Moore County. Friendly staff will make you feel welcomed and want to come back. I highly recommend Hyland when planning your golf getaway.
“Very Playable Course”
Reviewed May 15, 2013
Just returned from a golf trip - our 27th as a group to the Pinehurst-area. The 1st day - we played The Hyland Club. This was the perfect course to begin our annual golf adventure. The course is very playable and was in great condition. Great start to a great outing.
“Interesting course”
Reviewed December 21, 2012
The changes of elevation on this course are much more radical here than most of the other sandhills courses. The design features some rather unusually routed holes with terrific vistas and some of the largest most difficult greens around......
4 Stars "OUTSTANDING. Plan your next vacation around it."
- Golf Digest Places to Play
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2012 Senior Amateur Golf Tour Schedule Pinehurst/Raleigh/Triad Tour
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Tournament at Hyland Golf Club
Event Info:
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Hyland GC
Fee is $60.00
10:00 AM Shotgun
Physical Address:
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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2013 Flight Winners &
Top 3 Places:
CHAMPIONSHIP (6575 YDS)
David Williams, Cary
Arch Reed, Pinehurst
John East, Rockingham
A FLIGHT (6155 yds)
Hugh Beckwith, West End
Randy Bunn, Zebulon
Jim Alford, Zebulon
B FLIGHT (6155 yds)
David Teal, Fayetteville
Issy Sepulveda, Fayetteville
David Niehaus, Whispering Pines
C FLIGHT (6155 yds)
Donald Brown, Kernersville
Dane McCaffrey, Pinehurst
Brian Costine, Durham
Ron Faison, Zebulon
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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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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!
"When you have a chance to shoot the lowest score of your life, you won't choke - You Will Go Low!"
THE SENIOR AMATEUR GOLF TOUR
SAPONA COUNTRY CLUB
TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT
PLAYOFFS HIGHLIGHT SENIOR AMATEUR TOUR EVENT
Lexington, NC
September 4, 2014
After leading a group of 35 competitors in the A Flight of the Senior Amateur Golf Tour for 18 holes at Sapona Ridge Country Club, Doug Masters of Clemmons and Yadkinville's Tom Fagerli kind of "ran out of gas" during their sudden death playoff showdown. Each had posted a score of 77 during regulation play, but pars were hard to come by when they went to extra holes. For 5 holes neither player registered a par, but Masters was able to turn the trick on the 6th extra hole to secure the victory.
The B Flight also ended in a tie for the top spot with Charlotte's Sam Carpenter going up against Winston-Salem's Allen Kayler after both shot 80s in regulation play. A bad tee shot on the 1st extra hole put Carpenter at a disadvantage he never recovered from with Kayler grabbing the victory after only one hole. Kayler's win put him in first place in the season-long Points Standings race for B Flight on the Triad Tour.
The best round of the day was appropriately turned in by the Championship Flight's Dan Anthony. The Thomasville resident posted an even-par 72 to register a 2-shot win over a trio of Tour members - Cary's Jimmy Adams, Ron Hockensmith of Whispering Pines and Greensboro's David Coolidge.
High Point's Richard Hartley enjoyed the same 2 stroke margin of victory in the C Flight competition with an 84. He outlasted James Eatmon of Sim's and Pittsboro's Dwight Davis.
The Tour takes a week off before returning to competition at Hyland Resort on Septmber 18. There are openings available for that event.
SAPONA RIDGE COUNTRY CLUB EVENT
CHAMPIONSHIP (6115 yds)
Dan Anthony, Thomasville 72
James Adams, Cary 74
Ron Hockensmith, Whispering Pines 74
David Coolidge, Greensboro 74
Arch Reed, Pinehurst 75
Allen Lee, Pinehurst 75
A FLIGHT (6115 yds)
Doug Masters, Clemmons 77
Tom Fagerli, Yadkinville 77
Michael Greene, Lewisville 78
Jim Alford, Zebulon 79
Tom Carbone, Charlotte 79
Randy Bunn, Zebulon 79
B FLIGHT (5895 yds)
Allen Kayler, Winston-Salem 80
Sam Carpenter, Charlotte 80
Glenn Wright, Pittsboro 81
Jack Reaune, Durham 82
Russ Priddy, Salisbury 82
C FLIGHT (5895 yds)
Richard Hartley, High Point 84
James Eatmon, Sims 86
Dwight Davis, Pittsboro 86
Rudy Binder, Greensboro 87
Steve Shows, Winston-Salem 87
Where Will You Be in the 2014 Season Ending Point Standings Race?
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 15 point earners in your flight.
As you plot your tour schedule, be cognizant of the fact, only the top 15 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?
During the 2014 Tour, To see where you stand* click below:
Click Here for Sr. Tour 2014 Schedule
Senior Amateur Golf Tour Schedule
Triad and Raleigh-Pinehurst Tour
Rules Review
It has been suggested that there should be a series of Rules scenarios for you to solve. So begins a series of problems titled What's the Score?
Doc Miller has graciously agreed to allow me to share these with you that he has been sending since July 2009.
I will include one each week. You should try to determine the answer based upon your knowledge of the Rules when ever possible and then use your Rule book to confirm.
There will be no trick questions or hidden information.
If you do not have a Rules of Golf book handy, go to: usga.org/Rule-Books and-Decisions
Senior Amateur Full Leaderboard
Sapona Country Club
TEES BY FLIGHT:
Champ & A: Green Tees; Rating- 69.6; Slope-129; Ydg-6145
B & C: White Tees; Rating-67.8; Slope-125; Ydg-5825
2014 Senior Amateur
Golf Tour Schedule
Raleigh/Pinehurst and Triad Tours
TTour Weather Guidelines
Primarily, we adhere to the same guidelines that the PGA Tour uses: If Primarily, 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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