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Senior Amateur Golf Tour
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WELCOME TO THE
2014 SENIOR AMATEUR GOLF TOUR
Colonial Country Club
October 9, 2014
e-newsletter
October 6, 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!
Colonial CC
Last Regular Season - Are You In?
Colonial Country Club has invested about $1 million to rework it's picturesque course, the first major overhaul for the course since it went from nine to 18 holes in the 1960s.
The course, expanded to 18 holes by course architect Gene Hamm in the 1960s, has undergone the creation of completely new complexes around the greens, repositioning and addition of fairway bunkers and a rerouting of three holes — 10, 11 and 12 — to make them play more naturally.
Once they decided to regrass the greens, they looked atto see if there was anything else they could do and backed into a full-blown course renovation.
Work began in November 2013 on the greens complexes, with bunkers replaced with flat-bottomed bunkers with grass banks, larger bunkers broken into smaller ones and others filled in to create collection areas.
In May, the process of killing off the bentgrass greens began which will gave way to the installation of Champion Bermuda greens — greens that thrive in dry, hot weather, as opposed to the bentgrass greens that need to be babied during hot, dry North Carolina summers.
The course renovation is so extensive that the course was closed from the end of May until early August. Holes 10, 11 and 12 will be rerouted — with some to be positioned so they are played in reverse with the hole to be where the tee box is now. It's a move that will also double the driving range and create a short-game practice area.
So, for those Senior Tour Members signed-up to play this Thursday, this course will be even better than previous years.
336-495-6556
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2012 Senior Amateur Golf Tour Schedule Pinehurst/Raleigh/Triad Tour
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Tournament at Colonial CC
Event Info:
Thursday, October 9, 2014
10:00 AM Shotgun
Fee is $60.00
7047 Colonial Club Drive Thomasville, NC 27360
336-475-0596
Colonial CC Directions
To reserve your place and to sign-up, please reply to this email, sign-up on-line or call Bruce Hallenbeck.
Sign-up for Tournaments & Pay Online
2013 Flight Winners &
Top 3 Places:
CHAMPIONSHIP (6300 yds)
Dan Anthony, Thomasville 74
Hugh Beckwith, West End 75
Joey Moffitt, High Point 76
Rick Luzar, Pinehurst 76
Arch Reed, Pinehurst 76
A FLIGHT (6300 yds)
Michael Greene, Lewisville 78
Jim Blaylock, Winston-Salem 79
Tom Fagerli, Yadkinville 79
B FLIGHT (5896 yds)
Jack Reaume, Durham 82
Rus Rilling, Madison 82
Sam Carpenter, Charlotte 82
Larry White, Clemmons 83
Lewis Herndon, Graham 83
C FLIGHT (5896 yds)
Mark Denton, Salisbury 79
Patrick Warren, Chapel Hill 80
Bill Holland, Charlotte 84
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Registration is Now Open for The 2014 Senior Amateur Tour Championship to be Held on Nov. 11-12 in Pinehurst.
Congratulations to the 2013 National Tour Champions!
The Senior Tour Championship returns to Pinehurst and the championship courses of Pinehurst #9, Pinewild (Holly), Seven Lakes CC and Legacy Golf Links
Registration is now open!
The top 20 players by flight from each local tour will be invited to compete against the top tour members across the country at the 36-hole National Championship in Pinehurst, NC
The 2014 Senior Amateur Tour Championship will be held Nov. 11-12.
$2500 Skins game Monday November 10.
All information below to sign up and pay or on the Senior Web Page
(www.senioramateurgolftour.net)
If You Have Any Questions About Your Status in Playing in the National Championship, Please Contact Your Tour Director, 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!
Click Here to Unlock Your Mind and Shoot Better Golf
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
BENTWINDS GOLF CLUB
TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT
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
Bentwind Country Club
October 2, 2014
TEES BY FLIGHT:
Champ: Blue Tees; Rating- 71.0; Slope-126; Ydg- 6345
A,B & C: White Tees; Rating-69.4; Slope-117; Ydg-5975
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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