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Pinewood Country Club e-newsletter Summary
Congratulations to all the flight winners at Brier Creek who punched their automatic berths to National Tour Championship in Pinehurst.
In 2 weeks, on April 12, the Senior Tour will be at Pinewood Country Club in Asheboro - a gem of a course. Will the 2011 winners defend their championship?
Hint - By now you know most Tour dates are sell-outs due to the incredible growth of the Tour in 2012 and the venues of the Tournaments. If you know you want to play a course, sign-up and pay now for all the courses/Tournaments you want to play in 2012.
Also, please read the Brier Creek story and review the Full Leaderboard at the bottom of the newsletter to see how you fared against your flight competitors.
The rules review this week deals with . This week we will be looking at ball that disappears down in the rough right before you hit. How do you proceed and are you penalized?
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Par 3 Hole #12- Over Water to a Small and Undulating Green
This private course offers enough variety of terrain to challenge all of the flights within the tour. There are trees and water hazards that come into play throughout the course. However good scores can be had - just look at the defending flight winners from last year.
Over twelve years ago, the course underwent several changes. "If you played the course then, you noticed that a pretty good shot near the middle of some fairways would sometimes take an erratic bounce and roll into the rough. Many fairways were too high in the middle, sloped too severely to the sides. They fixed that and also did some mounding on the sides along with some waste bunkering to alleviate some good-shots-gone-bad situations.
In addition, they reshaped the greens areas and put in some bunkers to catch errant shots that would ordinarily be in deep trouble."Plus, they redid the greens and installed A-1. Pinehurst No. 8 has that grass, and it was put in at Pinehurst No. 2 during their recent renovation. The signature hole is #8, a 215-yard, par 3 from the back tees, requiring a tee shot over water.
You should enjoy this course for its challenge to your game and the fact it was recently rated 4 stars by the Triad Golf Panel. What a treat.
In the last 5 Years, Pinewood has hosted the following events:
Expect your peers to have already signed-up. To sign-up, call Bruce Hallenbeck at 336-495-6556 or email him at behgolf@aol.com.
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The Tournament at Pinewood
Event Info:
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Pinewood Country Club - Take a Tour of the Course
Fee is $60.00
10:00 AM Shotgun
Physical Address:
247 Pinewood Road -
Directions to Pinewood Country Club
To reserve your place and to sign-up, please reply to this email, sign-up on-line, mail a check or call Bruce Hallenbeck.
2011 Defending Flight Winners:
Pinewood Country Club
CHAMPIONSHIP (6146 yards)
A FLIGHT (6146 yards)
B FLIGHT (6146 yards)
C FLIGHT (6146 yards)
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2012 Senior Amateur Golf Tour Schedule Pinehurst/Raleigh/Triad Tour
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GREAT COURSE, GOOD SCORES HIGHLIGHT SENIOR AMATEUR TOUR EVENT AT BRIER CREEK CC
Raleigh, NC
March 29, 2012
Brier Creek B Flight Sudden Death Play-off Participants:
(L to R)- Winner: James Herdon, 2nd Place - Ron Vanderklock
Temperatures in the mid-70s on a sunny day, coupled with a great golf course in excellent condition led to some strong scoring in the Senior Amateur Golf Tour event held at Brier Creek Country Club today. "We were very happy to be on one of the premier private courses in the state on a beautiful day like this", stated Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck. "This was our 1st of 4 'Majors' that we'll run for the Seniors this year. Events like this are a big reason why a lot of our members join the Tour in the first place".
Ahoskie's Bill Long led the scoring race in the Championship Flight with an even-par 72. He was 3 shots clear of a trio of golfers - Pinehurst's Rick Luzar, Cary's Steve Linton, and Jim Arlington of Apex.
Southern Pines' Ron Hockensmith, who has dominated A Flight play recently, will be joining the Championship guys in his next Tour effort as his 74 was good for another flight victory for him this young season. He needed every good shot that he hit as he nipped Rockingham's Sonny Rose by a single stroke.
The B Flight saw 3 golfers finish regulation play with scores of 80. One of those 3, Mike Garber of Carthage, left early and was not around for the sudden death playoff that accompanies any 1st place tie "on-Tour", thereby relegating him to a 3rd place finish. The 2 other combatants, Hamlet's James Herndon and Ron Vanderklok of Advance went out to determine a winner with Herndon emerging with the victory.
In the C Flight Tony Robison of Southern Pines fired an 84 for a 2 stroke win over Graham's Richard Farrington who posted one of his best scores in more than 12 years of Tour competition. The C Flight players were on their game today with no fewer than 10 golfers breaking 90.
"Being a 'Major Championship' means that every one of the 4 Flight winners today 'punched their ticket' to the year ending National Tour Championship that will be held in Pinehurst in November. That event is slated to draw the top 300 Tour members from the 13 Tours that stretch up and down the East Coast", said Hallenbeck.
There is no event planned for the Senior Tour for this coming week, as the Tour will take its' normal Easter Break. Play will resume on April 12 at Pinewood Country Club in Asheboro. There are a few openings for that event still available.
THE SENIOR AMATEUR GOLF TOUR
BRIER CREEK COUNTRY CLUB
MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIP EVENT
TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT
CHAMPIONSHIP (6298 yds)
Bill Long, Ahoskie 72
Rick Luzar, Pinehurst 75
Steve Linton, Cary 75
Jim Arlington, Apex 75
Mark Craige, Cary 76
A FLIGHT (6078 yds)
Ron Hockensmith, Southern Pines 74
Sonny Rose, Rockingham 75
Dale Casey, Zebulon 76
Rick LaFata, Raleigh 77
Vic Robertson, Greensboro 77
B FLIGHT (6078 yds)
James Herndon, Hamlet 80
Ron Vanderklok, Advance 80
Mike Garber, Carthage 80
Glenn Wright, Pittsboro 81
John Henely, Pinehurst 82
Carroll Allen, Raleigh 82
Tom Kubla, Pinehurst 82
C FLIGHT (6078 yds)
Tony Robison, Southern Pines 84
Richard Farrington, Graham 86
Don Michaux, Greensboro 88
John Hall, Raleigh 88
Curtis Gunnarson, Pinehurst 88
Harold Booker, Raleigh 88
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Question from week #139
Jerry has hit his tee ball into an area of dense, thick rough. Good news: when he arrives in the area he finds his ball sitting on top of a dense clump of fescue, like it is sitting on a tee. Unfortunately when he addresses the ball his ball moves vertically downward into the clump. Jerry is then observed to lift the ball and attempt to reset it on top of the clump. It will not stay on top of the grass, so he moves to an adjacent spot, just behind the original spot where it will stay on top of the grass and then makes a stroke at the ball.
For his actions, Jerry is:
A. Not penalized
B. Penalized one stroke.
C. Penalized two strokes.
D. Penalized three strokes.
Answer
B. Penalized one stroke. When Jerry addressed the ball and it moved vertically downward, he breached Rule 18-2b, is penalized one stroke and must replace the ball. (See Definition: Move.)
This means he must put the ball back on top of the clump of grass. But, the grass will no longer support the weight of his ball, thus the lie has been altered. We have a Rule for this situation: Rule20-3b, Lie of Ball to be Placed or Replaced Altered. A reading of that Rule tells us, in this situation, Jerry must find the nearest spot most similar to the original, that is not more than one club length away and no closer to the hole. (See Rule 20-3b(i).)
What Jerry was observed doing was correct. The Rules do not require Jerry to notify his opponent, marker or fellow competitor as to what steps he is taking under the Rules, but it might not be a bad idea to say something in order to avert unwanted questions.
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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.