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The Golf Club of Chapel Ridge
e-newsletter Summary
July 15, 2012
Congratulations to all Grandover Winners.
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 helps you better understand when you can and can not add a club during a round.
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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Here’s two hints. Most fairways are downhill and if it is a dry day they will be very hard and the ball will run further than you think – therefore make sure you have the right club and pick your angles carefully from the tee box. And ditto for these surprisingly fast greens, rarely shoot at the back pins except with wedges if you want your ball to remain on the green.
With that being said, based on many reviews and comments, Chapel Ridge has already become a new favorite for all golfers in the Triangle and beyond because of its PGA Tour like feel.
Summary: It is a fair course, however, keep it in the fairway and hit to the front or middle of most greens regardless of where the flag is or expect a high score.
To sign-up for any Tournament, call Bruce Hallenbeck at 336-495-6556 or email him at behgolf@aol.com.
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Event Info:
Chapel Ridge GC
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Physical Address:
1010 Chapel Ridge Drive •
Pittsboro, NC 27312
Phone: 919.545.2242
From Durham/Chapel Hill: Take 15/501 South, right on Russells Chapel Church road, right on Old Graham Road. Chapel Ridge will be 2.3 miles on the left.
From Raleigh/Cary/Apex: Take 64 West to 15/501 North, left on Russells Chapel Church road, right on Old Graham Road. Chapel Ridge will be 2.3 miles on the left.
From Greensboro/Burlingtom: Take 40 East to 87 South, left on Chicken Bridge Road, left on Old Graham Road. Chapel Ridge will be 2.6 miles on the right
Driving Directions
To reserve your place and to sign-up, please reply to this email, sign-up on-line or call Bruce Hallenbeck.
336-495-6556
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2011 Flight Winners and Defending Champions:
Chapel Ridge
CHAMPIONSHIP (6,503 yards)
James Dill, Cary 71
A FLIGHT (6,503 yards)
Mark McKenna, Fuquay-Varina 75
B FLIGHT (6,205 yards)
Ronnie Grubbs, Clemmons 71
C FLIGHT (6,205 yards)
Len Bullock, Greensboro 81
To sign-up, call Bruce Hallenbeck at 336-495-6556 or email him at behgolf@aol.com.
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DURHAM'S BLEAU WINS B FLIGHT WITH BEST ROUND EVER
Greensboro, NC
July 12, 2012
Neil Bleau of Durham had a certified 11.8 Tour Handicap going into play in the Senior Amateur Golf Tour event held on the West Course of Grandover Resort. While Bleau has won before "on-Tour" in the B Flight, he has never accomplished it in such a dominant fashion.
He shot his lowest round ever - not just "on-Tour" - but at anytime, with a 73.
"I knew he had a great round going after 9 holes", said Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck. "I checked with him on the course. He obviously held it together for his final 9 (holes). It couldn't happen to a nicer guy".
Malcolm Griffith of Holly Springs also had a great B Flight round, coming in 2nd with a 77 that normally would have won the flight "going away".
Not to be out done, Creedmoor's Cecil Lockley fired an even par 72 in the A Flight - his best score in over 2 years of Tour competition. Lockley outdistanced Reidsville's Tim Stone by 3 strokes for the win.
The only other even-par round was turned in by Pinehurst's Rick Luzar in the Championship Flight. "Even par for Luzar is about what we expect", quipped Hallenbeck. Another Pinehurst resident - Chuck Wunsch, was 2nd with a 75.
Donald Brown of Kernersville needed every good shot he hit in the C Flight to avoid a 6-man playoff for 1st place. His 86 was only 1-shot clear of 5 players, but proved to be enough to grab the top prize Mastercard. It was Brown's 1st Tour win.
THE SENIOR AMATEUR GOLF TOUR
GRANDOVER RESORT - WEST COURSE
TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT
CHAMPIONSHIP (6220 yds)
Rick Luzar, Pinehurst 72
Chuck Wunsch, Pinehurst 75
Mike Smith, Lewisville 76
Gene Queen, Advance 79
David Coolidge, Greensboro 80
David Shackelford, Cary 80
David Williams, Cary 80
A FLIGHT (6220 yds)
Cecil Lockley, Creedmoor 72
Tim Stone, Reidsville 75
Dean McCoy, Pfafftown 77
Mark McKenna, Fuquay-Varina 77
Randy Jones, Greensboro 79
B FLIGHT (5900 yds)
Neil Bleau, Durham 73
Malcolm Griffith, Holly Springs 77
Charles Smith, Durham 79
Bob Dail, Wendell 79
John Lyda, Advance 80
Louis Herndon, Graham 80
Jeff Moore, Burlington 80
C FLIGHT (5900 yds)
Donald Brown, Kernersville 86
Mike Hunter, Greensboro 87
John Hall, Raleigh 87
Richard Hartley, High Point 87
Sindo Mayor, Charlotte 87
Curtis Gunnarson, Pinehurst 87
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 #154
Bob’s son, Gary, is acting as caddie for his dad during the final round of the stroke play club championship. On the 16th green Bob has marked his ball by placing a coin behind the ball and tossed his ball to his son to clean. After cleaning the ball, Gary replaces the ball just behind his dad’s coin. Decide which of the following statements are correct:
A. Bob’s ball is in play, regardless of Gary’s intentions.
B. If Gary had no intention of putting the ball back on the correct spot, but Bob lifted his coin and makes a stroke at this ball he incurs a 2-stroke penalty under R15-3 for playing a wrong ball.
C. If Gary did intend to put the ball back in play and Bob makes a stroke at his ball without first moving it to the correct spot, Bob is penalized two strokes for playing from a wrong place.
D. It is ok for Gary to replace his father’s ball as he did, but if he replaces the ball on the correct spot, lifts the coin and his dad plays the ball, his dad incurs a 1-stroke penalty.
Answers:
Statements B, C, D are correct.
Unless you are a Rules Official or have been studying the Rules for some time, you probably had difficulty with this question. There is a lot going on here and it pivots on two key points of fact: what was Gary’s intentions when he placed his dad’s ball on the putting green, and what does Bob do as a result.
B. A ball is not in play when lifted (Definition: ball in play). It retains the status of a ball not in play until replaced with the intention of putting it back into play. If Gary replaced his dad’s ball behind, rather than in front, of his Dad’s coin, so his dad could read the put, his dad did not have a ball in play. If this was Gary’s intention, then he would be expecting his father to lift and move the ball to the correct spot before playing. However if his dad made a stroke at the ball so placed behind the coin, because he did not have a ball in play, this would be deemed a stroke at a wrong ball. A wrong ball penalty occurs anytime a player makes a stroke at a ball other than his ball in play. This is a 2-stroke penalty and is a “must correct” penalty. All the strokes made at this wrong ball do not count for score.
C. Back to Gary’s intentions. If Gary did intend to replace his father’s ball, then Bob’s ball is in play. If Bob goes and makes a stroke at his ball in play from this new spot, it would be a stroke from a wrong place. This is a 2-stroke penalty and he would have to continue to complete the hole with this ball as played.
D. Rule 20-3 states that three people can “replace” a ball: the player, his partner, or the person who lifted the ball. Gary is none of these. So if Gary replaces his dad’s ball with the intention of putting it into play, either on the correct spot or, as in C, on an incorrect spot , he has breached this Rule and his dad is assessed a 1-stroke penalty. The reason why this penalty is not added to the penalty stroke count for C above is because Note 3 under R20-7 waives that associated penalty.
This question demonstrates a key principle in correctly apply the Rules: you must first determine what was the intent of the people involved. You may not know the answer to this simply by observing what happened. For more on this process read in the preface, “The Facts of the Case” under the general topic How to Use the Rule Book.
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Senior Amateur Full Leaderboard
Grandover Resort (West)
TEES BY FLIGHT:
Champ & A: Blue Tees; Rating - 70.1; Slope - 126; Yard - 6200 B & C: White Tees; Rating- 67.3; Slope- 119; Yards- 5900
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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