SENIOR AM TOUR STAGES SEASON'S FINAL MAJOR EVENT
"Where Amateurs Play Like Pros"
Senior Amateur Golf Tour
Triad and Raleigh-Pinehurst Tours
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WELCOME TO THE
2013 SENIOR AMATEUR GOLF TOUR
Salem Glen CC
e-newsletter Summary
August 25, 2013
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.
2013 Senior Amateur Schedule is Here:
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------Salem Glen Golf & Country Club------
Nicklaus Design - Championship Course
Along the banks of the Yadkin River in Clemmons, NC lies an oasis for golf.
It is Salem Glen Golf and Country Club, awarded four stars by Golf Digest's Best Places to Play 2006/2007. As the Triad area's One and Only Nicklaus Design course, Salem Glen continues the legendary Nicklaus tradition of accentuating the natural terrain. Salem Glen takes full advantage of the 150 feet of elevationchanges, four and a half miles of creeks and nine lakes.
The excellence of Salem Glen is evident as it features Bermuda fairways and G2 bent grass greens, the same as those found on the legendary Pinehurst No. 2.
Tour players players will find risks and rewards options as Salem Glen will challenge your course management skills. Plus, Salem Glen plays almost as if it were two courses. The front nine is a links-style layout. The fairways are open and flat, and there's several water hazards coming into play. Five holes of the front nine are set in the Yadkin River basin. The back nine holes are mountain-style with dramatic elevationchanges. Most of the fairways are tree lined. From the tee box, No. 13 is a breathtaking par 4 where your tee shot must carry a 70-foot deep ravine. Fourteen is a par 5 playing back over the ravine to a long, shallow green cut into the hillside. The four closing holes are the toughest on the course, from No. 17, a par 3 flanked by creeks in front and behind the large green and No 18, a par 4 where tour members may bail out right hoping to bounce their ball close to the green or carry the bunkers fronting the sloping green.
A great course to play after the last major and returning from the one week break. Spots are available, so we hope you sign-up to play.
To sign-up , call Bruce Hallenbeck at 336-495-6556 or email him at behgolf@aol.com.
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Tournament at Salem Glen CC
Event Info:
Thursday, September 5, 2013
10:00 AM Shotgun
Fee is $55.00
Salem Glen Country Club
1000 Glen Day Dr., Clemmons, NC 27012 336-712-0303
Salem Glen Directions
To reserve your place and to sign-up, please reply to this email, sign-up on-line or call Bruce Hallenbeck.
Senior Tour Sign-up & Pay Online Here
336-495-6556
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To sign-up, call Bruce Hallenbeck at 336-495-6556 or email him at behgolf@aol.com.
THE SENIOR AMATEUR GOLF TOUR
ANDERSON CREEK EVENT
TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT
SENIOR AMATEUR TOUR STAGES SEASON'S FINAL MAJOR EVENT
Spring Lake, NC
August 22, 2013
Winston Salem's Howard Nemenz, Fuquay-Varina's Mark McKenna, Randy Robbins of Smithfield, and Rocky Mount's Steve High all earned themselves guaranteed invitations to The Senior Amateur Golf Tour's National Championship Finals event by virtue of winning their respective flights in the 2013 season's final Major event held at Anderson Creek Golf Club. Those Finals will be held the second week in November in the Pinehurst area.
"To tell you the truth, all of these guys would probably have qualified just by their positions in the year long Points Standings race, but these wins today 'locks it up' for them", stated Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck. "It's pretty exciting because we expect to have a record number of over 300 entrants from our other Tours at this year's Finals".
Nemenz was top dog in the Championship Flight, edging Pinehurst's Arch Reed, winner of his last 2 events, by a score of 72 to 73.
McKenna's 73 prevailed in the A Flight by 3 shots over a trio of Tour members - High Point's Larry Hubbard, Hope Mills' Bob McQueen, and David Coolidge from Greensboro.
A very strong score of 77 was enough for Robbins to hold off Knightdale's Harry Mosher by 2 strokes for the B Flight crown. Mosher's 79 was his best effort of the season.
Steve High of Rocky Mount won his 2nd event of the year in the C Flight with an 86 that also gave him a 2 stroke margin over James Eatmon of Sims.
The Senior Amateur Tour will be taking a week off from competition for the Labor Day Holiday and commence play on September 5 at Salem Glen Country Club near Winston-Salem. There are plenty of spots available for that event.
Call Hallenbeck at 336-495-6556 or email him at behgolf@aol.com if you are over 50 and have an interest in playing at Salem Glen.
ANDERSON CREEK GOLF CLUB (MAJOR) EVENT
CHAMPIONSHIP (6185 yds)
Howard Nemenz, Winston-Salem 72
Arch Reed, Pinehurst 73
Doug Michal, Raleigh 75
Ron Hockensmith, Whispering Pines 75
John East, Rockingham 75
Allen Lee, Pinehurst 75
A FLIGHT (6185 yds)
Mark McKenna, Fuquay-Varina 73
Larry Hubbard, High Point 76
Bob McQueen, Hope Mills 76
David Coolidge, Greensboro 76
Mike Johnson, Knightdale 78
B FLIGHT (6185 yds)
Randy Robbins, Smithfield 77
Harry Mosher, Knightdale 79
Glenn Wright, Pittsboro 80
Cliff Nance, Lumberton 81
Louis Herndon, Graham 81
C FLIGHT (6185 yds)
Steve High, Rocky Mount 86
James Eatmon, Sims 88
Wayne Ricks, Pinehurst 89
Marty Carpenter, Southern Pines 89
Dennis Bryant, Sophia 90
Richard Hartley, High Point 90
Where Will You Be in the 2013 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 10 point earners in your flight.
As you plot your tour schedule, be cognizant of the fact, only the top 10 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 2013.
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 2013 Tour, To see where you stand* click below:
Raleigh/Pinehurst Senior Tour Point Standings
Triad Senior Tour Point Standings
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Click Here for Sr. Tour 2013 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
Questions from week #214
Concerning where the player may position other people when making a stroke, decide True or False for the following four statements:
A. I am making a chip from off the green, I can position anyone on my line of play beyond the hole when making the stroke.
B. I am putting from on the green. While I make the stroke, I can have someone point out the line of putt provided they do not touch the surface of the green.
C. I have a tight shot through the trees. My partner’s caddie may stand behind me on an extension of my intended line through the trees while I attempt the shot.
D. Only in foursomes play, where we are playing one ball (in alternate shot format), may I allow my partner to watch me putt from behind on an extension of my line.
Answers
A. False. R8-2a. When not on the green, the player must not position anyone on or close to the line of play, or an extension of the line of play beyond the hole while the stroke is being made.
B. False. R8-2b. When the player’s ball is on the putting green, the player’s partner or either of their caddies may, before but not during a stroke, point out a line for putting, but must not touch the green when doing so. NOTE: When the player’s ball is off the green, there is no prohibition against touching the putting green when pointing out the line of play. R8-2a.
C. False. R14-2b. The player must not make a stroke with his caddie, his partner, or his partner’s caddie on or close to an extension of the line of play or line of putt behind the ball. NOTE: Definitions of both Line of Play and Line of Putt includes a “reasonable distance either side of the line”.
D. False. R14-2b, R29. There is no exception in fourball or foursomes play to R14-2b.
The common theme here is “when a stroke is being made”. You can pretty much place people where ever you want, except during the stroke.
The most common breach is by partners who have similar lines of putts. The partner who is to putt second wants to watch his partner’s putt from behind to get a read. He can’t stand behind. He must be off to the side, till the ball is on the way, then may quickly step in to view the ball as it rolls. Alternately, if his partner is putting from on the green, there is no restriction that prohibits a partner from standing beyond the hole to watch the stroke. That restriction only applies to a ball off the green. Also, review the note in item C above.
When positioning yourself to be able to move in after a stroke is on the way, you must be a minimum of a reasonable distance either side of the extension of the line. On the putting green that is a minimum of one club-length to the side.
The above penalties are always on the player who is making the stroke. So if it is your stroke, you are the one who has to get the partner or caddie to move.
In stroke play, you pick up two strokes. In match play, you lose the hole or in fourball, disqualified for the hole. In fourball play if the breach would also assist your partner in his play of the hole, you are both penalized.
Even in casual play, avoid doing this as it is a bad habit to get into.
RELUCTANT OPINION : Since the Rules of Golf does not recognize a “Scramble” format as a legitimate form of play, these restrictions probably don’t matter much for that or other similar “hit and giggle” formats.
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Anderson Creek
TEES BY FLIGHT:
Champ- White Tees: Rating-70.2; Slope-127; Ydg-6185
A,B,&C-White Tees: Rating- 70.2; Slope-127; Ydg-6185
The course was very wet.
2013 Senior Amateur
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Raleigh/Pinehurst and Triad Tours
FoxFire Resort & Golf Club
(East-Grey Course)
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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