Senior Amateur Golf Tour

Triad and Raleigh-Pinehurst Tours

Forward this e-Letter to Friends & Invite Them to Join You on Tour - Use Link on Bottom Left.

Southern Pines  

e-newsletter Summary

July 29, 2012

• Sign-up for Southern Pines - August 9
• Greensboro (Farm) Results and Full LeaderBoard.
• Golf Rules Q&A - Playing Your Ball Out of Turn.
• Quick Links to Sign-up and To View Tour Schedule
• Where are you in the Year Long Point Standings Race?
• Secure Your PCs and Secure Your Identity!!
• Do You Have Problems With the Mental Side of Golf?
• Consider the Medicus Driver for Longer Drives
• Concerned About Identity Theft & Cybersecurity?
• Tour Weather Guidelines Reminder

Congratulations to all Greensboro CC 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 is about playing out of turn during a tournament. (excluding this tournament which plays "ready golf").

Check the  Full Leaderboard at the bottom of the newsletter to see how you fared against the competition in your flight. 

We see more of you getting comfortable with clicking and buying online from the comfort of your home and having products shipped to your door. 

 A new product helps reduce back and leg pain.   Please click on the video link.

Other products and services will continue to be added and we know you will find these services and prices to your liking and advantage as well.  Let us know what other products you would like to see added and your experience when ordering here.

Event Info:

Southern Pines Elks Club

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Physical Address:

Southern Pines (Elks Club)
290 Country Club Circle
Southern Pines, NC 28387

Pro Shop:
Toll Free: 877.502.3552
Phone: 910.692.6551

Driving 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

behgolf@aol.com

To reserve your place and to sign-up, please reply to this email, sign-up on-line or call 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!

Click Here to Unlock Your Mind and Shoot Better Golf

"When you have a chance to shoot the lowest score of your life you won't choke - You Will Go Low!"

Buy Your Medicus Here and Save $40.00

Summer Sale - Save Up To 70%

BURTON FIRES PERSONAL BEST FOR SENIOR TOUR WIN

Greensboro, NC

July 26, 2012

Durham's Ed Burton has competed on the Senior Amateur Tour for the past 4 years. An avid Tour member, Burton has played 16 events this year alone in the B Flight. In 10 of those events he failed to break 90. All that changed at Greensboro Country Club - The Carlson Farm Course, when he turned in his best Tour effort ever with a 2 over par 74. Nothing fancy - he was 1-over on both the front and back sides, and was aided by 2 birdies along the way.

"Couldn't happen to a nicer guy", said Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck. "Everybody enjoys playing with Ed". Burton was 3 shots clear of 2 other B Flighters - John Lyda of Advance and Tim Ward of Greensboro.

In the Championship Flight, Mark Craige of Apex broke par for his second event in a row, following the 66 he posted last week at The Golf Club at Chapel Ridge with a 1-under 71 today. However, that wasn't good enough for the top spot in today's event as Lewisville's Mike Smith "one-upped" him with a 70. Smith posted 4 birdies - 2 on the front and 2 on the back. "I just tried to take it easy and swing under control today" noted Smith. "It kinda came together for me".

Charlotte's Chris Murray also displayed an impressive number in the A Flight with a 1 shot win over Rockingham's John East, 73 to 74. As a matter of fact, exactly one stroke separated the top five finishers in the Flight.

Not to be outdone, the C Flight champion also posted his best score of the season for a relatively comfortable 5 stroke margin of victory. The 81 of Raleigh's Richard Glick bettered a trio of golfers at 86: Greensboro's Mike Robinson, Zebulon's Willie Brady, and James Eatmon of Sims.

The Tour is taking next week off and will resume play at Southern Pines Country Club, (also known as the Elks Club) on August 9th. There are a number of openings available for that event. Any amateur golfer over 50 interested in playing that Donald Ross venue can contact Hallenbeck at 336-495-6556 or email him at behgolf@aol.com.

THE SENIOR AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

GREENSBORO COUNTRY CLUB - (CARLSON FARM)

TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT

CHAMPIONSHIP (6281 YDS)

Mike Smith, Lewisville 70

Mark Craige, Apex 71

Eddie McBride, Lewisville 72

Steve Lambert, Summerfield 75

Ron Hockensmith, Whispering Pines 76

David Williams, Cary 76

A FLIGHT (6281 yds)

Chris Murray, Charlotte 73

John East, Rockingham 74

Tim Stone, Reidsville 75

Cecil Lockley, Creedmoor 76

Ron Caulder, N Myrtle Beach, SC 77

B FLIGHT (6004 yds)

Edward Burton, Durham 74

John Lyda, Advance 77

Tim Ward, Greensboro 77

Tom Kubla, Pinehurst 78

Travis Jones, Greensboro 78

C FLIGHT (6004 yds)

Richard Glick, Raleigh 81

Mike Robinson, Greensboro 86

Willie Brady, Zebulon 86

James Eatmon, Sims 86

Don Michaux, Greensboro 87

Larry Plesser, Fayetteville 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.

Questions from week #156:

Frank is playing in a stroke play event. During the play of the 7th, while other players are searching for a fellow competitor’s ball, under the belief that it is his turn to play, Frank plays his stroke to the green. That is when the fellow competitor’s missing ball is found. Because it is much further from the hole than from where Frank just played, he recognizes that he played out of turn and is under the impression that he must replay the stroke. He places a ball on the spot of his previous stroke and waits for the other competitor to play.

Select all correct statements:

A. Frank should lift the ball under R20-6 and continue play of his original ball without penalty.

B. Frank has put another ball into play under R27-1, stroke and distance, and must continue play of the hole with this substituted ball.

C. Regardless of what he does next, Frank has incurred a 2-stoke penalty for placing when he should have dropped.

D. If Frank doesn’t correct his error, he will get a total of three penalty strokes if he makes a stroke at this ball.

Answer:

The correct answers are A and D.

When Frank placed the ball, he did so thinking he had to replay the stroke because he played out of turn. He is mistaken. That would only be the case in match play if his opponent required him to do so. This is stroke play and in stroke play there is no penalty unless it was done to give a player an advantage (DQ for those involved, R10-2c).

So into the scenario comes answer A. Frank should simply lift the incorrectly substituted ball (R20-6) and continue play with his original ball which is still in play.

The placing of another ball is an improper substitution, which Frank should correct (R15-2). Answer B states he must continue to play the ball, which is incorrect.

Answer C is not correct assuming Frank proceeds by lifting the incorrectly substituted ball.

Answer D is correct if Frank DOES NOT lift the incorrectly substituted ball. If Frank simply thinks he is proceeding correctly and nobody in his group knows enough to advise him the correct way to proceed, then the only way to determine a score for the hole is to proceed under stroke and distance (R27-1). And, because when putting another ball into play in this manner, the player is required to drop, not place, that error will cost him the general penalty under R20-5 of two strokes, for a total of three.

By not knowing the Rules, Frank could be unnecessarily picking up three penalty strokes and suffering another beat-down in his skins game with Nigel.

“Why don’t you try reading the Rules, Shankopotamus!”

Click on any of links below or the Banners at right to see the special products and in some cases special pricing available to you.  They will be rotated each week.

EcoloBlue - produces Atmospheric Water Generators that produce pure water from the humidity in the air. Incredible product and has optional solar panels.  I am sure even the engineers would appreciate this one.

Senior Amateur Full Leaderboard

Greensboro Country Club (Farm)

July 26, 2012

TEES BY FLIGHT:

Champ & A:  Blue Tees; Rating - 69.7; Slope - 124; Yard - 6281

B & C: White Tees; Rating- 68.7; Slope- 123; Yards- 6004

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.

LifeLock provides a proactive identity theft service, specializing in the prevention of identity theft rather than the reporting of it. LifeLock was founded in 2005 and is already considered the industry leader.

Protect Your Family In 3 Minutes.

Find the perfect golf products and with no-charge shipping.