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WELCOME TO THE

2013 SENIOR AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

Willow Creek Country Club

e-newsletter Summary

April 14, 2013

• Willow Creek Sign-up - April 18
• Sapona Winners & Full Leaderboard - April 11
• Its All about the Year Long Point Standings Race - Where Will You Be at Year-End?
• Golf Rules Q&A - Ground Under Repair (GUR) or Loose Impediments - What Would You Do?
• Tour Weather Guidelines -Reminder

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:

Bruce Hallenbeck

Senior Amateur Tour Director,

Raleigh/Pinehurst and Triad Tours

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Event Info:

Willow Creek CC

Thursday, April 18, 2012

Physical Address:

916 Abbotts Creek Church Rd
High Point, NC 27265-7502
336-869-2416

Driving Directions

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

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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.

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GOOD WEATHER BRINGS LOW SCORES IN SENIOR AMATEUR EVENT

Lexington, NC

April 11, 2013

After suffering through some tough weather conditions early in the 2013 Senior Amateur Golf Tour schedule, 95 golfers were treated to sunny skies and warm temperatures today at Sapona Ridge Country Club and the scores posted reflected the excellent conditions. Impressive numbers topped the A, B, and C Flight competitions in particular.

Bob Kober of Colfax, playing in only his second event in the A Flight, fired a 74 for a comfortable 4 stroke win over Zebulon's Randy Bunn and Winston-Salem's Mark Robinson. Both Bunn and Robinson are Tour veterans, who between them have over 20 years and 300 events of experience "on-Tour".

Another Tour "vet", Burlington's Dexter Barbee also shot a 74 (albeit from shorter tees than the A Flight) to top the B Flight standings. He edged Durham's Jerry Widdowson by a single stroke. It was the first time Widdowson finished "in-the-money" this season.

Greensboro's Randy Jones won his second title of the year in the Championship Flight with a 75, one better than a pair of golfers: Lewisville's Mike Smith and Winston-Salem's Joey Moffitt.

Playing in his first event, Winston-Salem's Tommy Hooker shocked everyone by firing an 81 to top the C Flight. He was 3 strokes clear of Pittsboro's Dick Schuler and Jerry Snead of Zebulon.

The Senior Tour next plays at Willow Creek Country Club in High Point on April 18. There are spots open for that event. Any amateur golfer over 50 can contact Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck at 336-495-6556 for information about playing in a Tour event.

THE SENIOR AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

SAPONA RIDGE COUNTRY CLUB EVENT

TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT

CHAMPIONSHIP (6290 yds)

Randy Jones, Greensboro 75

Mike Smith, Lewisville 76

Joey Moffitt, Winston-Salem 76

Ron Hockensmith, Whispering Pines 77

Howard Nemenz, Winston-Salem 77

A FLIGHT (6290 yds)

Bob Kober, Colfax 74

Randy Bunn, Zebulon 78

Mark Robinson, Winston-Salem 78

Brent Massey, Raleigh 79

Twig Avent, Durham 80

Jim Alford, Zebulon 80

B FLIGHT (5980 yds)

Dexter Barbee, Burlington 74

Jerry Widdowson, Durham 75

Tom Kubla, Pinehurst 78

Vic Robertson, Greensboro 81

Burt Flowers, Winston-Salem 83

Issy Sepulveda, Fayetteville 83

Travis Jones, Greensboro 83

John Henely, Pinehurst 83

Jim Blaylock, Winston-Salem 83

C FLIGHT (5980 yds)

Tommy Hooker, Winston-Salem 81

Dick Schuler, Pittsboro 84

Jerry Snead, Youngsville 84

Charles Gunn, Greensboro 86

John Hall, Raleigh 86

Ron Alligood, Advance 86

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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

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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.

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Question from week #195

Patti’s drive comes to rest in the fairway in an area where the club’s resident Canada Geese gaggle apparently held a party and sleep-over. She believes this area should be deemed ground under repair, and that she is entitled to relief under R25-1, Abnormal Ground Condition.

She lifts, cleans and drops her ball free of the area. It is then that a fellow competitor tells her that the goose droppings are loose impediments and not GUR and that she must play the ball from her original position.

So Patti again lifts her ball, uses her foot to remove a couple of the “loose impediments”, and replaces her ball on its original spot. She hits her next ball onto the green and takes two putts to complete the play of the hole.

What is Patti’s score for the hole?

A. 4

B. 5

C. 6

D. 7

Answer:

B. Patti made four strokes at her ball and had one penalty stroke for a total of 5.

Patti’s mistake was assuming the area her tee ball ended up was GUR. An area that is not marked as GUR by the Committee cannot be deemed so by any player, only by a member of the Committee or a designated representative. Had she asked her fellow competitors, she likely would have learned the proper designation for the droppings are loose impediments. As disgusting as that effort may seem, the player is allowed to move them at will.

Since she could not take relief under R25-1, when she lifted her ball she breached R18-2. She is penalized one stroke and must replace the ball. Even though her ball is in play where she dropped free of the area, R20-6 affords her the authority to correct her error.

If she fails to correct her error, her 1-stroke penalty becomes a Loss of Hole penalty in match play or 2-stroke penalty in stroke play for playing from a wrong place.

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Senior Amateur Full Leaderboard

Sapona Ridge Country Club

April 11, 2013

TEES BY FLIGHT:

Champ & A: Rating- 70.2; Slope-135; Yardage- 6190

B & C: ; Rating - 69.1; Slope - 132; Yard - 5980

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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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