Senior Amateur Golf Tour

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WELCOME TO THE

2015 SENIOR AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

CENTRAL CAROLINA

The Neuse Golf Club Tournament

Thursday, March 12, 2015

e-newsletter

March 8, 2015

• March 12 - The Neuse Golf Club
• March 19 - Tobacco Road
• Golf Rules Q&A: Taking Relief?
• 2015 Central Carolina Senior Tour Schedule
• 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.

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REMINDER - YOUR NEW TOUR NAME

The Triad and Raleigh/Pinehurst Senior Amateur Golf Tours for 2015 has a new Tour name.

As all Tour "veterans" are aware, in the past the Triad and Raleigh/Pinehurst Tour schedules have been identical.

Beginning on the 2015 schedule, the two tours will be merged to form a newly named Tour: The Central Carolina Tour.

By taking this step we will avoid any confusion as to where you may have finished overall in a certain event because all competitors will be listed together for each tournament on the website. While this will result in having only one Points Standings listing, the prize pool and everything else will remain the same.

Sign-up for the 2015 season is only $90.00.

We look forward to another very successful year with excellent courses (many of them private) and first rate competition.

As always,to register and to sign-up to play or if you have any questions, or need any assistance, please call me at 336-495-6556, or email me at behgolf@aol.com.

Bruce Hallenbeck

GolfWeek Amateur Tour Director,

Raleigh/Pinehurst and Triad Tours

336-495-6556 or email behgolf@aol.com.

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2014 Flight Winners &

Top 3 Places:

The Neuse Golf Club

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• 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!).

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Where Will You Be in the 2015 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 15 point earners in your flight.

As you plot your tour schedule, be cognizant of the fact, only the top 15 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 2015.

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 2015 Tour, To see where you stand* click below:

Central Carolina Senior Tour Point Standings

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Question from week #293

Zeke’s tee ball has come to rest on a cart path. The nearest point of relief and the one club-length relief drop from the path would be on a freshly sodded area marked as GUR. Play from the GUR is not restricted, but it is obvious to Zeke that if he wanted relief from the GUR it would have him dropping back on the path.

How should Zeke proceed?

A. Since there is GUR on one side of the path, he should simply drop on the opposite side, away from the GUR and play on.

B. He may take relief from both situations by finding the nearest point of relief that is not in a hazard nor on a putting green. He should then drop the ball with one club-length of that point, no nearer the hole than the nearest point of relief on a part of the course that avoids interference from both the cart path and the GUR.

C. He may lift and drop the ball in accordance with Rule 24-2b(i). If the ball is indeed now in the GUR, since relief is not mandatory, he may choose to play the ball as it lies. If he chooses relief, he should proceed in accordance with Rule 25-1b(i). If he chooses relief from the GUR and after his drop the ball comes to rest with interference with the cart path, from this new at rest position, he may now take relief under Rule 24-2b(i). If his new nearest point of relief is back on the sodded area instead of repeating the previous exercise, he may take relief from both conditions as detailed in B above.

D. Because of the “exceptions” to both Rule 24-2 and Rule 25-1, he must either play the ball as it lies on the path or declare the ball unplayable.

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Answer

C. Yes, a complicated answer, but correct for this very unique situation. This circumstance may seem similar to the Question from week 292 but differs in one major respect—that being with the initial lie of the ball there is interference with only a single condition and the player has no choice except to play the ball as it lies or seek the specified relief under the appropriate Rule. If, after the initial drop, the ball now has interference with a second condition, he may choose relief or decline it. If relief is taken and the ball ends up back with interference with the original condition, one more look at the condition for this third relief drop is necessary to confirm this is a special situation requiring an exception to a normal relief drop point, as stated in answer B, but only after first performing the back-and-forth and then analyzing the third relief situation to confirm it is a seemingly endless circle.

In some situations, you may find after taking relief from the first condition, your result is very favorable to that which might result if you proceeded any further.

Likewise, after taking the second condition relief drop, having interference again with the first, you may find the nearest point of relief now is clear of the second condition and so you would proceed normally at that point. This is the reason you must pursue this process to this point, to see if in fact, the situation cannot be resolved without employing the exception. See Decisions 1-4/8 and 1-4/8.5 for more information.

This is another situation where knowing the Rules and how to apply them can work to the player’s advantage. Knowing ahead of time that the entire lift/drop within 1 club-length of the nearest point of relief process will likely be done at least twice, the player may be able to map out a strategy that will work to their benefit so that when the ball is finally deemed in play with no further action required, the player may be in a better playing condition than would result without any thought beforehand.

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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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