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WELCOME TO THE

2013 SENIOR AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

Mill Creek

e-newsletter Summary

May 13, 2013

• MillCreek Sign-up for May 16
• Meadowlands Winners & Full Leaderboard -May 9
• Its All about the Year Long Point Standings Race - Where Will You Be at Year-End?
• Golf Rules Q&A - When to Declare Too Many Clubs - 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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The Tournament at Mill Creek

Event Info:

Mill Creek Golf Club

Thursday, May 16, 2012

Physical Address:

1700 St. Andrews Drive

Mebane, NC 27302

Phone: (919) 563-4653

Directions

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EVEN-PAR ROUNDS WIN ON SENIOR AMATEUR TOUR

Winston-Salem, NC

May 9, 2013

72 was the winning score in both the Championship and A Flights in the Senior Amateur Golf Tour event held at The Meadowlands Golf Club today.

Lewsiville's Mike Smith claimed the Championship win, while Wilson Shelton of Madison took home the A Flight top prize. It should be noted that Smith and his Championship counterparts played from the Blue Tees - approximately 500 yards further back than the rest of the tournament field.

Two golfers were only 1 stroke behind Smith in the top flight - Durham's Eric Ardery and Arch Reed of Pinehurst. Shelton had a 2 stroke margin of victory in the A Flight over Lewisville's Mike Greene.

Low scores were also necessary to win in the B and C Flights. Advance's Dawson Strider was B Flight king with a 77 that was 3 shots clear of Pinehurst's John Henely.

In the C Flight Charlotte's Sindo Mayor had an extraordinary day, winning the flight with an 80, taking the closest-to-the-pin prize on hole 17, and collecting 3 skins in the flight's Skins Pool. Durham's Brian Costine was 5 strokes back with an 85.

The next Senior Tour event will be the second Major championship of the 2013 season on Thursday, May 16, at Mill Creek Golf Club in Mebane. There are a few openings that still remain for that event. A sell-out is expected.

THE SENIOR AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

THE MEADOWLANDS GOLF CLUB EVENT

TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT

CHAMPIONSHIP (6417 yds)

Mike Smith, Lewisville 72

Eric Ardery, Durham 73

Arch Reed, Pinehurst 73

John East, Rockingham 75

Dan Anthony, Thomasville 76

A FLIGHT (5919 yds)

Wilson Shelton, Madison 72

Mike Greene, Lewisville 74

Cecil Lockley, Creedmoor 76

Jim Alford, Zebulon 76

Randy Bunn, Zebulon 76

B FLIGHT (5919 yds)

Dawson Strider, Advance 77

John Henely, Pinehurst 80

Cliff Nance, Lumberton 81

Lewis Herndon, Graham 81

Len Bullock, Greensboro 82

Sam Carpenter, Charlotte 82

C FLIGHT (5919 yds)

Sindo Mayor, Charlotte 80

Brian Costine, Durham 85

Dennis Bryant, Sophia 86

Jim Pritchett, Lexington 87

Mike Hawkins, Brown Summit 88

Ron Faison, Zebulon 88

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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

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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 #198

Decide for each of the following situations if the player would be penalized for a breach of the Rules:

1. Alvin showed up on the at the first hole of a match with fifteen clubs in his bag. Before either side teed off, Alvin declared one club out of play for the match and turned the club upside-down in his bag. He then teed off in his match.

2. During a stroke play event, Bob went to his car and changed out his 58 degree sand wedge for a 64 degree wedge at the completion of his first nine holes. His actions did not delay play. After changing wedges his total number of clubs remained at 14.

3. Charlie owns a weighted training club. It is designed to hit balls for both both warm up and strengthening of muscles and is a normal appearing club. This club is kept in the bag with his other 14 clubs for every round Charlie plays.

4. Dean has a warm up, club-like device with a weighted ball on the end rather than a club-head. During an extensive on-course backup at the tee of a par three in the final round of the club’s stroke play championship, to stay loose, Dean pulled out the device and made several practice swings with it. Dean keeps the device in its own holder on his private cart, not in his bag.

Answers

1. Alvin is penalized with a loss-of-hole penalty for the first hole of the match. A player must not start a stipulated round with more than 14 clubs. There is no way to avoid this penalty if the number of clubs in your possession exceeds 14. To avoid further penalties and possible disqualification, Alvin should declare excess clubs out of play. R4-4a.

2. Bob would be penalized two strokes with his first stoke on the 10th hole. To avoid further penalties, he needs to declare the excess club, the 64 degree wedge, out of play. He may not declare a different club, say his 3-iron, out of play to satisfy the requirement.

He started the round with 14 clubs and the Rule states that he is limited to the clubs thus selected for the (stipulated) round. You may add clubs at any time if you started the round with fewer than 14. Thus if Bob had only 13 to start, exchanging his 58 for a 64 degree wedge would now bring his total selected for play up to 14 even though he left the 58 degree in his trunk. R4-4a.

3. Any training club that satisfies the definition of “a club” (see Appendix II) even if it would be rendered non-conforming because of something like a formed reminder grip, is considered a club for the purposes of applying the limitations from R4-4. Thus Charlie is in breach of R4-4 every time he tees off on the 1st hole.

4. A long stick or one of the swing aids with the orange ball at the end does not satisfy the definition of a club. So Dean is not in breach of R4-4. However, Rule 14-3 prohibits the use of any artificial devices that might assist him in making a stroke during a stipulated round. So when he pulled the device and used it to stay loose during the round he was in breach of this Rule, the penalty for which is disqualification (ouch!). In 2010, at the Safeway Classic, Julie Inkster was DQed for slipping a warm-up donut on her 9-iron and making several practice swings. The use of that little weighted donut during her stipulated round breached R14-3.

She could use it on the first tee prior to her first stroke; or, if there is a suspension of play, she may use it prior to resumption of play, but not ever during the round. It’s a fine line between what may be used and what may not during the round. For example: it is not a breach of the rules to carry alignment rods in the bag, but they may not be used during the stipulated round. However, during the round, the player may instead use another club to check alignment provided the club is removed prior to making a stroke (D8-2a/1).

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Senior Amateur Full Leaderboard

Meadowlands Golf Club

May 9, 2013

TEES BY FLIGHT:

Champ - Blue Tees: Rating-71.4; Slope-130; Yardage-6417

A,B & C- White Tees: Rating - 70.0; Slope - 122; Yard - 5917

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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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