"Where Amateurs Play Like Pros"
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.
WELCOME TO THE
2013 SENIOR AMATEUR GOLF TOUR
Grandover Resort (West Course)
e-newsletter Summary
August 4, 2013
Special Pricing at LongLeaf for Senior Tour Golf Members Thru August
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:
========================================================================================================
-----
Grandover Resort - West Course
Don’t miss playing this beautiful course in Greensboro.
Grandover is always in pristine condition, is a great course to play and one that can challenge you if you don't keep it in the fairway. It was designed on rolling terrain in 1997.
The course is lined with towering hardwoods, and most of the elevated greens have moderate undulations and can be fast but true.
This is a favorite for all Tour members who have played it and all the locals in the Greensboro area.
Expect your peers to have already signed-up. Call Bruce Hallenbeck at 336-495-6556 or email him at behgolf@aol.com.
Sign-up & Pay Online Here
===============================================================
Tournament at Grandover Resort
West Course
Event Info:
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Grandover Resort (West)
Fee is $70.00
10:00 AM Shotgun
Physical Address:
One Thousand Club Road Greensboro, North Carolina 27407 Toll Free: (800) 472-6301
Directions to Grandover Resort
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
======================================================
Special Pricing at LongLeaf for Senior Tour Members:
Great news!
The management at Longleaf says Senior Tour members can play Longleaf now through August 31st for $25.00, any day or time as part of Longleaf's 25th Anniversary Celebration!
When calling to book tee time, identify yourself as member of Senior Golf Tour.
RockBottom Golf Provides Discounts On Brand Name Golf Gear from Clubs to Apparel to Accessories at the Lowest Prices on the Web!
Click Banner Below To See the Latest Products and Prices.
Save $50.00 on Adidas Pure Motion Golf Shoes
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Is your PC or Smartphone Infected?
Anti-virus software and monitoring that updates frequently is required to let you know you are infected and to keep from passing your personal information to criminals.
Protect your personal info.
Order and download Webroot Now to save $50.00 and protect your personal information.
=============================================================
2012 Flight Winners and Defending Champions:
Grandover
CHAMPIONSHIP (6220 yds)
Rick Luzar, Pinehurst 72
Chuck Wunsch, Pinehurst 75
Mike Smith, Lewisville 76
Gene Queen, Advance 79
David Coolidge, Greensboro 80
David Shackelford, Cary 80
David Williams, Cary 80
A FLIGHT (6220 yds)
Cecil Lockley, Creedmoor 72
Tim Stone, Reidsville 75
Dean McCoy, Pfafftown 77
Mark McKenna, Fuquay-Varina 77
Randy Jones, Greensboro 79
B FLIGHT (5900 yds)
Neil Bleau, Durham 73
Malcolm Griffith, Holly Springs 77
Charles Smith, Durham 79
Bob Dail, Wendell 79
John Lyda, Advance 80
Louis Herndon, Graham 80
Jeff Moore, Burlington 80
C FLIGHT (5900 yds)
Donald Brown, Kernersville 86
Mike Hunter, Greensboro 87
John Hall, Raleigh 87
Richard Hartley, High Point 87
Sindo Mayor, Charlotte 87
Curtis Gunnarson, Pinehurst 87
To sign-up, call Bruce Hallenbeck at 336-495-6556 or email him at behgolf@aol.com.
PINEHURST'S REED WINS SENIOR AM TOUR FOXFIRE EVENT
Foxfire Village, NC
August 1, 2013
Arch Reed of Pinehurst captured his 2nd win of the 2013 Senior Amateur Golf Tour season, shooting a 1-under 71 on the Grey Fox Course at Foxfire Resort today. Reed was 3 shots clear of a quartet of players: Lee Allen, also from Pinehurst, Winston-Salem's Howard Nemenz, Eric Ardery of Durham and Whispering Pines' Ron Hockensmith.
This win, in his 11th event "on-Tour this year, will add to his 5th place position in the year-long Points Standings race. Any Tour member in any flight that finishes the year in the top 15 in their respective flight will receive an automatic invitation to the season ending National Championship played in Pinehurst. "Arch was a virtual 'lock' for a spot in that championship event even before his win today", stated Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck.
There was extra excitement in the A Flight competition today as Randy Bunn of Zebulon had to go 3 extra holes of "sudden death" playoff against Wendell's Bob Dail to gain the top spot in their group. Both fired regulation scores of 76 on their initial 18 holes.
As has been the case in a number of B Flight competitions lately, the only player to break 80 (and by the narrowest of margins with a 79), emerged the flight winner. Whispering Pines' Dave Niehaus needed every good shot he hit as he prevailed by a single stroke against Greensboro's Tim Ward who posted an 80.
Pinehurst's Marty Carpenter enjoyed a 2-stroke margin of victory over Mike Hunter of Greensboro and Wayne Ricks, also from Pinehurst to top the C Flight. It was Carpenter's 2nd Tour win in-a-row, having won his last start at Seven Lakes Country Club in July.
The next stop for the Senior Amateur Golf Tour will be Grandover Resort in Greensboro with a 10:00 am shotgun start on Thursday, August 8. There are still spots available for that event.
THE SENIOR AMATEUR GOLF TOUR
FOXFIRE RESORT (GREY FOX COURSE) EVENT
TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT
CHAMPIONSHIP (6295 yds)
Arch Reed, Pinehurst 71
Allen Lee, Pinehurst 74
Howard Nememz, Winston-Salem 74
Eric Ardery, Durham 74
Ron Hockensmith, Whispering Pines 74
A FLIGHT (6295 yds)
Randy Bunn, Zebulon 76
Bob Dail, Wendell 76
Wilson Shelton, Madison 78
Dexter Barbee, Burlington 79
Cecil Lockley, Creedmoor 79
Bob McQueen, Hope Mills 79
B FLIGHT (6295 yds)
Dave Niehaus, Whispering Pines 79
Tim Ward, Greensboro 80
Cliff Nance, Lumberton 81
Jerry Snead, Youngsville 81
James Dockery, Southern Pines 82
Kenny Mace, West End 82
C FLIGHT (6295 yds)
Marty Carpenter, Pinehurst 86
Mike Hunter, Greensboro 88
Wayne Ricks, Pinehurst 88
Dennis Bryant, Sophia 89
Brian Costine, Durham 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
===============================================
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
Question from week #211
In a stroke play event, Kubla has hit his drive into a row of bushes that runs between two adjacent holes.
He finds his ball lodged in one of the bushes in an unplayable condition. He elects to take relief under R28, option c, dropping within 2 club-lengths of where his ball lies in the bush. Using his driver to measure 2 club-lengths from his ball, he inserts a tee in the ground, no closer to the hole that marks this 2 club-length distance.
This tee does not quite clear the edge of the bush, but there is a slight ridge in the soil within the two club-lengths that should help deflect the ball out, away from the bush enough for a clear swing. So Kubla drops the ball with the intention of dropping between branches and striking the ridge with the dropped ball.
For his first drop, the ball deflects off a branch and rolls about three club lengths away, so he needs to re-drop. On the second drop the ball lodges in the bush again, suspended about 18 inches above the ground. So he drops a third time and this time the ball hits the desired spot and rolls about three feet away from the edge of the bush but no more than two club-lengths from where his ball struck the ground.
He plays this ball onto the green and makes the putt. To make sure he proceeded correctly, during the play of the next hole he checks with a Rules Official about his actions on the previous hole, accurately reviewing what happened.
What is to be Kubla’s score for the hole?
A. He made four.
B. He made five.
C. He made six.
D. He made six and may be subject to a DQ.
Answer
D is the most correct answer.
Kubla hit the ball three times in holing out, but picked up three penalty strokes during play of the hole.
His first penalty stroke was for taking the Unplayable Ball relief (R28c). In the process of his taking the two club-length relief, he first dropped the ball and it rolled more than two club-lengths from where it first struck a part of the course (the branch).
On the second drop, the ball again first struck the course when it hit the bush but this time did not move more than two club-lengths and was in play. Yes, it is suspended 18 inches above the ground, but the ball is in play and Kubla must contend with the result. When he again retrieved the ball and dropped a third time, playing to the green, he ended up playing from a wrong place.
As he got to play the ball from the surface rather than suspended in the bush, the Rules Official/Committee may well rule that his error was a serious breach. Since the narrative indicates he is in the middle of playing the next hole, if so ruled a serious breach, it is too late for him to correct the error and would be DQed.
To the average player, having to declare a ball unplayable, which comes with a 1-stroke penalty, seems penalty enough. The feeling is the player, in burning a stroke, is entitled to a playable lie after the drop process is complete. Get that idea out of your head.
Know there are no guarantees and no, you are not entitled to a better lie. So pick the best option before you begin and do things like removing loose impediments from an area in which you are to drop.
It also helps if you know how to drop a ball to a spot.
If you have never practiced dropping a ball on a dime-sized spot, next time you are on the range, try it. Stick a tee in the ground, then stand erect, holding a range ball at arm’s length and try to hit the tee.
Think the pros don’t know how to drop to a small spot?
==============================================
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
Foxfire Resort
TEES BY FLIGHT:
Champ-White Tees: Rating-70.3; Slope-127; Ydg- 6295
A,B,&C-White Tees: Rating-70.3; Slope-127; Ydg- 6295
4TH STRAIGHT SR TOUR WIN GOES TO ARDERY IN PLAYOFF AT GREENSBORO CC
Greensboro, NC
July 25, 2013
On a day where it took playoffs to determine the winner in 3 of the 4 flights contested, 111 Tour members
teed it up on The Carlson Farm Course at Greensboro Country Club in Senior Amateur Golf Tour competition.
Weather in the mid 70s greeted the players on an immaculate golf course. Scores proved to be as good
as the conditions with three of the four flights having at least 6 players within 2 shots of the lead at the end of the day.
The 4th flight had a record-tying low score posted by the winner. In Championship Flight compettiton, Durham's Eric Ardery had to go back out on the course after shooting a 1-under par 71 in regulation for a sudden death playoff against Pinehurst's Allen Lee and Cary's JohnnyAda ms. Ardery prevailed in the playoff, posting his 4th consecutive Senior Tour win in the top flight.
"That's the most wins in-a-row for any flight in the 15 year history of the Senior Tour" noted Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck. "Eric is definately on his game".
Another player "on his game" was Yadkinville's Tom Fagerli, who tied the lowest mark ever posted in A Flight competition with a 69. Fagerli was the only flight winner to not be forced back out on the course for
extra holes as his 3-under total was 4 shots clear of Lewisville's Mike Greene. While Fagerli only had to play 18 holes, 4 players had to go back out in the C Flight for bonus golf as James Eatmon of Sims prevailed over High Point's Donald Brown, Kernersville's RichardHartley and James Tesch of Raleigh after all posted 85s on the day.
In comparison, after shooting 75 on the original 18 holes, Greensboro's Tim Ward only had to beat Fayetteville's David Teal to grab his 1st place prize in B Flight competition.
Greensboro Country Club
Champ & A: Blue Tees: Rating-69.7; Slope-124; Ydg- 6290
B,&C-White Tees: Rating-68.6; Slope-123; Ydg- 5995
2013 Senior Amateur
Golf Tour Schedule
Raleigh/Pinehurst and Triad Tours
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.
Please forward this e-mail to your friends, peers, relatives or anyone you think would be interested in putting their golf skills to a test against others.
Check out our links section for additional info or call, write or email Bruce Hallenbeck at 336-495-6556 or behgolf@aol.com or
We sent this newsletter to you because of your participation in the Senior Amateur Tour, please send an email and include unsubscribe in the subject line if you no longer wish to receive these newsletters.
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.