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Sapona Country Club e-newsletter Summary July 22, 2012 - Sign-up To Play Sapona Country Club - August 4
- Chapel Ridge Results & Full Leaderboard
- Improve Your Golf Skills - Six Inches Between Your Ears
- Quick Links to Sign-up and To View Tour Schedule
- Where are you in Year Long Point Standings Race?
- Golf Rules Q&A - Replay a Shot & Guessing the Location
- Protect Your Identity
- Tour Weather Guidelines Reminder
Congratulations to all the winners on the GolfWeek Amateur Tour and the great scores at Chapel Ridge. Where are you in the end-of-year Point Standing Race? Will you secure your spot to the National Tour at Hilton Head? See links at bottom of e-newsletter to see where you stand. Rules Review question this week helps you understand the guidelines when replacing a mark ball on the green. 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. Protect your identity and secure your data on your PC. See the two protects to the right. 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. |
----- 2012 GOLFWEEK AMATEUR GOLF TOUR SATURDAY, AUGUST 4 SAPONA COUNTRY CLUB ----- |
Sapona Country Club Sapona CC was established and designed by Ellis Maples in 1967 and is set amid the hardwood forests of the Piedmont Triad. Most of you know that the Maples family has a storied golf past dating back to the original courses in Pinehurst and their classic design principles can be seen throughout the Sapona’s golf experience. Ellis Maples’s creative work and shotmaker's design will require you to have your course management 'A' game on in this week. You will need to think your way through every shot, exactly as golf was intended. There are good scores to be had at Sapona but only if you know your distances, if your ball lands on the correct side of every green and you stay below the hole. The course is always in excellent condition and host some of the most prestigious tournaments. To sign-up, call or email Bruce at 336-495-6556 or behgolf@aol.com. Club Address: 439 Beaver Creek Road
Lexington, North Carolina 27295
(336) 956-6245 |
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Event Info: Sapona Country Club Saturday, August 4, 2012 Fees: $70.00Time: 1:30 PM ShotgunPhysical Address: 439 Beaver Creek Road
Lexington, North Carolina 27295
(336) 956-6245 Club Directions |
2011 Flight Winners and Defending Champions Sapona Country Club CHAMPIONSHIP (6,620 yards)Sean Pardue, Greensboro 76
A FLIGHT (6,157 yards)Jake Britt, Louisburg 73
B FLIGHT (6,157 yards)Tim Crites, Oak Ridge 79
C FLIGHT (6,157 yards)Allen Pegram, Reidsville 85
D FLIGHT (6,157 yards)Eric Friar, Whispering Pines 90 Click Here for 2012 Tour Schedule 2012 GolfWeek Amateur Schedule Pinehurst/Raleigh/Triad Tour |
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"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!"
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 GOLFWEEK TOUR FLIGHT WINNERS DECIDED IN PLAYOFFS Pittsboro, NC July 21, 2012 Both the Championship and A Flights had to go extra holes to determine a winner in Golfweek Amateur Golf Tour event held at The Golf Club at Chapel Ridge. As should be the case with the top players in the top two flights fighting it out, both playoffs were decided with a birdie. In the Championship Flight, 16 year-old Bishop Saunders from Pittsboro, playing in his very first Golfweek event, endured a "balky" putter all day when it came to making birdie putts. He didn't convert a single one, although he had many opportunities. That trend continued into the playoff as well as he missed 3 birdie putts in a row to start the extra holes. Tour veteran Jared Jewett of Greensboro matched Saunders' pars on those 3 holes and won the playoff with his own birdie on the 367 yard, par-4, 13th hole. 
Sapona Winners (left to right): Championship Flight - Jared Jewett; A Flight - Mark Cobb Meanwhile, it took the A Flight contestants only 2 holes to come up with a playoff-winning birdie as Mark Cobb from Hope Mills edged Kernersville's Billy Lankford on the 510 yard, par - 5, 11th hole. Lankford had won 2-in-a-row "on-Tour", falling just short of a "3-peat". "Billy may be going up a flight if his Tour handicap moves into Championship range", said Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck. "We'll be checking on that". The reigning National B Flight Champion, Daren Green out of Durham, won for only the second time in the B Flight on his local Tour with a sizzling 74. Turns out he needed to post that score as 2 other Tour members - Robin Neverve of Laurinburg, and Raleigh's Paul Harmon were only 1 shot behind. 
Left to right: B Flight - Daren Green; C Flight - Jesse Ingle; D Flight - Matt Mooneham In the C Flight, Gibsonville's Jesse Ingle had an easy time of it, cruising to a 6-shot victory over Cary's Greg Carlton and James Eatmon of Sims by posting an 81. In the D Flight, all you had to do to get into the prize pool was break 100. Matt Mooneyham was the class of the flight with a 93, with Raleigh's John Dorris 2 back at 95. The Tour is taking next week off and resuming play on August 4 at Sapona Country Club in Lexington. There are plenty of spots available for that tournament. THE GOLFWEEK AMATEUR GOLF TOUR THE GOLF CLUB AT CHAPEL RIDGE EVENT TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP (6700 yds) Jared Jewett, Greensboro 76 Bishop Saunders, Pittsboro 76 Chris Clark, Pittsboro 77 A FLIGHT (6502 yds) Mark Cobb, Hope Mills 73 Billy Lankford, Kernersville 73 Mark Dill, Pelham 75 Bobby Elder, Randleman 76 Billy Whitley, Mount Airy 76 B FLIGHT (6502 yds) Daren Green, Durham 74 Robin Neverve, Laurinburg 75 Paul Harmon, Raleigh 75 Greg Walker, Raleigh 78 Paul Spruill, Rocky Mount 78 Scott Williams, Raleigh 78 C FLIGHT (6502 yds) Jesse Ingle, Gibsonville 81 Greg Carlton, Cary 87 James Eatmon, Sims 87 James Lingo, Rocky Mount 88 Henry Lech, Fayetteville 89 Steven Bell, Raleigh 89 Robert Wesley, Aberdeen 89 D FLIGHT (6502 yds) Matt Mooneyham, Elon 93 John Dorris, Raleigh 95 Travis Evans, Farmville 99 Jon Moist, Cary 103 Garrett Domingue, Fayetteville 103 |
ONLY TWO WAYS TO GET TO THE GOLFWEEK NATIONAL TOURNAMENT AT HILTON HEAD Where Are You In The Year-End Point Standings Race? There are only two ways to get to the year ending National Tournament - win one of the four majors (only 1 remains) or be one of the Top 10 point earners in your flight. We have reached halfway into the season and some of the point races of who will be #1 in the Flights and places 7 - 14 are very tight. As little as 25 points separate tour competitors. 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? Don't be left out. To see where you stand today* click below: Raleigh/Pinehurst Tour Point Standings Triad Tour Point Standings * Points from this week's tournament may not have posted. |
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 |
From the fairway, Mike bladed his second shot over the green. Upon reaching the putting green, Mike realizes his ball is OB. He lifts his ball and returns to the fairway. Because he made no divot with his previous stroke, Mike is uncertain of the exact spot to drop his ball. Mike recalls there was a dandelion beside his original ball, so he picks one dandelion from several in the area and uses it to estimate the spot for the drop of his ball. When the ball is dropped it rolls forward of the chosen dandelion by about a foot. Mike hits this ball on the green and takes one putt to complete the hole. Mike’s score for the hole is: A. 5 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8
Answer C is correct. Mike hit his ball 4 times and had 3 penalty strokes (1-stroke: R27-1 & LoH / 2-stroke: R20-7). The penalty stroke associated with R27-1, Ball Out of Bounds is obvious, the penalty associated with Rule 20-7, Wrong Place is less so. When a player is required to or chooses to play a ball from the spot of his previous stroke and the location of that spot is not precisely known, the spot must be estimated and the player is required to drop as close to that spot as possible (R20-2b). Mike correctly estimated that spot as a specific dandelion. Remember, anytime we are putting a ball in play under this or similar circumstances, we must always have a reference point for determining “nearer the hole than...” for deciding the need to re-drop. This reference point may be our nearest point of relief, the point of last crossing on the margin of a water hazard, the point where our ball lay unplayable, the point where our ball lay embedded, the spot of our last stroke, or as in this case an estimated spot. When we drop a ball under a Rule, if the ball rolls closer to the hole than one of the just mentioned specific spots, we are required to re-drop (R 20-2c, vii). In Mike’s situation, he estimated his original position to be a specific dandelion. When he dropped his ball using this estimated spot, and the ball came to rest nearer the hole, he was required to re-drop. When Mike failed to re-drop, then made a stroke at his ball, he played from a wrong place. In a match, Mike would have lost the hole. In stroke play, Mike is assessed a two stroke penalty and must play out the hole with the ball played from the wrong place. This would not be viewed as a serious breach. If a similar situation happens to you, and you do not have precise estimate of the spot, place a tee in the ground to mark your “estimated spot”. Treat this tee then as your point for applying the Rules. |
Tour 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.
Bruce |
GolfWeek Amateur Tour Full Leaderboard Golf Club at Chapel Ridge July 21, 2012 Tees by Flight: Champ: Blue Tees; Rating- 72.0; Slope- 125; Yards - 6700 A,B,C, D: WhiteTees; Rating- 71.1; Slope-123; Yardage - 6502 * Won in Play-off |
| Pos | Name | Flight | Score | | 1 | Jewett, Jared* | CH | 76 | | 1 | Saunders, Bishop | CH | 76 | | Pos | Name | Flight | Score | | 1 | Lankford, Bill | A | 73 | | 1 | Cobb, Mark* | A | 73 | | 3 | Dill, Mark | A | 75 | | 4 | Elder, Bobby | A | 76 | | 4 | Whitley, Billy | A | 76 | | 6 | Mooneyham, Nick | A | 77 | | 6 | Clark, Chris | A | 77 | | 6 | Groenewald, Mike | A | 77 | | 9 | Cook, Spurling | A | 78 | | 9 | Andrews, Rob | A | 78 | | 9 | Lister, Henry | A | 78 | | 12 | Davenport, Kevin | A | 79 | | 12 | Webber, Bob | A | 79 | | 14 | Turbeville, Mike | A | 81 | | 15 | Berry, Bill | A | 82 | | 16 | Garrett, William | A | 83 | | 16 | Ton, Cuong | A | 83 | | 16 | Marcellus, Gregg | A | 83 | | 19 | Green, Billy | A | 84 | | 20 | Hair, Ryan | A | 86 | | 20 | Ellams, Richard | A | 86 | | 20 | Lambert, Brannon | A | 86 | | 23 | Ivy, Mike | A | 91 | | 24 | Bryant, Jimmy | A | 97 | | Pos | Name | Flight | Score | | 1 | Green, Daren | B | 74 | | 2 | Harmon, Paul | B | 75 | | 2 | Neverve, Robin | B | 75 | | 4 | Walker, Greg | B | 78 | | 4 | Spruill, Paul | B | 78 | | 4 | Williams, Scott | B | 78 | | 7 | Gomez, Robin | B | 79 | | 8 | Ferrell, Wayne | B | 81 | | 8 | McLean, Jim | B | 81 | | 8 | Adams, Jimmy | B | 81 | | 11 | Frazier, Jack | B | 82 | | 12 | Simon, Brett | B | 83 | | 12 | Kubla, Tom | B | 83 | | 14 | Sheahan, Bob | B | 84 | | 14 | Rilling, Rus | B | 84 | | 16 | Hawkins, Michael | B | 85 | | 17 | Dockery, James | B | 86 | | 18 | Flowers, Burt | B | 89 | | 19 | Smith, Jason | B | 90 | | 20 | Gover, David | B | 91 | | 20 | Magyar, Joe | B | 91 | | 20 | Terry, John | B | 91 | | 23 | Bennett, Jason | B | 95 | | 24 | Pizza, Mike | B | 98 | | Pos | Name | Flight | Score | | 1 | Ingle, Jesse | C | 81 | | 2 | Carlton, Greg | C | 87 | | 2 | Eatmon, James | C | 87 | | 4 | Lingo, James | C | 88 | | 5 | Lech, Henry | C | 89 | | 5 | Bell, Steven | C | 89 | | 5 | Wesley, Robert | C | 89 | | 8 | Thomas, Mike | C | 94 | | 8 | Wilkinson, Bill | C | 94 | | 10 | Picking, Aaron | C | 96 | | 10 | Bullock, Tom | C | 96 | | 12 | Simpson, Carlos | C | 97 | | 13 | Wilkes, Landon | C | 100 | | Pos | Name | Flight | Score | | 1 | Mooneyham, Matt | D | 93 | | 2 | Dorris, John | D | 95 | | 3 | Evans, Travis | D | 99 | | 4 | Moist, Jon | D | 103 | | 4 | Domingue, Garrett | D | 103 | | 6 | Hall, John | D | 104 | | 7 | Green, Greg | D | 105 | | 8 | Patterson, Daniel | D | 106 | | 9 | Jordan, Jerry | D | 109 | | 10 | Marion, Louis | D | 111 |
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