2014 Tournament Schedule to be Posted Tomorrow

Hi all–

The 2014 JustGolf tournament schedule is ready for public consumption and will be posted tomorrow. Please make one or more copies of the schedule and post them in your club and anywhere else you may play. (I understand the absurdity of this message, given present weather conditions, but please keep the copies on hand and post them once you're able to hit the links.)

If you would be able to print a better copy off a Word document, please let me know via e-mail and I will send you the document.

I plan to post the schedule every month, so don't be concerned if your copy gets lost in the e-mail shuffle.

Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday, and a healthy New Year,
Linda

Hold the dates for the 2014 tournaments!

Here are the dates and locations for the 2014 JustGolf tournaments:

Thursday, May 22: Shore Gate

Tuesday, June 17: Vineyard

Tuesday, July 8: Blue Heron Pines

Monday, August 4: Seaview

Monday, August 25: Golden Pheasant

Tuesday, September 30: Wildwood

Thursday, October 16: Linwood

JustGolf Update

NEED A PC

• Do you have a spare PC (preferably a laptop) you would be willing to donate to JustGolf? It doesn’t have to be fancy – it just has to work. With a PC I might be able to install the TPP (Tournament Pairing Program). This program would enable me to download handicaps and post scores with one click (instead of typing everything in manually, one golfer at a time). It’s not that I have an old-fashioned computer; it’s that the TPP is not compatible with Apple products.

2014 TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE

• I hope to publish next year’s schedule by the end of this month. Six courses are confirmed, one is awaiting Board approval.

CHANGES FOR 2014

• The full tournament fee will be collected in advance of each tournament. The purpose is to have less hassle at the course for both players and staff. The refund policy will remain the same [full refund until 10 days before the tournament (3 days for medical emergencies); all but $20 refunded within 10 days of the tournament].

• $2 will be added to the cost of each tournament to cover tips. This will guarantee the bag boy $1 per bag at the start and finish of each tournament. Any money not used for tips will be added to the prizes.

• The modified scramble handicap percentage will change from 35/15 to 40/25 (40% of the lower handicap + 25% of the higher handicap). This should bring some new names into the winners’ circles.

• Drop the Shamble format and substitute a Better Ball.

• Tournaments that are Net Only will add one gross prize equivalent to the last place net money if the gross winner does not qualify for a net prize.

Vineyard - Photos of Winners

Kathy Callender (Vineyard) and Mitch Kato (Centerton)
First Place Gross - 69

Terry Zimmerman (Laurel Creek) and Hal Wilson (Springfield)
Second Place Gross - 75

Homie Perkins and Marilyn Ramos (Running Deer)
First Place Net - 69

Barb and Mike Petuskey (Vineyard)
Tied for Second Place Net - 70

Bev Rayfield and Rodger Gottlieb (Blue Heron Pines)
Tied for Second Place Net - 70

Vineyard Prize Winners

Vineyard Results, Full Field, Gross and Net

Prize winners will be posted tomorrow.

Vineyard Rules and Course Information

Please print and bring to the tournament.

Scramble Rules

1. You must use 7 tee shots from each player (Par 3 holes included).

2. Each player tees off on each hole. Select one tee shot and both players play their second shots from that spot, and so on, until the ball is holed. Once the ball is holed, the score for that hole is final.

3. Once you select the shot to be used, place a marker on the ground. The next shot by both players must be hit from within 12 inches of that marker, no closer to the hole. You may not use the 12 inches to improve your condition. Once the ball is on the green, both players must putt from the exact same spot.

4. Record one score for each hole.

5. There are no “gimmies;” hole every ball.

• Return completed scorecard in person to the official scorer.

• Women play Red tees; Men play White tees (Standard) or Green (forward)

• Tipping: Please tip the cart boys.

Course Information:

• Out of Bounds: Marked by white stakes and boundary fence posts.

• Do not enter the vineyards or other environmentally protected areas.

• Environmentally sensitive areas: Red stakes with white tops indicate environmentally sensitive areas where entry is not permitted. A ball coming to rest in these areas may not be searched for and must be abandoned. Relief options are the same as for a lateral water hazard.

• Dirt cart paths: There is no free relief from dirt cart paths.

• Drop areas: You may use the drop areas on holes #3 and #13.

• Bathrooms: Portables near holes 3, 6, 14, 15, and behind halfway house.

• Hole location: chart on cart.

• Yardage markers (to center of green): sprinkler heads; red, white, and blue disks (100, 150, 200)

• Carts: drive onto fairways, remain on fairways, exit fairways at signs. Do not drive or park in rough.

• Repair divots with divot mix on cart. Rake bunkers.

• Best advice: Greens are quick – stay below the hole.

• Ground under repair (GUR): Roped off areas. Play ball as it lies, or free drop (stance plus one club-length) at nearest point of relief no closer to hole.

• Practice putting green; no driving range.

Specific hole information:

Distances are in order from White/Green/Red

#1: To bunker in fairway: 217/146/116. To carry bunker: 239/168/139.

#2: To bunker on right: 187/170/137. Distance to water: 264/247/213. High grass surrounding bunker) ends 30 yards from the green.

#3: Par 3. May use Drop Area for balls hit into the water hazard.

#4: Bunker on left squeezes fairway at 150-yard marker.

#6: To bunker on right: 252/230/180. Note pond on left starting 110 from green. Bunker on left 150 yards from green abuts pond.

#7: Dogleg left. To end of fairway at center bunker on the right: 248/175/167.

To carry all bunkers on left: 333/260/252.

#8: To carry bunker: 241/195/176.

#9: Slight dogleg left. To end of bunkers on right: 190/153/106. To bunker in middle of fairway: 294/255/208. This middle bunker is 40 yards short of the green.

#10: To end of last bunker on left: 210/187/117.

#11: To end of last bunker on right: 199/174/142.

#12: To end of last bunker on right: 196/147/113. To bunker on left: 200/152/115.

#13: Par 3. May use Drop Area.

#14: Dogleg right. To end of last bunker on left: 242/206/149.

#15: OB on left – stakes and fence. Public road is OB. To end of last bunker on right: 230/195/156; on left: 246/211/168.

#17: If you’re thinking of trying to drive the green, beware of the quarry fescue area on the right.

#18: Slight dogleg. To end of left bunker: 209/154/142.

Vineyard Scramble Handicaps

Vineyard Pairings, October 24

Last Call for Vineyard

The deadline for mailing your application for the Vineyard Mixed Modified Scramble has passed. If you would like to play, e-mail or call me right now and mail your application today. 

Mixed Modified Scramble, Vineyard Golf at Renault, Thursday, October 24

(You may sign up without a partner, and I will keep you posted on my efforts to find one for you.)

Male Player: _____________________        Female Partner: __________________

Home course: ____________________        Home course: ___________________

Handicap Index: ___ . __                               Handicap Index: ___ . __

Circle preferred time:         10:30-11:20                11:30-12:20                after 12:20

MEN’S TEES – CIRCLE YOUR TEE CHOICE:

Choose the STANDARD tees (White: 68.9/120; 6077 yards) to compete for both gross and net prizes.

Choose the FORWARD tees (Green: 67.6/116; 5748 yards) to compete for net prizes ONLY. Handicap reduction approximately 2 strokes.

It is recommended that men who can hit a drive 200 yards choose the STANDARD tees. 

                   STANDARD              FORWARD                (Men: circle choice)

Total cost: $50 per player. You will pay $30 per player at the course and you will mail $20 per player to me in advance.  Please mail one check for $40, together with this application, payable to:

     Linda Miller

     48 Cherry Street

     Mount Holly, NJ 08060

Direct any questions to Linda:

     E-mail: LLMillerGolf@gmail.com

     Home phone: 609-267-8630

     Cell phone: 609-784-2550

Tournament opens September 29

Last date to mail application: October 11

Additional tournament information

• Course fee: $30 per player

• Team Course Handicap: 35% low Course Handicap + 15% high CH

• Must use 7 tee shots from each player

• Practice putting green; no driving range

Special considerations (traveling with someone, etc.)

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Linwood Prize Winners

Linwood Results - Full Field, Gross and Net

Linwood Pairings - 9:30 Arrival for 10:30 Shotgun

Linwood Rules and Course Information

Please read all information carefully, and print a copy for your use at the tournament. Since this is a shotgun, there will be no opportunity to explain the rules prior to play. If you have any questions, e-mail or call me now.

Important Information Specific to Linwood

• PLAN TO ARRIVE BY 9:30. Put your name on your bag. Leave bag at bag drop. Register at the JustGolf table as soon as you arrive. Applications for the Vineyard Mixed Modified Scramble will be available at the scorer’s table after your round.

• Be at your cart by 10:15.

• Range: Leave your bag on your cart. Take a selection of clubs and walk to the range. You may not take your cart to the range. Range balls are free.

• Siren: If the siren sounds it is mandatory to leave the course immediately.

• Snack shop and restaurant will not be open. Please bring your own snacks.

• Cart rules: Carts may be driven anywhere except near tees and greens. Exit fairways at signs. Do not ride over curbs.

• Bathrooms located in the snack shop (accessible from holes 10, 11, and 13) and in the clubhouse.

• Please tip the bag boys.

• Pace of play: Please maintain a good pace of play. Pick up if you are out of the hole and record an X plus your most likely score (e.g., X-6).

• Environmentally sensitive areas: Marked by signs and red lines on holes #7, 8, and 11. DO NOT ENTER TO RETRIEVE OR HIT YOUR BALL. Drop within two club-lengths of margin no closer to hole and add one penalty stroke to your score.

• If your partner arrives late, he may join you between holes (not during play of a hole).

• Play the ball down everywhere!

Scorecards

• Record gross score for each player. If you pick up, record X plus your most likely score (I must have a number so that I can post your score).

• Record team better ball gross and net.

• Total each player’s individual score, team better ball gross, and team better ball net.

• Record team BB gross and net on scoreboard at scorer's table.

• Sign your card. If there are any errors, I will call you. You will not be DQ’d for an incorrect scorecard – we will correct errors on the phone.

DO NOT POST YOUR SCORE.  I WILL POST THE SCORES.

Local Rules

Out of bounds: Parking lot area; fence along holes 4, 9, and 11; driving range; curbing around staging area of carts and around 10^th green. Must return to where you hit your previous shot and add one penalty stroke to your score.

OB fences: No free relief from OB fence (unplayable: one-stroke penalty to drop within two club-lengths or return to previous spot and hit again.

Waste bunkers: Defined by green stakes. You may ground your club.

Stones in bunkers: Loose impediments; you may remove any near your ball.

Hazards: defined by outer edge of rocks (the rocks are in the hazard), yellow lines (water hazard), and red lines (lateral water hazard).

Rocks bordering water hazards are in the hazard.

All meadows are environmentally sensitive lateral hazards. No play permitted. One stroke penalty and drop within two club-lengths or replay from original spot.

Please rake bunkers, repair ball marks, and fill divots with sand.

Course Information

Tees: White tees for men; Silver tees for seniors; Green tees for women

Yardage markers: Red, white, and blue raised disks in the middle of the fairway; many sprinkler heads. All yardage measured to center of green.

Hole location: Flags – Red (front), White (middle), Yellow (back).

Hole 2: Dogleg left.

Holes 7, 8, and 11: Red-lined areas are environmentally sensitive. Do not enter. Drop within two club-lengths of the hazard margin, no closer to the hole, and add one penalty stroke to your score.

Hole 7: A ball may not be played from environmentally sensitive area, but you may stand in the area to play a ball outside the area.

Distance to water: 335 (White); 215 (Silver); 210 (Green). After your tee shot, markers have two numbers: distance to water and distance to center of green.

Hole 9: Range is out of bounds; no free relief from fence (if unplayable, one stroke penalty and drop within 2 club-lengths no closer to hole or replay from original spot).

Hole 11: 150 yards to carry hazard from White tees. Drop area for men is near women’s tee box. Green slopes left to right.

Hole 12: Water crosses the fairway. After tee shot, markers have two numbers: distance to water and distance to center of green

Hole 13: Dogleg right. 170 from Green tee to second bunker on left.

Hole 18: Dogleg right. Distance to right bunker: 165 (White); 140 (Green).