Last Call for Vineyard Scramble Applications

Hi JustGolfers,

Wednesday is the last day to mail the application for the Vineyard Scramble on June 14. Here is a link to the application:

http://justgolftournaments.blogspot.com/2017/05/vineyard-scramble-application-june-14.html

I hope to see you there.

Regards,
Linda

Shore Gate Prize Winners and Photos

Rosie Camiolo and Kate Dromgoole

Ineke Daniels and Terry Zimmerman

Colleen Black and Jane Arnold

Kellie Gorski and Gail Davies

Kevin Kaufman and John Huda

Dave Gaffney and George Barbin

Chalie Hassler and Chip Gerrity

Ed Witczak

Van Wolosin

Shore Gate Better Ball Results, Full Field

Vineyard Scramble Application, June 14

Men’s Modified Scramble / Women’s Modified Scramble – Vineyard – Wednesday, June 14

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

Player: __________________________        Partner: ___________________________

Home course: ____________________         Home course: _______________________

Approximate Handicap: ___ . __                   Approximate Handicap: ___ . __

Tee times start at 9:30. Circle preferred time: Early          Late

MEN’S TEES–WRITE YOUR NAME AND CIRCLE YOUR TEE CHOICE:

Choose the STANDARD tees (White: 70.4/125; 6358 yards) to compete for both gross and net prizes.

Choose the FORWARD tees (Green: 67.8/117; 5748 yards) to compete for net prizes ONLY. Handicap reduction approximately 3 strokes.

Name: _______________________   STANDARD              FORWARD    (circle choice)

Name: _______________________   STANDARD              FORWARD    (circle choice)

Total cost: $52 per player. Please mail one check for $104 ($52 if you sign up without a partner), 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

Last date to mail application: May 31

Additional tournament information

• Team Course Handicap: 40% low Course Handicap + 25% high CH

• Must use 7 tee shots from each player

• Practice putting green

Special considerations (traveling with someone, etc.)

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Shore Gate Handicaps

Shore Gate Pairings, May 17

Tee Times and Handicap Chart

I expect to post the tee times on Saturday. I will post the Handicap Chart after the revision on May 15. The chart may not arrive in your inbox prior to the tournament. Please visit the website directly on May 16 in the evening to view the Handicap Chart. The website address is:

http://justgolftournaments.blogspot.com

Shore Gate Better Ball Rules, Local Rules, and Course Information

Please read and print for reference on the course.

Scorecards and General Information

• Play the ball down.

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

• Maximum score per hole: double par. You must pick up if your score reaches double par. Record double par on the scorecard.

• Total each player’s individual score.

• One member of each team must personally return the scorecard to the tournament director and remain in the scoring area until the card is reviewed.

• Maintain a good pace of play. Keep up with the players in front of you.

• Tipping is optional. $2 of your tournament fee will be used to tip the bag handlers.

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

Local Rules

• Repair divots with divot mix stored on cart.

• Environmentally sensitive areas are marked by red posts with green tops. Do not enter. Play as lateral hazards. Use the tree line as the hazard margin.

• Natural sand areas (no rakes provided) are played as through the green. You may ground your club.

• Flags on greens for hole location: Red (front), White (middle), Blue (back).

• Yardage measured to center of green: sprinkler heads, cart path, disks (Red=100, White=150, Blue=200, Yellow=250).

• Cart rules: Cart path only on holes 1, 3, 6, 12, and all par-3’s. For all other holes, enter at the carts sign, drive only on the fairway (do not drive or park in the rough), and exit at the cart signs. If you have a health issue, the course will provide a handicap flag.

• Barber poles are placed on several holes at the 150-yard marker to let you know where to aim your drive.

• Park carts behind the green when you arrive at the green to help speed up play for the group behind you.

Tees

Men will compete from the White tees or the Gold tees.

Women will compete from the Red tees.

Specific hole information 

Disclaimer: I have requested that the tee markers be located to correspond to the distances printed on the scorecard. This may not be possible for all holes. Please use your GPS for accurate distance measurements.

#1: Dogleg left. 275 yards to bunker (230 from Gold, 193 from Red).

#2: Look to the right of the cart path to find the White tee box.

#3: Environmental hazard on left and around back of green. Play as lateral hazard.

#4: 240 yards to twin bunkers on right (200 from Gold, 170 from Red). 234 yards from Gold to bunker on left (202 from Red). Environmental hazard on left–play as lateral hazard.

#5: Full-service bathroom to left of green.

#6: Series of bunkers on left, starting 100 yards from green. Near the green, a thin strip of fairway runs along the right side of the bunkers all the way to the green.

#9: 209 yards from Gold to lake on left (178 from Red). Plenty of fairway right of lake.

#10: 190 yards to left bunker, 204 to carry. (Gold: 168 to bunker, 182 to carry; Red: 124 to bunker, 138 to carry.) 234 yards to right bunker (205 from Gold; 161 from Red).

#11: Dogleg left. Left side lined with bunkers, tee to 100-yard marker. Maximum distance for drive must be 90 yards short of green – any further and ball will be in troublesome grass bunker. Look to land your ball near the 100-yard marker. The grass bunker is 15 yards past the 100-yard marker. The entire left side is an environmental hazard that starts at the tree line – do not enter, drop a ball within two club-lengths or hit a ball from where you hit your previous shot, one-stroke penalty.

#12: 253 yards to lateral water hazard on right (219 from Gold; 208 from Red). The entire left side is an environmental hazard that starts at the tree line (see #11).

#13: 324 yards from White to bunker on right (300 from Gold; 250 from Red). Bunkers on left side, tee to green. A section of rough 32 yards wide crosses the fairway 250 yards from the green.

#14: Full-service bathroom to right of green.

#15: 185 yards to lake from Gold (160 from Red). If you want to hit a longer drive, aim drive over barber pole. GUR marked by flags in the bunker on the left just past the 150 marker. Find the NPR no closer to the hole and drop within one club-length from shoulder height.

#18: 206 yards from White to carry bunker on right (189 from Gold; 158 from Red).

Shore Gate Update

Dear JustGolfers,

I will begin posting tournament information over the next few days (course information, tee times, etc.). In the meantime, please review the Local Rules below. These rules are in effect at all JustGolf tournaments. I would recommend that you print a copy to keep in your golf bag all season.

Regards,

Linda

2017 Local Rules in Effect at all JustGolf Tournaments

Please print a copy and store it in your golf bag.

1. Accidental Movement of a Ball on the Putting Green

When a player’s ball lies on the putting green, there is no penalty if the ball or ball-marker is accidentally moved by the player, his partner, his opponent, or any of their equipment. The moved ball or ball-marker must be replaced.

This Local Rule applies only when the player’s ball or ball-marker lies on the putting green and any movement is accidental.

Note: If it is determined that a player’s ball on the putting green was moved as a result of wind, water or some other natural cause such as the effects of gravity, the ball must be played as it lies from its new location. A ball-marker moved in such circumstances is replaced.

2. Relief for Embedded Ball

Through the green, a ball that is embedded in its own pitch-mark in the ground, other than sand, may be lifted without penalty, cleaned and dropped as near as possible to where it lay but not nearer the hole. (“Through the green” is the whole area of the course except the teeing ground and putting green of the hole being played and all hazards on the course.)

3. Preferred Lies

When “preferred lies” are in effect, if a player’s ball lies on a closely-mown area through the green the player may mark, lift and clean his ball without penalty. The player must then place the ball on a spot within one foot of and not nearer the hole than where it originally lay, that is not in a hazard or on a putting green. (Note: “Closely-mown areas” include fairways, aprons around the green, and dew paths. The “first cut” of rough is NOT a “closely-mown area.”)

4. Aeration Holes

When a course has been aerated, a ball that comes to rest in or on an aeration hole may be lifted without penalty, cleaned and dropped, as near as possible to the spot where it lay but not nearer the hole. On the putting green, the ball may be placed.

 5. Stones in Bunkers

Stones in bunkers are movable obstructions. Rule 24–1 applies. The stones may be removed. If the ball moves, it must be replaced, and there is no penalty provided that the movement of the ball is directly attributable to the removal of the stones.

6. Immovable Obstructions Close to Putting Green

If a ball lies off the putting green but not in a hazard and an immovable obstruction (such as a sprinkler head) within two club-lengths of the putting green and within two club-lengths of the ball intervenes on the line of play between the ball and the hole, the player may lift the ball and drop it at the nearest point to where the ball lay that (a) is not nearer the hole, (b) avoids intervention, and (c) is not in a hazard or on a putting green. The ball may be cleaned when lifted.

7. Cell Phones

Cell phone usage is prohibited on the golf course (except for Rules questions or emergencies). Please add my name and number to your list of contacts: Linda Miller, 609-784-2550

8. Hazard Boundaries

If the margins of water hazards and lateral water hazards are not marked by lines or stakes, then if there is a question as to whether your ball lies in a hazard, or as to where to begin marking your two club-lengths relief from a lateral hazard, you will have to make this decision with the concurrence of your fellow competitors. To help guide you in establishing these margins, here are the USGA guidelines for where to place lines or stakes defining the margin of a water hazard:

“Lines and stakes defining the margins of a water hazard should be placed as nearly as possible along the natural limits of the hazard, i.e., where the ground breaks down to form the depression containing the water.”

You may consider the cut line (where there is a mowed area adjacent to the high grasses in the lateral hazard) to be the hazard boundary line from which to measure your two club-length relief.

9. Ground Under Repair

If a player suspects that his ball may lie in ground under repair that is unmarked, he should play his ball as it lies. He is entitled to play a second ball under Rule 3-3; he must report the situation to the tournament director prior to signing his scorecard.

Shore Gate Application Reminder

Hi JustGolfers,

There are still a couple of days left to send in your application for the Men's Better Ball and the Women's Better Ball at Shore Gate, scheduled for May 17. Click on this link for the application:

http://justgolftournaments.blogspot.com/2017/04/shore-gate-better-ball-application.html

Hope to see you there!

Linda