Month: April 2017

Division 1 Birdie Pool Winners – Week 1 and 2 Announced

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There were 5 winners in the “Birdie Pool” of $7.00 each from Emerald Greens, Congratulations to Greg Deen, Tom LeFaive, Mike Haywood, John Kalin and Vince Italiano.

There were 5 winners in the “Birdie Pool of $9.00 each from Columbia Golf Course. Congratulations to Steve Deen, Tom Lefaive, Ron Lipovsky, Larry Beeman and Mike Torrence.

Larry Roth

larry@lgr-sri.com
Please remember, you must place a completed scorecard from your round in the envelope at the end of the round. I will pick up the envelope from the previous week when I get to the course each week. I will then send everyone a email congratulating and announcing the winners. After that I will have your money. Good luck.

If you have not been paid please see me at your next tournament you participate in and I will have your money with me.

Week 2 Pace of Play Update

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Thank you Metro Seniors

In our first two weeks we have seen very significant improvement in Pace of Play in every Division.

2016 Season averages for were:

  • Split Tee Starts – 4:49
  • Shotgun Starts – 5:13

Our first two weeks for 2017 were: Split Tee – 4:23     Shotgun – 4:30

Many factors including weather are part of this, but member awareness and focus on Ready Golf are the keys.

We still have a few slow tee groups.  The slowest Tee Groups are still a full hour longer than the fastest groups on some outings.  These slow groups still block several groups behind.  One player can slow down as many as 20 players behind.

Very encouraging are the times for Columbia, Aberdeen, Landings, and Dardenne.  The slowest to fastest times were closer together (20 to 45 minutes difference).  These were also relatively crowded courses.  Everybody was keeping up, staying together.

The table below is Times by Division for week 1 and 2.

Below (PDF file) is a more detailed summary of the Pace of Play Logs.  This includes the times for each tee group.  You can see your group time and how it stacked up with the field.  I have highlighted the “slowest” groups in YELLOW for each outing.  This is based on total play time and “Time Lost” against the groups ahead.

The groups in CYAN were blocked/slowed by the group ahead.

These summaries DO NOT have Member IDs. However, the full details with member identification has been shared with the Division VPs and the Pace Of Play Committee.

If your group was “slow” you may want to see what you can do to speed up.  Starting June 1, tee groups that are significantly and consistently slow will enter enforcement (warnings through expulsion if they do not improve.)

 

DIV Course/Conditions Date Players Min Time Max Time Avg Time
1 Emerald Greens, ST, Exc Cond 04/14/17 89 03:59 05:02 04:27
1 Columbia 50F, Rain, 90 Deg 04/21/17 39 04:05 04:48 04:29
2 Landings @ Spirit 04/13/17 92 04:04 04:33 04:19
2 Crystal Springs 52F, Dry, 90 Deg 04/21/17 76 04:05 05:02 04:33
3 Aberdeen Excellent Conditions 04/13/17 132 04:23 04:42 04:32
3 Orchards 04/20/17 107 03:59 04:53 04:20
4 Columbia SG, 55F, Dry, 90 Deg 04/13/17 107 04:20 05:05 04:43
4 Innsbrook, ST Exc Cond 04/20/17 99 03:30 04:30 04:10
5 Links Dardenne, 75F, Dry, 90 Deg 04/13/17 120 04:14 04:46 04:27
5 Belk Park 04/20/17 91 03:47 04:40 04:13

Download (PDF, 28KB)

 

Final Results – 1st 100 – Special Event

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We had another great day Special Event at Pheasant Run for the First 100.  It was a cool start with heavy dew on the greens – a real challenge judging the putts.  The day warmed, the greens dried, and everyone had fun.  We finished quickly – most players finished in about 4 hours.  By Noon, almost everyone had finished lunch and was on their way for the rest of the day,

71 members attended.  Unfortunately, we had several no-shows.  Perhaps they forgot?

Thanks to our volunteers for signup and final scoring.  Joe Lerch is using our computer system to generate professional scorecards.  Joe finished the scoring with the final results issued in lest than 18 hours.

Here are the results:

Download (PDF, 63KB)

Member Information – Rosters and More

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Now is a great time to check your personal information in our online rosters and to check the membership in you Division.  Look for new and old friends.

Here is a link to an illustrated guide to start using OurGolfStats.com.  CLICK HERE

To view the official rosters (by Division)

Visit OurGolfStats.com    (CLICK HERE)

Click on the LogIn (upper right side link)

Select your Division from the Metro Seniors drop-down list

Enter the password and submit.

You will then see the front page for your (or any) Division. with lots of options for reports.  Click on the Roster (#1).

You will then see the most recent information for you.  This includes your most recent Handicap Guide and Flight.    PLEASE HELP US by reviewing your Roster Information for accuracy.  If you change your email, phone number or address during the season, PLEASE tell us ASAP.

PLEASE CONTACT Membership Chairman, Dan Glenzy,  dglenzy@charter.net, with corrections or changes as needed.  We can’t contact you with wrong addresses.

New Members – your Handicap Guide will start following your first outing, but you will not have a Flight assignment, and official Handicap Guide for Flight Prize participation until you have recorded 3 official weekly outings.   So you can start Flight winnings on weekly outing 4.  Again, very important to check your roster information.

 

Handicaps in 2 Metro Seniors Divisions

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A number of golfers play in 2 18-hole Divisions of Metro Seniors. If you do this, you will have a separate handicap for each Division. You do not have to establish the handicap in the 2nd Division with 3 rounds played before you are eligible for Net Score prize money.

When you first sign up for the 2nd Division, either let Membership know, or let CustomerService@OurGolfStats.com know, that you would like your Metro Seniors handicap “grandfathered” into the new Division. Since we already have a record of how you play, we will use that history to set you up with a handicap and flight in the new Division.

To enroll in another Division, you will need to pay another membership fee. If you are interested in this, the Membership Committee can assist in answering any questions on the details of enrollment.

If you are just transferring from one Division to another, that needs to take place before the season starts. Again, Membership can handle that for you.

Access to OurGolfStats.com

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Recently, something changed on the internet for OurGolfStats.com, causing all links that start with the world wide web prefix of www. to lose track of what league is being accessed. Any “links” or “bookmarks” or “desktop shortcuts” that you use to access OurGolfStats, should have the www. removed. We have tried to “re-direct” all www.OurGolfStats.com links to plain old OurGolfStats.com, but it looks like some access is leaking through.

Any time that you do get the wrong page, pressing the Ctrl key along with the F5 key should get you to the correct page. The key sequence Ctrl plus F5 tells the browser to go all the way back to the server to get the correct copy of the web page. Once all the search engines re-index OurGolfStats.com, they should have the latest versions of the web pages and you should not see the problem any more. “Should” is the operative word here.

The above key sequence works with Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera browsers. If you use the Safari browser, there are different commands for different versions of Safari. Try one of these

    Ctrl+Alt+E
    Opt+Cmd+E
    Cmd+Shift+R
    Alt/Edit/Empty Cache
    Settings/Clear Cache

Hope this explanation is not too complicated. We are continuing to find better solutions to this issue. If you have any specific questions, send them to CustomerService@OurGolfStats.com.

Quick Access to the Metro Seniors Weekly Results

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Rather than accessing the many reports on OurGolfStats.com, many people just put a “shortcut” on their computer to the Metro Seniors Weekly Results Directory, which is at this web address – http://ourgolfstats.com/ms_weekly_results_dir2017.php

To build a shortcut on your computer’s desktop, put your cursor on an empty spot on the desktop, right-click the mouse to get options, left-click on “new” and then “shortcut”, and put the address above (starting with http) in the box for the address. If you built a shortcut last year, change the “dir2016” to “dir2017” for the 2017 Directory. To change last year’s shortcut, right-click on the shortcut icon, left-click on “properties”, then change the “2016” to “2017”.

The Directory of Weekly Results can be accessed each year in this manner.

Water Hazards and Dropping Zones

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Update for Week 2 – April 20/21

No conforming Dropping Zones for these courses for Week #2

  • Division 1 – Columbia
  • Division 2 – Crystal Springs
  • Division 3 – Orchards
  • Division 5 – Belk Park

Innsbrook (Division 4) has 3 marked, maintained Dropping Zones

  • Hole #7 (left of lake)
  • Hole #15 (left of lake)
  • Hole #17 (left of lake).

We encourage the use of Dropping Zones as it can help improve Pace of Play.

When we have problems with Water Hazards (marked by Yellow Stakes), use of Dropping Zones may be allowed (see Section 17 below).

Section 17 – Water Hazards – Penalties and Carry Over Procedure
All players must attempt to hit their ball across water hazards marked by yellow stakes.
If a ball is in or it is known or virtually certain that a ball that has not been found is in the water hazard, the player may proceed with under one of the following options: :
A) proceed under USGA Rule 26-1 (water hazard rule) with penalty of one (1) stroke
B) If there is a conforming dropping zone, identified and clearly marked by the course, and announced before start of play to players as to the hole and location of the dropping zone player may drop a ball, under penalty of one (1) stroke, in the dropping zone.
C) Under penalty of three (3) penalty strokes, player may choose to drop a ball on the opposite side of the water hazard two club lengths from the margin of the water hazard, opposite the point where the ball entered the water hazard. Penalties are one stroke to come out of hazard, plus two (2) penalty strokes to carry across the hazard.

Most of our scheduled courses DO NOT have regular, marked. maintained Dropping Zones.   I am preparing a detailed summary for all our courses.

For this week’s courses (April 13/14) – Only Division 1 (Emerald Greens has marked/maintained Dropping Zones).

Landings at Spirit (Division 2) – No Drop Zones
Aberdeen (Division 3) – No Drop Zones
Columbia (Division 4) – No Drop Zones
Links @ Dardenne (Division 5) – No Drop Zones

 

For Emerald Greens (only 2 holes have regular drop zones)

Hole #2 – Par 4 – Drop Zone beside and to the left of the green
Hole #17 – Par 3 – Drop Zone at bunker near green

Note – there is NOT a regular drop zone for #18, although this may be “marked” sometimes. We cannot use a temporary zone.