Month: April 2019

The results for the 2019 Find Your Swing Special Event have been posted to the Metro Seniors web site. Click on the Confirm – Wait – Pairing List – Instructions – Results link on the Home Page and then click on the Find Your Swing link.

Or click here

We just found out that Fox Creek GC has eliminated the combined tee Silver/Gold. The Back tee for this Special Event. We will be using the Silver Tee as the Back Tee for this Special Event. The Tournament Manager software and handicaps have been adjusted to reflect this change. Rev B of the Pairing List has been posted to the Metro Seniors web site. Or you can click here to see Rev B of the Pairing List.

Rev A of the Find Your Swing Pairing List has been posted to the Metro Seniors web site. Rev A includes the individual handicaps, team handicap, and team flight. You can find the Pairing List by clicking on the 2019 Special Events Confirmation – Wait List – Pairing List – Instructions – Results link on the Home Page. And then click on the Find Your Swing link. Or, click here.

A couple of Notes:

• Please read the Special Events Handicap Calculation sheet on the Metro Seniors web site – look in the top tool bar Schedules and Results and look at the drop down menu for Special Events, or click here
• Look over the Pairing List and make sure the Tee color for you is correct
• Team 8 will have a change in Team Handicap once the 4th player plays this Thursday
• This may have an impact to the Team Flights once the new Team Handicap is calculated

The first Special Event of 2019 will be held at Fox Creek GC, 6555 Fox Creek Dr, Edwardsville, IL 62025. Phone 618-692-9400. Web page – www.golffoxcreek.com. This will be the first time we have played at this course. It is not the easiest course to get to. You will want to put it in your GPS.

To give you an idea of where it is, here are the directions from the Course Directions – 2019 page from the Metro Seniors web site. Take I-270N across bridge and take exit #7 onto I-255N towards Alton, IL. At exit #3 turn right onto New Poag Rd towards SIUE Campus. Turn left onto IL-159. Turn right on Fox Creek Dr. From I-64/40E and I-70E, get to I-255N and follow directions above. Registration starts at 6:30 am. Shotgun Start at 7:30 am.

Reminder – The Back Tees are combine Silver/Gold tees. We have asked the course to have the combined tees marked with both Silver and Gold tee markers. Just in case, use the course score card to see what holes are combined. The Official Special Event score cards do not show this.

An updated Pairing List will be posted early next week with handicaps and flights after the results have been posted from last weeks tournaments.

The Preliminary Pairing List for the 2019 Find Your Swing 4-Man Scramble has been posted to the Metro Seniors web site.

You can find it on the Home Page by clicking on the 2019 Special Events Confirmation – Wait List – Pairing List – Instructions – Results link and clicking on the Find Your Swing link.

Or you can click here

This event will be held on Tuesday, 23 April 2019 at the Fox Creek CG. This is a 4-Man Scramble format event.

Handicaps and Flights are not listed on the Preliminary Pairing List. Handicaps will be calculated after the 11 & 12 weekly tournaments. A revised Pairing List will be posted when handicaps and flights have been calculated.

This month I have a few items to explain about the rules for 2019, the affect those changes will have for Metro Seniors, and our tremendous progress in pace of play.

If you saw my presentation at the meeting you may have heard the term “flagstick dancing”.  We simply mean we don’t want the flag taken in and out repetitively.  We want you to work out a system with the other golfers in your foursome.  For example, if someone needs the flag in until they finish putting out, and no one else does, let that player go ahead and putt out and then hold the flag for the rest of you.  If we don’t work out some type of a system among ourselves like that, it could be bad for our pace of play numbers.  We have our rounds down to less than 4 ½ hours in just the three years we have been working on it.  We would hate to go backwards over this new rule.  PLEASE insure the flagstick is all the way down in the cup and standing straight for the next group.

You may have noticed that on the tour the caddies cannot line up their player shots anymore.  Unfortunately, that same USGA rule applies to us during all of our events. You are not allowed to line up your partner’s putt or shot.  This doesn’t mean you can’t help your partner pick the line.  You just can’t stand behind him/her while he/she is addressing the ball.  The penalty for doing so is 1 stroke, and your opponents should be more than happy to remind you of that.

One of the most talked about rules violations is “The Gimmie”.  Everyone knows what it is, and I think everyone knows the league is trying to eliminate the terms “that’s good” and “it’s a Gimmie” from all of our golfer’s vocabulary.  If you pick up on any hole before your 8^th stroke, your score will be 9.  Let’s keep it fair and play by all the rules across all our divisions as we are competing for the Championship.  If you witness rules violations and don’t want to say anything to the person who violated that rule, you can e-mail me directly at rules.questions@gkbrown.net.  This will help direct our efforts to see that we all play by the same rules.

It’s important to remember, Metro Seniors has declared all penalty areas as red staked penalty areas.  There are some areas on the course that are not marked that we will also be considered red staked penalty areas.  They include grass or weeds more than a foot tall and heavy woods and sometimes fences at the boundary of the courses.  This means that you can take a two-club relief no closer to the hole, from wherever your ball last crossed the margin of the penalty area.  In some cases, this may be on the other side of the penalty area. Add one penalty stroke and play on.

I look forward to a great and fun season.  I hope we all have at least a couple of exceptional rounds this year.

Thank you for taking the time to read our Rules Roundtable.  I hope you find it enjoyable and informative.  Please let me know if there is anything you’d like to see in future installments of the Rules Roundtable. This is the Member’s blog so please post your questions and we will try to answer all of them all.

If you didn’t get an opportunity to see the rules presentation at our general meeting or maybe you just couldn’t hear it very well.  I have included the link below which should allow you to see and hear the complete presentation. We tried to post it under the rules tab, but the sound and automation doesn’t work.

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