Newsletter

Last Chance Special Event Confirmed List

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The Last Chance Confirmed List has been updated and has been posted to the Metro Seniors web site. On the Home Page, go to the top tool bar and hover your cursor over Schedules and Results. A drop down box will appear. Cursor down to Special Events and click on the Confirm – Wait – Pairings – Instructions link. Or you can click here.

The Last Chance is a 2-Man Best Ball format. It will be held on Monday, 14 September 2020 at Sunset Hills Country Club in Edwardsville, IL. It is a 8:00 am shotgun start and lunch is included. Cost is $67. We currently have 105 confirmed players. With a 128 player limit, there are plenty of open spots. Sign up as a two man team or a single. This is always a fun outing to finish up the Special Events year.

“New” Membership Co-Chairs

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For the past 6 years Dan Glenzy has served at the Membership Chair for Metro Seniors. He he done an outstanding job, setting up the program, calling members who didn’t renew to find out why, informed the Division VP’s of new members, designed our current welcome letter and solicited new members. He will be a tough act to follow. If you see him, please thank him for the job he did!

Effective immediately Dan Duvall and Michael Dersch both from Division 3 have decided to take over the position as co-chairs. The membership committee in 2020 will engage in a new marketing plan to attract more members and will handle all the duties Dan Glenzy did in the past. Both are in their early 60’s so in this group they will bring a fresh approach to the committee. Their information, email/phone can be found on the Metro Seniors website under Operations/Board-Committees.

Going forward Metro Seniors will no longer accept cash for any payment. Only checks, debit or credit cards will be accepted.

Lou Luketich Founders’ Day Pairing List

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Only 1 week to go for the Lou Luketich Founders’ Day Special Event. The event will be held on Tuesday, 18 August 2020, at the Whitmoor Country Club. It is a 7:30 am Shotgun start, 4-Person Shamble, and will be played on the North Course. Lunch will be served. There will be ample seating.

As of today, we have a full complement of 144 players, 36 teams. The Pairing List has been posted to the Metro Seniors web site, or you can click here. The instructions for the event can be found here.

Please observe the Covid rules called out in the instructions and listed here.

  • Wear masks before and after the event
  • Maintain social distancing
  • Do not touch the flag stick
  • Do not play out of the bunker, do not touch the rakes
    • Drop the ball behind the bunker with no penalty stroke
  • Riding 2 per cart, all carts have dividers
  • Single carts are not an option

The long range forecast is showing a high of 79 with very little chance of rain. It should be a fun day.

Lou Luketich Founders’ Day Special Event Confirmed & Wait List

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The Lou Luketich Founders’ Day Special Event will be held at Whitmoor CC on 18 August 2020. Updated Confirmed & Wait Lists as of 2 August 2020 have been posted to the Metro Seniors web site. You can find the current lists by going to the Metro Seniors web site, clicking on the Schedules and Results link at the top of the page. Scroll down the drop down menu to Special Events, and Confirm, Wait, Pairings, Instructions. Click on the event link. Or, you can click:

Lou Luketich Founders’ Day

Most of the confirmed players have responded to the request of a reply if playing or not. If you have not responded, and you will not be playing, please email Frank McLaughlin (fmmcl@hotmail.com), Bill Molz (wfmolz@yahoo.com), or Joe Lerch (jlwc@sbcglobal.net).

Teams will be built once Handicap Guides from 30-31 July weekly tournaments have been posted. An updated Confirmed List will be posted next week after teams are complete.

Pick Your Partner Pairing List Rev A

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The updated Pairing List for the Pick Your Partner Special Event has been posted to the Metro Seniors web site. There were numerous changes over the last week, so be sure to look at the list. Or you can click here.

A reminder that the event is a 7:30 am Shotgun Start at Missouri Bluffs GC. SE committee members will be ensuring that we follow social distancing rules during the registration, cart loading, and lunch. Be sure to have your face mask on while you register and are getting ready to start and when you finish and get your lunch. We have asked the course to space out the carts and all carts have dividers.

There have been several questions on how the handicaps are calculated since handicaps are pretty low with our Special Events adjustments. Handicap calculations start with your handicap guide (index) posted on Our Golf Stats from week 25 & 26 June. Your Course Handicap is based on the course Tee Slope, Tee Rating, and Tee Par. We will be playing the Green Tees. The Green Tee Slope is 107, Tee Rating is 64.6, and Tee Par is 71. The standard USGA Slope for calculating handicaps is 113. So Missouri Bluffs Green Tee Slope is fairly low. And the Tee Rating of 64.6 is also low.

The formula for calculating Course Handicap is: Hdcp Guide X (Tee Slope/113) + (Tee Rating – Tee Par). Hdcp Guide X (107/113) + (64.6 – 71). So your Handicap Guide is lowered because of 107/113 and because the Tee Rating is less than Tee Par, you wind up subtracting the result, -6.4. Thus you wind up with a pretty low Course Handicap. Then you take 35% of the low team member handicap and 15% of the next lowest handicap and you get a pretty low team handicap.

See you all tomorrow and have a great time.