Special Events

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.

Pick Your Partner Pairings List

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The Pairings List for the Pick Your Partner Special Event has been posted to the Metro Seniors web page. You can find the list by going to the Home Page, select Schedules and Results at the top of the page, select Special Events, and select Confirm – Wait – Pairings – Instructions. Select the Pick Your Partner event and you will see the link to the Pairings List. Or you can select the link in this post.

We calculate the Team Handicaps using the USGA recommended method for team events. Since we have not played a Special Event for some time and we have new members, I would suggest that you read the Special Events Handicap Calculation sheet on the web page. You can find the sheet by going to the Home Page, select Schedules and Results at the top of the page, select Special Events, and select Special Events Handicap Calculations. Or select the link to the left.