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2017 – League Championship Update

07/20/2017 by dlwicks@sbcglobal.net

Playing well this season? Winning some flight money? Your handicap going down some? Did you know that we have the Association Invitational Championship outing?

Great! You may be in the running for an invitation for the Association Championship on August 29. Please mark your calendar for the possibility.

How Do I Qualify

Qualifications (see below for details)
- Lowest 10 NET weekly tournament scores from the first 18 weeks of the season ending August 18
- Member with at least 10 rounds scored in 2016
- Flights based on Handicap Guide (HG) distribution from qualified members as of 1/31
- 16 Members plus ties for each of 4 Brackets (1, 2, 3, 4) with the lowest average net scores for 10 of the 18 weekly tournaments (revised from 2016 and 2017 Member Book – see below)
- If qualified members cannot attend, we will extend invitations to the next qualified member(s) for the Bracket in order of lowest average net score.

Alternates / Substitutions

Please note, that each year we have several members from each bracket who cannot attend. This means that even if you are 17th to perhaps 22th place you have a high probability for an invitation. As of today, invitations would go to the top 20 (and even into the 30s places for Bracket 4). Because several low net players don’t have the required minimum 10 rounds.

You can see the current status Championship Qualification Report for the entire Association at Ourgolfstats.com on the Green Sheets Report. It is the second report, on each Division, before any weekly results.

DIRECT LINK TO GREEN SHEETS and Championship Qualification Status

Check this every week through August 20 to see where you stand.

The Final Qualification Report will be available about August 22. However, even if you are in 17th to perhaps about 30th place you might qualify as an Alternate.

Respond to Invitations Immediately

If you are invited to play as a top 16 (or as an alternate further down the list), please be ready to commit IMMEDIATELY. We will be scrambling to fill slots and we don’t have much time.

Although play is completed August 18, we won’t have final scores and analysis in until August 22. We will have only a few days to get the invitations issued, and all spots committed.

Revisions to Bracket 1 Qualifications for 2017

For 2017 Season we now allow A Flight to pick either Forward or Back tees like all other divisions. This required a change in the Championship Qualifications for Bracket 1.

Now Bracket 1 will used only NET SCORES for the qualification, exactly the same as Brackets 2, 3, and 4. Previously we allocated 1/2 of the Bracket 1 to Low Average Gross, and 1/2 half to Low Average Net when all A Flight was required to play from the back tees. This is no longer appropriate with both Forward and Back tees available.

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Results – Div 1 and 2 – July 7 – 2 Man Scramble

07/08/2017 by dlwicks@sbcglobal.net

70 Golfers from Division 1 & 2 participated in the holiday 2 person scramble @ Deer Creek Golf Course to benefit the United States Veterans on July 7th. Organized by Larry Roth and Charlie Van Deman from Division 1, golfers for the most part enjoyed a golf course not part of our weekly tournament schedule.

Not including “skins” there were 41 different winners out of the field with 50 total winners.

CTP winners Jerry Wells-2838, Dan Loyd-1815, Ron Lipovsky-1633, Rod Hollenbeck-2327, Bill Kolar-1361, Bob Cooper-2555, Terry Johnson-2177, and Jim Pisoni-2290 were all $10.00 winners.

Each flight paid $60.00 1st place team, $40.00 2nd place team, $25.00 3rd place team, $20.00 4th place team and $10.00 for 5th place team.

In “A” Flight, 1st place went to, Mike Stoll-2643 & Jerry Moore-2717, 2nd Jerry Wells-2838 & Gary Pahl-2008, 3rd Bob Cooper-2555 & Gerry Rachels-2344, 4th Bill Kolar-1361 & Dan Loyd-1815 and 5th to Tom LeFaivre-1140 & Mike Smith-1288

In “B” Flight 1st place went to, Nick Meyers-2053 & John Morgan-2527, 2nd Ray Lowry-2438 & Jim Pisoni-2290, 3rd John Reinhardt-2369 & Bob Nelson-2472, 4th Jim Wilson-1482 & Bob Debrock-1120, 5th to Larry Roth-1080 & Charlie Van Deman-1515

In “C” Flight 1st place went to, Thomas Shadrach-2989 & Michael Ebert-2831, 2nd Charlie Page-2430 & Dave Pikul-2204, 3rd Bob McDaniel-1938 & Wardell Patterson-1947, 4th Mike Henry-2830 & Pat Smith-2550, 5th to Larry Beeman-1747 & Mike Campbell

In “D” Flight 1st place went to, Don Brandt-1311 & Rich Perschbacher-1738, 2nd Vince Italiano-1007 & Bob Seitrich-1249, 3rd Keith Brown-2252 & Terry Johnson-2177, 4th Glenn Young-2682 & Rod Hollenback-2327, and 5th to Brad Bradley-2070 & Ned Buckmaster-2071.

The 2 skins winners were the teams of Bob Cooper/Gerry Rachels & Larry Roth/Charlie Van Deman

Results – Div 3 vs. Div 5 2-person Scramble

07/07/2017 by Craig Carothers

The much anticipated Division 3 vs. Division 5 2-person scramble was played July 6, 2017 at Columbia Golf Club. Mark Christian, Fred Horner and Bob Zaruba coordinated a fun event, including a terrific meal afterwards. Pitchers of beer flowed freely thanks to Ron Pierson’s hole-in-one on #16.

By the most narrow margin, Division 5 managed to squeak by Division 3 in the Division competition. Strong finishes by Div 5 “B” flight golfers provided the difference in an extremely close match, where a change in 3 or 4 strokes from the 88 golfers could have changed the outcome of the match. Results of the Division competition and the 2-person scramble competition, prize money and closest-to-pin winners, are shown in the pdf spreadsheet attached to this post.

A short note about the Div vs. Div scoring: Essentially, all scramble teams are ranked by their net score. The team the finishes first, gets a 1, the team finishing second gets a 2, etc. until at least 10 teams from each Division has been given their overall ranking. These numbers are then added for each Division and the LOWEST total wins. This scoring is how cross-county teams compete. It works with any number of competitors and teams. One result of this scoring is that the 20th place finishing team is just as important in winning overall as the first place finishing team – resulting in real team competition, not just reliance on the top finishers. For our Div 3 vs. Div 5 competition, we decided arbitrarily to just score the top 10 teams from each Division. Div 5 won with a 102 total to Division 3’s 107 total. If we had determined to score the top 15 teams from each Division, Div 3 would have won, 221 to 254. In this “cross-country” scoring, the more 2-person scramble teams that you have, the greater chance you have at winning. Perhaps next year, we will have more than 44 scramble teams.

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