STABLEFORD – Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Here is how it will work:

1.     Please use your most recent handicap to fill out your cards. You are responsible for figuring out your handicap strokes/hole. Just as a reminder and to repeat the instructions from the note you received earlier:

Handicap net score works as follows:

Strokes are allowed for each handicap over par based on Women’s Stroke per hole. This is found at the bottom of the score card based on the hardest hole (1) to the easiest hole (18).  For instance, a handicap of 30 would give a player one (1) stroke on every hole and two (2) strokes on the twelve hardest holes. 

2.     Please check Chronogolf, as you do for your regular Tuesday tee-off time, for your designated foursome and tee time. As mentioned earlier, every effort will be made to put Stableford participants together but there is no guarantee.

3.     The starter at the front door will have a box for your ‘toonie’. PLEASE, PLEASE have the correct amount. Change will be problematic. 

4.     The starter will also have another box for your completed cards at the end of your round. The cards will be collected by Dale Hodge and Anne Parks, who will, after copious amounts of beer determine scores and winners.

This is Marianne Heslin who will be playing in the Tuesday league for the remainder of the summer. Say hello and make her feel welcome.

Don't forget that we are playing a Stableford game next Tuesday - you need a toonie!

The on-course washrooms are now open.

Sad news. Tammy was one of our favourite servers last summer. RIP, Tammy.

From Barb:

It would seem our women are at their best when they are hot and bothered.

Three personal best scores on Thursday:
Dale Hodge 92
Jane Gibbens 99
Laura Ebbrell 104

Congrats to all!!
🎉🎉🎉

(Those felt like the temps at different times today!)

Bunker play without rakes during our "new normal".

The R&A, USGA, Golf Canada, and Golf Ontario all approve the following method of playing out of a bunker, when no rakes are available:

Players should be requested to make their best efforts to smooth bunkers using their feet or a club.  

Even with players making their best efforts to smooth the sand, the condition of the bunkers is likely to be so abnormal that it will be clearly unreasonable for players to play the ball as it lies, it is approved to use preferred lies in bunkers. 

Players are allowed to place the ball in the bunker within one club-length not nearer to the hole than where the ball came to rest.

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Taken Tuesday, when even the gulls thought it was too hot to be out in the sun!

"Local Rule"

I have been asked for a clarification of the "Local Rule" for a lost ball or a ball hit out of bounds. Starting in 2019, a local rule could be used for casual play that allows a player who has lost a ball or hit one out of bounds to drop a ball in the closest fairway with a penalty of TWO strokes.

For example, you drive from the tee on # 9 and the ball hooks towards the trees on the left. You don't know from the tee if it went out or not. You have the option of playing a 'provisional ball' - an option that should be used in competition - adding a penalty of one stroke. 

If you have not played a provisional and you get to the area and can't find your ball, the "Local Rule" allows you to go out to the edge of the fairway, drop a ball and take a penalty of TWO strokes. (If you were in competition and you had not played a provisional, your only option is to go back to the tee and hit another ball.)

The penalty of two strokes would be the same as if you had re-teed and hit your third from the tee. In both cases, your next shot is your fourth stroke.

The diagram below may help (or not):

Remember, this does not apply to a ball hit into a penalty area (aka hazard), where you are not allowed to hit a provisional.

Thank you for all the photos you sent me for our June 30th 

Canada Day dress up! It looked great on the course to see all the red and white.

Thanks to Sandi MacDonald for decorating our third tee.

But one family didn't get the memo: