Greeting fellow golfers,
“Thanks to everyone who played today, for keeping up with the group ahead of them. I really appreciate it.” — Jack Fenelon
Today’s top golfer was Gerry Agdeppa; he had the best gross score with an 86 and the best net score with a 62, Way to go Gerry.
Regards,
Robert Escobedo
Today’s tournament results show Pat Reeves with the best gross score (87 ). He also shared the best net score (69) with John O’Neal and Ron Carpenter. Way to go guys.
Greetings fellow golfers,
We had a board meeting today after the tournament and there were two main topics of discussion that came up.
The first was on the poor condition of the fairways. Even in the middle of the fairways, there are depressions, overgrown areas and bare dirt patches. On last week’s website post I indicated that we were no longer playing winter rules, but today the board decided that we would continue playing winter rules indefinitely. This only applies to the fairways. You can lift, clean and place your ball within one club length from where your ball came to rest, but no closer to the hole. If you’re off the fairway in the rough, you have to play the ball as it lies. If you’re along the border of a fairway behind a tree or against a perimeter fence which you normally don’t get relief from, you have to play the ball as it lies. The exception to this, as usual, is if your ball comes to rest on a gopher mound, or if your stance is on a gopher mound, then you can move your ball away from the gopher mounds, but no closer to the hole.
A ball that comes to rest in a bare dirt area away from the fairway, such as the dirt area by the right-side fence of hole #4, has to be played as it lies. In order to determine where the fairway ends and the rough begins, most of the time you can see the difference between the shorter, nicely mowed fairway grass and the not-so-nice longer, clumpy rough grass. Use your best judgement. A rule of thumb: if you’re extremely left or extremely right of the middle of the fairway, you’re probably not “on” the fairway.
The second discussion concerned the slow pace of play we’re seeing with some golfers. Remember, our club plays “ready golf.” If it’s not your turn to hit, but you’re ready and nobody else is, go ahead and hit, or putt. Once you’re done putting out, go to the next T-box and get ready to hit. If you’re sure you can see your ball on your drive, go ahead and hit. Also, you can only spend three minutes searching for a lost ball. After that you get penalized strokes. Additionally, when on the fairway, while someone else is hitting, you should be getting ready and taking your practice swings so that you’re ready to hit when it’s your turn. If you have to take a phone call while playing, and it’s an emergency, and you need to talk for an extended period of time, no problem; just disqualify yourself and leave the fairway. An emergency call is far more important than any round of golf. At the very least, get out of the way of those who are ready to hit and don’t forget to call a penalty on yourself for delay of game if there’s been a violation.
Today’s top gross-score golfers were John Gonzales, Earl Clark, Ron Laufer and Jack Fenelon. They all had a 91. John also had the best net score with a 67. Way to go guys.
Regards,
Robert Escobedo
Greetings fellow golfers,
Jack Fenelon just notified me that beginning next Thursday (03-11-21) we will no longer be playing “winter rules.” Lift, clean and place will no longer be allowed on the fairways. You will have to “play it as it lies.” But…because the course is in such bad shape, there will be a couple of exceptions. Jack advised that we will be playing by the following rules:
Jack also writes, “This morning, my first group finished at 10 am; the last group finished at 11:40 am. Gentlemen, you need to be sure you are keeping up with the group in front of you. I know that Zach, from the main office, many times inserts golfers in between our groups, but if you stay close to the group in front of you, these inserts should be kept to a minimum.”
Attention Board members, my calendar shows we have a meeting next Thursday after golf.
Today’s top golfers were Jack Fenelon with an 88 gross score and Bob Cole with a 59 net. Way to go guys.
Regards,
Robert Escobedo
Greeting fellow golfers,
I checked with Jack Fenelon today regarding whether we’re still playing winter rules. He replied that we are still playing winter rules in which we are allowed to lift, clean, and place the golf ball within one club-length of the ball’s original resting place, no closer to the hole. This does not apply on the greens. (This info was also provided in the 01-21-21 results on our website).
Today’s top golfers were Jack Fenelon with an 88 gross score and Jack Bonifield and Ron Carpenter who both had a 67 net. Way to go guys.
Regards,
Robert Escobedo
Today’s top golfers were Chris Bartelson with the best gross score of 94 and Bob Cole with the best net score of 67. Way to go guys.
Today’s top golfers were Jack Fenelon with an 84 gross score and Ron Carpenter with a 61 net. Way to go guys.
Greetings fellow golfers,
This is for those golfers who aren’t familiar with our modified Covid schedule. The new 2021 schedule on our website shows that our tournaments start at 7:30 am. This is the regular non-Covid start time. During the pandemic, golfers need to form up in groups of four, three or two after the office opens at 6:30 am and fees have been paid. No singles allowed. The last group needs to tee off by 7:30 am to be in the tournament.
We’re still playing winter rules. This means you can and lift, clean and place your ball within one club length of the original ball position, but no closer to the hole.
Today’s top golfers were Thomas Tone with an 82 gross score and John Gonzales with a 62 net score. Way to go guys.
Regards,
Robert Escobedo
Today’s top golfers were Jack Fenelon with an 85 gross score and John Gonzales with a 65 net. Way to go guys.
Greetings fellow golfers,
The new schedule for 2021 is now on the website.
Today’s top golfers were Jack Fenelon with an 83 gross score and Dom DiNielli with a 62 net. Way to go guys.
Regards,
Robert Escobedo