The 1st tournament of the 2002 year was again held on a beautiful day for the early golf. We have been lucky the last couple of years for this early tournament. The winners are as follows:

1st Place @ $160 per team

Jim Smith – Roscoe Hopkins – 55

 

2nd Place @ $72 per team

Bruce Barger – Owen Barger – 56

 

2nd Place @ $72 per team

Jim Little – Dan Hamlin – 56

 

2nd Place @ $72 per team

Chris Pieratt – Dave Stammen – 56

 

Closest To The Pins @ $20

#3  John Knechtly

#8  Dan Robinson

#12 John Knechtly

#17 Ken Parker

 

Skins @ $33

#1  Colvin – Robinson

#2  Taylor – Yerigan

#8  Lawson – Yenser

#12 Lackens – Knechtly

#15 Holmes – Goertemiller

#18 Cope – Hatfield

 

Low Gross

1st Place - $56

Dick Colvin – Dan Robinson 67

 

2Nd Place - $12

Dave Kraft – Bill Zumbahlen 69

 

2Nd Place - $12

George Lackens – John Knechtly

 

In an effort to get information to the members TJ Cope has developed a website with information about past and future tournaments. Log on if you have internet and check it out. We will try to use more of this in the year 2002. The web page site is:

MAGA.TJCOPE.NET

 

The next tournament will be held at Shaker Run. This will be the most expensive of all our tournaments during the year. The cost for this tournament will be $65. Included in this price will be golf, cart, range balls and tournament prize fund. Because of a little misunderstanding from Shaker , the possibility of a $5 refund may take place if you do not use the GPS System which is located on the screens at the top of the cart. The GPS System tells you the yardage you have left from your ball location to the pin.

 The date of this tournament will be April 20th with tee times not starting until 12:30 PM. The format of this tourney is a 4  MAN DOUBLE BEST BALL. Sign up as a twosome and we will blind draw teams. Like all our remaining tourneys full handicap will be used. If new players have not yet established a handicap by tournament time, I will figure it. Scores must be posted at your respective courses.

For the new members there are optional side pots that consist of:

 

$10 Low Gross

$5  Low Net

$5  Skins

 

These side jackpots can be sent in with your entry fee if you know that you are going to get into them. This will help free up time for the people running the tournament to also hit some balls. All players should check in at the table or designated location so the tournament committee knows they are at the course and also to see if they are interested in getting into the side jackpots.

 

The deadline for the Shaker tournament will be Thursday April 11th. This date is a little quick notice but the course must know how many players we are going to have by Friday morning. So mail your entries in as soon as possible. Shaker will fill in the tee times behind ours, so if your entry is not received before Thursday you could be shutout.

 

The May tournament has been changed to May 18th and will be held at Beavercreek Golf Course.

 

As of this letter there is still not a tournament scheduled for October. This location may be Moss Creek if they are still open at that time.

 

For people who are mailing their entries in separate, make sure your partner also mails in his entry too.

 

Also as an added feature to this years letters we have decided to put one rule or information that is not known or followed by many players.

 

Lifting , Dropping And Placing

 

  1. If a ball to be lifted is to be replaced, its position must be marked. (20-1)

  2. When dropping, stand erect, hold the ball at shoulder height and arm’s length and drop it. A ball to be dropped in a hazard must be dropped, and stay, in the hazard. (20-2a)

  3. If a dropped ball strikes the player or his partner, caddie or equipment, it must be redropped without penalty. (20-2a)

  4. A dropped ball must be redropped if it rolls into a hazard, out of a hazard, onto a putting green, out of bounds or to a position where interference by the condition from which relief is taken (in case of immovable obstructions, abnormal ground conditions and wrong putting green) or comes to rest more than two club lengths from where it first struck a part of the course or nearer the hole than its original position or other reference point under Rules 25-1c or 26-1. If the ball when dropped rolls into any position listed above, place it where it first struck a part of the course when redropped. (20-2c)

  5. If the original lie of a ball to be replaced has been altered, place it in the nearest similar lie within on club length not nearer the hole, except in a bunker recreate the original lie and place it in that lie (20-3b)