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Metropolitan Old Hickory #1 Vol. 3 No. 7 TheMetropolitan Ellen Port Captures US SENIOR WOMEN’S her third US Senior AMATEUR RESULTS Women’s Amateur title Page 5-8 and seventh overall UMSL GOLFER TIES USGA title, tied for MAGA SEEKING COLLEGIATE RECORD third on the all-time DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS PAGE 9 USGA win list FOR 2017 US SENIOR AMATEUR Page 4 Page 20 RESULTS Taylorville’s Dave Ryan Page 13-16 rolls through US Senior Amateur NORWOOD HILLS TO field to claim his first HOST 2018 U.S. USGA title WOMEN’S MID-AMATEUR Page 12 Page 22 ETROPOLITAN UP MAGA 4-BALL RESULTS As the Metropolitan Amateur M C PAGE 17 Golf Association completes its 26th RESULTS AND STATUS year providing quality championship PAGE 24 USGA EVENT SUMMARIES events for area golfers, the continued PAGE 20 QUINCY GOLFER growth has now created the need for SHOOTS 59 AMATEUR SERIES additional staff. This will not only Page 26 POINT TOTALS enable the MAGA to provide improved PAGE 23 competitions, but will also enable the US WOMEN’S 4-BALL staff to focus on ways to make it even SEASON POINT TOTALS QUALIFYING RESULTS better in the future. FINAL STANDINGS Page 27 PAGE 24-25 For information on this new position, please review the material on page 20, or US MEN’S 4-BALL JUNIOR CUP you may go to the MAGA website for PAGE 29 QUALIFYING RESULTS further details. Page 28 Metropolitan Amateur Golf Association • 11777 Clayton Rd. • St. Louis, Missouri 63131 314.567.MAGA • Fax: 314.261.9250 • [email protected] The Metropolitan September - October 2016 STAFF Executive Director URT S OMMENTS Curt Rohe - [email protected] C ’ C As we begin the summer months…. P.J. Boatwright Interns - 2016 wait, sorry, these temps lately have Schaeffer Bell & Jameson Howard me a little confused! Wow, great [email protected] golfing weather for you though as we go into November? Speaking of METROPOLITAN CHAMPIONSHIPS November, the last day to post scores Amateur Championship Match Play Championship for our region is November 14 and then we go into our Inactive Season. Open Championship Curt Rohe Women’s Amateur Championship Score posting will resume on March 1, Executive Director Junior Amateur Championship 2017. Senior Amateur Championship Metropolitan Cup Matches It has been an extremely busy last couple months since our Four-Ball Championship last issue. We had the US Senior Amateur at Old Warson Mid-America Junior Cup and wrapped up the 2016 MAGA tournament season with USGA QUALIFYING ROUNDS the 4-Ball, Mid-America Junior Cup and Amateur Series US Open Qualifying (Local and Sectional) Championship. All of which benefited from this fantastic US Senior Open Qualifying fall weather. US Amateur Qualifying US Mid-Amateur Qualifying MAGA has a couple exciting announcements to make. US Women’s Mid-Amateur US Junior Amateur Qualifying We are currently taking resumes in search of a new full- US Amateur Public Links Qualifying time staff member for 2017, the Director, Operations will US Senior Amateur Qualifying be involved in all aspects of the day-to-day operations of US Women’s Open Qualifying MAGA with an emphasis on the tournament schedule. US Amateur Four-Ball MAGA and the Southern Illinois Golf Association (SIGA) US Women’s Amateur Four-Ball have reached a collaboration agreement for MAGA to provide SIGA members with GHIN handicapping services EXECUTIVE BOARD Stanford S. Grossman – President Emeritus in 2017. This will also allow SIGA clubs the benefit Thomas J. O’Toole Jr. – Vice-President of receiving the new USGA Tournament Management Thomas O. Sobbe Jr. – Vice-President powered by Golf Genius software package. A formal M. Ray McCraine – Secretary announcement should be rolled out in the coming weeks. G. Scott Engelbrecht – Treasurer G.F. (Rick) Meyer Jr. – At-Large Member As always, our goal is to have the 2017 MAGA Tournament H. Mick Wellington – At-Large Member Schedule finalized and published by January 1. I have ADVISORY COMMITTEE several dates filled and am working to meet that deadline Scott Thomas, Chairman once again. Check the website for updates and we will have Dustin Ashby the 2017 schedule in the final 2016 issue in January. Tom Barry Skip Berkmeyer Cheers to a wonderful Holiday Season to our members and Jim Dunn thank you for reading! If you would like to reach out, please David Rhoads Curt Rohe email me at [email protected]. Metropolitan Editor Jim Healey 2 The Metropolitan September - October 2016 golf balls, pace of play, discontinuance of play for dangerous situations (lightning), markings that may be specific to the host course for out RULES OF GOLF CORNER of bounds, ground under repair, and similar WHAT CONSTITUTES “THE RULES”? subjects. T S JUST THE ULES APERBACK I ’ NOT R P ! 4. Rules Officials carry a 600-page book called According to Rule 6-1, “The player and his the “Decisions on the Rules of Golf”, which caddie are responsible for knowing the Rules.” But contains the Rules and their interpretations exactly what is meant by the Rules? It surprises that form the basis for their rulings. For most players when I explain that it is more than the example, here is Decision 27-2c/1.5, with a contents of the “Rules of Golf” paperback published specific situation in which a player has the by the USGA and the R&A that conveniently fits option to play his provisional (with a penalty in their back pocket or golf bag. The defined term, stroke) or take relief (without penalty) from Rules, includes: a) The Rules of Golf and their ground under repair: interpretations as contained in the “Decisions on the Q. A player hits his tee shot into an area Rules of Golf, b) any “Conditions of Competition of tall rough and, since the ball may be lost, established by the Committee, c) any “Local he plays a provisional ball. During search for Rules” established by the Committee, and d) the the original ball, the player discovers that the specifications on clubs, balls, devices and other Committee has marked a large area of the equipment. rough as ground under repair. It is established Below are some particulars that may relate to your that there is virtual certainty that the original experience. Collectively, these items are the Rules: ball is in the ground under repair. Does the 1. After registering for a competition, players provisional ball automatically become the ball are often provided information on the in play since the original ball, which has not “Conditions of the Competition”, and been found, was outside a water hazard? perhaps the “Pace of Play Policy” that will be A. No. The player may continue play with used. the provisional ball under Rule 27-2b or he may proceed under Rule 25-1c(i) as it is 2. The backside of the scorecards used at virtually certain that his ball is in ground under most competitions typically have a set of repair - see Exception to Rule 27-2b. “Local Rules” that deal with subjects like integral parts of the course, seams of cut turf, Knowing the Rules is a responsibility. Having this conforming balls, driver heads and footwear, knowledge provides an opportunity to avoid penalties and embedded balls through the green. and understand options that may help with situations you will encounter when playing competitive golf. 3. When players arrive at the first tee to begin their stipulated round, the Official Starter will typically go through a procedure with players Alvan Sage during the few minutes between groups. Member - Rules Committee Among the informational items typically is a “Notice to Players.” This is normally a one-page document with details on topics like motorized transportation (carts), conforming 3 US Senior Women’s Results PORT FINISHES STRONG, WINS 3RD SENIOR WOMEN’S TITLE Well, there’s Tiger Woods and Bobby Jones with nine USGA trophies. Followed by Jack Nicklaus and JoAnne Gunderson Carner with eight. Next are two women, Carol Semple Thompson and Ellen Port with seven! That’s the list. All-Time! Port, 55, of St. Louis, won her seventh USGA championship on Thursday at Wellesley Country Club, defeating fellow 55-year-old Andrea Kraus, of Baltimore, 3 and 2, in the 18-hole final of the 55th U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship on the par-74, 6,049-yard Donald Ross layout. “Fantastic,” said Port. “It’s always great to win a USGA championship. You work so hard to get here and it’s just so special when you can finish it off.” Port’s 7-1 record is the best winning percentage among females who have Ellen Port, with seven fingers, denoting her seven USGA titles, tieing her for reached six or more USGA finals. Port received a text of encouragement from third all-time on the USGA wins list. Carol Thompson, who has also won seven titles. “It’s mind-boggling,” said Port. “I’m definitely not in that league. [Carol] is a good friend of mine. Carol drummed me the first time I played in an [amateur] event. She beat me 6 and 5 at the [Women’s] Western. She was a legend and we sat down and had lunch. I’ve learned a lot from her and respect her. “It’s just a real honor.” Port receives a gold medal and custody of the Senior Women’s Amateur trophy for one year. She also receives a 10-year exemption to the Senior Women’s Amateur, and exemptions into the 2017 and 2018 U.S. Women’s Amateur and U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championships. Kraus, who was competing in her first final in 26 USGA match- play appearances, receives a silver medal and a three-year Senior Women’s Amateur exemption.
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