Tapawingo - Woodlands #3 Vol. 3 No. 3 TheMetropolitan Old Warson Cup UPCOMING EVENTS Page 4-5 Conversation with 2016 USGA EVENTS Steve Spray US JUNIOR AMATEUR Page 6-7 OLD WARSON CUP PLAYERS BATTLE THE ELEMENTS AS QUALIFYING JUNE 20, 2016 St. Louis Golf History THEY VIE FOR THE TITLE ABERDEEN GC 1981 US Mid-Amateur Page 8 SAM MIGDAL EDGES SKIP US GIRLS JUNIOR BERKMEYER TO PLACE HIS NAME AMATEUR QUALIFYING US OPEN QUALIFYING ON THE CUP JUNE 22, 2016 PAGE 12 BOGEY HILLS CC COLD TEMPERATURES AND GUSTY AMATEUR SERIES RESULTS WINDS SEND PLAYERS SCRAMBLING PAGE 13 US SENIOR AMATEUR FOR WARM CLOTHING QUALIFYING US WOMEN’S OPEN QUAL. You’ll pardon Skip Berkmeyer if JUNE 27, 2016 PAGE 16-17 he has a dislike for golfers playing ST. CLAIR CC for Central Missouri University in Normandie Amateur US AMATEUR QUALIFYING Warrensburg, Missouri. Page 18-19 JULY 18-19, 2016 For the second year in a row, a member of the Central Missouri OLD HICKORY CC MAGA EVENTS University golf team captured the Old US MID-AMATEUR Warson Cup, each defeating Berkmeyer QUALIFYING in the process. In 2015, it was Cy Moritz EAST SIDE AMATEUR AUGUST 8, 2016 who took the crown with a 2 and 1 JUNE 11-12, 2016 SPENCER T. OLIN CGC victory. In 2016, Berkmeyer seemed in WOMEN’S AMATEUR complete control of the final match, US WOMEN’S MID- right up to the time Migdal rolled in CHAMPIONSHIP AMATEUR QUALIFYING his putt on the final hole to close-out June 29-30 AUGUST 8, 2016 the match with a dramatic win and once SPENCER T. OLIN CGC Open Championship again, have Skip walking away shaking July 8-10, 2016 his head. See page 9 for full schedule Continued on page 4 Metropolitan Amateur Golf Association • 11777 Clayton Rd. • St. Louis, Missouri 63131 314.567.MAGA • Fax: 314.261.9250 • [email protected] The Metropolitan May 2016 STAFF Executive Director URT S OMMENTS Curt Rohe - [email protected] C ’ C Hello Members, welcome to the first P.J. Boatwright Interns - 2016 of our four monthly issues of The Schaeffer Bell Metropolitan! As a golf administrator [email protected] you wait around for the opening of the season to get here and then when METROPOLITAN CHAMPIONSHIPS it does it macks you right in the face Amateur Championship and you are off and running. Match Play Championship Open Championship We had a busy, but exciting, month Curt Rohe Women’s Amateur Championship of May with events. Starting with Executive Director Junior Amateur Championship our first Imperial Amateur Series at Senior Amateur Championship WingHaven, where the weather was much more favorable Metropolitan Cup Matches than the last two seasons. Weather could have really Four-Ball Championship been the story of the month for our USGA qualifiers; the Mid-America Junior Cup US Open Local at Forest Hills and US Women’s Open at Westwood. Each of the these qualifiers had ominous USGA QUALIFYING ROUNDS forecasts leading up to and even the nights before; however, US Open Qualifying (Local and Sectional) we were able to get through both without any delays or US Senior Open Qualifying issues. US Amateur Qualifying US Mid-Amateur Qualifying The Old Warson Cup was a cool, but beautiful weekend US Women’s Mid-Amateur with great matches all weekend as we crowned a new US Junior Amateur Qualifying champion. Sam Migdal and Skip Berkmeyer battled in the US Amateur Public Links Qualifying US Senior Amateur Qualifying final match with Migdal coming back winning Holes 16, 17 US Women’s Open Qualifying and 18 to stamp his name on the Old Warson Cup! To that US Amateur Four-Ball end, if you have the opportunity to visit Old Warson CC US Women’s Amateur Four-Ball you have to check out the beautiful new trophy room. The Old Warson Cup will be displayed along with replicas of EXECUTIVE BOARD the Ryder Cup, US Open, US Mid-Amateur, US Women’s Stanford S. Grossman – President Emeritus Amateur and US Senior Amateur trophies! Thomas J. O’Toole Jr. – Vice-President Thomas O. Sobbe Jr. – Vice-President I would also like to welcome Schaeffer Bell to the MAGA M. Ray McCraine – Secretary Staff this summer as our PJ Boatwright Intern. Schaeffer G. Scott Engelbrecht – Treasurer is a senior at Missouri Baptist University and plays on the G.F. (Rick) Meyer Jr. – At-Large Member golf team. He went to Westminster Christian Academy and H. Mick Wellington – At-Large Member grew up in Kirkwood. ADVISORY COMMITTEE A lot of things going on in June, notably the MAGA Scott Thomas, Chairman Women’s Championship, US Junior Amateur and US Dustin Ashby Senior Open qualifying rounds. The next Amateur Series Tom Barry event will also be in June at Sunset Hills CC. Skip Berkmeyer Jim Dunn Enjoy this months issue and thank you for taking a few David Rhoads minutes to read The Metropolitan. As always, if you have Curt Rohe any questions do not hesitate to reach out via email to [email protected]. Metropolitan Editor Jim Healey 2 The Metropolitan May 2016 Many times ball drops are not used on par 3 RULES OF GOLF CORNER holes because the best option would simply be the stroke and distance option of teeing off again, WHY IS THERE A “DROP ZONE” ON hitting 3. At my home course, Tamarack GC in SOME WATER HAZARDS AND NOT ALL??? Shiloh, Illinois, the 17th hole and 18th hole both have water hazards directly in front of the green. A drop zone or ball drop area is established The 17th hole is a short 128 yard par 3 so there is when it is not feasible to proceed exactly in no drop area. If there was a drop zone located on conformity with Rule 26. When an errant the forward tee area, the player would only gain golf shot enters the water hazard area from a about 20 yards advantage and not be allowed to strange angle, the resulting direct drop line may tee the ball anyway so a drop area is not necessary. offer virtually no area to play from. This can The 18th hole is a 415 yard par 4 and certainly occur when the ball enters the hazard from the does have a drop zone located near the end of fairway side or green side of the hole, such as a the fairway. Frequently balls enter the hazard at ball clearing the hazard then striking a tree and angles that would create a normal direct drop line returning in the hazard. A “drop zone” should that may put the player deeper in trees, the 15th be established to give a player the option of fairway, or deeper in the same water hazard area. playing from there under penalty of one stroke rather than the unfortunate stroke and distance option, which may be the only option available The very strange angles created for penalty without a drop zone. This could result in relief under Rule 26-1b in particular are rare and playing again from 200 plus yards away which not the norm for water hazards so drop areas are seems an extremely severe penalty. not always necessary or recommended. Submitted by Mark Morfey, PGA / USGA The majority of drop zones are used on par 4’s and par 5’s for water hazards that can create these awkward angles of dropping a ball on a direct line from the hazard line with the flagstick. The drop zone may be located in the fairway or rough and should still force the player to negotiate the hazard and not “play around it”. 3 The Old Warson Cup Matches It was a cold, blustery beginning to the start of the Old Warson Cup Matches on Saturday, May 14, as the temperature sat at 46 degrees with a strong, gusty wind. Bob Hanneken was forced to withdraw due to an accident he suffered, with Van Pierce filling in for him. This also caused the matches to be shuffled a bit to provide for the appropriate pairings. The temperatures certainly impacted the scoring as only one match went to the 18th green. In the afternoon, they were much tighter, with only the occasional errant shot causing a swing in the leader. Perhaps the best match of the quarterfinal round was between two young collegians as Nick Arman, a recent Rockhurst grad (missing his ceremonies on Saturday to play in the match), outlasted Mizzou’s Jimmy Siegfried 1up as Arman made par at the last to hold off a strong finish by the 2015 MAGA Amateur Champion. The semifinal saw two familiar faces; Skip Berkmeyer and Phil Caravia in one match, with Sam Migdal and Arman in the other. Caravia and Berkmeyer, both past champions of the Old Warson Cup, battled to an extra hole before Berkmeyer made birdie to close out the match. Arman held a lead through eight holes in his match with Migdal before Sam evened it at the ninth. Migdal went 1up at the 11th with a par and then ran the table from 13-15, going birdie, birdie, birdie to win 4 and 3. Sam Migdal The final match saw Berkmeyer’s experience take over early in the match as 2016 Old Warson Cup Champion he led after the third hole before Migdal evened it with a birdie at the eighth. Berkmeyer went ahead again at the 11th and increased it to 2up at the 12th with a par. It stayed that way through the fifteenth. At the par 5 sixteenth, Migdal went for the green in two but hooked his approach into the hazard.