Greetings and Ringing in 2018 Welcome back to all return golf members of SWD, enjoy all the golf tournaments on schedule as plan by our Tournament Chairperson. Hit them straight and score well, enjoy the games, have a great golf Year in 2018! Mel Yu, President Our final event of 2017 was the year-ending awards dinner held at Aviators restaurant. Those who could attend enjoyed an evening of food, drink, games, prizes, and of course, the crowning of the 2017 champions, Kent Hirose, Walt Bromby and Jina Lim. Aviators provided a buffet spread that included a green salad, vegetables, rice and mashed potatoes. The featured entrees were prime rib, baked chicken and scampi-style prawns. A cheesecake dessert completed the meal. The open bar was stocked with wine, liquor and beer, generously donated by Septimius Kwong, David Chan, Steve Kushida and Michael Fong. In addition, numerous members, guests and officers assisted in setting up for the dinner, selling raffle tickets, distributing prizes, checking in the guests, and helping with the games. The helpful aides included Peggy Chan, Dave Tanaka, Gail Tanaka, Lance Uyeda and May Yu (my apologies if I missed anyone). The Board thanks them for their help. I m comfortable to report that everyone had fun throughout the evening. Pretty sure the co-grand prize raffle winners of $100 each, Julie Kimura, Anne Uyeda and Willie Yee had a great time. If you don t want to miss the 2018 dinner, be sure to mark the first Saturday in December on your calendar. Note from the Board: Typically, the club holds at least two team event tournaments each year, a 4-person scramble to start the season and a year ending Turkey Shoot. Coordinating the teams for these types of tournaments is especially hard for the Tournament Chairpersons. It would be easy if only active members signed up as 4-person teams. However, there are always individuals, pairs and threesomes signing up for these events. The TC s first priority is to group the active members into 4-person teams. Consideration of inactive members and guests is of secondary concern. There will be occasions when the TC will have to reassign members of a foursome, threesome or even a pair of players into another group(s). As always, the TC will do their best to accommodate all the players who sign up for any tournament. David Chan, Executive Board Member 1
Happy New Year As the 2018 season begins, you will see a few changes in the club. First, our Men s A, B and Women s flight will be changed as we will be combining both the men and women members into one pool. From there, based on the handicaps the players will be divided as equally as possible into 3 flights for that tournament. Skins will be played in this format as well. Secondly, our 2-day out of town tournament is moved from August to the month of September. Hopefully, by moving the date, we may be avoiding the peak season rates at courses/accommodations, and a lesser crowd as summer starts to wind down and more options are available. Thirdly, this year our 1 st & 2 nd round Club Championship will be played in a one month period, October 7 th & 21 st ; and our popular annual Turkey Shoot will quickly follow on November 18 th giving us a 12 th tournament to play. Lastly. I would suggest all of you read the SWD 2018 Club Rules starting on page 5 of this newsletter. The changes for 2018 are printed in red & highlighted in yellow. In addition, Kent has put together some helpful info with some scenarios in regards to playing a provisional ball or lost ball. Kent s info page and the 2018 changes should be helpful to speed up the pace of play in your rounds. On behalf from myself and all the officers of the club, we strive to always make SWD a fun, enjoyable club and provide fair play for all. We foresee good things with these changes and would like to thank all of you in advance for your patience as we see how this will transition. I feel positive vibes for this coming year. Thank you again and I hope to see all of you out this year on the SWD 2018 tournament circuit. May-TC 2
1 st Tournament for 2018 Season Bartley Cavanaugh GC 8301 Freeport Blvd., Sacramento, CA Date: Saturday, February 24, 2018 Format: First Tee Time: Green Fees Carts: Range Balls: Money Hole: Skins: Scramble Team Event 3 drives minimum per player. 10:00 AM $51.00 w/cart $34.00 walking Additional discount w/play card Optional N/A $2.00 (Optional) N/A All Men's Flight: Blue Tees ~ Women's Flight: Black Tees Put your foursome together or we can form a team for you. Please sign up on website: http://www.ghin.com/eclub/swdgolf. Thank you. May Lee - Email: famileex5@sbcglobal.net or 391-4309 Sign-Up/Cancellation Deadline: February 9, 2018 3
Here are a couple of friendly reminders while golfing this year. From Kent Hirose, our Rules Chairperson Provisional Ball: Provisional ball is played when you think your original shot maybe lost outside a water hazard or out of bounds. Example #1: You are teeing off of #1 at Bartley Cavanaugh and pull your shot left toward the fence. If there is any doubt in your mind your ball might have rolled out of bounds, just announce you are going to play a provisional ball. And make sure you use the word provisional. Example #2: You blasted your drive on #18 at Poppy Hills (they reversed the nines, so it s the old #9) to the right of the fairway bunkers and over the hill. It s possible your ball could have rolled into the high grass to the right of the cart path and have a possible lost ball. Just play it safe and announce you are going to play a provisional ball. Did you know? You continue playing your provisional ball until you reach the place where the original is likely to be. Ball lost in abnormal ground condition: An abnormal ground condition is any casual water, ground under repair or hole, cast or runway on the course made by burrowing animal, a reptile or a bird. The most common abnormal ground conditions are causal water, ground under repair and burrowing animal holes. Did you know? You get a free drop if you lost your ball in an abnormal ground condition. Example #1: You re playing #4 at Bing after a BIG downpour. Your drive goes right and you see the ball splash in the fairway. As you approach the area where you thought your ball landed, the whole area is casual water. You can t find your ball. Your ball is now lost in an abnormal ground condition. What do you do? Starting from where you think your ball landed; start walking toward the tee box until you are no longer in causal water. Take a drop and you re playing your second shot. Rule 3-3 doubt as to procedure: In stroke play, has your ball landed in an area where you are not exacting sure if you should get relief? Or you are not exactly how to correctly proceed? Rule 3-3 allows you to play a second ball taking relief or what you think is the correct procedure. However, you must: 1. Announce you intend to play two balls for the remaining hole. 2. Which ball you wish to count if the rules permit the procedure used for that ball. 3. Report your incident at scoring. At scoring or before the competition is closed, the Committee will make the determination as to which ball would count in scoring for the hole. It s very helpful if you take a picture of the situation. We hope you find these tips helpful and will include more tips in future newsletters. 4
SWD Club Rules for 2018 The Golf Club adheres to the USGA Rules of Golf. We do, however, provide some additional rules and guidelines that are intended to speed up tournament play, provide clarification for how we determine handicap flights, and specific tournament rules. We have modified our rules from last year regarding penalty for Slow Play. Please take a minute to review the following list of club rules (in addition to the USGA rules) that will be in effect this year. 1. When the first group in the tournament completes their round, they will set up a clock at the scorer s table. Time on the clock will be set at 20 minutes. The second group must finish and check in with the scorer s table before time on the clock reaches zero. The clock will be reset to 20 minutes for the next group. (Time may be taken after checking in for players to review their scorecards for accuracy and signature prior to then submitting them off the clock. ) Penalties will apply for late play note the following: Check in with the scorer s table in 20 minutes or less and there is no penalty. If your group is more than 20 minutes behind, but less than 30 minutes (within 10 minutes), two (2) strokes will be added to the gross score of each member of the foursome. If your group is more than 30 minutes behind (after 10 minutes), five (5) strokes will be added to the gross score of each member of the foursome. An additional 5-minute allowance will be added to the clock if the succeeding team has more players than the preceding team. While this process is not desirable, it is more liberal than the NCGA s guidelines, and is an attempt to make our tournaments timelier and thereby more enjoyable for all our members 2. Disqualification when scorecard is unsigned. Two signatures required. 3. The tournament chairman will determine summer or winter rules on the day of the tournament. If not specified, the rules in effect at the golf course will be used. Summer rules are play the ball as you find it and winter rules usually allow the ball to be bumped to within 6 inches of its original spot. 4. Take a maximum of two putts on temporary greens. 5. All putts must be holed out. No Gimmes 5
6. Out-of-Bound/Lost Ball Option If your shot goes out of bound, you have the option to take a 2 strokes penalty and drop at the point of entry no closer to the hole. However, you must decide before you hit your next shot unless it is a provisional. If a ball is lost as a result of not being found or identified within five minutes after having begun to search for it, the player may play a ball, under penalty of two strokes, as nearly as possible at an agreed upon spot by other members of the foursome where the original ball was likely to have landed. 7. Water hazard holes must be played from designated tees. If any shot lands in the water hazard, you may drop on the other side - 1 stroke penalty. You may also choose to avoid crossing the water hazard entirely and hit from the opposite shore and take a 2-stroke penalty. If you choose either of the options above, you must also circle the strokes on that hole to indicate this option has been invoked and you will be disqualified from winning any prizes for that medal/team play tournament; but you will still be eligible to win skins, the money hole or closest to the pin awards, if applicable. 8. All members will be combined and play under Flight 1, Flight 2 or Flight 3 based on their handicap index. The flights will be divided equally and any tied handicaps at the cutoff will be placed in the flight down. Skins will also be played under the combined format under the flight you are placed in. Since your flight may change from tournament to the next, it is YOUR responsibility to determine your flight prior to tee in off on the first hole. This is important as the tee boxes may be different for each flight, and hitting from the wrong tee box constitutes a penalty. 9. During the Club Championship, once you are placed in a flight, you will remain in that flight for the duration of the club championship. 10. For all members without handicaps, until you receive your official NCGA handicap you may compete for prizes, but you will be assigned a ZERO handicap. 11. Prize distribution for each flight and closest to the pin prizes will be points. The prize payouts are below: 6
Prizes are now given to 1st through 5th places. Flight Winners Closest to Pin 1 st Place 25 Points 5 Points 2 nd Place 15 Points 3 Points 3 rd Place 10 Points 2 Points 4 th Place 5 Points 5 th Place 3 Points Payouts for skins and money hole will be paid in cash Your Scores Count! Keeping accurate scores is an easy thing to do. Besides being easy, it helps to ensure fair competition. We all need to remember to post our practice round scores so that our course handicap fairly compares to another golfer's handicap during competitive rounds. If you forget to post your score at the golf course you can go to the NCGA website and post your score online at NCGA.org. The Tournament Committee has the responsibility and authorization to ensure fair competitions. Please help to ensure fair competition by posting accurate scores of all your practice rounds. Tournament Sign-ups, Cancellations, and Fines As an introduction to our new members (and a reminder to our returning members), here are some guidelines and information regarding signing up for a club tournament, cancellations, and the dreaded fines. In order to participate in a club tournament, you must sign-up with our tournament chairperson (TC). This is because we are provided a limited number of openings by the course. Members signing up after the field is full will be placed on a waiting list. The general rule is that you must sign-up with the TC no later than two weeks prior to the event. The sign-up number is listed with the tournament announcement. We recommend signing-up earlier to ensure that you will not be on a waiting list. 7
Cancellations are a fact of life. Things happen and even though you have signed-up, you find you cannot make the tournament. PLEASE contact the TC and let them know as soon as possible. This gives the TC time to notify the people on the waiting list. The last date to cancel and avoid a possible fine is two weeks prior to the tournament. Published in each newsletter with the announcement of the next tournament is a signup/cancellation deadline. Members canceling after that date or not showing up at the tournament will be notified of a fine by a written letter from the club. The fine structure is $5.00 for individual medal play tournaments and $10.00 for team event tournaments. The cost of the green fees will also be assessed if the club is charged for the fees by the course. So, if you have signed up for a tournament and discover you can't play after the cancellation date has passed, contact the TC immediately. A $25.00 fee will be assessed if you personally do not notify the TC within 2 hours of your tournament tee time to cancel. 8
2018 Tournament Schedule 2018 Tournament Schedule Date Course Green Fees Format February 24, 2018 - Saturday Bartley Cavanaugh GC $51.00 w/cart $34.00 walking Scramble additional discount w/play Card March 25, 2018 Sunday Woodcreek GC $58.00 w/rb Medal Play (Blind Draw) April 22, 2018 Sunday Callippe Preserve GC (Pleasanton, CA) $89.00/incl. $5.00 prize fund Medal Play May 20, 2018 - Sunday 1:00 start Teal Bend GC $45.00 w/rb Medal Play June 24, 2018 Sunday 9:00 start Wild Wings GC $45.00/hamburger/chips/soda Shotgun/Medal Play July 22, 2018 - Sunday Empire Ranch GC $58.00 w/rb Medal Play August 26, 2018 - Sunday Hiddenbrooke GC $65.00 w/rb Medal Play September 15, 2018 - Saturday Toiyabe GC (Carson Valley) *$363.00 per person Medal Play September 16, 2018 - Sunday Silver Oaks GC (Carson Valley) double occupancy/sat. Prime Rib Medal Play October 7, 2018 - Sunday Lincoln Hills GC (Hills course) $50.00 w/rb **1 st half Club Championship October 21, 2018 - Sunday Lincoln Hills GC (Orchard course) $50.00 w/rb **2 nd half Club Championship November 18, 2018 Sunday Wildhawk GC $58.00 Turkey Shoot Medal Play (2 best Ball) * See attached info regarding the Toiyabe/Silver Oaks outing in Carson Valley as prices will range according to your needs. **To be eligible for Club Championship, a member must have played a minimum of 2 SWD tournaments in 2018. 9
2018 Officers Title Name Phone Email President Mel Yu (916) 421-3722 melvinyuinsurance@yahoo.com Vice President Bill Fung (916) 395-6137 bfung@sbcglobal.net Secretary Vacant Treasurer Anne Uyeda (916) 424-8947 auyeda7768@hotmail.com Handicapper Ling-Ann Strahan (707) 688-4813 61strahan@gmail.com Tournament Chairperson May Linn Lee (916) 391-4309 famileex5@sbcglobal.net 10
Board Member Ron Sanui (916) 422-1984 Ronald.sanui@att.net Board Member Rodney Wong (916) 285-9397 rocknrod4017@sbcglobal.net Board Member Winfred DeLeon (916) 684-3334 wdl.riceboy@gmail.com Executive Board David Chan (916) 395-8162 chans2@sbcglobal.net Executive Board Mel Yu (916) 421-3722 melvinyuinsurance@yahoo.com Executive Board Michael Fong (916) 428-6547 Mfong10@yahoo.com Webmaster & Rules Chairperson Kent Hirose ickhiro@gmail.com 11