CELEBRATING 19 YEARS OF SINGLES GOLF IN AMERICA Hilton Head, SC - American Singles Golf Association May 2012 President s Column Greetings again fellow golfers, hackers, duffers and wannabees. We are off to a potentionally great season with the approach of summer. Some of the days we are feeling like summer already. We have had some incidents where folks are not getting the word on outings and other activities. We are working on that issue to ensure everyone knows the details of our outings where, when and how much it costs. Please make sure your e-mail addresses are current with National, plus the president, secretary, golf coordinator, and social chairpersons. We do 90 plus % of our communications through the electronic pipe, and accuracy is of utmost importance. I feel like I am preaching to the choir, but we need the occasional reminder. We have discussed having some nine and dine outings during the week. Right now, my travel calendar if full, as I know many of yours are. But I intend to organize some nine and dine outings as soon as I can. I would encourage any and all of you to do the same. These would be extra to our monthly outings. Again, it is my privilege to serve this interim term. ~Pete Westphal Past Events April Dinner: April s dinner was arranged by Janet Haysom and held at Mi Tierrita s. We had people 12 people attending. April Golf: We had a last minute change to Hilton Head Lakes. There were nine golfers and all played their own game. Upcoming Events Dinner: May 10 6 PM Cocktails at the bar. Dinner 6:30 PM at Robert Irvine s NOSH at Tanger 2 1414 Fording Island Rd. Bluffton 843-837-5765 Contact Janet Haysom jhaysom828@gmail.com 843-304-2560 for info and reservations. Golf: May 26 Shipyard Cost: $40 Contact: Shirley Meissier 843-815-9377 sem2332@gmail.com ~Phyllis DiFrancesco, Communications Chair About Our Members Happy Birthday to these members: Helen Triolo - 06/14 These members are up for renewal: (date shown is last day of membership) Helen Triolo - 05/31/2012 Welcome newest members: Valerie Kline - Joined 04/30/2012 These members recently renewed: Jerry Ely Gary Johnson These members did not renew their dues: (date shown is date membership expired) Joyce Calabrese - 04/30/2012 Milton Perron - 04/30/2012 Lyn Piwko-Bullard - 04/30/2012 Robert Santarsiero - 04/30/2012 Our chapter currently has 34 members. Upcoming Events Include (see SinglesGolf.com/events) Sacramento's Gold Country Classic - May 4-5, 2012. ASGA's Memorial Day Weekend Event - Pinehurst Resort. Dates: May 24-27, 2012 Details at www.singlesgolf.com/events ASGA in Ireland - July 20-July 30, 2012. Dublin + Killarney + Limerick. Details at www.singlesgolf.com/events Denver's Colorado Rocky Mountain Golf Adventure - August 23-26 2012, Golf at Headwaters and Pole Creek GCs. More details soon. Sacramento+Seattle's Northwest Invitational II-September 6-9, 2012 Office Hours: 9:00am to 2:00pm, M-F (Eastern) National Office: 704-889-4600 or 1-888-GOLFMATE Regular Meeting Date: SECOND THURSDAY of each month Next Meeting: May 10th, 2012 Meeting Location: Robert Irvine s NOSH at Tanger 2 1414 Fording Island Rd. Bluffton Our Website: www.hiltonhead.singlesgolf.com (See next page for list of officers and board members.) To join, renew dues, make a change of address, phone, etc., call National Hotline at left or go to www.singlesgolf.com/join
Hilton Head Chapter of the American Singles Golf Association Interim President Pete Westphal west7798@aol.com 843 705-9316 Chairman of the Board Jerry Ely jerrye550@aol.com 843-757-5601 Golf Chairperson Dave Larson davelarsonsc@gmail.com 843-7057063 Assistant Golf Chairperson Bobby Santarsiero 843-815-3598 Social Chairperson Janet Haysom jhaysom828@gmail.com 843-304-5260 Assistant Social Chairperson Jean Horvath jhorvath1010@roadrunner.com 843-682-3716 Membership Chairperson Jo Childs jogrew@hargray.com 843-705-3304 Rules and More Rules Recording golf score higher than actually made. Q. In tournament golf, players keep each other's scores. The scorer is called the marker, and the marker keeps score for the competitor. In the 1968 Masters, Roberto De Vicenzo's final day round saw him shoot a 31 on the front nine and a 34 on the back nine for a score of 65. However, De Vicenzo's playing partner and marker on Sunday was, Tommy Aaron. Unfortunately Aaron put down a 4 for De Vicenzo on the 17th hole when the Argentinian actually had made a birdie 3. The submitted scorecard totaled a final round of 66 rather than the correct score of 65. The critical issue, a 65 would tie De Vicenzo with Bob Goalby forcing a Monday Masters playoff. It's the player's responsibility to ensure his scorecard is accurate before he signs it. De Vicenzo didn't. He signed an incorrect score card. What was the correct ruling? A. Both De Vicenzo and Tommy Aaron were disqualified for submitting an incorrect scorecard B. Tommy Aaron was awarded a 2 stroke penaly for recording an incorrect score on his competitor's score card, De Vicenzo's score was corrected by tournament officials to the correct score of 65. The Monday playoff was one of the most exciting in Masters' history. C. De Vicenzo s score of 66 stood as submitted. Tommy Aaron received no penalty. AND THE ANSWER IS: The answer is C. De Vicenzo's score stood as submitted. He came in second to Bob Goalby in the 1968 Masters. His incorrect scorecard cost him the a playoff opportunity. Rule 6-6.d applies. The competitor is responsible for the correctness of his score recorded for each hole on his score card. If he returns a score for any hole higher than actually taken, the score as returned stands. De Vicenzo finished second at the 1968 Masters and Bob Goalby was the winner. When De Vicenzo realized his mistake, he exclaimed "What a stupid I am!" Words that live on in golf history. De Vicenzo never won another major, although he did win the PGA Tour's Houston Open three weeks later. Tommy Aaron won the 1973 Masters, where, ironically, he caught a mistake on his scorecard made by his playing partner. Communications Chairperson Phyllis DeFrancesco difrancescophyl@comcast.net 843-705-6272 Secretary Jo Childs jogrew@hargray.com 843-705-3304 Treasurer Peg Marcotte pmarco@sc.rr.com 707-7421
CELEBRATING 19 YEARS OF SINGLESGOLF IN AMERICA AMERICAN SINGLES GOLF ASSOCIATION MAY, 2012 Ireland Update Sixty (60) members have signed-up for the Ireland trip, July 20-30. We will spend three days in Dublin, three in Killarney and three in Limerick. You d fly into Dublin but return home from Shannon Airport near Limerick. When online registration is available, please have your roommate sign-up the same time you do. Details at www.singlesgolf.com/ Ireland Killarney Golf & Fish Club, Site of 2011 Irish Open and one of the courses we ll play in July. A tradition established years ago at our Memorial Day weekend event, members of the American Singles Golf Association have taken time out at our Saturday evening dinner to recognize members who have served in the Armed Forces. Memorial Day should be a time to remember, recognize and honor those who have fought for those things which we now take for granted, freedom being our utmost prize. This year, instead of just recognizing members during our event in Pinehurst, we re establishing a web page to honor our member veterans. Any veteran of any service era are invited to submit a brief bio about themselves and what involvement they had. We will post this in late May and send out an announcement to all members to go to the site and personally show your thanks for what they have contributed. We ask chapter leaders to send out notices to members asking them to go to www.singlesgolf.com/honor and complete a short form. This site will be live on May 10 and ready for contributions from our veteran members. Join Fellow Members in Pinehurst for Memorial Day Weekend! Event Dates: Thursday, May 24 Sunday, May 27, 2012 We re just about a month away from our annual Memorial Day Weekend and participation is already up to 150 members, well ahead of registration same time last year. If you ve never been to Pinehurst, think of it as America s Golf Headquarters. Site of the 51 Ryder Cup and past and future U. S. Opens, you ll feel the history the moment you walk into the Carolina Hotel. Was Donald Ross thinking of you when he planned his courses? Maybe, but your fellow members are thinking of you and hoping you ll attend. So find a roommate or we ll get you one. This reunion on Memorial Day Weekend has shown to be ASGA s largestattended event each year. Optional rounds on the day-of-arrival (Thursday at Pinehurst) as well as day-of-departure (Sunday at Tobacco Road Golf Club Rated #4 Public Course in the U. S. by Golf World magazine and a Top 100 Golf Digest) are being offered as well. A registration form is enclosed will be enclosed with this newsletter and www.singlesgolf.com/pinehurst will allow you to register online. Do it now before rooms sell-out! Did You Know??? Your chapter leaders have the ability to send out emails to its members using the national database. If a member joins on Monday, a chapter leader can send out a memo on Monday night. Is your chapter communicating using the service we provide and you pay for? Each chapter has an obligation to provide to members a monthly newsletter. Your chapter writes, ASGA National sends it out. This newsletter is also your PR piece to potential members. Communicating solely by email blurbs doesn t give leaders the opportunity to thank volunteers in a meaningful way. Failing to produce a newsletter will cause your chapter to lose your portion of the dues. This is a mandatory service that must happen each month. ASGA recently switched to a new email service, icontact.com. They're great to work with but they have strict rules. Recently, all of our Yahoo members were taken off the national list because when we sent out an email, more than.1% (yes, that's point one percent, or one-tenth of one percent) of Yahoo members complained that they were receiving spam from us. As you know, we don't send out spam, ham or lamb. So, just to make certain you are on the ASGA National email list, go to www.singlesgolf.com/addguest We know you're a member, but use this form as it gets you back on the list. Only members with Yahoo.com email addresses need to do this. Every ASGA chapter is born with a set of bylaws. The bylaws outline how chapters should be run. Your Board of Directors is essentially in control of how things are decided within your chapter. A chapter without bylaws is like playing golf without rules. Go to www.singlesgolf.com/bylaws - - Tom Alsop, President / Founder GolfASGA@aol.com