CCMGA NEWSLETTER
CCMGA NEWS 2nd QUARTER 2007 Newsletter Archives
Published by the Cave Creek Men's Golf Association
TOURNAMENT REFRESHER
There's still room on our President's Cup Plaque for your name. The 2007 winner will
be posted following the tournament on Saturday and Sunday, April 21 and 22.
Thirty-six holes, stroke play, flighted, net only, blue tees.
To be eligible for our first "major" of the year, all participants must have, within
the prior 12 months, played in at least two CCMGA sponsored tournaments, (excluding
the RAZZ), in which individual scores were posted as "T" scores.
The entry fee is $30 payable prior to the entry deadline, April 15, 2007. Entry forms
are available in the CCMGA box in the pro shop or on ccmga.net.
Sunday, May 20 will feature our ABCD Two Better Balls of the Foursome Tournament.
A and B players, blue tees, C and D players, white tees. Teams will be determined
by a computer blind draw. Entry forms will be available on the first day of the
President's Cup Tournament.
Our Eclectic Tournament is slated for Saturday and Sunday, June 9 and 10.
Thirty-six holes, gross and net, flighted, white tees. Your lowest score on each
hole on either day will be your 18 hole tournament score. Players must play out
their own ball each day as scores for both days will be posted as "T" scores.
BOARD WELCOMES INQUIRIES
Have a question? Heard a rumor? Have a suggestion? Don't know who to ask?
The answers can be found at "Go Direct."
You will find it on the home page of our website, ccmga.net. One click on the
"Go Direct" logo and you will have the E-mail addresses of every board member,
their titles and committee assignments. All inquiries will receive a response.
Members also are welcome at regular board meetings which are held on the Wednesdays
following our tournaments. For time and place details, contact the Executive
Secretary at ogbadger@aol.com.
MAINTENANCE NOTES
Cave Creek is finally getting the new pumping station it has needed for years.
The use of new highly efficient variable frequency motors will produce major savings
in energy costs while permitting ample course watering.
The course also should benefit from the city's decision to lease purchase new
maintenance equipment. Included will be mowers for tees and greens, airifying
equipment, utility carts and rough mowers.This will be the first new equipment
the city courses have had in the past five years.
SHOP TALK
Cave Creek continues to lead all city courses in rounds and revenues. Marketing
efforts this year will concentrate on neighborhoods adjacent to the courses.
Your gift certificates piling up? The shop now has a wide variety of items in stock.
And, if you don't see what you want, they can order it for you.
CAVE CREEK HAS A BUNCH OF THEM...
Lateral hazards that is. And this is one type of hazard that has enough options to
lead to confusion, debate and slow play. In the interest of eliminating those issues,
here are the five options you have when you are in a hazard defined by red stakes.
You might want to clip them out for future reference.
1. Play a ball as nearly as possible from the spot the original ball was last played.
One shot penalty.
2. Drop a ball behind the hazard, keeping the point at which the original ball last
crossed the margin of the hazard, directly between the hole and the spot on which
the ball is dropped. There is no limit on how far behind the hazard the ball may
be dropped. One shot penalty.
3. Drop a ball within two club lengths of the point where the ball last crossed the
margin of the hazard, no nearer the hole. One shot penalty.
4. Drop a ball on a point on the opposite margin of the hazard equidistant from the
hole. One shot penalty.
5. You may also elect to play the ball as it lies keeping in mind that you may not
ground your club in a hazard, or touch or move anything to improve the lie or
your stance. No penalty.
JUNIOR GOLF
Since its inception, CCMGA has supported Junior Golf with funding and volunteer work,
and urged its members to contribute equipment they no longer need for use juniors who
otherwise could not afford to play the game.
Surely, there is an old putter, woods or irons, maybe even a pair of shore, gathering
dust in your closet or garage that could be the key to a better future for a needy junior.
The pro shop will be happy to take your donations.
Rx PRESCRIPTIONS FOR THE GOLF ADDICT
To be taken in small doses as needed at the 19th Hole.
" To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, you must learn, by endless practice,
a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four
muscles, that result in a seemingly 'natural' swing, taking all of two seconds to begin
and end."
Alistair Cooke
*****
Tour pros have superstitions, too.
"My putter on occasion has spent the night in the toilet, washing away the evil lip-out
curse."
Mike Weir
*****
"I try to wear underwear that has holes in it – unnecessary holes."
Michael Clark
*****
Something about Mary.
Take Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587), who not only played golf but was accused by her
enemies in the court of doing so immediately after the murder of her husband. Anybody
who has ever reserved a tee time a month in advance will understand.
*****
"I learn by feel....I just watch how the ball flies when I do something. Then I try
to figure out what made it do that. And if it is a bad result, then I do something
different."
Tom Lehman
*****
"If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and
listen – you will hear an alibi."
Fred Beck
From the "10 Commandments of Golf."...
4. "THOU SHALT KEEP THE SABBATH HOLY.
Golf is supposed to be a spiritual experience.
Unless that electronic organizer has a
yardage-guide program, leave it in the car.
Ditto the chirping cell phone, the screeching
beeper and any other office equipment that
golfers pack these days. You don't check your
e-mail in church, so don't check your voice
mail on the links."
Alan Shipnuck
*****
As long as they don't put one in a bunker....
"There is no stipulation in the rules regarding the placement of the hole. There is,
believe it or not, no requirement that even mandates placement of the hole on the
putting green. The general practice is that a hole not be closer than five paces
(or yards) to an edge."
*****
"Be funny on the golf course?
Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition?
Phil Silvers
*****
"Three things are as unfathomable as they are fascinating to the masculine mind:
metaphysics, golf and the feminine heart.
The Germans, I believe, pretend to have solved some of the riddles of the first,
and the French to have unraveled some of the intricacies of the last; will someone
tell us wherein lies the extraordinary fascination of golf?"
Arnold Haultain
*****
"Golf is the foundation of the most enduring friendships. The many hours spent
together in our desperate attempts to break 90 or 100 fosters strong ties among us.
Or, as some would simply say, 'misery loves company'."
Hubert Pedroli
*****
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