JULY 2017 VOLUME XII NUMBER 6

The 2017 Ladies Member-MemberChampionship was played on June 8th on whatturned out to be an absolute beautiful day forsome golf. 44 Ladies participated in the firstMember-Member to be conducted with flights,and it seems to have been a crowd favorite.The teams were divided into four flights basedon team handicaps.

Participants played 27 holes with three differentformats to determine a winner of each flight:better ball, scramble and alternate shot. Eachflight winner then participated in a 3-hole, alter-

nate-shot, elimination playoff to crown theoverall winner. By the time the playoff reachedthe 18th green, three teams stood all tied. Afterthe first two teams missed their putts, BelindaPenney rolled in a 20-foot downhill, curling puttto win it all!

Congratulations to Belinda and her partnerVicky Thomas for coming out of the 4th Flight tobecome the 2017 Champions. And thank youto everyone for making the day such a greatsuccess!

Flight 1 - Cindy Devol and Maureen Levin

Flight 2 - Meg Decker and Cindy Fessick

Flight 3 - Bryn Palena and April Pettinelli

Flight 4 - Belinda Penney and Vicky Thomas

FLIGHT WINNERSOVERALL CHAMPIONSBelinda Penney & Vicky Thomas

4 TEAM PLAYOFF

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21ST

Registration now open! Currently accepting auction items and member tee sign sponsors

PLATINUM$7500

EXECUTIVE$5000

EXECUTIVE $5000

DINNER$1500

FOODSTATION

$5000

CART $1000

COMPANY & MEMBER TEE SIGNSCan't play golf or attend the dinner?

RiverCrest Charity Tee Signs are a great way to not only contribute,but show your support and appreciation of this great cause. We are

looking for both companies and members to donate $250 to have theirtee sign at the Charity Classic tee boxes.

Member Tee Sign Example

Joe Tedesco Paul Perreault Rich Menseck Chris Laskey Bryan Dempsey Seth LejeuneTony Almond &

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TEXASHOLD’EM

Past champion, Eric Neily, qualified for the Final

Tournament in June while Jim Madanci captured his

2nd win to pull him into a tie with Bob Miller for the

points lead. We're still waiting to hear from the Jack Gill

& Mike Ryan's of the world, but history tells us that

they'll make their presence felt soon. Always on the 3rd

Wednesday of the month @ 7:30pm, all members are

welcome to come out and test their skills against some

of the Club's poker mainstays.

NEXT HOLD’EMWednesday, July 19th

SUNDAY BRUNCHevery sundayfrom 11 to 2

$ 5 b l o o d y m a r y b a r

SUNDAYCREST

GREAT NEW EVENT

at the

$5.99 Buffet Dinner for the KidsRegular Menu for the Adults

S U N DAY , J U LY 2 3 r d

F ROM J U N E

MAKE DINING RESERVATIONS ONLINE OR WITH THE HOST STARTING AT 4PM

THIS MONTH’S ENTERTAINMENT:Judy Tudy the ClownGlitter Tatoo Artist

PLUS Yard Games off the Terrace

SUNDAYCREST

at the

LADIES MEMBER-GUESTJULY 27thStart planning now: the Ladies Member-Guest is rapidly approaching

and signups will be ending in a couple of weeks. it will be hosted on

Thursday, July 27th at 1:00pm. The format is Better Ball of Partners for

18 holes, with lunch before golf and dinner and awards after play. if you

are bringing a guest, please be sure to register on the events calendar

now, and then send us your guest’s name and club information. it will be

a great day of swings, laughs and cheers, so please come out and join

the fun!

JULY 4th GOLF SHOPSALES EXPLOSION! SATurdAy, July1ST Through TueSdAy, July 5Th

This year the Golf Shop is having an Explosive Sale for the 4th of

July! The sale will apply to in-stock apparel tops and bottoms only.

The more you BuY, the greater the diSCouNT!

Buy one apparel item – get 20% oFF

Buy two apparel items – get 25% oFF

Buy three or more apparel items – get 30% oFF

All in-stock Golf Clubs, Golf Shoes, Luggage and Golf Bags will be

10% OF. We will also be rolling out a Ladies Sidewalk Sale Rack at an

extra special 50% discount!

Young ExecutiveMember Guest Thursday, August 10th

1:00pm Shotgun

The Young Executive Member-Guest (played in conjunction with

the August RiverCrest day) is scheduled for Thursday, August

10th. The format is 2 Best Balls of 4 (Gross and Net divisions).

The day begins with a great buffet lunch starting at 11:30am, fol-

lowed by golf at 1:00pm, and then culminating with drinks, hors

d’ouevres, dinner and awards following golf. Members may bring

1, 2 or 3 guests. it is a great day and a great value for bringing

your friends out. Sign ups are available online or contact the golf

shop if interested. You do not want to miss out on this fun event!

Fireworks Mixed GolfJuly 2ndStep Aside Scramble- The team will select a tee shot to play

from. The players whose shot is selected may not play the

next shot (they step aside). The three remaining players will

play from within one-club length of the selected shot. After

the second shot choose the best shot and that person steps

aside the person that stepped aside for the previous shot

comes back in. Repeat until the hole finished. This is a gross

and net event - 10% of the team handicap will be used. A

minimum of 3 drives per player, must be used

Senior · Ladies Young Executive Club ChampionshipJuly 8th- 9thSENioR CC36-hole, individual stroke play, flighted, no handicaps.

LAdiES CC36-hole, individual stroke play; flighted with no handicaps.

flights are based on the WGAP index ranges.

YouNG ExECuTivE CC36-hole, individual stroke play; Gross & Net fights for

Men; Net flight for Women.

All competitors will play their own ball throughout their

round, holing every putt. Each contestant must have their

scorecard attested by their fellow competitor.

Mens Club ChampionshipJuly 22nd- 23rd36-Hole, individual Stroke Play. No Handicaps. All competi-

tors will play his own ball throughout the round, holing every

putt. Each contestant must have his scorecard attested by

his fellow competitor.

Ladies Member-GuestJuly 27thBetter Ball of Partners, with 90% of handicap. There are

both Net and Gross divisions; however, the tournament is a

Net Championship.

August RiverCrest DayJoin us for our next RiverCrest day on August 17th, 2017.

The event will be a 2 Best Balls of the Foursome, with Gross

and Net divisions. Handicaps are calculated at 90% (max.

36 before 90%). Each player will play their own ball. The

event will begin at 1:00PM in a shotgun start. The price is

$145 per player which includes prizes, guest greens fee,

cart, buffet lunch, on course beverages, snacks, hors d’

oeuvres, buffet dinner, and beer.

Summertime! What’s more American

than the 4th of July and fireworks?

(Add in some apple pie, ice cream

and golf and we’re all set!) Colby’s

favorite part of summer is that his

bedtime is later. He likes to negotiate

the time based on it getting dark out-

side. For some reason the same

negotiations don’t apply in the winter.

July 4th is his favorite night because

he gets to stay up past dark and

watch the fireworks.

As parents we try emphasizing to Colby

that preparation is as important as suc-

cess. our goals being to have him work

hard to achieve his goals. Colby invoked

this thought process to tell me he should

start preparing for the late night fireworks

by staying up past dark in advance of

July 4th. He’s a pretty good negotiator

when he wants to be, but i wasn’t buying

it. That is until he came up with a good

preparation idea….night golf!

Colby’s rationale was that night golf

closely resembled fireworks. Glowing

orbs would be launched high into the sky

to oohs and aah’s. i had to agree with

him, so off to RiverCrest! We waited until

the Bagroom Staff had left for the night,

and then grabbed an electric cart so no

one would hear us out there (other than

our oohs and aahs.) Colby wanted to

drive the cart (which he may or may not

already have experience doing), but since

it was dark outside i took the wheel.

We skipped the first hole to avoid being

spotted from the nearby houses. We

began our late night adventure on Hole

#2, a Par 5 measuring 528 yards from the

tips. Since we couldn’t see anything

anyways, i didn’t tell Colby we were play-

ing all the way back. All we could see

were our golf balls, a rough outline of

trees on the left and the mound on the

right. We decided on a friendly 9-hole

match for breakfast the following morn-

ing.

Colby took a practice swing which nei-

ther of us could see. For a little games-

manship, i told him his swing never

looked better! With the endless confi-

dence of a 7 year old, he thanked me

and stepped up and striped it. it’s pretty

cool to see a glowing golf ball flying into

a pitch black sky. We both let out appre-

ciative oohs! After i teed off we drove up

and quickly found our golf balls. it’s

amazing how easy it is to find a glowing

golf ball at night!

Knowing the course we could approxi-

mate where the green was and how far

away we were. We both ended up just

short of the green, my ball in 3 shots,

Colby in 4 shots. Still unable to see

where the pin was located Colby walked

up to the green until he found it located

on the back left of the green. He came

back and relayed the location to me. i

chipped first and hit a nice shot in that

general direction. Colby went next and

hit his shot a little thin and the ball went

racing onto the green towards the pin.

His ball came to an abrupt stop after

making a clanging noise, letting us know

he hit the pin (another ooh from Colby, an

aah s*#t from me!)

When we walked up to the balls on the

green we found my ball a foot from the

hole, and Colby’s ball leaning up against

the flagstick but still above the lip of the

hole. Colby blurted out, “That’s a par for

me!” i told him not so fast. under the

definition of Holed, a ball is “holed” when

it is at rest within the circumference of

the hole and all of it is below the level of

the lip of the hole. The good news for

him, under Rule 17-4 Ball Resting

Against Flagstick the player may move

the flagstick and allow the ball to fall

below the lip and be considered holed.

However, if in moving the flagstick the

ball rests on the lip on the hole and does

not fall in, then it is not considered holed.

So Colby lightly pushed the flag away

from the ball so the ball would fall in the

hole, which it did for a 5.

Surprisingly, Colby did not give me my

one foot putt to halve the hole. He

removed the flagstick and his ball from

the hole. i stroked my putt and picked it

out of the hole as it was still rattling

around. Colby, then told me that i broke

a rule, my ball should not be considered

holed because it was not “at rest” below

the surface of the hole since he could

hear it still rattling around. i was ready to

launch my own fireworks at that point!

But i invoked decision 16/5.5 which cov-

ers this exact situation and says that the

ball is holed. The words “at rest” are in

the definition to make clear that if a ball

falls below the lip and thereafter bounces

out, it is not holed. But since this ball did

not bounce out as i was picking it out of

the hole, it was deemed to be holed.

We had a fun night of launching “fire-

works” all over the golf course. It was a

great way to prepare for the real fireworks

on the 4thof July! Colby ended up win-

ning the match, but he still needs more

practice staying up late as he was sound

asleep one minute into the car ride home.

He quickly went from aah’s to zzz’s.

Happy 4th everyone!!

Definition: HoledBy Jamie Komancheck, PGA Head Golf Professional

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GOLF ACADEMY NEWS

Brian Moose DIRECTOR OF INSTRUCTION

with Moose

MEDIAN BALL CHIPPING WITH A TWIST

• Today we are going to play with 11 balls but you can use as many as you want as long as

it is an odd number.

• Play the shots from the same spot.

• drop the ball each time and play it as it lies, choosing places to play from that give you a

variety of difficulty.

• To make the game more difficulty hit the shot onto the green from a variety of distances

and from a variety of lies: deeper rough, fairway, first cut. For another level of difficulty

choose a variety of clubs to complete the game.

• once you have played all eleven shots, take away the five balls that are closest to the hole.

• Measure the distance of the next closest ball to the hole, the median ball and record it in

your practice session log.

The twist in this game is that you have to putt the ball from the median distance. if you

make it you can quit the game. if you don’t make it you have to start over. The game is not

complete until you make the median golf ball into the hole with an up and down.

it is important that you perform your full pre- and post-shot routine for every shot. Read the

lie for each shot and carefully determine the required club, trajectory and landing spot. Take

your time to visualize the shot, try the right amount and react to the target. use your post-

shot routine to actively build your self-image and learn from your mistakes.

When playing this game, you should be paying full attention and trying your best to shoot a

low score.

A median ball distance of less than 3 feet is excellent. More than 6 feet is poor, and you will

save a lot of strokes quickly by working more or harder on your short game. The idea of

having to make the putt is to add some pressure to the game and perform under that pres-

sure. Give it a try and let me know how it goes!!!

Always record your score in your practice session log, and try to beat your best score each

time you play this game. The competitive edge is crucial if you want to improve your game!

ONE DAY GOLF—JULY 15THThe next one day Golf School is right around the corner. The school will

offer instruction and how to develop practice habits to see your game

flourish. The one day Golf School will take place at the Golf Academy

and all technologies will be used during the school. All areas of the game

will be covered including but not limited to putting, chipping, bunker, trou-

ble shots, mental approach, and full swing. The cost for the one day

Golf School is $250 per person. 4 people per school.

What you will need: odd number of golf balls, golf clubs,tape measure, practice log to record results.

The one dAy golF School Schedule

will go AS FollowS:

8:15 am-Short game instruction

10:30 am-Full swing instruction including practice habits

12:30 pm-Lunch

2:00 pm-Play 9 holes with on-course instruction

5:00 pm-Concludes with feedback for further development