Rocky Bayou Country Club

Glow Ball Tournament Results – March 12th, 2010

1st:  58.1 – Bill & Brenda Meeboer, Bill & Sharon Osthoff

2nd:  58.9 – Al Halloran, Joan Hegarty, Andy Potter, Ted Hall

3rd:  59.0 – Darrell & Carol Elliott, Bob & Wanda Liphard

4th:  59.5 – Terry & Victoria Wilson, Dave & Jeanne Shaw

5th:  59.6 – Rich & Orean McCord, Doug & Gloria Hall

6th:  62.4 – Bob & Bonnie Weideman, Roger & Kathy Campbell

Pairings, Times & Flights can be found in the Tournaments – Deep Freeze Information section at the top of the home page.  

 Click for:  Entry Form    Click for: Rules Sheet

Entries Received:

Open Championship:
Randy Garmony / Brent Miller
Robert Young / Tom Lawson
Jimmy Hathaway / Roger Bloor
Chip Holcombe / Sven Kessler
Jon Olson / Lee Collier
Bob Mathers / Steve Houle
Tyler KausHagen / Shane Rushing
Tate Prows / Dave Larraga

Senior Championship:
John Gausz / Ernie Goodhart
George Alexander / Charlie Locke
Bruce Damm / Harry Gates
Steve Scott / Jimmy Crutchfield
Tom Jones / Ralph Clement
Larry Fincher / Chip Stewart
S.B. Powell / John Leatherwood
Rusty Napier / Fred Gross
Dan Breckenridge / Bob Liphard
Michael Jones / Randy Sims
Al Gardner / Marv McKinley

Open Handicap:
Tom Finnegan / Frank Heath
Tripp Hope / Ed Porento
Terry Wilson / Mike Koser
Jeff Kestner / Don Kestner
Chris Connelly / Dick Gaydos
John Stack / Ben Sibley
George Wilson / Terry Curenton
Greg Aldridge / Herb Baggett
Gary Wittkopp / Al Ward
Bobby Holbrook / Jess Murray
Lino Falduto / Doug White
Lucky Nunes / Chris Whited
Bill Osthoff / Bob Guidry
Dave Robbins / George Wall
Audie Mora / Spencer Howie
Ted Kopec / Bob Koenigkramer
Steve Manthey / Mike Manthey
Joe Thomas / Jesse Alcala
Wayne Walker / Joe Burnett
Indio Balderrama / Rick Albertson
Bruce Tipton / Dave Shaw
Larry Fletcher / Richard Neeves
Jay Altman / Hulon Walsingham
Gary Dreading / Terry Barnes
Cody Sims / Robbie Brown
Allen Maxwell / Scott MacNeil
Rusty Johnston / Pete Summers
Mike Bouchard / Steve Sparkman
Rodney Jones / Jerry Etheridge
Mark Strickland / Ron Corbin
Randy Bush / John Rickard

Senior Handicap:
Jack Garnett / Rich McCord
Sam Dawson / Bob Pallante
Jim Brickell / C.B. Faile
C.V. Miller / Bob Blake
Kent Bankus / Bill Meeboer

 The rules and procedures regarding water hazards (yellow stakes and/or lines) and lateral water hazards (red stakes and/or lines) seem to create confusion for many players.

If your ball lands in a Water Hazard (yellow), you have three options:

1. You can try to play it from the hazard, if possible.  Remember that you may not ground your club.
2. You can go back to the spot from where you hit the ball into the water, add a one stroke penalty, drop a ball on that spot and play from there.
3. You may drop a ball under penalty of one stroke, behind the water hazard, keeping the point at which the ball last crossed the hazard line directly between the hole and the spot on which the ball is dropped.  You may go as far back on this line as you like as long you do not go out of bounds.

*Something to remember with this rule is that you do not drop a ball on the line of flight that the ball took to enter the water hazard. You drop on the line from the flagstick, through the spot where it crossed the hazard, and straight back from there.  The term “line of flight” does not exist in the rules of golf.

Water hazards, or sections of water hazards, may be marked with red stakes or lines because it would be impossible or impractical to drop behind the water hazard as in option #3 above.  These are called Lateral Water Hazards (Red).

If your ball lands in a lateral water hazard, you have the three water hazard options above, plus two additional options.  They are:

1. You may drop a ball within two club-lengths of where it last crossed the hazard line, not nearer the hole.
2. You may drop a ball within two club-lengths of a point on the opposite side of the lateral water hazard which is the same distance from the hole.  *(This option seldom comes into play, and is not used often, but it is available and could save you strokes if you know how to apply it.)

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General notes on water hazards:

1. They may be marked with stakes, lines or both.  Stakes identify a hazard and show the basic margins, and lines define the specific margins of the hazard.
2. If only stakes are used, the hazard is defined by the natural boundaries of the hazard, not necessarily the line between the two stakes. 
   1. For example, if your ball is clearly in a water hazard, but when you line up the stakes, it is outside the line, you are still in the water hazard.  Ideally, all water hazards would be lined all the time, but this is very time consuming and uses a lot of paint.
3. You may not ground your club when your ball lies in a water hazard.  If there is grass growing in the hazard, your club may touch the grass, but it is considered grounded if the grass is supporting the weight of the club.  If you ground your club in a hazard, add two strokes.
4. You may not remove any loose impediments (leaves, twigs, stones, etc.) from the hazard when your ball lies in a water hazard, but you may remove movable obstructions (i.e. a soda can, cigarette butt, plastic, etc.).  There is no relief from an immovable obstruction in a hazard (i.e. a bridge within a hazard).

Examples: 

Hole #5 from the men’s tees is marked with yellow stakes from the teeing ground area, and red stakes from the right side and far end of the hazard.  The land to the left of the hazard is out of bounds.

            If your tee ball crosses the red stakes on the right side or far side (as in goes across and then rolls back in), you may proceed under the lateral water hazard rule and drop within two club-lengths from where it crossed the line.

            If your tee ball does not cross the red stakes, you must proceed under the yellow water hazard rule and drop behind the hazard on the teeing area, or re-tee.

            A ball played from Hole #4 that crosses the red stakes on hole #5, may be dropped within two club-lengths of where it crossed the hazard line, no nearer the hole, under penalty of one stroke.

             The lake on Hole #14 is marked as a yellow water hazard (it changes to red as you get closer to hole # 10 on the right side), which means if you choose to take a drop, you must drop on the line from the flagstick back through where the ball crossed the hazard line, or from where you played the previous shot.  See #2 & #3 under the yellow water hazard rule above.

The hazard on the left side of #14 is marked Red for a Lateral Hazard.  You have the 3 water hazard options, plus the additional 2 options for a lateral hazard.  The option used most often is to drop within two club-lengths of where the ball last crossed the hazard line.

*Note that the wooden bridge on #14 is not marked to be within the red hazard, which makes it an immovable obstruction.  You would get a free drop if your ball is on or under the bridge, or if the bridge interferes with your stance or swing.  You would find your nearest point of relief from the bridge (that is not in the hazard) and drop a ball within one club-length of that spot.

I hope this clears up some confusion.  See me if you have any questions or comments.

Sunday turned out to be a great day for golf!  Below are the results of our 3rd Annual Winter Scramble.

Men’s Flight 1: 

1st:  Chris Johnson / Steve Mobley – 63
2nd:  Bob Koenigkramer / Ted Kopec – 66.4

Men’s Flight 2:

1st:  Rusty Johnston / Gary Dreading – 65.9
2nd:  Jay Osborne / Randy Bush – 67.5

Couples Flight 1:

1st:  Marianne & Gary Wendel – 65.2
2nd:  Barbara & Gary Roberts – 68.2

Couples Flight 2:

1st:  Belinda & John Leatherwood – 70.1
2nd:  Orean & Rich McCord – 72.2

We halved our match with Santa Rosa Beach January 28th.  It was really quite exciting with John Leatherwood coming through with a par, par, par, birdie finish that turned his match around and got us the tie.

Due to weather some dates and players have changed so I am listing our remaining 4 matches, and when they are to be played:

At Bluewater Bay, Monday, 1 Feb (make-up)
1st group:  Marv Mckinley & Stanley Bruce
2nd group:  Dan Breckenridge & Al Ward
3rd group:  John Leatherwood & Gary Wittkopp
4th group:  George Cilek & Bill Loll

Results for the match with Bluewater Bay: we got beat 16 – 8.  Two of our teams lost all 6 points but our opponents all netted under par in freezing cold weather.  Bluewater Bay guys played good golf in tough conditions and that is hard to beat on their course.

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At Santa Rosa Beach, Tuesday, 2 Feb (make-up and changed from 8 Feb)
1st group:  Bob Mather & Stanley Bruce
2nd group:  Al Ward & John Leatherwood
3rd group:  Gary Wittkopp & George Cilek
4th group:  John Stack & Bill Loll

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At Sunny Hills, Thursday, 4 Feb

1st group:  Bob Mather & Jimmy Hathaway
2nd group:  Marv McKinley & Dan Breckenridge
3rd group:  Bob Liphard & John Leatherwood
4th group:  Gary Wittkopp & George Cilek

Results from Sunny Hills:  Sorry, we lost 21-3

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Final Match at Bluewater Bay, Thursday,11 Feb

1st group:  Jimmy Hathaway & Marv McKinley
2nd group:  Dan Breckenridge & John Leatherwood
3rd group:  Gary Wittkopp & George Cilek
4th group:  John Stack & Bill Loll

Results for the match with Bluewater Bay: John Stack and Bill Loll won all 6 of their points to bring us from behind to win against Bluewater Bay 13 – 11.  AND, even though it looked like we did poorly this year (which we did), one more win and, I think, we would have won the whole thing.  Anyway, thanks to all of you for participating, even though we had no break with the weather this year.

Just wait till next year.  Thanks, Marv

Our FSGA Interclub team beat Sunny Hills 19 – 5 last Thursday, 1/14.

Our team for next week, 21 Jan, looks like this:

1st group:  Marv McKinley & Stanley Bruce Powell
2nd group:  Dan Breckenridge & Al Ward
3rd group: Gary Wittkopp & George Celik
4th group:  John Stack & Bill Loll

We are playing at Bluewater Bay on the Lake and Marsh courses.  Tee times should start about 11:00.  If you are scheduled to play and you cannot, let me know ASAP, Marv, marv72@cox.net

Congratulations to Sharla Cloutier for her December 23rd hole-in-one on #4.  It was from the Blue tees, too.  Way to go Sharla!!!!

Rocky Bayou has beaten Santa Rosa Golf & Beach Club 11 to 7 to win the innaugural Challenge Cup!  Next year’s event will be held at Santa Rosa.

Rules

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Day 1 Pairings - Alternate Shot

Day 1 Results

Results for Day 1

RBCC 3 1/2 – - – - – Santa Rosa Beach 2 1/2

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Day 2 Pairings – Best Ball – Canceled due to weather

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Day 3 Pairings – Singles

Day 3 Results

Results for day 3

RBCC 7 1/2 – - – - – Santa Rosa Beach 4 1/2

Overall Results

RBCC 11 – - – - Santa Rosa Beach 7

Rocky Bayou Country Club W I N S!!!!!

Be sure to check out Club Photo Galleries for pictures

Bob Liphard

Contratulations to Bob Liphard on his Hole-in-One on #15.

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If you are lucky enough to have a hole-in-one, please log it in the book behind the counter in the pro shop so that you can be properly recognized.