Dave's Team Wins the Presidents Challenge

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It required 8,479 strokes to determine which of Dave’s teams won the challenge. 
The President’s team averaged   96.86 strokes per player. 
The Treasurer’s team averaged  95.79 strokes per player. 
The winners of this Titanic struggle each win a new golf ball.  ( see duty deskfor ball ) 
The losers were consoled with some fine chocolate chip cookies.
Winners List: Click here   

Golf Rules Refresher 2016

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We encourage our members to become familiar with the basic rules of golf and adhere to them in the spirit of sportsmanship unique to the game of golf.  Listed below are a few important rules, including a couple of exceptions we allow in order to keep up the pace of play on a public course:

(1)    Play the ball where it lies on the fairway and in the rough.  There is no such thing as “winter rules.”  Do not move the ball to improve your lie.  Penalty for infractions is two strokes.

(2)    The unplayable lie rules are sometimes impractical on a busy public course.  They are:

(a)  playing the next shot from as near as possible to the spot from which the last shot was played

(b)  drop behind the point where the ball lay, keeping that point directly between the hole and the spot on which the ball is dropped

(c)  drop a ball within two club lengths of the spot where the ball lay, but not nearer the hole

If you can carry out any of the above reliefs without delaying the following group you can do so with a one stroke penalty.  Most times (a) and (b) will be impractical or would cause undue delay, keeping in mind the desired pace of play.  Option (c) will often not be of any use, especially if your ball is 15 feet into the bush.  So if none of these options work we allow you to drop a ball two club lengths on to the fairway from the edge of the rough.  The penalty then is two strokes (equivalent to stroke and distance).

(3)    Our approach to the lost ball rule is similar to that for an unplayable lie.  The official rules provide for (under penalty of one stroke) playing a ball either from where the last shot was played or going back to the tee.  These both incur a penalty of one stroke, but since you have gone back up the fairway to make your shot the penalty is really stroke and distance.   If you can use one of these options without incurring the wrath of the following group you can do so, but we also allow you to drop near the edge of the fairway, as in (2) above, and add two strokes (stroke and distance) to your score.

(4)    Your allowable number of strokes on a hole for handicap purposes is not applicable until after the game, when you convert your gross score to your net score on each hole.  If your equitable stroke based on your handicap is 2, and you shoot 11 on a par 5 hole, you cannot stop counting at 7 strokes and declare your score to be 7 “because I can’t take more than 2 strokes over par per hole.”  The score that you report to the scorekeeper is 11.  The adjustment for your handicap is made at the end of the game.

(5)  And finally, GIMMIES are NOT allowed when we are playing Victoria Senior Men’s Golf. If anyone breaks the NO Gimmie Rule and I hear about it and other members of the group verify this has happened I will Disqualify the offending player (so no score recorded no prizes for him )

We play A Scottish game there are no gimmies in Curling or Golf. 

If you can’t play by our rules maybe you should find another league to play in.

Sign Up for Jasper Park Lodge GC Outing

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The Victoria Mens Club are booking a golf game at Jasper Park Lodge golf course on Saturday June 25th, 2016. They need 60 golfers to commit and have extended this opportunity to the Victoria Senior Mens Club. The cost will be $130 per player and must be paid by May 25th. If you are interested, contact Dave McLean at davidmclean73@gmail.com

New Rules for 2016

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  1. A new Rule prohibits anchoring the club either “directly” or by use of an “anchor point” in making a stroke. The penalty is loss of hole in match play or two strokes in stroke play.
     
  2. If a ball at rest moves after the player addresses it, the player is no longer automatically deemed to have caused the ball to move. A one-stroke penalty will be applied only when the facts show that the player has caused the ball to move.
     
  3. In certain tournaments, laser and gps range finders are not allowed. The penalty for a player’s first breach of this during the round has been reduced from disqualification to loss of hole in match play or two strokes in stroke play. The penalty for any subsequent breach will continue to be disqualification.
     
  4. An exception was introduced where a player is not disqualified for failing to include penalty strokes that the player did not know were incurred before returning the score card. Instead, the player incurs the original penalty and must add an additional penalty of two strokes for the score card error. (Probably the “Somebody saw something on TV and phoned it in” rule.)

Source: Golf Canada

 

 

Gord Gitzel Presents Evan Sweetland With a $1000 Scholarship Cheque

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A $1,000.00 scholarship to be used in pursuit of Advanced Education or an Apprenticeship Program is presented each year to the most deserving applicant from the River Valley Junior Golf Program. The scholarship has been funded by the members of the Victoria Senior Men's Golf Club and generous contributions by Don Muth.
For application information, click here.

Dave Plays With His Tree Swing

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I've heard golfers on the PGA tour say that trees are 90% air. I guess they haven't met the trees on Victoria. That is also why you never see tips on the Golf Channel on how to play the shot faced by Dave Redden. According to Dave Mclean (who does not embellish),  Dave Redden played a second shot  out of the branches , third shot on to the green and dropped the putt for 4.

Presidents Challenge 2015

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The President's challenge took place on May 27 with the President's team, led by Dave Graves defeating the Treasurer's team led by Dave McLean.
Click here: to see a list of the winning members and prize details. 
After the round, members gathered in the clubhouse to socialize and enjoy a free lunch, provided by the new caterer, Dogwood Cafe by Culina.