Officers: Directors: President: Sal Ercolano, Jr. Dave Bayer Rene Rosenthal Vice President: Bob C. Smith Joe Manning Joe Kelly Treasurer: Joe Dangleis Mike DeAgro Steve Stoler Secretary: Wayne Judy Wayne Gegorek Don Vahrenkamp Andy Gorelick Russ Webb Ron Bane Paul Langrehr, Sr Nick DeSisco Bill Gosnell PINE RIDGE GOLF CLUB MARCH 1994 TEE TOPICS HANDICAPS In order to maintain an official USGA handicap, you must enter your scores in the computer at the Pine Ridge Pro Shop on a regular basis. You must have an official handicap to part icipate in the prize fund for any PRGC tournament. If you have any questions related to the handicap system, please call Bob C. Smith at 461-8776. The handicap system is as follows: Depending on your course handicap (not your USGA Index which is given to one decimal place), you will have a score that you will not be allowed to exceed on any hole for handicap purposes, regardless of the hole you are playing. For e xample (see table below), if your course handicap is 15. you cannot take more than a 7 on any hole for your handicap. You still must count all your strokes for your tournament score. You cannot pick up the ball after your 7th stroke. You must hole out, ente r your total number of strokes for the hole, add up your total strokes for the round, and use that total as your score for that round. Then you must look at your scores, and subtract from your total score for the round any strokes you took over a 7. This ne w total is your adjusted score that must be entered into the handicap computer located in the pro shop. See the table below for the maximum score for handicap purposes that you can take on any hole for your particular course handicap. <+!>PLEASE ADJUST AND POST ALL OF YOUR SCORES.<-!> If your course handicap is: The maximum score you can take on ANY HOLE for handicap purposes is: 0 - 9 6 10 - 19 7 20 - 29 8 30 - 39 9 GOLF TOURNAMENT - APRIL 16, 1994 The next golf tournament will be held on April 1, 1994 and will be a 3 Best Net Ball format. In order to sign-up for this tournament you must complete the form below and send it along with a check for $21.00 to the Pro Shop at Pine Ridge Golf Course so that it is received no later than April 5, 1994. The tournament coordinator is Don Vahrenkamp who c an be contacted at 889-3847, if necessary. The tournament is limited to the first 60 members to sign-up. All tee times will be from noon to 2:00 p.m. GOLF RULE OF THE MONTH PREFERRED LIES AND WINTER RULES - The USGA does not endorse "preferred lies" and "winter rules" and recommends that that the Rules of Golf be observed uniformly. However, adverse conditions are sometimes so general throughout a course that the committee belie ves preferred lies or winter rules would promote fair play or help protect the course. The following Local Rule would seem appropriate for the conditions in question , but the USGA will not interpret it. A ball lying in a fairway may be lifted and cleaned, without penalty, and placed within one club length of where it originally lay not nearer the hole and so as to preserve as nearly as possible the same stance required to play the original lie. A ball so lifted is back in play when the player addresses it. SURVEY<-!>: Number of times you played golf during the period April 1993 to October 1993