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30 | Four Seasons Hemet Herald | JULY 2019 | From the President – Tom Moore: July is my second favorite month of the year: It's summertime, but we're not yet into the "Dog Days" of Summer, and we all become a little bit more patriotic as we celebrate the 243rd birthday of our great nation. This month I want to focus on our charity tournament coming up on Aug. 6 at the Hemet Golf Club. We will tee off at 7:30 am. It will be a four person "Scramble" format. The entry fee will be $10 pp, and the Hemet Golf Course management has graciously agreed to reduce the green fees to $30 for this event. The beneficiary this year will the Boys and Girls Golf Teams of Tahquitz High School. These kids represent our community in golf tournaments all over Southern California and are deserving of our support. They are grossly under-funded. Our contributions will go through the Associated Student Body (the ASB) and turned over exclusively to the THS golf teams. Most other schools are able to provide nice uniforms and equipment, but Tahquitz High School doesn't have the resources to fund these items. These kids are our future, and anything we can do to enhance their self-esteem is an investment in the future of our community. Come out and support your local High School golf teams. Here's your joke of the month: A U.S. citizen is vacationing on his own in Ireland. He decides to play a round of golf and is paired with three local gents. He takes a few practice swings, steps up to the first tee, and proceeds to hook the ball out of bounds. He shakes his head, reaches in his pocket, and re-tees another ball. He tells his playing partners that he is taking a Mulligan. He pounds one down the center of the fairway about 280 yards out. With a big smile, he asks the others: "In the U.S., we call that a Mulligan. I was wondering what you called it here in Ireland." After a moment of silence, one of the locals replies, "Hitting three." Until next month… From the Tournament Committee: You may sign up at our prior Tuesday golf event or contact the Tournament Committee by email at hemet4sgc@gmail.com Our July 2019 Game Schedule is: July 2: Team Scramble: Red, White & Blue (minimum 3-Tee Shots) July 9: Individual: Low Net by Flight July 16: Partners: Best Net Score Per Hole July 23: Team: Two Best Net Scores Per Hole July 30: (T) – Low Net – Post as Tournament From the Membership Chair – Elliot Yaeger: We welcome our latest member Charlie Ball to our club. Our membership now stands at 126. We have tournaments every Tuesday throughout the year, including individual play as well as team play. Tee times are 7:30 am from April through September and 8 am from October through March. It is never too late to join. Just stop by the front desk at The Lodge and pick up an application. Complete the application and return it to The Lodge with a check for $66. This will include membership to the club as well as SCGA membership. From the Handicap Chair – Melody Lewis: Back to Basics Handicapping 101 - The Significance of Score Types Q: When you are posting a score, what exactly does home, away or tournament mean? And what is a type C or P score? Do score types make a difference to your handicap? A: The Score Types with letters H (Home) and A (Away) are just designed to make it easier for you to post your score, and easier for your fellow members and Handicap Committee to recognize those particular scores. They have no special impact on your Handicap Index calculation. A type C score is two nine-hole scores combined into an 18-hole score. The nine-hole scores are combined in the order in which they reach GHIN and are posted with the date of the second nine. In the combining of two nines into 18-hole scores, the Course Ratings are added together, and the Slope Ratings are added and divided by two. The T (Tournament) score is the one score type that can have an impact on your Handicap Index. Tournament rounds, if they are very low, have the potential to have an impact on your handicap even after they have cycled their way out of your 20 most recent rounds. The Committee in charge of conducting the event decides in advance if the T is worthy to be applied or not. T scores are intended for significant events, like club Championships, and not routine weekly or monthly events or ones that do not carry special importance. P scores can only be applied by a club's Handicap Committee and indicate a Penalty score. Penalty scores are not par – such as 72 – as many people might think. A Penalty score can be a low penalty or a high penalty and are relational to the individual player's scoring record. A Handicap Committee would add a penalty score for reason of failure by the player to post scores, and it is not necessary for the Committee to inform the player they are doing so. Any questions or concerns feel free to contact me. From the Rules Chair – Tom Johnson: When we hit a golf ball from the tee box or elsewhere on the course, and the ball may have gone out of bounds or may be lost, we should hit a provisional. The provisional is used if the original is out of bounds or lost. The provisional saves time because we do not have to go back and hit another ball when we discover the original ball is out of bounds or lost. The strokes on the provisional ball do not count unless we are able to use it when we find the original ball is out of bounds or lost. When you hit another ball, you are required to declare that you are hitting a "provisional." On the tee box you are supposed to wait until everybody has teed off before hitting a provisional, although we often let someone go ahead and hit the provisional after their tee shot to speed up play. If you do not declare that you are hitting a provisional, you are abandoning your original ball and are required to use your second shot even if you find your original ball in bounds. The advantage of the provisional is that you can use your original ball if you find it inbounds. Using the original will give you fewer strokes than you would have in using the provisional. With a provisional you have the stroke on the original ball, a penalty stroke, and the stroke on the provisional ball. When attempting to hit a provisional, if you say nothing or something like you are hitting another ball, it is not a provisional under the rules, but abandonment of your original ball. If you have not hit a provisional and your ball is out of bounds or lost, the club has a local rule which allows you to hit from where your ball was thought to have landed or where an out-of-bounds ball crossed the boundary, with a two stroke penalty. It is not acceptable to simply drop another ball and hit another.

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