Skins Game - 5. page

I have updated the Skins Game description on the website. Here’s a list of changes:

• Players may play from the blue, blue/white, white, or white/gold combo tees. Older players with higher handicaps may also choose to play from the gold tees. (Age + white tee course handicap >= 83.)
• Players are encouraged to pick up if they cannot score better than net double bogey.
• Players with handicaps greater than 18 will receive their full handicap strokes in the team game, but still will not get more than one stroke for skins purposes.*

* Let’s say your team has 4 players, 3 of whom are 1-18 handicaps and 1 who is a 20. On hole #4, everyone makes par. Your team score for the hole is -4, because the 20 handicap gets 2 strokes. But when you call out the score for the skins run-through, you say “5 for 4”, not “5 for 3”. To avoid confusion, it might help to mark your scorecard as shown in the video at the end of the Skins Game description on the website.

The 2019-2020 skins game season will run from 1 November through 27 April, excluding 22 November and 20 March. (I scheduled events for 23 and 27 December, in case there are enough players in town to have a game.)

All events are on the online calendar and ready for you to sign up. I will be arriving in PV on November 21st this year, and look forward to seeing everyone.

Duane Bender

Phil originally excluded March 1 when he scheduled our skins game tee times last fall, due to a golf group from the States. It turns out this was Steve Johnson’s group from Wyoming. Steve has kindly allowed us to play our skins game slightly early, and shifted his group slightly later, to fit us in. So bottomline:

There WILL be a skins game this Friday, but it will begin at 10:40. The game is on the calendar for you to sign up.

Too many players are either emailing me after the 3 pm cutoff wanting to play the next day, or else are showing up the next day and expecting to be added to the game. One Friday last month we had 7 changes–3 who emailed me Thursday evening, 2 who emailed me Friday morning, and 2 who just showed up. This causes confusion and extra work for both me and the cart guys, and I think by accommodating these players I am encouraging this to continue. So I am going to try something new this year:

• If you forget to sign up by 3 pm, or your plans change after 3 pm to make you available the next day, do not email me, because I will not change the published pairings. But if you want to show up and take your chances, please do so.
• If you are not in the pairings, but you show up for the skins game, here’s what we’ll do:
  • If there is a threesome available, I’ll add you to make a foursome.
  • If there are only foursomes, but 3 unscheduled players show up, I’ll add you as a threesome.
  • If there are only foursomes, but 1 or 2 unscheduled players show up, you will not play in the skins game. Hopefully you can work with the starter and play a round on your own.
• Please DO notify me if you have signed up to play and you have a guest who wants to play with you. Do this early enough that I will see the email in time to add your guest before the 3 pm cutoff; that way your guest will be included in the pairings, playing with you.

I know a few of you have trouble dealing with the website, either because you have forgotten your password or because you just are not computer savvy. With these new rules, we’ll have to work through these issues. So let me know if you are still having trouble using the website and I will work with you to make it easier.

Duane

Skins games for the 2018-2019 season are on the calendar and ready for you to sign up. Friday, November 2nd will be the first game of the season. I will not arrive in PV until the 6th, so those who sign up for Nov 2nd and 5th are on their own. Have fun, and I’ll see you in a couple weeks.