Skins Game - 7. page

I’m leaving this morning for the summer, but the skins games are scheduled to continue through the month of April. The team pairing emails come out Sunday and Thursday afternoons, and they will go to Phil and Jose Torres so they can have your bags ready on the carts. It would be really good if everyone would sign up on the calendar when you want to play, and then show up and play when you sign up on the calendar. It will make things run much smoother on game days.

Have fun, and I’ll see you all next winter.

Duane.

As I mentioned Monday, we’re going to try something different for this Friday’s skins game. I’ve come up with “combo” tee sets to replace the normal gold, white, and blue sets we normally play. The goal is to make all the par 5s play like real par 5s, so that no one can reach #10 or #14 with a drive and 7 iron. And #5 won’t be longer than #10 from the golds or #14 from the blues. These combinations result in total yardage changes of less than 10 yards, which means we can post scores as if we played the normal rated tees. And you will take your handicap strokes on the same holes you normally do, where they fall on the scorecard. So here are the changes we’ll use Friday:

• Gold tees: Move back to the whites on 6, 10, and 14; move up to the reds on 1, 5, and 18. Total yardage reduced by 9 yards.
• White tees: Move back to the blues on 10* and 14; move up to the golds on 5 and 18. Total yardage reduced by 5 yards.
• Blue tees: Move back to the blacks on 7 and 14; move up to the whites on 5 and 18. Total yardage reduced by 2 yards.

I will prepare a handout for each team to use Friday, detailing these changes. We’ll try this Friday and discuss it after the round to get feedback.

*Note: If the blue tees on #10 are back by the road as they have been lately, white tee players will use the front of the blue tee box, near the first path to the restrooms. Blue tee players will play from the tee markers.

Because some of you sign up for our skins games well in advance, I want to inform you of two changes to the schedule:

February 16: No skins game, due to the Gringo Classic

March 2: We WILL have a skins game on Friday, March 2nd.

The first skins game will be Friday, Nov 3rd. Since I will not be arriving until Nov 7th, Jack Gindi has agreed to organize the games on the 3rd and 6th (coordinate with the starter, assign holes, designate hole sequence for team bets, etc). I look forward to seeing everyone in two weeks.

Duane Bender