Eagles Mere Newsletter Notes

Tips from your Golf Professional

Track your rounds!!

This is especially good if you go south at all during the winter months.

Tracking your golf stats provides you with a great opportunity to learn more about your

game and where you can save shots. I suggest you take 5 to 10 minutes after each round of

golf to log some very important stats.

1. How many fairways you hit.

2. How many fairways you missed right.

3. How many fairways you missed left.

4. How many greens you hit in regulation.

5. How many shots you hit inside 100 yards.

6. How many putts you had.

7. Your total score.

This is very simple to do and will provide you with a lot of great information for the start of

your 2010 season!

I have already created a excel spreadsheet template that will track all of this info for you.

All you have to do is plug in your own personal stats. The template is set up to track 10

rounds of golf. When you have completed the 10 rounds you will have a great summary of

information to improve your game. Bring the summary into me this coming golf season

and we will work on the areas where you need to improve!

Email me at seth@eaglesmerecc.com and I will email you the template so you can get

started! Best of luck!

Rule of the Month

USGA

27-2a/1 Announcement of Provisional Ball

Q:

A player hits his ball into an area where it may be lost outside a water hazard or out of

bounds. The player then drops another ball and plays it. The player intends the dropped

ball to be a provisional ball, but he does not inform his opponent, marker or fellow-

competitor that he is "playing a provisional ball." In such a situation, can a player's actions

constitute announcement that he is playing a provisional ball?

A:

No. Rule 27-2a specifically provides that the player must inform his opponent, marker or

fellow-competitor that he intends to play a provisional ball.

The player's statement must specifically mention the words "provisional ball" or must make

it clear that he is proceeding under Rule 27-2a. Therefore, a player who says nothing has

put another ball into play.

The following are examples of statements that do not satisfy the requirement of

announcing a provisional ball:

(a) "That might be lost. I am going to re-load."

(b) "That might be out of here."

(c) "I'd better hit another one."

(d) "I will never find that one. I'll play another."