Results! March 22, 2011

Today we had 9 ladies play a standard Stableford format with 4 (yes 4) prizes for closest to the pin.  I'm very pleased to report that we had 4 different winners!

Hole #3:  Veronique (at an impressive distance of 1.2m)
Hole #8:  Hyun Hee
Hole #11:  Hye Chin
Hole #16:  Tricia

As for the Stableford Results:

Hyun Hee - 43 pts
Veronique - 38 pts
Meigan - 36 pts
Eun Young - 35 pts
Pascale - 34 pts
Heidi - 32
Hye Chin - 27
Tricia - 26
Priya - only played 9 holes.

My tip of the day is regarding the maximum number of strokes allowed per hole.  This process is called Equitable Stroke Control and it is used to prevent inflating one's handicap when someone has a bad (or VERY bad) hole.  I found the chart shown below on http://www.pgaprofessional.com/handicap.html  It shows the maximum strokes accepted by the PGA.  Other Golf Associations use different maximums.  If you wish to do some research on your own, google "Equitable Stroke Control"

Equitable Stroke Control

Equitable Stroke Control (ESC) is the "capping" of individual hole scores to make handicaps more indicative of a player's scoring potential. The maximum score that a player can post on any hole is based on the player's Course Handicap. In the case of a player without an established handicap scores are adjusted using the maximum hole score for the highest Course Handicap. Once your Handicap Index is established you use the ESC table below.

Course Handicap	Maximum Score per Hole
up to 9	Double Bogey
10 through 19	7
20 through 29	8
30 through 39	9
40 or higher	10

So for us Pebbles, once you reach your maximum allowed score per hole, you can pick up your ball and write the maximum on your scorecard.  This saves time and frustration when we have bad holes :)

Pebbles Par 3s for Pascale - March 15, 2011

Thank you to everyone who played on Tuesday, we had 14 ladies play "Par 3s for Pascale". While Tuesday was not Pascale's last day playing with the Pebbles, it was the day we chose to celebrate her time with us.
 

The game Tuesday required us to transform all of the par 4s and par 5s on the course into par 3s.  We created new 'Tee boxes" (circles in sand) between the 100 and 150 yard marker on the par 4s and par 5s, and we teed off from there.  Unfortunately, the grounds crew moved our handmade flags which were supposed to locate the circles, and instead moved them all to the 150 marker...which made some very difficult and long par 3s.  In any case, it was a good way for us to work on our short game.  

As for the competition, we used 50% of handicaps to calculate a net score.

Now for the results:

Name       Net Score

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 Sook Hyang  51 

 Meigan          51 

 Hyun Hee      57 

 Tricia             57 

 Heidi             58 

 Sue Hyun      58 

 Hye Chin       60 

 Véronique     61 

 Che Hyun      62 

 Pascale         64 

 Sue                68 

 Saroja           69 

 Sun Mi          69 

 Priya             71  

Thanks to everyone for playing and a BIG Thanks to Pascale for all of her work and creativity that has made Tuesday mornings so unexpected and fun!

Big Hugs & Kisses to Pascale!

Pebbles results for March 8, 2011

One of my last messages, I am afraid, as I am starting to get ready for packing L

Anyway, we were 11 of us enjoying a new game we called “Staying alive”!

Each of us got a flag with our name before starting. Then we played a normal Stableford format, but we were allowed to a certain number of shots (72 + ¾ handicap, i.e. 72 + 27 = 99 for a 36 handicap).

After hitting our last shot, we had to put our own flag on the fairway where the shot had landed.

The winner was the one whose flag was closer to the restaurant!

Results of the day

Closest to the pin on n°3 : Hyun Hee

Staying alive :

1	Sook Hyang	Her flag was still alive after she finished the round!!!
2	Hyun Hee	She reached the last green
3	Heidi	On the 18th fairway
4	Sue Hyun, Veronique, Pascale	Inside the 17th hole

Stableford competition :

		Gross score	Stableford points
1	Hyun Hee	102	42
2	Sook Hyang	82	39
3	Heidi	98	38
4	Sue Hyun	106	38
5	Pascale	89	36
6	Eun Young	113	31
7	Veronique	104	29
8	Sun Mi	114	28
9	Hye Chin	111	28
10	Meigan	114	28
11	Sue	125	19

We just noticed 2 things : As we have to count every single shot, it’s very long and then being 4 players in a lot made it very slow ( 5 hours for one group), so next time we should keep slots of 3.

Next time we want to make sure every flag is on the course, so better to take 2/3 of the handicap rather than 3/4 !

Don’t forget to go and visit our blog, where we could add some pictures for example : http://pebblesgolf.blogspot.com

Have a nice week and see you all next Tuesday at 8:30 am

Pascale

Pebbles results for March 1, 2011

Our group is extending, great !

After Joyce last week, today we were happy to welcome Sue and Tricia who joined the Pebbles for the first time.

We played a new game, called “blind nine”. After the round, we asked one of the waiters to draw some holes for us : 2 pars 3, 2 pars 5 and 5 pars 4.

And the total of the scores on these specific nine holes became the score for today’s game.

Some of us really had a great day, as they scored around 40 Stableford points even playing only 17 holes!!!

I want to mention Sook Hyang who had her best score on this course today, with a gross score of 78!!! Well done Sook Hyang, and congratulations!

Meigan with 39 points, and Veronique with 38 did really well today as well, good on you ladies!!!

Results of the day

-       Closest to the pin on n°3 : Hyechin

-       Blind nine :

		Stbfd points
1	Sook Hyang	21
2	Veronique	19
3	Hye Chin	19
4	Sue Hyun	19
5	Heidi	17

-       Stableford competition

You will find below a total a little bit different from what you got. It’s because I gave everyone a net par on the hole n°9, and then 2 more Stableford points. So now you can compare with your previous scores. And I can enter the scores in the handicaps system.

		Gross score	Stbfd points
1	Sook Hyang	78	45
2	Meigan	102	41
3	Veronique	93	40
4	Sue Hyun	106	38
5	Hye Chin	100	37
6	Pascale	91	33
7	Heidi	107	31
8	Tricia	116	28
9	Hyun Hee	116	27
10	Shirley	118	26
11	Joyce	116	25
12	Sue	123	21
13	Priya	124	20

Well done to all of you, including our new members who reached 20 on their first participation (almost 30 for Tricia!).

I hope to see you all next Tuesday, same place, same time!