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Report of Third Outing of 2008 - May 8 at Cross Creek The Fourth Outing of 2008 - Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at Hollow Creek
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The National Institutes of Health Golf Association is a club operated under the auspices of the NIH Recreation and Welfare organization. NIHGA provides its members an opportunity to play and compete, with handicaps, at an attractive variety of courses about twice a month during the spring and summer seasons. For more information, see About NIHGA.
Team 1 is the 2007 Match-Play Champion. Team 4 defeated Team 1 in the fifth round for its first loss in the match-play competition. Team 1 won the sixth round match to capture the match-play championship.
Team 6 has won the stroke-play competition for 2007 and received a bye in the first round of match play. Trophies were awarded to the stroke-play, match-play and individual season award winners at the end-of-year outing at Hampshire Greens.
Team 8 is the 2006 Match-Play Champion. Team 1 defeated Team 8 in the fifth round for its first loss in the match-play competition. Team 8 won the sixth round match to capture the match-play championship.
Team 8 won the stroke-play competition for 2006 and had a bye in the first round of match play. Trophies were awarded to the stroke-play, match-play and individual season award winners at the end-of-year outing at Musket Ridge.
Team 6 won the stroke-play competition for 2005. Team 4 defeated Team 8 in the fifth and sixth rounds of match play to earn the match-play championship. Trophies were awarded to the stroke-play, match-play and individual season award winners at the end-of-year outing.
Team 8 has won the stroke-play competition for 2004. Team 2 is the 2004 match-play champion. Trophies were awarded at the end-of-year outing to Team 8 and Team 2 members and to the individual season award winners
Team 8 has won both the stroke-play and match-play competitions for 2003. Trophies were awarded at the end-of-year outing to Team 8 members and to the individual season award winners
for the first time in a few years, the Board invoked the NIHGA Storm Waiver rule at the Glade Valley outing. Fifteen players were forced off the course by lightning. Twelve of them had completed 13 or more holes and their scores were projected according to USGA Handicapping Rule 4.2 and counted for the team competition and were eligible for individual prizes, although none of them were low enough to win low gross or net prizes in this case.
Usually, if the storm waiver is not invoked, the projected score counts toward the player's handicap but does not count for the team score or individual gross or net prizes.
LONG DRIVE MARKERS: Starting in 2000, we present prizes for the longest drive from each set of tees, back, middle, senior and front. At an outing where only three sets of tees are being used, senior tee players will be playing from the front tees and wil participate in that contest. To avoid the confusion we encountered at Challedon in 1999, the markers will be labelled "BACK", "MIDDLE" "SENIOR" or "FRONT". We will use ribbons to assist in identifying the appropriate marker when looking from the tee, if we can find materials with colors to match the colors of the respective tees. We will also try to post some kind of notice at each long drive hole or a notice in the pro shop stating which are the long drive holes.
EQUITABLE STROKE CONTROL RULE: We are using Equitable Stroke Control (ESC) again this season in order to speed up play. You are required to pick up your ball after you have reached your ESC score on any hole and to record your ESC score on the scorecard for that hole. You can, of course, pick up at one less than the ESC score and record the ESC score on your card.
"HANDICAP" in the table is your actual handicap shown on the handicap list for the particular course and outing, not your handicap index.
| HANDICAP | ESC SCORE |
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Less than 10
10 to 19 20 to 29 30 to 39 40 or more * |
double bogey
7 8 9 10 |
| * New players with no established handicap should use an ESC of 9. | |
CHOICE OF TEES: Rule 5J states that: "Normally, men play from the middle tees and women from the forward tees. However, any man may choose to play from either the back, middle or senior (if in use, otherwise forward for that round) tees and any woman may choose any of the four sets of tees. The set of tees selected must be consistent throughout the entire season, including match-play events. The selection of tees is to be made at the member's first outing of the season"
ENTERING HANDICAP: A player establishes a NIHGA handicap after playing in two stroke play outings. It is not necessary, however, to play the first two outings without a handicap. A "new member" is one who has not turned in a valid 18 hole score card in any NIHGA stroke-play event during the previous two seasons. This includes former as well as active/inactive members with NIHGA handicaps who did not play during the prior season. No handicap index is computed until a new member has submitted scores from two NIHGA outings. The ESC score for the player will be nine strokes per hole until he/she has completed two NIHGA stroke-play rounds first two rounds.
However, if the new player has an established USGA handicap index, we accept it for use until the player has recorded two NIHGA scores. The team captain will be responsible for submitting a copy of the USGA handicap card to the handicapper. The ESC score for the player will be that associated with his/her handicap computed for the course being played.
In both cases, after the player's second outing, the NIHGA handicap and associated ESC score will be used.