Albuquerque, NM                        www.abqlaga.org                  April, 2008

Member-Member or Member-Guest Next Monthly Tourney

   Mark your calendar for April 19 & 20 for the very popular Member-Member or Member- Guest tournament.  It’s your choice: play with a guest or pick a buddy from LAGA and enter.  Each entrant must have a GHIN # and handicap.

   The two-dayer will have a $45-per-player entry fee and will have free food after the second day’s play.  An optional $10 team skins each day livens up the event.

$200 Hole-in-One

   The Tournament Committee started a hole-in-one contest last month with a prize of $100.  Nobody won it, so that $100 is added to this month’s play making it worth a grand total of $200 this time. One day will be scramble format, the other will be best-ball.     Deadline for entries is 6 pm on Tuesday, April 15.   


 

 

GORDON GODDARD GOES LOWEST IN MARCH EVENT

   Gordon Goddard shot a sizzling 63 in March’s “either or” tournament to pace the 79

entrants and win the 5th flight by two strokes over Hiroko Hutt and CJ Riensche.

   Out of the  79 players, 35 won gift vouchers or certificates, while 22 won skins and five won closest-to-the-pin.  Each flight paid the top seven finishers who played either Friday or Saturday.

   Bib Izzo and Avelino Muller shot 66’s to tie for the 1st flight leadership. Robert Brown and Wally Iverson tied for first in the 2nd flight with 67’s, while Floyd Sherwood burned up the course with a 65 to capture the 3rd flight and Charles Hutt captured the 4th flight with another 65. Page 3 has a list of all money winners.

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On March 19 during Wednesday Play, Louis B. Flores, 80 years & counting, shot a 79, while Ray Kranz, 86 & holding, shot a

86.  Congratulations to both these gents.  Great going!!!!

(We know this isn’t the first time for Kranz, but believe it’s the first time for Flores.) Besides being good golfers they’re good

people.  We’re proud of them both.

   Thanks go to Paul Beatty for volunteering to update and get published LAGA members gross and net scores, then forwarding to Carl Pearson for inclusion in our

web site: www.abqlaga.org.  Thanks, Paul.  Also thanks to Carl for his efforts.

 

“Clean-up”, “Fix-up” Coming to Los Altos Golf Course. NOW!!

   The Board of Directors has named Mike Davidson chairman of a new committee to assist course personnel in cleaning up, repairing, sprucing up the course and surrounding areas.

   Davidson said he received a list of items from David Salas, head greenskeeper.

The include:

1.      Repair ball marks on greens (not just yours but others, too).

2.      Replace divots on fairways.  3. Pick up trash “floating” around.

4.   Fill fairway divots.  5. Fill divots on par 3 tees.  6. Pick up broken tees on tee boxes. 7. Fill divots on range tee.  8. Pick up broken tees on range.  9.  Clean up around clubhouse (exterior).  

“None of this is strenuous or back-breaking but it’ll surely improve the looks of our course and perhaps, by our example, we’ll teach non-member players to conduct themselves in a caring manner,” Davidson said.  He added that there may be a designated day for an “all-out effort.”

Golf Advisory Board Suggesting $1 Raise in Green Fees.

   The City’s Golf Advisory Board, with representatives of all four Municipal Golf Courses, plans to recommend a $1 daily green fee increase to the City Council.  The current agreement calls for a cost-of-living increase of .49-cents “but that won’t be enough”, Board president Mike Daniels said.  He said course coffers are limited and

“simply need an income increase.”  Golf courses receive income ONLY from what golfers pay in.  There’s no tax money involved in the running of the courses.  “The public doesn’t pay into a golf fund.  The ONLY revenue comes from golfers,” Daniels said.

Clarification of Rules: Hole #16 Fence…no relief

   There is no relief from the fence along the left side of hole #16 (by the car dealer-

ship. That’s a boundary fence. If you can’t play a shot, drop the ball no closer to the hole within one club length and  a one-stroke penalty.  The exception is if a man-made object such as a sprinkler head or drip hose interferes with stance or swing, then you get relief. If it goes through the fence, it’s out-of-bounds and you need to go back to the original spot, take a stroke penalty and replay the shot.

SUNFLOWER SEEDS ARE BACK; KEEP ‘EM OFF THE GREENS

   Complaints are already coming in on Wednesdays about sunflower seeds spit onto the greens.  If you like sunflower seeds, great!  But keep the shells off the greens. 

SLOW PLAY ALREADY A PROBLEM.  BE READY TO PLAY WHEN IT’S YOUR TURN.  PARK YOUR CART AWAY FROM THE GREEN & IN LINE WITH THE NEXT TEE BOX.

 Relief on #18: If you’re in the garden area between the cart bar and the green you get relief no nearer the hole. No penalty.

Relief on #8: If your ball is between the driving-range fence and the path (east of the white marker) you can drop on the other side of the cart path no closer to the hole. If it goes through the fence, it’s out-of-bounds. Go back & re-tee.

 

“Luck of the Irish” Money Winners 3/21-22

“LAGA” refers to VOUCHER payouts.  “LAGC” refers to Los Altos gift certificates.

First Flight          Score               Payout             Second Flight   Score    Payout

Bob Izzo                  66              $108.50 LAGA      Robert Brown        67                $108.50 LAGA

Avelino Muller        66                108.50 LAGA       Wallace Iverson    67         108.50 LAGA

Frank Gray              67                 82.50  LAGA        Tom Michel         68            90.00 LAGA

Bruce Gunckel        67                 82.50 LAGA         Craig Cornell       69            60.00 LAGA

Tom Martin             68                 60.00 LAGC         Mike Davidson    69            60.00 LAGA

Faustin Lovato        69                 25.00 LAGC          Tom Schara         69            60.00 LAGA

Jay Peters                69                 25.00 LAGC          Takeshi Ganeko  71            30.00 LAGC

Roland Sena            69                 25.00 LAGC

 

Third Flight       Score              Payout             Fourth Flight   Score   Payout

Floyd Sherwood      66              $112.00 LAGA        Charles Hutt           65      $112.00 LAGA

Richard Geha          67                  82.50 LAGA         Joseph Lind           69          82.50  LAGA

John Iley                 67                  82.50 LAGA         Ken Lind                69          82.50 LAGA

Carl Monska           67                  82.50 LAGA         Lionel Navarette    69          82.50 LAGA

Jaime Ramirez        67                 82.50 LAGA          Dang Teater           69          82.50 LAGA

Dean Anderson       68                 45.00 LAGC          Mark Balducci       71          37.50 LAGC

Frank Shearer         69                 30.00 LAGC          David Hicks          71           37.50 LAGC

 

Fifth Flight         Score               Payout         

Gordon Goddard     63               $112.00 LAGA

Hiroko Hutt            65                  97.50  LAGA

Chun Ja Riensche   65                  97.50  LAGA

Ben Madrid            66                   75.00  LAGA

Hilbert Sattler        69                   52.50  LAGC

Peter Kelton           69                   52.05  LAGC

James Terlesky      71                   30.00  LAGC

 

SKINS

Frank Gray                   $12.50     Lionel Navarrette       $16.00

Ken Gordon                  25.00      Joseph Lind                  16.00

Avelino Muller              12.50      John Lind                     16.00

Jay Peters                     12.50     Hiroko Hutt                    26.50

Tom Martin                   12.50      Ben Madrid                   13.25

Craig Cornell                 14.00      Gordon Goddard           39.75

Wally Iverson                14.00

Greg Gaffney                14.00                    CTP

Sam Park                      14.00      #4 Bruce Gunckel $25 Fore Score Golf GC

Takeshi Ganeko                        14.00      #7 0-14 Takeshi Ganeko

Jaime Ramirez              20.00      #7 15-up Ben Madrid

Carl Monska                 20.00      #15 0-14 Tom Martin 

Jeremy Pope                    20.00      #15 15-up Eric Iverson 

Larry Reecer                20.00      $20 LAGC each

Delmar Fleming 16.00

Ken Lind                      16.00

(Our web page at www.abqlaga.org has all the results for all 80 entries

 

 

Golf is different.  No umpires or referees. Honestly!!!

The Spirit of the Game—As you’re aware Golf is played, for the most part, without the supervision of a referee or umpire.  The game relies on the integrity of the individual to show consideration for other players and to abide by the rules.

   Recently, your Board of Directors has heard complaints about participants violating the Rules of Golf.  Some were “so-and-so improved the lie of his ball”, hitting from the wrong place, moving the ball when no rule allows you to do so, marking the ball on the green improperly or replacing the ball in a different position than it was originally.  One reason why things like the above happen is ignorance of the rules of golf.  A second reason is knowing the rules but disregarding them. That’s called cheating.  We can try to wipe out ignorance by education.  Cheaters are harder to stop.  REPORT THEM.

   The best way to play by the rules is to learn the rules.  Once you know the rules, you can have very interesting discussions about how to interpret them.  Until then, don’t guess and don’t cheat.

 

 

 

 

 

TAX BLUES 2-DAYER

April 19th & 20th
 
Member/Member – Member/Guest

Saturday tee times; Sunday shotgun start.

Entry fee: $45 Per Player

$10 Optional Team Skins Per Day

$200 Hole In One Pot

Free Food on Sunday

Make checks payable to the Los Altos Golf Association

 

Name #1______________________________________________________

Name #2_____________________________________________________

Hdcp #1_______Ghin #_________Hdcp #2________Ghin#___________

Cash_______________________Check#___________________________

Special Requests______________________________________________

Entry Deadline April 15th @ 6:00 P.M.