I have added a Downloads link to the red menu bar on the website. From there, you can download PDFs of one or more of the new combo scorecards: Blue/White and White/Gold for men, and the new Gold/Red for women.
General - 11. page
MONDAY IS GAME DAY!
Open to Everyone . . . . Ladies, Men, Visitors
Lisa and I are avid game players: cards, boardgames, horse race etc. and decided to have a regular games day. We also want to support the later closure time at the golf club so will be set up in the upper far corner where there is lots of space to spread out if needed. 4:00pm is game time !
This Monday, we will play Chase the Ace, a fast-paced, super-easy and fun game! Below is a description. Buy-in will be only 20 pesos, you will get 4 chips to use as your “lives.” Come on out and join the fun 🙂
PS: Pass this on – the more the merrier!
Charli & Lisa
CHASE THE ACE
Overview
The Chase the Ace card game also known as Screw Your Neighbor or Cuckoo is a very interesting game that can be played with a group of people. All you need is a standard 52 card deck.
Set Up: The dealer shuffles the cards and deals 1 card face down to all players on the field, that’s it, just 1.
Each player starts with a set number of lives, usually 3 or 4. Your objective to not be the one stuck with the lowest card. Cards go in this order from lowest to highest A,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,J,Q,K, Yes Aces are the lowest.
Play Chase the Ace: The dealer goes last. The person to the left of the dealer starts and it goes around clockwise until it gets to the dealer.
When it is your turn you look at your card and can choose 1 of 2 options, you can either choose to keep your card, or you can choose to exchange your card with the person on the left of you.
In which case the person to the left of you has to trade cards with you, unless they have a King. If they have a King they have to show everyone and get to keep their card, and you are stuck with yours.
This goes around the table until it gets to the dealer. When it is the dealers turn they can choose to keep their card or exchange it with one from the deck. If they exchange it with one from the deck and they draw a King they must return the king and keep their first card.
Losing a life: When everyone has gone the person with the lowest card loses a life if multiple people have the lowest card they all lose a life.
How to Win: Once you lose 3 lives you have lost and no longer get cards. You keep playing until everyone but 1 person has lost all 3 of their lives. That person is the winner.
If the last people lose their last life during the same round you do a rematch between them.
Final Thoughts: This is a great game not only for families, but also for those times when you have a group of friends over for some cards. The hands are quick and there’s a lot of fun to be had in stealing the cards of your friends. Bluffing is also important as you want the person to your right to think that your card is horrible so they won’t steal yours!
New Tees, New Courses
The new blue/white and white/gold combo tees are now available for posting in the My Handicap app on our website. And you will now see your course handicap displayed on that page from all six tee sets, including those combo tees.
Also, we added new courses from throughout the local area: Vidanta, Flamingos, Vista Vallarta, Marina Vallarta, Litibu, and Punta Mita. So you can now post scores from a total of 10 local courses!
I got the information from the courses’ own websites where I could, but some don’t have their scorecards online. For those I found another online source, but I’m a little concerned about their accuracy, so I’m asking a favor: If you play at any of these local courses, please bring back a scorecard and give it to me, or if you prefer, just take a photo of it and email that to me at duane.bender@gmail.com. Thanks.
WHS Handicaps Now Live
Gerard Gregoire has made the changes to our My Handicap and Live Scoring apps required by the new World Handicap System. The first thing you will notice about My Handicap is the wide range of course handicaps you’ll have for our 6 tee sets. And what will be most alarming for some is how low their handicaps are from the forward tees. Let’s look at why this is.
In the past, the USGA defined course handicap as the number of strokes a player needs to play down to the course rating. So under that system, “playing to your handicap” meant shooting a net score of 67-68 from the golds, 69-70 from the whites, etc. Under the WHS, course handicap has been redefined as the number of strokes a player needs to play down to par. So now playing to your handicap (from any tees at El Tigre) means shooting a net score of 72. Obviously it takes fewer handicap strokes to get your net score down to 72 than to 68.
Your main concern about handicaps should be the number of strokes you give or receive in a game against an opponent. If you and your opponent are on the same tees, the decreased handicaps don’t make any difference because your handicaps were decreased by the same amount. And if you’re playing against a player on a different set of tees, you will no longer have to adjust your handicap by the difference in course ratings as we did before, because your WHS handicap has already been adjusted. So let’s say that 15.0 index player plays from the golds against a 12.0 index playing from the whites. Under the old system, the gold tee player had a 15 course handicap from the golds, and the white tee player had a 13 course handicap from the whites. After adjusting for the 2.2 stroke difference in course ratings, they play even. Under WHS, the white tee player is an 11 and the gold tee player is an 11, so they still play even.
Gerard and I tested the system yesterday, and we think we ironed out all the kinks, but if something doesn’t seem right to you, please send us an email describing what you saw to duane.bender@gmail.com and gerard.gregoire@conseilslg.com.
As you know, when you post a score, you enter your Adjusted Gross Score, after reducing any excessively high hole scores to the maximum allowed for handicap purposes. One of the WHS changes, as I explained in a previous post, is to that maximum hole score. Under the old rules, a 10-19 handicap could take a 7, a 20-29 handicap could take an 8, and so on. Under WHS, everyone can take a net double bogey. This will become second-nature to you soon, but initially you may have to think about it. It is the sum of three numbers: Par for the hole, 2, and strokes you receive on the hole. Or another way to think of it is double bogey plus handicap strokes. You know that a double bogey on a par 4 is 6. If you get 2 strokes on a par 4, your maximum score would be 8. Here’s a chart that shows all the possibilities:
As I said above, Gerard has updated the Live Scoring app, and it will automatically post an Adjusted Gross Score into the handicap system for you.
New Combo Tees
Note: This post has been edited to update the White/Gold combos to the latest version.
Our Director of Golf, Steve Johnson, has developed two new sets of tees for men to use here at El Tigre. They are the Blue/White Combos and the White/Gold Combos. When we update the My Handicap app this Saturday, you will be able to post from both these new tee sets, and the system will calculate and display your course handicaps from them. Here are the scorecards:
