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Calling all Volunteers for the NCAA Ladies Tournament March 19, 20 and 21 at El Tigre

Due to the outstanding success of last year’s event; there is a larger field this year with 20 teams attending the tournament. We will be having morning and afternoon shifts; each shift will be 4 hours with staggered start times depending on your role and hole assignment.

There are 2 basic volunteer roles – spotters and bunker rakers.

All three days will have 2 start times on 1 and 10 of  7:30 am and 11:30 am

Each shift is approximately 4 hours.

You will be supplied with a cart, ice and water. Food, refreshments and bathroom breaks will be supplied 😊

Due to the overwhelming response from volunteers last year we are offering El Tigre Golf Club Members the first opportunity to sign up. Please reply to janet.morrice1@gmail.com before January 27 to confirm exactly which days you will work the tournament and if you are available for Shift 1 or 2 along with your Foot Joy shirt size.  We will do our best to accommodate all requests but please note we cannot offer ½ or shared shifts – you must be prepared to work a 4 hour shift. We will have spares to cover last minute changes, illness etc.

Thursday, March 19

Shift 1 – start times range from 7:30 am – 9:00 am – 4 hour shift

Shift 2 – start times range from 11:30 am -1:00 pm – 4 hour shift

Friday, March 20

Shift 1 – start times range from 7:30 am – 9:00 am – 4 hour shift

Shift 2 – start times range from 11:30 am -1:00 pm – 4 hour shift

Saturday, March 21

Shift 1 – start times range from 7:30 am – 9:00 am – 4 hour shift

Shift 2 – start times range from 11:30 am -1:00 pm – 4 hour shift

BANQUET – Awards Banquet at Paradise Village 7:00 pm – all volunteers are invited!

More details will follow closer to the time with arrival times, hole locations, volunteer check in procedure, shirt pick up etc. 

Thank you for giving your time!

Janet Morrice 

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.

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.

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.