Skins Game - 6. page

Phil originally excluded March 1 when he scheduled our skins game tee times last fall, due to a golf group from the States. It turns out this was Steve Johnson’s group from Wyoming. Steve has kindly allowed us to play our skins game slightly early, and shifted his group slightly later, to fit us in. So bottomline:

There WILL be a skins game this Friday, but it will begin at 10:40. The game is on the calendar for you to sign up.

Too many players are either emailing me after the 3 pm cutoff wanting to play the next day, or else are showing up the next day and expecting to be added to the game. One Friday last month we had 7 changes–3 who emailed me Thursday evening, 2 who emailed me Friday morning, and 2 who just showed up. This causes confusion and extra work for both me and the cart guys, and I think by accommodating these players I am encouraging this to continue. So I am going to try something new this year:

• If you forget to sign up by 3 pm, or your plans change after 3 pm to make you available the next day, do not email me, because I will not change the published pairings. But if you want to show up and take your chances, please do so.
• If you are not in the pairings, but you show up for the skins game, here’s what we’ll do:
  • If there is a threesome available, I’ll add you to make a foursome.
  • If there are only foursomes, but 3 unscheduled players show up, I’ll add you as a threesome.
  • If there are only foursomes, but 1 or 2 unscheduled players show up, you will not play in the skins game. Hopefully you can work with the starter and play a round on your own.
• Please DO notify me if you have signed up to play and you have a guest who wants to play with you. Do this early enough that I will see the email in time to add your guest before the 3 pm cutoff; that way your guest will be included in the pairings, playing with you.

I know a few of you have trouble dealing with the website, either because you have forgotten your password or because you just are not computer savvy. With these new rules, we’ll have to work through these issues. So let me know if you are still having trouble using the website and I will work with you to make it easier.

Duane

Skins games for the 2018-2019 season are on the calendar and ready for you to sign up. Friday, November 2nd will be the first game of the season. I will not arrive in PV until the 6th, so those who sign up for Nov 2nd and 5th are on their own. Have fun, and I’ll see you in a couple weeks.

I’m leaving this morning for the summer, but the skins games are scheduled to continue through the month of April. The team pairing emails come out Sunday and Thursday afternoons, and they will go to Phil and Jose Torres so they can have your bags ready on the carts. It would be really good if everyone would sign up on the calendar when you want to play, and then show up and play when you sign up on the calendar. It will make things run much smoother on game days.

Have fun, and I’ll see you all next winter.

Duane.

As I mentioned Monday, we’re going to try something different for this Friday’s skins game. I’ve come up with “combo” tee sets to replace the normal gold, white, and blue sets we normally play. The goal is to make all the par 5s play like real par 5s, so that no one can reach #10 or #14 with a drive and 7 iron. And #5 won’t be longer than #10 from the golds or #14 from the blues. These combinations result in total yardage changes of less than 10 yards, which means we can post scores as if we played the normal rated tees. And you will take your handicap strokes on the same holes you normally do, where they fall on the scorecard. So here are the changes we’ll use Friday:

• Gold tees: Move back to the whites on 6, 10, and 14; move up to the reds on 1, 5, and 18. Total yardage reduced by 9 yards.
• White tees: Move back to the blues on 10* and 14; move up to the golds on 5 and 18. Total yardage reduced by 5 yards.
• Blue tees: Move back to the blacks on 7 and 14; move up to the whites on 5 and 18. Total yardage reduced by 2 yards.

I will prepare a handout for each team to use Friday, detailing these changes. We’ll try this Friday and discuss it after the round to get feedback.

*Note: If the blue tees on #10 are back by the road as they have been lately, white tee players will use the front of the blue tee box, near the first path to the restrooms. Blue tee players will play from the tee markers.