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Officers President Tony Pesavento, PGA Omaha Country Club tpesavento@pga.com
Vice President Nathan Kalin, PGA Fremont Golf Club nathan.kalin@fremontgolfclub.org
Secretary Gil Russell, PGA ArborLinks Golf grussell@arborlinks.com
Honorary President Mike Antonio, PGA Happy Hollow Club mikea@happyhollowclub.com
Staff Executive Director David Honnens, PGA dhonnens@pgahq.com
Tournament Director Sean O’Neill, PGA soneill@pgahq.com Junior Golf Director/ Player Development Coordinator Joe Canny, PGA jcanny@pgahq.com
Operations Manager Renee Tyson rtyson@pgahq.com
Development Officer Bob Danenhauer bdanenhauer@pgahq.com
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Bob Baber, PGA—2015 Player Development Award
Bob Baber, PGA—It was a great honor to receive the 2015 Player Development Award. I am very fortunate to have four outstanding PGA Professionals working with me every step of the way. With their help, we have drastically changed our approach to player development programs. For over forty years the City of Omaha Golf Division only offered one Junior Golf Program. This program was co-sponsored by the Omaha World Herald and consisted of three one-hour clinics, a qualifying event (if interested), followed by a tournament held at one of the participating city courses, depending on age and gender. In its heyday, the clinics and tournament would attract several hundred kids annually. Over the years, the numbers steadily dropped to such an extent that we no longer offer the tournament. We continue to partner with the OWH for the clinics and hope to revitalize the tournament next season. Working for the city of Omaha has allowed me to take non-traditional approaches to reach potential golfers. With the help of the Parks and Recreation Department, we have introduced children to the game of golf within our 13 community centers. We also utilize our neighborhood parks to promote family golf activities. To date, our most ambitious endeavor has been creating the Junior Golf Club of Omaha. Since its inception three years ago, enrollment has flourished to over 3,500 members. Last summer, we established two developmental Junior Golf Leagues. These leagues consisted of hands-on PGA instruction each day prior to 9-holes of non-competitive golf. The six week league concluded with a team scramble in which each team was paired with a PGA Professional. Feedback from players and parents was outstanding. We are hoping to grow the program by utilizing other golf courses. In addition, we would like to offer different levels of league play; from fun and noncompetitive all the way to advanced regulated competition. When it comes to Junior Golf, I like to follow four simple rules: -Never miss an opportunity to put a golf club in a child’s hands. -Partner with other departments, groups, events, or activities. -Make it simple and fun. -Keep down time short as possible by creating smaller groups. The growth of the game and future of our profession directly correlates to player development. In addition to our outstanding Junior Golf Program, we are continuously looking at new and exciting ways to introduce golf to the masses. We hope to start new programs for women and seniors in the upcoming season.
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After getting energized from attending the PGA Annual Meeting in NYC and celebrating our Associations 100th Anniversary, I have had time to reflect and many discussions I was a part of or listened to had a common theme. “What does the PGA of America do for me? What are the direct benefits that are in place that affect our membership at large?” Having spent the last two years on the Member Benefits Committee for President Sprague, I have had an inside track on the benefits that are currently in play and some exciting things that are in the works. While it is chilly outside, I encourage all of you to sit down with your significant others and go through the PGA.org website (Benefits tab) to see all of the opportunities that are available to your family to put money directly back in your pocket. Please do not overlook PGA Retirement Plus. If you currently sell Pepsi, Titleist, Foot-joy, Callaway, Imperial, Sterling Cut Glass, Adidas, Greg Norman or Ecco, to name a few, and you are not taking advantage of Retirement Plus you are leaving money on the table! Sign up now while you have the time. If you are currently enrolled, re-up your annual enrollment forms now. PGA Partnerships Worth Noting: Lifelock – The PGA recently partnered with Lifelock, one of the leading personal identity Theft Protection Services in the US. They are currently offering a 15% discount to our members. KitchenAid - Exclusive for the PGA of America, the INSIDEPASS Program by Whirlpool Corporation provides substantial savings on products for your kitchen, laundry room, garage and home. You can save on popular brand-name consumer products such as KitchenAid, Whirlpool, Maytag, Amana and Gladiator GarageWorks. We personally saved thousands of dollars when we purchased our appliances through this program. Trugreen - TruGreen is proud to be the “Official Lawn Care Provider of the PGA of America.” As part of TruGreen’s partnership all PGA members and apprentices are eligible to receive a one-time 20% discount on a full-year, pre-paid lawn care plan. Other areas that may be of benefit to you are: GetInsured (health), PGA Credit Union, Office Depot / Max Advantage program, Starwood Hotels & Resorts discounts, Samsung products discount site and many more. I encourage you to share this information with your family and see if there are ways that the PGA can directly affect your personal bottom line and stuff a little extra cash in your pocket for the Holidays! Farewell to 2016 and cheers to a prosperous 2017. Be safe and see you in the Neujahr! Couldn’t resist! :-) Dawn Neujahr, PGA 5
Section Staff Baby Announcements
Sean O’Neill, PGA
Joe Canny, PGA
Baby Girl:
Baby Boy:
Remi Rose O'Neill
Calhoon "Cal" Harold Canny
10/7/2016
10/7/2016
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2016 Season is Over - Show Your Success We know the value PGA Professionals bring to their employers through Player Development. We do things such as drive revenue to different areas of the club, increase rounds played by current golfers and even create new golfers. We see it every day but for facility owners, boards, management companies and others not on the front lines it can be hard to see this impact. The PGA of America created a great tool called the Revenue Scorecard which allows you to quantify this value to an extent in a professional report you can share with your employers, use for benchmarking year-to-year or have to keep on file for your resume. We’ve written about and shown you the Revenue Scorecard in the past but this year the PGA of America has overhauled the tool to make it much more user friendly, create better looking reports and most noticeably shorter. The Revenue Scorecard is housed on PGA.org and can be completed in less than 10 minutes. You have the capability to customize it to your facility and answer only the questions that relate to your facility type such as private or public. Having tracked player development programming through Microsoft Excel and other golf software I would strongly recommend this PGA Member benefit. It is the easiest and most professional way I have found so far and free for PGA Professionals and Apprentices such as yourself. The Revenue Scorecard as well as tips and best practices can be found by CLICKING HERE. For additional employee communication plans I also encourage you to visit the employer communication planning reports on PGA.org. Follow the link HERE for an article and links to various reports. If you have any questions or would like additional support in using the Revenue Scorecard please reach out Nebraska PGA’s Player Development Coordinator, Joe Canny, PGA at (402) 730-8364; jcanny@pgahq.com.
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Registration is now open for the 2016 PGA Tournament Series presented by GolfAdvisor. Six competitive events have been scheduled for November/December at PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, FL, with $11,500 sponsor dollars added to each event's purse. These 2-day events are a great way for players to compete against other PGA Professionals, win money and possibly accumulate national player of the year points in the process. See the schedule below and visit PGA.org for more details and to enter.
PGA Tournament Series Schedule: Tournament Dates
Host Course
Entry Deadline
Dec. 1-2
PGA Golf Club (Dye)
Nov. 23 (12:00 p.m. ET)
Dec. 5-6
PGA Golf Club (Ryder)
Nov. 29 (5:00 p.m. ET)
Dec. 8-9
PGA Golf Club (Wanamaker)
Dec. 2 (5:00 p.m. ET)
Dec. 12-13
PGA Golf Club (Dye)
Dec. 6 (5:00 p.m. ET)
Dec. 15-16
PGA Golf Club (Ryder)
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A few weeks ago, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump agreed to ignore the results of the general election and the Electoral College and privately settle their race for the White House in advance by playing a singles match. Of course, a few Rules issues cropped up during their match. In this quiz, the Secret Service has called you in to make several crucial rulings. Make sure that you get them right because the future of the United States is in your hands! 1. At the 3rd hole, Hillary made a miraculous 50-foot putt for a par-4. As Donald was lining up his 3-foot putt to halve the hole, Hillary pointed out that he should probably play a 3inch break to the right. Donald ignored her and missed the putt! Trump then made a timely claim that he won the hole because Hillary had given advice. Was he correct? 2. At the 6th hole, both Presidential candidates hit wayward drives down the left side of the hole. Trump’s ball was found out of bounds; Clinton’s ball was found just after five minutes of searching. Instead of returning to the teeing ground pursuant to Rule 27-1 [Stroke and Distance; Ball Out of Bounds; Ball Not Found Within Five Minutes], Donald suggested, and Hillary agreed, that they consider the hole halved. Should either of them be penalized in this case? 3. At the turn, Hillary spent an unusual amount of time in the clubhouse, but Donald waited patiently and did not say anything when she finally showed up. Hillary won the 10th hole. After she drove from the 11th teeing ground, Trump claimed that he won the 10th hole because she had breached Rule 6-7 [Undue Delay; Slow Play]. Was he correct? 4. At the 13th hole, Hillary mistakenly played from the wrong teeing ground and her ball ended up out of bounds. Donald did not recall the stroke, so Hillary had to proceed under the stroke and distance penalty of Rule 27-1. She then put a ball into play after teeing it within the correct teeing ground. Not counting any penalty strokes, she scored 5 for the hole. Meanwhile, Donald scored 9 for the hole. Hillary received no handicap strokes on this hole, so who won the hole, assuming a timely claim was made? 5. Just before the match started, Hillary declared a course handicap of 32. Later, but not until they were playing the 16th hole, she admitted that her handicap was actually 40. The Donald immediately claimed that Hillary should be disqualified for declaring an incorrect handicap for the match. Was he correct? Answers: 1. No
The hole is halved, despite the fact that Hillary breached Rule 8-1 [Advice]! Per Rule 2-2 [Halved Hole], when a player has holed out and her opponent has been left with a stroke for the half, if the player subsequently incurs a penalty, even though the penalty may be a loss of hole penalty, the hole is halved.
2. No
Decision 2-1/1.5 [Players Agree to Consider Hole Halved During Play of Hole] indicates that an agreement to halve a hole during play of the hole is permissible.
3. No
According to Rule 2-5 [Doubt as to Procedure; Disputes and Claims], in order for a claim to be considered, it must be made in a timely manner. In these circumstances, Trump’s claim was not made in a timely manner because he lodged it too late, i.e., after Clinton had played from the next teeing ground.
4. Trump
See Decision 11-5/3 [Ball Played Out of Bounds from Wrong Teeing Ground Not Recalled]. As Hillary played her original ball from the wrong teeing ground, and Donald did not require her to cancel the stroke and play a ball from within the correct teeing ground, her ball was put into play. Since that ball ended up out of bounds, under Rule 27-1, Hillary should have dropped a ball under penalty of one stroke, as nearly as possible at the spot from which the original ball was played, i.e., on the wrong teeing ground. When Hillary mistakenly played from the correct teeing ground, she actually played from a wrong place and incurred a loss of hole penalty pursuant to Rule 20-7b [Playing from Wrong Place: Match Play].
5. No
According to Rule 6-2a [Handicap: Match Play], if a player begins a match having declared a handicap higher than that to which she is entitled, and this affects the number of strokes given or received, she is disqualified. Since Hillary initially declared a handicap lower than she was entitled, she was not subject to disqualification. However, she was required to play off the 32 handicap as declared. 16
Have you ever tried to devour an entire pumpkin pie in one sitting? Here’s a no-calorie, True/False Rules quiz, with each question representing a slice of the pie. Just like eating multiple slices of pie, each successive question just might be a little more difficult to get through than the previous one. See if you can you make it through this entire 8-slice pie without making any mistakes. Bon appétit! 1.
A stipulated round may consist of only one (1) hole.
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According to the Rules, a dog is a burrowing animal because it occasionally digs holes.
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In match play, you may play a second ball under Rule 3-3 [Doubt as to Procedure] without penalty.
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In a stroke play event, if you are disqualified for playing a wrong ball and not correcting your mistake prior to playing from the next teeing ground, you will not be reinstated in the competition if inclement weather subsequently forces the Committee to cancel the round.
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If your ball, played from the putting green, is deflected by a worm into the hole, you must cancel and replay the stroke.
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If your wayward drive flies over an 8-foot high chain link boundary fence and lands on a paved street that causes your ball to break into two pieces, you must proceed under penalty of stroke and distance.
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At a par-3 hole with a menacing water hazard in front of the green, and with no special Conditions of Competition in effect, instead of continuing to play your usual premium ball, e.g., a Titleist ProV1, you may tee off and play out the hole with a less expensive, but conforming, ball.
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If your ball last crossed the margin of a water hazard, but ends up in another part of the hazard marked as a lateral water hazard, the option of taking relief from the lateral water hazard by dropping within two club-lengths of where your ball last crossed the margin of the water hazard, is not available to you.
Answers: 1. True
The Definition of “Stipulated Round” states, in part, “The number of holes in a stipulated round is 18 unless a smaller number is authorized by the Committee.” The most common situations in which a Committee might specify a relatively low number of holes for a stipulated round would be for a play-off or a junior/beginners’ event.
2. False
The Definition of “Burrowing Animal” indicates that a burrowing animal is an animal (other than a worm, insect or the like) that makes a hole for habitation or shelter, such as a rabbit, mole, groundhog, gopher or salamander. The Note for this Definition points out that a dog is not a burrowing animal.
3. False
The playing of a second ball pursuant to Rule 3-3 [Doubt as to Procedure] is restricted to stroke play only. Note 2 to Rule 2-5 [Match Play: Doubt as to Procedure; Disputes and Claims] states, “In match play, if a player is doubtful of his rights or the correct procedure, he may not complete the play of the hole with two balls. Decision 3-3/9 [Second Ball Played in Match Play] points out that a second ball played in match play is a wrong ball.
4. False
According to Decision 33-2d/3 [Competitor Refuses to Start or Picks Up Because of Weather Conditions; Round Subsequently Canceled], when a round is canceled, all penalties incurred in the round are canceled. Also, Rule 33-2d [The Committee: The Course: Course Unplayable] states, in part, “When a round is canceled, all penalties incurred in that round are canceled.”
5. False
Rule 19-1b [Ball in Motion Deflected or Stopped by Outside Agency] states, in part, “If a player’s ball in motion after a stroke on the putting green is deflected or stopped by … any moving or animate outside agency, except a worm …, the stroke is canceled. The ball must be replaced and replayed.” [Emphasis added]
6. False
Rule 5-3 [Ball Unfit for Play] reads, in part, “If a ball breaks into pieces as a result of a stroke, the stroke is canceled and the player must play a ball, without penalty, as nearly as possible at the spot from which the original ball was last played…. Also, Decision 53/4 [Ball Breaks into Pieces as a Result of Striking Cart Path] points out that if a ball strikes cart path and breaks into pieces, the ball is considered to have broken apart “as a result of a stroke.”
7. True
Rule 1-1 [The Game: General] states, in part, “The Game of Golf consists of playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole ….” Only if the “One Ball” Condition is in effect must you play the entire stipulated round with the same brand and model ball as detailed by a single entry on the current List of Conforming Golf Balls.
8. True
Decision 26-1/12 [Hazard Marked as Water Hazard Where Ball Last Crossed Margin and Lateral Water Hazard Where Ball Comes to Rest] points out that since your ball last crossed the margin of the hazard where it is defined as a water hazard, the options in Rule 26-1c for relief from a lateral water hazard are not available.
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Name
Class
Current Facility
Prev. Facility
Prev. Class
None
Russell E. Jensen, PGA
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Larry L. Wheeler, PGA
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Cody J. Herald, PGA
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Lee Maiden, PGA
3
Chad D. Lydiatt, PGA
5
Dave Malone, PGA
5
Sherman Adkins Jr., PGA
9
Alex B. Carper
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Mike Fiddelke, PGA
10
Jared M. Frost, PGA
13
Ricky Reynoldson, PGA
15
Jason E. Shock, PGA
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Gerald L. Fisher, PGA
22
Mel D. Baker, PGA
23
Mark H. Baumann, PGA
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Paul R. Swirzinski, PGA
28
Brett A. Morgan, PGA
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Dawn N. Neujahr, PGA
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