We now have a Handicap System online for you to view and post your scores.
Click GSHandicap.com to access the system.
Login with the following information:
GSID: 01942-xxxx
Password: “Your last name”
Where xxxx is your index number and password is your last name without the quotes. No spaces in the ID number.
We have a page dedicated to it that you can view at any time by following the link in the sidebar titled “Handicap System“.
On Monday, June 30th the Oswego CC’s annual Summer Scramble officially took on corporate sponsorship with Step One Creative. Besides this exciting news, the tournament also posted its largest turn out and lowest winning score. From a field of 26 teams (104 golfers) Team Carpenter (Chris Carpenter) shot a 15-under par 56 on the Oswego CC par 71 layout. Finsihing in second was Team Babcock (Joe Babcock) with a 57. Following in third was Team Stepien (Shane Stepien) with another 57. Rounding out the Top 5 with scores of 59 & 60 were Team Callen and Team Murney.
Tom Roman Jr., Gary Pace, and Bill Farden were Closest to the Pin winners, with Dan Rose recording the Longest Drive on #9.
Tournament director, Ed Fayette, thanked Jon Fowler and Will Weimer along with their staff from the pro shop, Scott Peters and his grounds crew, and new tournament sponsor- Step One Creative, for a successful day of golf. Step One Creative has signed on to sponsor the event for the next three years, with exciting plans already in the works for the 2009 tournament.
A reminder: Teams that had their picture taken on Tee #2 can request a copy of the picture by emailing efayette@twcny.rr.com .
Starting Friday June 27th. Normal hours daily 12:00 NOON - 8:00 PM.
The annual Father-Son Tournament, scheduled for this Saturday, June 14th, has been cancelled due to low participation.
Originally scheduled for a 1:30 shotgun, the course is now Open for normal play.
The tournament will be taken off the 2009 schedule. If anyone would like to chair a revised version of the event, please contact the Golf Committee during between October 2008 - January 2009.
The AARP is negotiating with the USGA
to modify the Rules of Golf for seniors :
Rule 1.a.5 >> A ball sliced or hooked into the rough shall be lifted and placed on the fairway at a point equal to the distance it carried or rolled into the rough with no penalty. The senior should not be penalized for tall grass which groundskeepers failed to mow.
Rule 2.d.6 (b) >> A ball hitting a tree shall be deemed not to have hit the tree. This is simply bad luck and luck has no place in a scientific game. The senior player must estimate the distance the ball would have traveled if it had not hit the tree and play the ball from there.
Rule 3.b.3(g) >> There shall be no such thing as a lost ball. The missing ball is on or near the course and will eventually be found and pocketed by someone else, making it a stolen ball. The player is not to compound the felony by charging himself or herself with a penalty.
Rule 4.c.7(h) >> If a putt passes over a hole without dropping, it is deemed to have dropped.. The law of gravity supersedes the Rules of Golf.
Rule 5. >> Putts that stop close enough to the cup that they could be blown in, may be blown in. This does not apply to balls more than three inches from the hole. No one wants to make a travesty of the game.
Rule 6.a.9(k) >> There is no penalty for so-called “out of bounds.” If penny-pinching golf course owners bought sufficient land, this would not occur. The senior golfer deserves an apology, not a penalty.
Rule 7.g.15(z) >> There is no penalty for a ball in a water hazard, as golf balls should float. Senior golfers should not be penalized for manufacturers’ shortcomings.
Rule 8.k.9(s) >> Advertisements claim that golf scores can be improved by purchasing new golf equipment. Since this is financially impracticable for many senior golfers, one-half stroke per hole may be subtracted for using old equipment.
>> Please advise all your senior friends of these important potential rule changes.