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member spotlight getting to know the kids and improving their game each day.” Ryan found this opportunity on PGALinks.com while searching for summertime employment. “It’s really slow in South Florida around the summertime. When I found this chance to travel, I didn’t want to pass it up.” For more information on the Bhutan Youth Golf Association, please visit www.golfbhutan.com. Images: PGA member Ryan Billings with some of his students at the Royal Thimphu Golf Course in Thimphu PGA member Ryan Billings, Hobe Sound Golf Club's Assistant Professional, traveled last year to Bhutan, a small Asian country of about 600,000 people, to teach the game of golf to children. While there, Ryan had the opportunity to teach about 25 children per week the game of golf... on the only complete 9 hole course in the country. Ryan traveled with the The Bhutan Youth Golf Association. The mission of the BYGA is to To share golf with the youth of Bhutan, and through the game teach Bhutan's children to express friendship, honesty, integrity, morality and self-motivation. Ryan spent his summer teaching an after school golf program and developing relationships with Bhutan children."This was an incredibly rewarding summer. I loved chapter news overall winner. Thank you to Liberty Cablevision Puerto Rico and the 19 professionals who participated in the event. This event helped raise over $105,000 for local charities. A special thanks goes to the Rio Mar staff Rafael Prestamo, Herminio Figueroa and Victor Ramos for all their help and support with the event. Wednesday, November 17 th was the third and final Island Chapter tournament series event, held at el Conquistador. Island Chapter newcomer, Max Alverio from Palmas del Mar won the event carding a 73. PGA Director of Golf from Trump International, Alberto Rios finished second with a (+3) 75, PGA Director of Golf at Dorado del Mar, Aaron West finished third @ (+4) 76, and PGA Director of Golf at Caguas Real, Brian Shaver rounded out the top four with (+5) 77. Thank you to El Conquistador and their PGA Director of Golf, Seth Henrich for their support. On Thursday, November 18th the Annual Liberty Cablevision Pro-Am was held at Rio Mar CC, and the top 3 places went to Fernando Bobonis who finished third with a 74, Jason Tobar who finished second with a 73, and Aaron West who was the Finally the third major championship of the 2010 season took place Sunday, November 21, 2010. The re-scheduled Island Chapter Intra-Island Inter Club pitted (15) nine man teams from different clubs and organizations on the island. Finishing in third place was the team from Dorado del Mar Golf Club with a score of 545. In second place was The Plantation Club with a score of 544 and the winning team was Caguas Real with a score of 539 represented by professional Eduardo Figueroa. In the professional division Fernando Bobonis and Miguel Colon Jr. finished fourth with a 74. Finishing in a tie for seconder were Joel Ortiz and Max Alverio with (+1) 73, and the 2010 Island Chapter Intra Island Inter Club Aaron West (even) 72. Thank you to sponsors Medalla, Don q, passoa, Cointreau, Svedka, Coca- Cola, Bebo’s Bar-b-que, Conquistador, Rio Mar, Dorado del Mar, Titleist and Liberty Cablevision. Aaron West, PGA Island Chapter President 10
education rules with drew Serious Breach SFPGA TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR ANDREW MILLER Back in October the Nationwide Tour invited me to work the Winn Dixie Jacksonville Open presented by Planters which took place at TPC Sawgrass on the Valley course. This was the last full field event on the schedule before the top 60 players on the Nationwide Tour competed in the Tour Championship the following week. This experience, similar to my other ones with the Tour produced some very interesting rulings that I wanted to share in this month’s segment. During round three of the championship I was monitoring pace of play near the par three fifth hole when I noticed some players huddled on the fourth green with their caddies. The situation perked my interest so I decided to inch my cart down the hill towards the green. One of the players looked up, saw me and waved me over. I got out of my cart, walked over to the players and asked if they needed some help. One of the players told me he had marked the position of his ball, lifted it, cleaned it and then replaced his ball behind another players ball mark. He made a stroke at the ball from that position and then realized his mistake. I said, “Ok, you’ve just played a ball from a wrong place and must continue play with that ball played from the wrong place adding a penalty of two strokes to your score.” The player nodded his head in agreement and said, “For whatever reason I was excited to hit my putt and just didn’t pay any attention to whose ball mark I was placing my ball behind.” I then asked, “Well, where is your ball mark?” He pointed to his ball mark which was a good 10 feet away from (further from the hole) where he had putted from. I was sort of stunned at his response and a little embarrassed that I didn’t ask that question first. I told the player that since he had putted from a spot significantly closer to the hole than where his ball lay, he was guilty of a serious breach of playing from a wrong place. I saw the look of concern on the players face when I said the words, “serious breach” and immediately told him it was ok. I told him his stroke played from a wrong place did not count and that he must pick up his ball played from the wrong place and place it behind his ball mark adding a penalty of two strokes to his score. Normally a member of the committee is not available to determine on the spot if a player was guilty of a serious breach. So, if this were to happen to you or a member at your club, Rule 20-7 tells us that, “If a competitor becomes aware that he has played from a wrong place and believes that he may have committed a serious breach, he must, before making a stroke on the next teeing ground, play out the hole with a second ball played in accordance with the Rules.” The player must then report the facts to the committee upon returning his scorecard. Later that day I was patrolling on the par five eighth hole when a player waved me over. His ball was nestled among some bushes and trees on a severe slope. He told me he wanted to declare his ball unplayable and needed some help with his options. I told him he could either go back to where he had just played from (the tee), drop his ball within two club lengths no nearer the hole than where the ball lay or drop a ball behind the point where the ball lay, keeping that point between the hole the spot on which the ball is dropped, with no limit to how far behind that point the ball may be dropped. The first option really wasn’t good because that was over 300 yards away and the third option really wasn’t good either because the area where he would have had to drop was a dense forest. So he chose the second option and measured the two club lengths back up the hill toward the fairway. Before dropping he asked at what point would he be permitted to redrop? I told him he would be allowed to re-drop if his ball rolled more than two club lengths from where it first struck a part of the course. He nodded his head, raised his arm to shoulder height and dropped his ball. As the ball was trickling back down the hill towards the area from where he just took relief the player started to bend down and extended his arms as if he wanted to stop the rolling ball. I immediately told him, “No. Don’t stop the ball; it hasn’t rolled more than two lengths yet.” He pulled his hands back and let the ball come to rest just short of the area from which he was taking relief. We went through the process of measuring to determine whether the ball rolled more than two club 11
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