This year marks the inception of what is to be the annual Golden Visions Adult Day & Senior Center golf tournament.
The event will be held June 28 at Hickory Heights Golf Course and benefits the center and its various services. For more on the center, visit their website at http://www.goldenvisionspa.com/. Continue reading
Adam Scott putts on the 15th green during the first round of The Players championship golf tournament recently at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Golf’s governing bodies adopted a new rule that outlaws the putting stroke used by four of the last six major champions. The Royal & Ancient Golf Club and U.S. Golf Association announced Tuesday that Rule 14-1b would start in 2016. The new rule will make it illegal to anchor the club against the body when making a golf stroke. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara, File)
Tuesday, golf’s governing bodies (The Royal & Ancient Golf Club and the United States Golf Association) approved a rule that outlaws anchoring a club against the body to create the effect of a hinge.
The ban has been quite controversial since its proposal in November. There has been no shortage of both criticism and support for the move.
“We strongly believe that this rule is for the betterment of the game,” USGA President Glen Nager said. “Rule 14-1b protects one of the important challenges in the game — the free swing of the entire club.”
Some initially speculated that the governing bodies thought anchoring a club gave an advantage of some sort and that taking it away was the reason for the move.
But Tuesday, Nager said the purpose of the new rule was simply to define what a putting stroke should be.
“The playing rules are not based on statistical studies,” Nager said. “They are based on judgments that define the game and its intended challenge. One of those challenges is to control the entire club, and anchoring alters that challenge.”
For more on the rule’s passage, a range of reactions and to see input from the PGA Tour as to how the rule will affect them, check out the full story here.
Previously:
— See what local organizations and professionals had to say when the ban was a proposal.
Have any thoughts now that the ban is official? Do you use an anchored putter? Think it gives any sort of an advantage? Feel free to share/discuss in the comments section below.
Here’s something you don’t see everday.
A hole-in-one is a rare enough feat in golf. But two aces on the same course, in the same day? Now that’s something to talk about.
May 18 saw just that very thing happen at Hickory Heights Golf Club. Here’s details on the two aces: Continue reading
Recently, Jeff Reynold recorded a hole-in-one at Grandview Golf Club.
Reynold used his 8-iron to ace the 135-yard, par-3 10th hole. Playing in his group that day were Donnie Crowl, Jack Slate and Martin Shale. Continue reading
The Gambers vs. Cancer ‘Hole-in-one Attack’ golf tournament will be held June 22 at Briarwood Golf Club.
The event benefits the American Caner Society through Coaches vs. Cancer. Jeff Gamber is a retired York College men’s basketball and golf coach. He and his wife, Donna, have been raising funds for the ACS for about 18 years. Continue reading
The 6th annual Brady C. Lucas Golf Outing will be held on Aug. 3 at Honey Run Golf Club.
The format will be a four-person scramble. The cost is $100 per player ($90 before June 28) which includes green fees with cart, lunch provided by Subway of Manchester, beverages, dinner and many prizes, including a chance to win a new car for a hole-in-one sponsored by Beshore and Koller Ford.
The event is in honor of Brady C. Lucas who is a two-time survivor of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. All proceeds from the event go directly to The Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital. Continue reading
Hanover Hospital is hosting its 26th Annual Golf Benefit on Aug. 2 at Hanover Country Club.
The event benefits the hospital’s Private Rooms for Every Patient (or PREP) campaign. Here’s a little from the campaign’s website about the initiative: Continue reading
A pair of local colleges (York and Gettysburg) captured conference golf titles over the weekend. Here’s more on each:
— The York College men’s golf squad shot a Day 2 total of 309 to cruise to the Capital Athletic Conference championship Sunday at Wild Quail Golf & Country Club in Dover, Del.
The Spartans finished with a two-day total of 613 as they won the tournament by 23 strokes. The tournament championship is York’s second in the six-year history of the CAC tournament. The Spartans last won the tournament title in 2009 at Piney Branch Golf Club in Hampstead, Md.
Kevin Long closed out his season with a four-over-par 76 on Sunday, good for a third-place finish.
Spartan head coach Matt Hunter was selected by his peers as the CAC coach of the year. It is the third time a Spartan head coach has earned the honor, as retired coach Jeff Gamber was honored in 2009 and 2012.
The Gettysburg College women’s golf team, 2013 Centennial Conference champions. From left, assistant coach Kathy Murphy, Kate Schwartz, Kara McNulty, Molly Nulty, Alexandra Lane, Lauren Sobotka and head coach Sue Konstalid (Gettysburg College — Corey Jewart)
— Gettysburg College’s Kara McNulty defeated McDaniel’s Morgan Koopman in a playoff Sunday to capture the Centennial Conference women’s golf championship at Hanover
Country Club.
Both had finished with a two-day total of 161, before McNulty took the victory on the first extra hole.
The Bullets shattered both the 18- and 36-hole tournament records, firing a 331 on Saturday en route to a two-day total of 677. The first-round score was eight strokes better than any other team round while the 36-hole score was 14 shots better.
Congratulations to both teams!
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Here’s the latest on a pair of upcoming local golf tournaments that benefit good causes:
— Arms Around Africa is hosting their 9th annual golf tournament on June 8 at Springwood Golf Club.
The event is the main fundraiser for the group that does humanitarian work in Sierra Leone, West Africa.
Briarwood Golf Club will be hosting a Demo Day on May 5th from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the course’s driving range.
Golfers are invited to attend and try out the 2013 equipment from many of the top manufacturers, including Taylor Made, Ping, Titleist, Cobra, Callaway, Mizzuno, Nike and more.
There will also be special Demo Day pricing offered on the equipment.
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