Results for October 20th



Thanks for your patience.  Our Thursday Welk Tribute tournament presented a number of challenges and took extra time to score.  This was a team event with a number of incomplete teams, incomplete rounds and Callaway handicaps.   Thanks to Jim Meyer, with assistance from Dan Hudgins and Jeff MacCarter.  The scores have already been posted to your GHIN by Gerry Schomberg.  It took a community effort.  There are a couple of results versions included here.  The short version shows the winners.  The full data version shows all hole by hole scores and a visual table of why some great scores may have not resulted in a skin.

Noteworthy scores were our lowest gross of the day posted by Alex Cruz (73) and the lowest net of the day by Hoyt Etter (67).  The two winning teams tied for first at 14 under par were Jim Meyer/Pete deBoer/Gene Ramirez/Bill Brown and Dreilling/Collins/Green/blind[Hoyt Etter].  Gene Ramirez and Paul Hennessy each had two skins.  


Reminder to Take Photos on Thursday!

Most of you all surely got those smart phones with them built in cameras. So don't forget on Thursday, if the opportunity presents itself - snap a Costa Mesa course or CMSGA member pic and send it to us!


Below is a picture we received from Ned Whittemore.


Mesa Linda #6 - Photo by Ned Whittemore

Jeff


2023 CMSGA Event Calendar


The initial 2023 CMSGA Event Calendar has been posted. There is a link to the calendar from any web-page header; in the right panel navigation column; and heck, here is a link to it too.

This may be the earliest we have published the calendar for an upcoming year, and as such there could be some modifications made to format and information. 

Currently the calendar is a spreadsheet version. If I can remember how to embed that same information into an actual website page I will do that. There is also a link on the sheet where you can download and/or print a single-page pdf version of the calendar.

If you predicted that our events were once again going to be held on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month, you would be correct. 😄

There have been a couple minor tweaks in the information on the calendar, and those have been captured in the notes on the calendar.

As always, comments are welcomed so let us know what you think.

Jeff


Funny Story - Website Statistics & Home Page Link

I thought this was kind of funny (and also shows I am rookie at creating websites).

Whenever I check statistics for which pages or posts at the site are getting the most "views", the winner by far is always the "Welcome to CMSGA!" page - a page created to introduce new members to the club. 

For example, in the past 7 days, this "Welcome" page has received 91 views. We did receive two new members during this period, so those members might account for a few of those views. But did the other 80+ views result in potential new members reading the page, and going "Nah, this is not for me"? Or maybe existing members are wanting to re-read the Welcome message?

Today it dawned on me what could be the source of the many views.

Near the top of all pages are the Blue Tabs for quickly jumping to some specific pages. The one on the far left has been the "Welcome to CMSGA" page. My theory is that many members are clicking that tab, thinking it will take them to the website Home page (logical assumption) and possibly getting frustrated that it did not 😦. 

If this was the situation for you, please let me know with a comment.

In any case, I just revised those Blue tabs, and the one on the far left is now called "Home", and will indeed take you to the home page.👍


Jeff

PS: You can also click on the large CMSGA logo on any page, and that will also take you to the site home page.


2023 Presidents Cup and Scotch Cup / Gauging Member Interest

The Presidents Cup and Scotch Cup are two limited field special events the club puts on annually. 

The Presidents Cup will be here before we know it, commencing in February and continuing through March. Briefly it is match play in a bracketed format, where winners move on. A 32 player field would be nice. 

The Scotch Cup is a competition against Laguna Woods Mens Club. It is held in July, and often includes a Wednesday round at Laguna Woods. This competition is limited to 18 players.

I will be posting more on these events, but for now we would just like to hear from members if they think they might be interested in participating in one or both of these. If there is enough interest that exceeds the positions, we may include some qualifying rounds during our normal Thursday events. 

Please use the "Contact CMSGA" form in the right column of any webpage to send us a note. Mention the cups you are interested in, and make sure to include your name.

This is not a commitment on your part, just an indication of interest. 

Thank you,

Jeff

Here are links to last years events:



Members who have expressed interest as of 10/18/22:

Scotch Cup
    Scott Pickard

Presidents Cup
    Ned Whittemore
    Scott Pickard



New Format for Event Results

Club:

I know we kind of sprung this new event reporting on you all, using the 10/6/22 results as our initial attempt. (Link to Results Post here). As Bill mentioned in that post, we really want to get your feedback.

The main goal we are hoping to achieve with this change is transparency, in that all the data that goes into determining the results is available to our members.

We may do some tweaking (with your input!) as to how the information is presented. I will gladly create a page at the website that can help walk members through how to navigate the information.

This is a big change - maybe the biggest change since I have been a part of the club -  and your board recognizes that. Our goal, with your help, is to make this a successful and beneficial change for all members.

Jeff

*** Update 10/8/22

I started the help page I mentioned above. It is located here.

'Moderating' has Been Turned Off (Commenting still On)

Club:

When I permitted commenting on the site back in January (Post located here) I added a requirement for 'moderating'. This meant that when someone makes a comment, it does not immediately appear. The comment required approval from Bill or myself before it would show up on the site.

Since that time, there have only been a handful of comments that we did not approve - all because they were better addressed directly with commenter, or were duplicates.

The downside to this was that when someone posts a comment, they are (understandably) expecting the comment to immediately appear, and confused when it did not.

Anyway, I have eliminated moderation. This means when you make a comment, it will now immediately appear. This should make commenting more user friendly, and as long as we don't have to start removing comments (inappropriate comments or spam comments), I will leave this in effect.

Jeff

PS: Just as a reminder (since I have made many posts today), don't forget to look at the archive if you fear you have missed one of our very important posts. 😊





Tree Root Relief Part Deux

A couple weeks ago I made a post regarding our local rule about tree root relief.


In that spiel I was presenting a position that 'maybe' we should modify the rule to provide for a larger drop area. 

The primary reason why I started the discussion was because I had heard, without specifics, that some members were possibly 'exploiting' the rule to their advantage, in that they were either a) taking relief from non-existent roots or b) taking a drop that was not per the rule.  

The first part (non-existent roots) is so subjective, because if there are roots in close proximity, I think we have to give that decision to the player. Could you imagine telling a competitor "no relief for you", and so they play it as it lies and..ooops..hit a root and hurt themselves?

I was focused on the second part - the drop area. My thinking was if we make the drop area a bit more 'normal' (a 180 degree club length), the player may indeed be able to extract an advantage (i.e. take a tree out of play), but at least we might eliminate one area of contention.

Well, speaking of 180 turns, I now think we should eliminate the local rule completely. If a player's ball is clearly unplayable embedded in tree roots, or if a player believes there may be some hidden roots near their ball, the rules of golf provide for this situation - declare your ball unplayable, and take the relief (with penalty) as provided under that rule.

Your thoughts?

Please comment.

Jeff

PS: If your ball was here, what would you do? Take free root relief, and drop where? Take an unplayable? Play it?







Candid Photo from 10/6/22



A slight backup yesterday on Hole #2 was the perfect opportunity for Gene and Jim to hold an impromptu clinic on the pros and cons of wearing a golf glove.

😉


Jeff

October 20th Event

Sign up for our October 20th Tournament Here

Our Third Thursday Tournament will be on Los Lagos.  The format is four person teams, alternating one best ball and two best ball.  A tribute to Lawrence Welk ("Ah one and ah two").  There will also be individual net skins by flight.  Jim Meyer is the tournament director.

October 6th Results


This link shows all of the tournament data, including hole by hole scores, in spreadsheet form as reported by our Golf Genius tournament app. There are multiple sheets in the document. Look to the bottom to see them all.




This version might be easier to view.  I am curious if most can read both formats.  Please comment if you if you would like to see both versions available to access or if one version doesn't work.

Thanks to Ken Otsubo for directing and scoring this tournament.  

Briefly, Flight 1 was won by George Fitzgibbons with a net 67.  George is one of our newest members.  Flight 2 was won by Bret Bauer with a net 68.  Flight 3 was won by Paul Hennessy with a net 66, the lowest net of the day.  Pete de Boer has the lowest gross (74).

The list of players with two skins has six members.  Mike McClanahan, Brad Collins, Jim Rossman, Conrad Wilson, Russ Barrett and Sherry Howard managed that feat.