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This week we have two videos to start the season. These are videos from last year, but we really want to take time to revisit them.
One is talking about how to properly enter and exit our bunkers to help us with maintaining proper sand depth in all areas. The other is a video about how to hit a high and soft shot out of the bunker to a close pin!
Look for more videos to come now that the weather is finally going to allow for us to be outside a little! Click on the images below to watch...
Each year we have a series of events that players earn points for similar to how the FedEx Cup works. Just like the FedEx Cup our season ends with a Tour Championship and we crown a player of the year when all is said and done. We have listed below the events that will be included in the 2018 Leawood Tour Series. We hope that as many of you as possible will be able to join us for these events to test your game against the best at CCL!!! Signup for many of these events is available on ForeTees.
| | 1. Devil’s Challenge – Saturday, May 19 – Grab a partner for this event and you will play a format of 6 holes of scramble, 6 holes of alternate shot and 6 holes of best ball. Sign up is available right now on ForeTees.
2. Jambalea – June 20-23 – Our Men’s Member/Guest. We have had a cancellation and do have a spot open in this field. If you have interest in joining the event contact me and I will get you more details.
3. Senior Club Championship – Saturday and Sunday, August 4th & 5th – For our players ages 50 and older. We have a White tee flight (ages 50-64) and a Gold tee flight (ages 65 plus).
4. Men’s Quota – Saturday and Sunday, August 25th & 26th – This is our Men’s Member/Member and is our most popular all member event of the year. We currently have a few teams on the waitlist, but always go through a few, so if you want in then grab a partner and sign up.
5. Men’s Club Championship – Saturday and Sunday, September 22nd & 23rd – The Championship Flight plays the Blue Tees (first round is actually Friday). All other flights will play the White tees and there is net prizes in each flight.
6. Dunning Cup – Season Long Gross Match Play – This is straight up Match Play split up into brackets based on your qualifying score. Get your qualifying score in by May 21st to be in this event.
7. Leawood Cup – Season Long Four-Ball – Grab a partner and get signed up for this event on ForeTees by April 30th. We will release brackets by May 3rd.
8. Individual Match Play – Season Long Match Play – This is straight up Match Play split up into brackets based on handicaps. Sign up through ForeTees by April 30th. We will release brackets by May 3rd.
9. Leawood Tour Series Finale – Saturday, October 20th – The top 15 on the season long points list will qualify for the chance to play for the big prize of CCL Player of the year plus some awesome swag! |
The Handicap Points System moves into its fourth season at CCL. As many of you know, in 2015 we implemented a Handicap Points System at CCL to help us with monitoring handicaps and to ensure a level playing field for all players in our events. Essentially in this system players earn points when they win or finish near the top of one of our events. If a player earns a certain number of points, their handicap is reduced. Each year the Handicap Committee meets and has made some minor tweaks to the original system. Moving forward into the fourth year we will continue see changes from event to event as the system works on a 24 month running tally on points and events played. This means that the events from 2016 will start to rotate off the system this year as the events from 2018 come on.
New to the system for 2018 we have added a column towards the end of the spreadsheet titled “Locked in Handicap to Adjust From.” The number listed in this column is the player's course handicap at the time that they received a reduction. The reason we are tracking this is that if a player’s course handicap gets lower after they have earned their reduction we don’t feel it makes sense to continue to penalize them by reducing them even further. For example if player A has a 10 handicap and earns a two shot reduction down to an 8 handicap we will always adjust their handicap from the 10 handicap down. This means that if player A improves to a 9 handicap they won’t be reduced down to a 7, but instead will still receive the 2 shot reduction off their 10 handicap. If a player's handicap should improve to a point that it is lower than their earned reduction then they will no longer have a reduction. The contrary is also true that if a player earns a reduction as a 10 handicap and then his handicap goes up to an 11 the player will still be reduced off the 10 handicap and be down to an 8 handicap. The reason the committee has made this change to the system is to not penalize people that are improving their handicap, and to penalize more severely the player that may be sandbagging to a higher handicap to counteract the handicap reduction. I know that this can get confusing at times and if you have any specific questions, I strongly urge you to call me or stop by the Golf Shop, as this is much easier to describe in person than via email.
We have listed below the events that will be played using the Handicap Points System in 2018. The Handicap Committee will continue to monitor this system throughout the year and will meet periodically to discuss any other handicap related issues that may come up. Click here for the most up to date Handicap Points System list. This list will also be made available on the Golf Genius app once we get the 2018 Men’s Events going.
The events that will earn Handicap Points System points in 2018 and will therefore use any handicap reductions that are earned are as follows:
| | a. Devil’s Challenge
b. Jambalea
c. Senior Club Championship
d. Men’s Quota
e. Men’s Club Championship
f. Leawood Cup
g. Individual Match Play |
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How good is your ball striking? How does that translate into your performance on approach shots?
Here’s a question that will help you evaluate where you stand.
We’d like you to put yourself on one of 4 different levels.
In almost all golfers there’s an Iron where the consistency and control in their ball striking breaks down.
What is that Iron for you? Our advice is to ignore your Handicap rating and set out this year to improve which level of Approach Play you’ve currently reached. Improve that level and we promise you that, not only will your Handicap fall, your scorecard improve, and your winnings pile up; You’ll enjoy your golf so much more.
Why not start with an Assessment with us to see where you are,
and create your personal improvement plan.
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