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High Cliff Fun League

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Fun League May 12th Results

It felt more like Scotland out there this past Tues with the gusty winds and brief showers. Thankfully, we were able to get the round in. Hopefully, we'll have good weather this Tue with the weather forecast to improve as the day goes along.

May 12th Notes

Best Net Score: Dan B, Kent A

Notable Hole Scores:

- Jeremy H - Birdie on Hole 7

- Tom VH - Birdie on Hole 4

- Dan F - Birdie on Hole 4

Matchups for this Tue (5/19) playing the Back 9...

01-09 Tom VH / Steve H [01] v Ryan M / Eric S / Jared B [09]
05-07 Dan W / Tom M [05] v Lou M / Herve O [07]
10-11 Jeremy H / Dan B [10] v Jason S / Kent A [11]
12-13 Richard C / Frank S [12] v Bob L / Mike B [13]
02-08 Mike M / Jeff K [02] v Jerry F / Tom VDB [08]
14-06 Extra Team [14] v Dan F / Brian N [06]
03-04 Ken P / Doug S [03] v Paul G / Sean W [04]

Note: If the matchups do not display well on mobile, tilt your phone into landscape mode. That should help!

May 12th Score Sheets

May 12th End of Play Standings

Schedule & Standings

Most Recent Score Sheets

Fun League Website

Mulligan Fund

$33

Handicaps

For those who played three or more times last season, we have been using that season ending handicap so far this season. This Tues will be the last time that handicap will be used. For anyone who didn't play at least three times last season, their handicap was established the first round played this season and has been updating after each round.

ScoreCards

If you are playing your round at a different time, please send your opponent (and me) a picture of your scorecard. Appreciate those that have done so already this season. I would not give it to anyone working in the pub for they have been misplaced in the past. There is a bulletin board as you enter the pub from the pro shop that has our Schedule & Standings sheet. Feel free to slip your scorecard into that holder. There used to be a folder to place cards into, but it seems that was removed after last season.

My Whereabouts

These next three weeks, I will not be golfing for I am umpiring High School baseball/softball. I do plan to be in the pub after to retrieve scorecards, etc.

Extra Team

With us currently having 13 teams, that means the Extra Team is in play. The Extra Team is #14 on the schedule. If you are scheduled to play that team, you will go play your round (you won't have a physical opponent to play with) and turn in your scores. We will randomly pick another team who played that week to match up against. The score sheets will detail who was selected as the "Extra Team" that week for the matchup.

Every golfer has heard it. You miss a breaking putt on the low side and your playing partner says, "That's the amateur side." Pros miss high. Amateurs miss low.

But WHY? A 2024 study in PLOS ONE by Hasegawa, Okada, and Fujii dug into this with some clever methodology, and the answer is more interesting than "read the green better."

Amateurs underestimated how much the break actually was. They started the ball too low, and the ball broke below the cup. Classic amateur side.

But it gets worse for amateurs. Not only did they tend to underread the amount of break, but whatever break they did think was there, they tended to setup and line the face up with even less break than they thought was there. It's not just that they couldn't see the break. They couldn't correctly act on whatever they did see. To put this in a simple example: The putt has 24 inches of ACTUAL break. The amateurs saw 12 inches of break, but when they lined up they were only playing 8 inches of break.

This is from Lou Stagner's newsletter which you can find here - Lou Stagner's Newsletter

Misc

Good luck to all this week!

Wrap-Up

That's it for now. Please let me know of any questions.

Ryan Mehlberg

Fun League Manager

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