JT Mohlman headlined a stellar field at the 2011 Clark County Amateur. JT came away with his first SNGA Ma-jor Championship besting the field by 2 shots and becom-ing the 2011 Clark County Amateur Champion. The SNGA and USGA have kicked off their summer golf season this year and it’s definitely in full effect. The sum-mer has been extremely busy thus far with multiple USGA qualifiers, two SNGA Major Championships, a State event in Reno and a Southwest Golf Club Social Event at The Club at Southshore. All events were a great success and made for some great golf . Story continued on page 3

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The Official Newsletter of the Southern Nevada Golf Association

1. Clark County Amateur 2. Las Vegas Golf & Tennis 3. Golf is in Full Effect! 4. CCA Pictures 5. MetLife Auto and Home® 6. Misunderstood Rules 7. US Senior Amateur 8. Charity Golf Event 9. Community News 10. Community News Cont. 11. What’s on Tap?

The Grind

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SNGA Home Course Specials for Palm Valley Golf Club and Highland Falls Golf Club

SNGA members receive special rates on tee times with reservations up to 7 days

in advance with no restrictions

SPECIAL RATES: $39 Anytime

$29 after 11:00AM $25 after 2PM

Visit www.golfsummerlin.com for more information

Call 702-254-7010 for your tee time

2011 Issue June

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Golf is in Full Effect! (Continued from page 1) The 2011 Oliver Cup Matches were held at Red Hawk Country Club June 3-5. The qualifiers in the Senior and Super Sen-ior Divisions from the SNGA played against the NNGA in a biannual Ryder Cup style event. In the end the NNGA prevailed by ½ point to win their first Oliver Cup since its inception in 2008. The US Pub Links Qualifier was held at Rio Secco Golf Club on June 8-9. Max Marsico of Las Vegas Nevada fired a two day 145 (+1) to win and qualify for the US Public Links Championship at Bandon Dunes. Bryan Hogan finished with the first alternate spot at 146 (+2) and Michael Soroka took second alternate spot with a 150 (+6). The Southwest Golf Club in conjunction with SNGA, held its second SNGA/SGC Social Event at The Club at Southshore on June 14th. The event was a huge success, raising money for local charities, The First Tee of Southern Nevada, and Gimme Shelter Foundation. 84 players were on hand to participate in a fun 2 person best ball event. Winners received gift certificates in the Southshore proshop and contest winner won Cleveland Golf Merchandise. The event was truly a suc-cess and we are happy to have the support of our members for these local charities. The US Junior Amateur Qualifier was held at Boulder Creek Golf Club on June 21-22. AJ McInerney of Henderson Ne-vada, ranked 11 on the US Junior Amateur Rankings (scratchplayers.org), fired and opening round 65 and followed it with an even par 72 to win the event and qualify for the US Junior Amateur Championship. Tanner Hughes of Valencia Califor-nia finished in the 1st alternate spot with a two day total of 140 (-4). Soungjae Baek of Henderson Nevada took the 2nd al-ternate spot shooting a 2 under 142. The 2011 Clark County Amateur was also held at Boulder Creek Golf Club. The Senior and Super Senior event was held June 23-24 and the Scratch and Net competition was held June 25-26. Doug Pool showed no signs of slowing down his golf game. Pool took home low honors in the Sen ior Division with a blistering two day total of 138 (-6). Steve Fink finished 2nd with a two day total of 145 (+1). John Garrett finished 3rd at 146 (+2). In the Senior Net Division Bill Spencer defeated John Garrett in a three hole playoff to take home low honors. Both Spencer and Garrett fired 140 (-4) to get into a playoff. Jim O’Hare made a strong showing finishing 3rd with a two day total of 141 (-3). In the Super Senior Division, newcomer Richard Schroeder played extraordinary golf and took home low scratch honors with a two day total of 3 under 141. Chip Bridges returned to amateur events with fashion finish-ing 2nd at 147 (+3). Sev Leoffler and James Miller finished tied for 3rd at 149. In the Super Senior Net Division, Jim Cail won by 4 shots with a two day total of 137 (-7). Russ Gard finished second with a two day total of 141(-3) and Mike Bridges finished 3rd after a inspired 1st day at 64 (-8) and a two day total of 142 (-2). Joe Rada played two consistent rounds of golf to win the Net Division crown. Two rounds of 68 Net (-4) brought Rada’s total to 136 (-8). Rob Zoine found his way into second place with a two day total of 140 (-4). Dennis Moore continued his hot play finishing in 3rd place with a 3 under 141 (-3). The Scratch Division brought out a lot of new players and a few familiar faces including two-time Clark County Amateur Champion and 2011 Pacific Coast Team Member Joe Sawaia. Young gun JT Mohlman was also in the field and found himself trailing by 2 shots to Manny Estes (70) going into Sunday’s final round. JT fired a 3 under par 69 on the final day to post a two day total of 141 (-3) to beat the field by two shots and claim the trophy and title of Clark County Amateur Cham-pion. Joe Sawaia claimed yet another top 10 finish. He and fierce competitor Vince Collet finished in a tie for 2nd at 143 (-1). The SNGA would like to thank all the courses involved in making June a stellar month for golf. We would also like to thank all of our Volunteers for their hard work and diligence during these busy schedules, without them our tournaments wouldn’t be possible. Finally we would like to thank our sponsor for which these tournaments are still available to our members. Our Elite Corporate sponsor MetLife Auto & Home that can save SNGA Members money on insurance, Corporate Plus spon-sor Las Vegas Golf & Tennis providing discounts on golf apparel and equipment to SNGA members, and Roy’s Hawaiian Fusion, providing $20.00 off a bill at one of their Las Vegas dining experiences. If you would like more information about our sponsors please visit the Affiliates section of our website at snga.org.

PICTURES ON FOLLOWING PAGE

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Clark County Amateur

US Junior Amateur Qualifier

US Public Links Qualifier AJ McInerney US Junior Amateur Qualifier

Max Marsico US Amateur Public Links Qualifier

JT Mohlman 2011 Clark County Amateur Champion

Doug Pool 2011 Clark County Senior Amateur Champion

Richard Schroeder 2011 Clark County Super Senior Amateur Champion

Joe Rada Net Champion

Bill Spencer Senior Net Champion

Jim Cail Super Senior Net Champion

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Misunderstood Rules Provided by SNGA

13-2. Improving Lie, Area of Intended Stance or Swing, or Line of Play A player must not improve or allow to be improved: the position or lie of his ball, the area of his intended stance or swing, his line of play or a reasonable extension of that line beyond the hole, or the area in which he is to drop or place a ball, by any of the following actions: pressing a club on the ground, moving, bending or breaking anything growing or fixed (including immovable obstructions and objects defining out of bounds), creating or eliminating irregularities of surface, removing or pressing down sand, loose soil, replaced divots or other cut turf placed in position, or removing dew, frost or water. However, the player incurs no penalty if the action occurs: in grounding the club lightly when ad-dressing the ball, in fairly taking his stance, in making a stroke or the backward movement of his club for a stroke and the stroke is made, in creating or eliminating irregularities of surface within the teeing ground (Rule 11-1) or in remov-ing dew, frost or water from the teeing ground, or on the putting green in removing sand and loose soil or in repairing damage (Rule 16-1).

13-3. Building Stance

A player is entitled to place his feet firmly in taking his stance, but he must not build a stance.

Penalty For Breach of Rule: Match play - Loss of hole; Stroke play - Two strokes. 

Definitions:

Stance: consists in a player placing his feet in position for and preparatory to making a stroke

Stroke: the forward movement of the club made with the intention of striking at and moving the ball, but if a player checks his downswing voluntarily before the clubhead reaches the ball he has not made a stroke.

Line of play: the direction that the player wishes his ball to take after a stroke, plus a reasonable distance on either side of the in-tended direction. The line of play extends vertically upwards from the ground, but does not extend beyond the hole

Obstructions: anything artificial,  including the artificial surfaces and sides of roads and paths and manufactured  ice, except: a. Objects defining out of bounds, such as walls, fences, stakes and railings; b. Any part of an immovable artificial object that is out of bounds; and c. Any construction declared by the Committee to be an integral part of the course.  An obstruction is a movable obstruction if it may be moved without unreasonable effort, without unduly delaying play and without causing damage. Other‐wise,  it  is an  immovable obstruction.   Note: The Committee may make a Local Rule declaring a movable obstruction to be an immovable obstruction. Stakes identifying out of bounds are not obstructions and are deemed to be fixed. 

Addressing the ball: A player has "addressed the ball" when he has taken his stance and has also grounded his club, except that in a hazard a player has addressed the ball when he has taken his stance.

Improving Lie/Building a Stance

Have a rules question? Contact the SNGA!

KINLOCH GOLF CLUB MANAKIN-SABOT VIRGINIA

SITE OF 2011 USGA SENIOR AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP SEPTEMBER 10-15, 2011

LOCAL QUALIFIER TO BE HELD ON AUGUST 9, 2011

AT BEAR’S BEST LAS VEGAS GOLF CLUB

QUALIFIERS MUST HAVE A USGA HANDICAP INDEX OF 7.4 OR LOWER AND MUST BE 55 YEARS OLD ON OR BEFORE SEPTEMBER

10, 2011

APPLY ON LINE AT https://champs.usga.org/index.html PRIOR TO JULY 20, 2011

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Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open Pro-Am Qualifier Event New to the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in 2011 is the Las Vegas Pro-Am Challenge, a series of qualifying events aimed at offering an open opportunity to play your way in to the tourna-ments marquee Amateur event, the MGM Resorts International Champion-ship Pro-Am. The Challenge is open to every golfer and every golf course in the Southwest, where winners of satellite events will have the opportunity to play the tournament course, TPC Summerlin, on Tuesday, September 6th for a chance to win a threesome in the tournament Pro-Am to be held on Wednesday, September 28th. Additionally, all participants will receive a pair of tickets to attend the PGA TOUR event any day during the tournament, slated to be held September 26 – October 2, 2011. For more information on the event, including what clubs are participating and how you can sign up, please CLICK HERE to JTShrinersOpen.com. So SNGA members, ask your pro at your course to hold a qualifier and join the fun!

CONGRATULATIONS TO LAURIE JOHNSON, the 2011 Women’s Southern Nevada Ama-teur Champion! Carding a 2 day total of 149, Laurie came from 3 strokes back to claim the title. Her second round, 72, was punctuated by a beautiful eagle shot from 103 yards on the par-5 fin-ishing hole. Runners-up, Deb Rees and Sherry Jackson, played very solid golf posting 2-day totals of 154. On the net side, Helen Thomas finished at 5-under par, 139, to capture the Net Champion trophy.

The 2011 Women’s Southern Nevada Amateur also serves as a qualifier for the Silver Cup Team. The 9 lowest gross fin-ishers and the 9 lowest net finishers qualify for this year’s team. 2 captains’ picks round out the team of 20. The 2011 Sil-ver Cup Team participants are; Masako Brown, Rita Byorick, Fay Geddes, Sherry Jackson, Laurie Johnson, RaeAnn Kicker, Karen Killpack, Lynn King, Brenda Knott, Inja Korn, Jessica Kwon, Debbie Love, Sue May, Robin McNesby, San-dra Mitchell, Theresa Prospero, Deb Rees, Laura Smith, Helen Thomas and Allison Webb. The Silver Cup matches will take place in Reno this year at Thunder Canyon the last week of September. Southern Nevada women took home the tro-phy in 2010 and will be looking for a repeat this year.

Next up on our calendar is a Fun Day at Coyote Springs GC, July 25. Cost is only $50 to play a magnificent championship golf course! Check out the details and find an entry form on the website; www.wsnga.org.

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Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble Beach set for July 8th - 10th

May 26, 2011 LAS VEGAS/HENDERSON, NV - Two members of The First Tee of Southern Nevada (TFTSN), Sarah Thomas, 16, and Julian Glasser, 15, along side Sixty-eight other participants representing 47 chapters of The First Tee have been selected to play in the Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble Beach, an official Champions event that will be conducted July 8-10 and televised nationally on Golf Channel.

This young woman and young man were selected through a process that evaluates participants' playing ability and comprehension of the life skills and character education learned through their involvement with The First Tee. More

than 250 applications were submitted. Of the 70 selected to play, 47 are junior boys and 23 are junior girls.

Monterey Peninsula Foundation, the event's host organization, will select eight more juniors next week to partici-pate in the event. Overall, 78 Champions players will be teamed with 78 juniors and 156 amateurs as they com-pete for the title at Pebble Beach Golf Links and Del Monte Golf Course.

"We are very proud of Sarah and Julian, as well as the four other members who were not selected. TFTSN has an amazing pool of talented junior golfers and this event gives them an opportunity to show off their skills, both golf skills and life skills." - Danielle Gladd, TFTSN Executive Director

The following people served on the local selection committee. Roy Cammack, General Mills/Nature Valley Nevada Retail Supervisor/POC for Mountain & Pacific Division, Aiza Torres, General Mills/Nature Valley, Scott Nash, Regional Manager-Walmart, Steve McCracken, TFTSN Board President, Danielle Gladd-TFTSN Executive Director, Jim Hart-TFTSN Director of Golf, Samantha Clawson-TFTSN SNJGA Jr. Golf Tour Program Coordinator and John Griston-TFTSN Program Coordinator. This committee interviewed all ap-plicants and submitted 6 names/applicants to The First Tee Home Office for final selection.

To see a full list of the participants selected to play, click the following link: https://ghserver/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://mailersite.memfirstweb.net/mail/mail_click.asp?CODE=GSIOOSORMTGGBASYNTYOBTRIM%26LID=2.

Champions players scheduled to play include World Golf Hall of Fame members Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite, along with past champi-ons of this unique event, Craig Stadler, Scott Simpson and Jeff Sluman, who captured the title in 2008 and 2009. Chip Beck, John Cook and fan-favorite Fuzzy Zoeller have also committed.

Clint Eastwood is chairman of the event and Arnold Palmer is honorary co-chair. Play will be conducted on Pebble Beach Golf Links and Del Monte Golf Course on Friday and Saturday, and on only on Sunday.

Leading up to and during the event, participants-many of whom are playing for the first time-will blog about their experiences. To learn more about the Nature Valley First Tee Open at , visitwww.thefirstteeopen.com. To learn more about The First Tee, visit www.thefirsttee.org.

Roy's Hawaiian Fusion has become SNGA newest Sponsor. Roy’s Hawaiian Fusion® Cuisine promises to make for one of the most unique fine dining experiences available. Nowhere else will you find Roy’s Classic Hawaiian Martini, Yamaguchi Sushi®, Misoyaki Butterfish and Chocolate Soufflé all at the same table. So escape to paradise, and experience the world’s finest cuisine deliciously wrapped in a Hawaiian state of mind. SNGA Members received an email in April regarding the discounts pro-vided to SNGA Members by Roy's. Roy's has offered $20 off an entire bill for every SNGA Member. Just simply visit www.roysrestaurant.com or follow the instructions on the email to book your reservation and receive your discount. All you have to do is enter your SNGA Member # in the promo code section during reservations to receive the discount. If you have any questions, please contact the SNGA Offices.

thoughts... final

Las Vegas National Golf Club Site of the 2009 SNGA Season Opener

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702-458-4653 www.snga.org

“I don’t fear death, but I sure don’t like those three-footers for par.”

~ Chi Chi Rodriguez

The Nevada State Senior Amateur Championship is being held at the majestic Cascata Golf Club in Boulder City Nevada on July 8-10, 2011. The top Senior players from all over the state of Nevada will compete for the title of Nevada State Senior Champion. There are seven (7) spots available for the Nevada State Seniors. The entry deadline has been moved to Thursday June 30th.. Please visit www.snga.org for more information or to register.

2011 Nevada State Seniors

Cascata Golf Club