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Somerset Hills C.C.
Bernardsville, New Jersey
October 6, 2008
The Winston Cup is a golf fundraiser for The Winston School. All proceeds will benefit The Winston School. The Winston Cup is in its inaugural year and will be held on October 1, 2007. This year we are proud to host the event at Hamilton Farm Golf Club in Gladstone, New Jersey. HFGC is one of the top ranked courses in New Jersey and host to the HSBC Women's Match Play Tournament in '05 & '06.
The event will be held each year at a premier golf venue throughout North and Central New Jersey. We have secured an fantastic venue for 2008 and will be announcing it soon. All participants in The Winston Cup 2007 will be guaranteed a spot in the 2008 event.
All are welcome. No handicap required to play. Just sign up and come have fun at golf or just the culinary delights
Accepting Sponsors and Single Player Registrations Now
Players Registered as of 9/18/07 = 70
Golfers: will receive a Winston Cup shirt, balls and other give-aways.
Tournament Format: Shot-gun start. Each player will play their own ball. We will use the Callaway Scoring System to determine the 2007 Winston Cup Champion. The winner's name will be engraved on a perpetual plaque which will be on display at The Winston School. A beautiful trophy will be engraved and awarded to the winner.
Each four-some will have 2 golf carts and one fore caddy.
Hole-in-One Opportunities: $100,000.00 and several other grand prizes.
Prizes: prizes will be awarded for tournament play as well as the Closetest to Pin, Long Drive (male & female), Straightest Drive and some other fun contests.
Explaining the Callaway System
How to Use the Callaway Scoring System When Official Handicaps are Unavailable
The Callaway System (or Callaway Scoring System) is a sort of 1-day handicapping system that can be used in events where most of the golfers do not have real handicap indexes.
For example, at a company outing, most of the golfers may not carry official handicap indexes. How can they all - with widely different playing abilities - compete fairly at stroke play?
The Callaway System - while, like the similar Peoria System, based in certain part on luck - allows a "handicap allowance" to be determined and then applied to each golfer's score.
When the Callaway System is in use, all competitors tee off and play stroke play, scoring in the normal fashion with one exception - double par is the maximum score on any given hole (i.e., on a par 4, 8 is the maximum score).
Following the round, gross scores are tallied. Based on each golfer's gross score (using the double par maximum), each golfer tallies up a prescribed number of worst scores from their scorecard, then applies a second adjustment that may add or subtract additional strokes.
The result is a total that is something similar to a net score using real handicaps.
A couple points:
• The higher a competitor's gross score, the more holes that player will be deducting;
• Holes deducted begin with the highest score; if a player gets to deduct one hole and his highest score is an 8, then an 8 is what gets deducted;
• Scores on the 17th and 18th holes may not be deducted, even if one (or both) of them are the competitor's highest score.
• Even after high scores are added together for the allowance, the second adjustment must be made; this adjustment might add or subtract 2, 1 or 0 strokes from a player's Callaway handicap.
• Once the appropriate number of high scores has been tallied, and the second adjustment is made, the player is left with a net score.
Sounds complicated, eh? That's why the Callaway System comes complete with a handy reference chart.
The chart below should make things much easier to grasp. Look over the chart, then look below the chart for an example.
| Gross (using double par max.) | Handicap Deduction |
|
| 70 | 71 | 72 | Scratch |
| 73 | 74 | 75 |
|
| 1/2 of Worst Hole |
| 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | Worst Hole |
| 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 1 1/2 Worst Holes |
| 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 2 Worst Holes |
| 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 2 1/2 Worst Holes |
| 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 3 Worst Holes |
| 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 3 1/2 Worst Holes |
| 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 4 Worst Holes |
| 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 4 1/2 Worst Holes |
| 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 5 Worst Holes |
| 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 5 1/2 Worst Holes |
| 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 6 Worst Holes |
| -2 | -1 | 0 | +1 | +2 | Handicap Adjustment |
Before our examples, a couple notes about the chart: This chart applies to a par-72 course. If par is different, simply add or subtract the number of strokes - corresponding to the difference in par - from the Gross Scores. For example, if par is 71, then subtract 1 from each of the Gross Scores listed above.
Also, half scores are rounded up. If a player is deducting half of 7, then that 3.5 is rounded up to 4. And finally, the maximum a golfer can deduct under the Callaway System is 50 strokes.
OK, an example of the Callaway System in action:
Tiger shoots 64. No deductions or adjustments are made because Tiger's score is lower than the scores listed on the chart. Vijay shoots 71, which is on the chart, and the column to the right ("Handicap Deduction") shows that a player shooting 71 plays at scratch - no adjustments.
The Golf Guide, however, shoots 97. Find 97 in the chart above, and we see that its row (going across) corresponds to a handicap deduction of "3 Worst Holes." So the Golf Guide finds the three worst holes on his scorecard. The Golf Guide's three worst holes are a 9, an 8 and a 7. Total those up and we get a handicap deduction of 24.
Now we apply the second adjustment. Go back to 97 in the chart above; follow the column down to the "handicap adjustment" on the bottom line. The column for 97 corresponds to a handicap adjustment of -1. That means we're going to substract a stroke from our handicap deduction of 24. So our final, adjusted handicap allowance is 23.
And our net Callaway System score is 97 minus 23, or 74.
So using the chart is a matter of finding the gross score, looking across the row for the handicap deduction, then looking down the column for the adjustment.
SEE YOU NEXT YEAR
The Winston Cup 2008
Somerset Hills C.C.
Bernardsville, New Jersey
October 6, 2008
