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The new season is now officially underway.  All our 18 hole divisions (Div 1-5) completed the first tournaments.

Scores for Division 3, 4, and 5 are in.  Div 1 and 2 are in the mail.  Check out the top scores at OurGolfStats – CLICK HERE

We also have our first Pace of Play results for Div 1-4.

Generally we are doing well.  We did have a few groups that fell behind and slowed groups behind.

We will continue to measure Pace of Play.  Our targets are 4:30 pace with less that 15 minute finish gap for each group. Most groups already finish with less than a 10 minute gap.  Your Division VP will be able to help groups that are having problems.  Groups or individuals who are frequently “slow” will be warned and asked to improve.

Start Gap and Finish Gap are important indicators.  Div 3 had an average Start Gap of less than 7.7 minutes for 34 tee groups.  Other divisions averaged 1 to 2 minutes longer.  Taking a minute or two to each tee off simply delays everyone behind.  Adding 1 minute to each start tee off can delay the last groups’ start time by 15 to 20 minutes.

Almost everyone should be able to start their round about 8 minutes after the group ahead.

Please be at the start tee box ready to get started as soon as the group ahead moves off.  Start your tee off as soon as it is safe to hit.  Have everyone in your tee group ready to hit.  Don’t make the groups behind wait for you.

Division 1 at Incline Village.  We started with good weather, but had a 30 minute lightning delay.  We had only 19 tee groups (about 70 players) – due to lower headcount in Div 1 and distance to the course.  Adjusting for the delay and restart sequences, the pace was about 4:31, with the fastest group in at 4:20.  Start gap and finish gap both averaged 8.8 minutes.

Division 2 at Emerald Greens.  Strong turnout at 26 tee groups, about 100 players. Pace averaged 4:31, lead by about 10 tee groups in the front who finished in 4:15 to 4:20.  Unfortunately there were 6 tee groups, mostly  starting on the front nine who had big finish gaps – between 17 to 23 minutes.  Later groups who started on the front finished about 30 minutes slower than the late groups who started on the back nine.  Only one group finished over 4:50.  Start gap averaged 8.6 minutes, but finish gap was 10.7 minutes – indicating that the later groups were falling behind.

Division 3 at Aberdeen.  With excellent weather we again had a huge turnout – 34 tee groups, 130 players.  Average time was 4:38, a great time for this many groups.  Last year we had 4:31 average pace. The fastest group was 4:26.  Three groups finished between 4:50 – 4:53, two of these immediately followed the only group with a large finish gap > 15 minutes. Start time gap was 7.7 minutes and the finish gap was 8.1 minutes.

Division 4 at Wentzville. Turnout was strong with 31 tee groups, about 120 players.  Average pace was 4:38, again a good time.  Start time gap was 8.7 minutes average – groups were a little slower getting started.  Finish time gap averaged 9.4 minutes.  There were 5 groups with Finish gaps over 15 minutes.  The fastest group was finished in 4:20.  Unfortunately three groups finished over 4:50 and they did slow the groups following.

Division 5 – Data not yet available.