MGS VCT Season 3 - Stableford Open Week 1

[GolfSpy_BEN]

Stableford Open - Round 1 is open for scoring!

[Golf2Much]

While @GolfSpy_BEN works his magic to close out the VCT season, I wanted to check one more time before we officially close the year end tournament to make sure everyone who did sign up (or thought they did) is recognized as "in"!

There's the list I have:

We have 31 per my count.   Please take a minute to review the list.  It you want to play and you're on the list, great.  The only thing you need to worry about is getting in your week 1 score in.  If you're not on the list and either want to play or thought you opted in, just respond on this thread and I'll get you on to the spreadsheet and into this Stapleford system tournament.  If you are on the list by mistake or can no longer participate, just respond to this thread and I'll take you off.

We'll extend the playing opportunity to play open through close of the day today (Eastern Key West Time).  After that, we'll go with the great group of golfers we have!  

I'll be interested in seeing how this scoring system goes.  Who knows, it may make its way to a standing VCT tournament in 2025.

Good luck all!

Edited October 7 by Golf2Much

[Northern Monkey]

Date	10/07/2024
Course Name	Sidcup Golf Club
Gross Score	36
Course Rating	33.3
Course Slope	119
Gross Strokes over/under par	2
Birdies or better	1
Longest Drive	239
Stableford Round?	Yes

Had a great round and scored 24 points over 9 holes. Was really pleased as first time I’ve played in nearly a fortnight

[3Putt4Double]

Good luck to all in the tourney.. Should be fun! Bc of work hours I can only be a spectator but Ill definitely be on the sideline watching

[Javs]

Date	10/08/2024
Course Name	Sun City Golf Club White Wing
Gross Score	67
Course Rating	67.2
Course Slope	118
Gross Strokes over/under par	-5
Birdies or better	8
Longest Drive	321
Stableford Round?	Yes

Ok today was a great day overall. We played the Blue/Green combo tees. I shot 67. Had 6 birdies and an eagle! Offset by 3 bogeys. I got greedy on the three holes I bogeyed. Hit 6 fairways, 13 greens and had 29 putts. Awesome day and the new PXG Irons continue to be the best irons I have played! Here is my card:

[cnosil]

21 minutes ago, Javs said:

Date	10/08/2024
Course Name	Sun City Golf Club White Wing
Gross Score	67
Course Rating	67.2
Course Slope	128
Gross Strokes over/under par	-5
Birdies or better	8
Longest Drive	321
Stableford Round?	Yes

Ok today was a great day overall. We played the Blue/Green combo tees. I shot 67. Had 6 birdies and an eagle! Offset by 3 bogeys. I got greedy on the three holes I bogeyed. Hit 6 fairways, 13 greens and had 29 putts. Awesome day and the new PXG Irons continue to be the best irons I have played! Here is my card:

Great round.  FYI,   I think you have a typo with your course slope; it should be 118 not 128.  

[Javs]

2 minutes ago, cnosil said:

Great round.  FYI,   I think you have a typo with your course slope; it should be 118 not 128.  

Thank you and you are correct. Too many vodkas after the round. It should be correct now!

[BMWer14]

Date	10/07/2024
Course Name	Salmon Arm Golf Club
Gross Score	74
Course Rating	69.5
Course Slope	124
Gross Strokes over/under par	2
Birdies or better	3
Longest Drive	0
Stableford Round?	Yes

Stableford pts = 42

[Northern Monkey]

8 hours ago, Javs said:

Date	10/08/2024
Course Name	Sun City Golf Club White Wing
Gross Score	67
Course Rating	67.2
Course Slope	118
Gross Strokes over/under par	-5
Birdies or better	8
Longest Drive	321
Stableford Round?	Yes

Ok today was a great day overall. We played the Blue/Green combo tees. I shot 67. Had 6 birdies and an eagle! Offset by 3 bogeys. I got greedy on the three holes I bogeyed. Hit 6 fairways, 13 greens and had 29 putts. Awesome day and the new PXG Irons continue to be the best irons I have played! Here is my card:

@Javs great round

[Josh Parker]

10 hours ago, Javs said:

Date	10/08/2024
Course Name	Sun City Golf Club White Wing
Gross Score	67
Course Rating	67.2
Course Slope	118
Gross Strokes over/under par	-5
Birdies or better	8
Longest Drive	321
Stableford Round?	Yes

Ok today was a great day overall. We played the Blue/Green combo tees. I shot 67. Had 6 birdies and an eagle! Offset by 3 bogeys. I got greedy on the three holes I bogeyed. Hit 6 fairways, 13 greens and had 29 putts. Awesome day and the new PXG Irons continue to be the best irons I have played! Here is my card:

Nice round!

[fozcycle]

Date	10/07/2024
Course Name	Heritage Isles
Gross Score	87
Course Rating	64.1
Course Slope	103
Gross Strokes over/under par	15
Birdies or better	1
Longest Drive	174
Stableford Round?	Yes

Shot 46/41:87

FIR 7/14 50%

GIR 5/18 28%

Putts 32

First round back after 2 weeks at HHI. Weather was overcast and cooler 83*.

[frazzman80]

My rounds will come this weekend during the South Texas Am Tour playoffs. If I make the cut Saturday then I'll get to play again Sunday. Not sure if work will allow me to get a practice round in this week or not...

[fozcycle]

Yes, I want in the Stableford rounds. Shot 24 points 10/7

[Javs]

4 hours ago, Northern Monkey said:

@Javs great round

Thank you Sir!

2 hours ago, Josh Parker said:

Nice round!

Thank you!

[Rico_de_Gallo]

1 hour ago, frazzman80 said:

My rounds will come this weekend during the South Texas Am Tour playoffs. If I make the cut Saturday then I'll get to play again Sunday. Not sure if work will allow me to get a practice round in this week or not...

Double Playoff action !!!

Good luck out there this weekend

[Golf2Much]

Date	10/08/2024
Course Name	Key West Golf Club
Gross Score	85
Course Rating	67.7
Course Slope	124
Gross Strokes over/under par	15
Birdies or better	4
Longest Drive	179
Stableford Round?	Yes

Here in Key West, we are under a tropical storm warning based on the outer bands of Hurricane Melvin.   We'll likely have 2-4 inches of rain, 1-3 ft. of surge and 45-55 with gusts to 65.  

I was lucky to sneak in a round today.  Yesterday, we had a related disturbance go through dropping several inches of rain.  To the point, it was cart path only.  Here are some pictures of the standing water we were dealing with.

 

Couple that with aeration late last week and 20 mph winds gusting to 25 and one had to wonder if playing today was worth it!

Overall, it was a "normal" round.   Fairways hit was about 80% with two of the three misses within foot of the fairway edge.  The greens in regulation was only 6%, but I hit some very good approach shots that should have been an easy up and down for pars.  However, I was missing my chipping mark by 1-2 feet, hitting the false fronts on most greens and leaving myself with putts longer than they should have been.  Even with that, I still gained over 1 and almost 1.5 strokes on my short game and putting.  

Speaking of putting, I had a two putt from 65 feet out on the par 5 third hole and made a 33 foot putt on seven.  The other side of that coin, I had three lip outs as well.

Finally, as the Tampa area and everyone else in the massive Hurricane Melvin's path, I can't help myself thinking about the movie Office Space.  The last scene of the movie was filled on Sunset Key in Key West with timid Melvin sitting on the beach drinking Margettas (no salt).  Along with all the water we got from the disturbance that went through yesterday, we had a precursor of what Hurricane Melvin might do.  

For those who've seen the movie, you'll get it.

To all in Melvin's path, our prayers go out that you are safe!

[Alan Stewart]

Date	10/08/2024
Course Name	Royal St Patricks
Gross Score	72
Course Rating	72
Course Slope	133
Gross Strokes over/under par	0
Birdies or better	9
Longest Drive	297
Stableford Round?	Yes

Delete this one please.  I was playing the Solo Scramble format not the Stableford format for this round.  Got my submissions mixed up.

Also, I need to withdraw from the Stableford tournament as I was not able to get in my regular round this week and will not be able to as we had a family medical emergency.

Best of luck to all playing.

@GolfSpy_BEN

[Javs]

16 hours ago, BMWer14 said:

Date	10/07/2024
Course Name	Salmon Arm Golf Club
Gross Score	74
Course Rating	69.5
Course Slope	124
Gross Strokes over/under par	2
Birdies or better	3
Longest Drive	0
Stableford Round?	Yes

Stableford pts = 42

Great round! Question: how do you know how many points you pulled if you don’t know your VCT handicap? Or do you know it as honestly I don’t know mine. 

6 hours ago, fozcycle said:

Yes, I want in the Stableford rounds. Shot 24 points 10/7

Do you know your VCT handicap? 

[fozcycle]

9 minutes ago, Javs said:

Great round! Question: how do you know how many points you pulled if you don’t know your VCT handicap? Or do you know it as honestly I don’t know mine. 

Do you know your VCT handicap? 

Be live it was 12.5 or something close.

[fozcycle]

4 minutes ago, fozcycle said:

Be live it was 12.5 or something close.

Found it…..

[Rico_de_Gallo]

@Javs @fozcycle It's going to get posted/shared by the organizers. 

Calculated by lowest 3 of last 5 rounds posted to VTC stuff

 

 

Edited October 8 by Rico_de_Gallo

[Javs]

44 minutes ago, fozcycle said:

Found it…..

Yes you did! I wonder if it changed over the season. 

[Javs]

34 minutes ago, Rico_de_Gallo said:

@Javs @fozcycle It's going to get posted/shared by the organizers. 

Calculated by lowest 3 of last 5 rounds posted to VTC stuff

 

 

Thank you and that’s what I thought. I wasn’t sure we would know what points we pulled until the organizers ran the numbers. No worries it all comes together in the end. 

[Rico_de_Gallo]

yep yep .... for what it's worth, this is the point system assigned .... you can probably have a pretty good idea of an estimated point total 

 

[Skibum]

I would like to participate in the tourney

 

thanks,

‘Bill

[Javs]

45 minutes ago, Rico_de_Gallo said:

yep yep .... for what it's worth, this is the point system assigned .... you can probably have a pretty good idea of an estimated point total 

 

Yes but only if I knew my up to date VCT handicap and how it is adjusted to the tees/course played. 

[Golf2Much]

1 hour ago, Javs said:

Yes but only if I knew my up to date VCT handicap and how it is adjusted to the tees/course played. 

That's the challenge playing a Stapleford tournament on different courses at different times with various tee boxes, ratings and slopes. 

In tournaments like the Tahoe Reno Open/Barracuda Championship or the celebrity American Century Championship are played on the same day, under the same conditions with (at least with the pros) with comparable handicaps playing from the same tees.  We don't have that situation.   We have players with single digit to over 40 handicap indexes, so to level the playing field, we need to take into account the course handicaps for each player. 

So, as a reminder.  When you post your scores, make sure you add a photo or other representation of your scorecard.  The post should have the rating and slope when you create the post, so that should tell me which tee box you played from.  I also need the scorecard so I can apply your course handicap to the appropriate holes.  As @GolfSpy_BEN indicated, he's working on updating the VCT handicap indexes of those who played this year (using the best three of the past five rounds).  He's already said they will be available in a few days.  That coupled with you course and tee box selection rating and slope will yield your course handicap.  Your net score for each hole will drive the number of Stapleford points scored for that hole.  The total for all 18 holes will yield each golfers' overall Stapleford score.   For those who have not posted your scorecard, please do.  Without it, I can't officially assign your points.

There are some very good rounds so far, so let's keep it up!

[Javs]

3 minutes ago, Golf2Much said:

That's the challenge playing a Stapleford tournament on different courses at different times with various tee boxes, ratings and slopes. 

In tournaments like the Tahoe Reno Open/Barracuda Championship or the celebrity American Century Championship are played on the same day, under the same conditions with (at least with the pros) with comparable handicaps playing from the same tees.  We don't have that situation.   We have players with single digit to over 40 handicap indexes, so to level the playing field, we need to take into account the course handicaps for each player. 

So, as a reminder.  When you post your scores, make sure you add a photo or other representation of your scorecard.  The post should have the rating and slope when you create the post, so that should tell me which tee box you played from.  I also need the scorecard so I can apply your course handicap to the appropriate holes.  As @GolfSpy_BEN indicated, he's working on updating the VCT handicap indexes of those who played this year (using the best three of the past five rounds).  He's already said they will be available in a few days.  That coupled with you course and tee box selection rating and slope will yield your course handicap.  Your net score for each hole will drive the number of Stapleford points scored for that hole.  The total for all 18 holes will yield each golfers' overall Stapleford score.   For those who have not posted your scorecard, please do.  Without it, I can't officially assign your points.

There are some very good rounds so far, so let's keep it up!

Did not intend any additional work for you. Thanks for explaining everything again. I was only wondering how some were quoting their points if they didn’t have their VCT handicap. However, I know you and Ben are all over it as usual! Thanks for herding the cats!! 

[GolfSpy_BEN]

As a gentle reminder to all, regardless of what is posted and said here in the thread, @Golf2Much is the official VCT scorer and his tabulations are the one’s that count

That being said, I have the week 23 & 24 results tallied. I’m working on the end of season hdcp’s tonight and should have it all posted by tomorrow morning

[Javs]

19 minutes ago, GolfSpy_BEN said:

As a gentle reminder to all, regardless of what is posted and said here in the thread, @Golf2Much is the official VCT scorer and his tabulations are the one’s that count

That being said, I have the week 23 & 24 results tallied. I’m working on the end of season hdcp’s tonight and should have it all posted by tomorrow morning

Thanks Ben for everything!