Morning All, 

We had quite a few players change declared tees over the past month, and want to validate we have your correct tournament tee in the system.

Your delcared tees for tournaments as of today are listed below.  If your tee is correct, no action is required.  If you'd like to change your declared tee, or if your tee is incorrect, please let me know by next Tue, 5 May, prior to our 7 May tournament.  

As a reminder, we use declared tees for tournaments only; OPCs still allow you to change tees as often as you'd like. 

Also, sign-ups for next week's Gold/Silver Individual tournament remain open until 1800 next Tue.  To sign-up, go to the portal at egc-2026emga.golfgeniuscom , click on Sign-Up on the left side of the page, click on the “acknowledge” box, and then click on sign-up on the lower left.  We'll send out a last-call note on Sunday with a list confirming who has signed-up to play.

Thanks,

Ron

Your Tournament Committee

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Members,

OPC for 30 April is cancelled, looks like the weather is going to win.  Thanks.

Larry Walker

Good Afternoon EMGA,

Don't Miss Out on Club Tournaments! Want to play in the End of The Year Shootout and or Canon Cup? BIG Points on the line for upcoming EGC Tournaments.

Men's Individual Match Play ($50) – Group Staging May 9th & 10th. 9-Hole Matches Within Your Flight: First, Second, & Wildcards get paid out and move on to the bracket round. Advanced Tee Times Available for Bracket Round Play.

FourBall Match Play ($40 a player) – Pick your partner and compete within your Flight in a Double-Elimination Bracket, until 1 team remains at the end of the season. Advanced Tee Times Available for this Match Play as well, club will find you a partner if you don't have one. 

Blue & Silver Cup (EGC Member/Member) $150 a player – June 13th & 14th. Must be a member at Eisenhower, spouses & families welcome to attend Saturday Festivities ($30 Saturday BBQ). Registration Closes June 10th at 1900.

Ike's Invitational (EGC Member/Guest) $375 a player – July 24th to July 26th. Must be a member at Eisenhower, guest cannot play 10 or more rounds at Eisenhower. Spouses and families welcome to attend Friday BBQ – $30. Registration Closes June 19th at 1900

Register for any of these tournaments and more on the Website or App under 2026 Tournament Trail.

Regards,

Josh Rodrigue-Bailey, PGA

Head Golf Professional

Eisenhower Golf Club

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Members,

We often use the term “handicap,” but there is sometimes confusion regarding its specific definitions. I am frequently asked for clarification, so I have provided a brief explanation of the key terms below:

Handicap Index

Your Handicap Index is calculated using the best 8 of your last 20 scores. It represents your potential ability rather than your average score. When a new score is posted, the oldest score drops off and a new index is computed.

Course Handicap

Your Course Handicap is based on your Handicap Index and the difficulty of the course. A more difficult course results in a higher Course Handicap. For example, at Eisenhower, moving from the gold tees to the white tees represents a more difficult course, resulting in a higher Course Handicap.

Playing Handicap

Your Playing Handicap is determined by applying a handicap allowance to your Course Handicap. For OPCs, we use a 100% allowance, meaning your Course and Playing Handicaps are the same. For many other tournaments, we apply specific allowances to ensure fairness based on the competition format.

In short, your Course Handicap is the base number of strokes you receive, while your Playing Handicap is that number adjusted for the specific competition format.  There are equations for figuring all of this out, but your GHIN app already does all the heavy lifting.

Target Score

We should all strive to shoot our target score or better. Your target score is par plus your Course Handicap. Please keep in mind that most players typically play to their target score about 15-20% of the time. However, most of the time, if you hit your target score in one of our competitions, you're likely going to be in the money.

Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks.

Larry Walker, President EMGA

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Dear Members,

Please find the updated EMGA account balances as of 23 April 2026.

Note that balances highlighted in Red indicates insufficient funds to compete in OPCs or Optional Tournament Skins. Please add funds to your account if you wish to participate. Remember that OPCs costs $6 to compete and Optional Tournaments Skins costs $5.

If your amount is highlighted in Yellow then you have between $20 and $5 remaining.

If no amount is listed, you have not yet rejoined the league.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Larry Walker, President, EMGA

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Members,

Signups for Match Play close on 30 April.  The list below shows 71 members who have already signed up by paying their $10.  If you are still interested in playing, or cannot play any longer, please let me know before 30 April.

I will be making the flights on 1 May based on your handicap index.  Thanks.

Larry Walker, President EMGA

Season-long Tournaments Chair

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FORE!

No quiz, just a few answers to rules questions I had today.

1.  No relief when your ball lies on dead grass from elk urine.

2.  When can you take relief when your ball lies next to a Sprinkler box?

• First, the box is an Immovable Obstruction and under Rule 16.1, it's treated as a Abby-Normal (Abnormal) Course Condition.

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7L3PcrhnEg

• Second, Free Relief is ONLY allowed if the ball touches or is in or on the obstruction or when the box interferes with the player's area of intended stance or area of intended swing. 
• Third, there is no relief even if the abnormal course condition is close enough to distract the player, or is the player's line of play.  

On a side note, the EGC has Modified Local Rule (MLR) F-1, that specifies that the rocks that mark the 150 Yard distance to the green are integral parts of the golf course (and therefore not Immovable Obstructions) from which there is NO relief without penalty.

And while we're on the subject of Immovable Obstructions and MLRs, the EGC has another local rule, MLR F-5:

“Player may take relief under Rule 16.1b if an immovable obstruction within 2 club lengths of the green intervenes on the line of play and the obstruction is within 2 club lengths of the ball.”

Note that the rule doesn't mention anything about intent.  Meaning, the sprinkler heads would interfere if you putted but not if you can chip over the sprinkler heads.  Doesn't matter, it's on a reasonable line of play for any club or swing, free relief is granted. And since the sprinkler heads are in the rough or green fringe and therefore are in the General Area, the Free Relief area does NOT include the green, you rememmmber?  Quiz question #8.

Tom McKernan

Rules & Handicaps

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Members,

Attached are the results from today's OPC on the Silver course.  We had 79 players, 5 net flights, and a purse of $474.

For those of you who read the GG text, we had two added instructions.  One was for preferred lies for today and the other was to snap a photo of your scorecard and text it.  We had 19 of 22 groups send the text.  Thanks, it saves time from having someone stay until the last group to collect all the scorecards.  We will do this again during OPCs.

Good Pace of Play for most groups, and most groups filled out the scorecard correctly.

Silver Ringers leaderboards are on the Portal page and Ike Cup leaderboards coming out later.

The next round is an OPC on the Blue course, Thursday, 30 April.  Signups start tonight at 7pm.

Please let us know if you have any questions.  Thanks.

Your OPC Committee

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Attachments:

20260421_OPC_Results.pdf