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January, 2008


Scratch Tour begins 18th Season
Jan. 26-27 at Marcus Pointe GC

The 2008 Gulf Coast Scratch Tour season picks up where it left off last year — at Marcus Pointe Golf Club in Pensacola, Fla.

The season's first event at Marcus Pointe is Jan. 26-27 and kicks off a 17-tournament schedule that includes two events each at Marcus Pointe and The Country Club of Brewton, Ala.

  Matt Johnson


The schedule also features two first-time venues — Highland Oaks, the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail facility in Dothan, Ala., and Grand Bear Golf Club, the Jack Nicklaus design in Saucier, Miss.

Matt Johnson of Dothan, Ala., secured his second consecutive Player of the Year award when he won his second Pensacola Masters at Marcus Pointe in October.

Johnson is only the second player to win the Player of the Year award more than once.

Mike Riley of Panama City, Fla., won four in a row beginning in 1997 and is part of a strong cast of challengers that includes 2005 Player of the Year Jerry Halfacre of Cantonment, Fla.

— 2008 Membership Form
— 2008 Schedule


New Rule: Identifying a ball in a hazard

By James McAfee

Under new rules that take effect in 2008, golfers will now be allowed to lift their golf balls in bunkers or water hazards for identification purposes.

However, there will now be a two-stroke penalty in stroke play or the loss of hole in match play for playing a wrong ball. There had been an exception in the past and players were not penalized for playing the wrong ball.  — Read More


 
 

 

 

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