October 6th, 2008
2nd Annual Winston Cup
Somerset Hills C.C. Bernardsville, N.J.
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Play a Top 100 course in the country that you may never have another chance to play.
The Winston Cup is a golf & tennis fundraiser for The Winston School. After a hugely succesful inaugural event last year at Hamilton Farm Golf Club we are proud to host the 2nd annual "Winston Cup" at Somerset Hills Country Club on October 6th, 2008. Somerset Hills C.C. is perennially ranked in the top 100 in the U.S. having hosted a Curtis Cup in 1990. This is another superb A.W. Tillinghast design.
All proceeds will benefit The Winston School.
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 2009 and will be announcing it soon. All participants in The Winston Cup 2008 will be guaranteed a spot in the 2009 event.
All are welcome. No handicap required to play. Just sign up and come have fun at golf, tennis or just enjoy the frienship and culinary delights.
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Players: will receive a Winston Cup gift, balls and other give-aways.
Golf Tournament Format: Shot-gun start. Each player will play their own ball. We will use the Callaway Scoring System to determine the 2008 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.
Tennis Tournament Format: Morning & Afternoon Events. Mixer & Open Play. Come Enjoy the Fabulous Grass Courts or Hard-Tru if you wish.
Prizes: prizes will be awarded for tournament play as well as the some other fun contests.
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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?
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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 |