Arkansas Golf Tournaments

Arkansas Golf Tournaments is made for the golfer who enjoys the game and would like more information on golf across the Natural State.

You will find info on tournaments, courses and other helpful links and tips. If you have any information on tournaments, results or news please contact me.

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Upcoming Tournaments

Results

There was a number of couples from Arkansas that played in the Dancing Rabbit Couples Spring Fling, Choctaw, Mississippi.

The proshop sent me the results and you can see them here in pdf format.

Download here dancingrabbit.pdf

Rule Of The Week

13-4/28 Grounding Club, Moving Loose Impediments and Improving Area of Intended Swing in Hazard

In stroke play, a competitor's ball is in a hazard. He takes a practice swing and in so doing moves loose impediments and touches the ground in the hazard. He also bends a shrub with his hand, improving the area of his intended swing. What is the penalty?

As a single act (i.e., the practice swing) resulted in two Rules being breached (Rule 13-4b and Rule 13-4c), in equity (Rule 1-4), a single penalty of two strokes is applied. However, the competitor also incurs a penalty of two strokes for improving the area of his intended swing by bending a shrub (Rule 13-2).

The practice swing and the bending of the shrub are different acts that resulted in the breach of two Rules and both penalties are applied giving a total penalty of four strokes.

Rules provided by USGA

Tip Of The Week

How do I get backspin? (stopping the ball on the green, making the ball bite)

The effect of backspin on a golf shot is a function of

1. The quality of contact (ball before ground)

2. The consistency (softness or hardness) of the ball and/or its cover

3. The condition of the green being approached

Actually, all shots that achieve and maintain a reasonably airborne state off the club's face have some backspin. Whether the amount of backspin is sufficient to cause the ball to hold the green or stay near where it lands is another question. If you make good contact with the ball, use a ball with a reasonably soft cover and are approaching a green in relatively good condition (i.e., not extraordinarily dry or hard) you should have no problem getting the ball to hold or even back up, depending on your club head speed. To get the ball to really pull back a significant distance (this is almost always undesirable) you need extremes (i.e., more clubhead speed along with good quality contact, a very soft-covered ball, very soft greens or all of these).

Other influencing factors are

* The length of the grass you are playing from (e.g., shots played from the fairway or shorter grass will typically spin much more than shots hit from longer grass, as contact can be made more cleanly)

* Wind direction (e.g., downwind shots do not hold as well as shots hit into the wind)

Good swing mechanics and a correct concept of what's happening in the swing are important for making the kind of clean contact you need to create adequate backspin.

July 1-2

Junior

Trusted Choice Big "I" State

Boys & Girls

Ridge Pointe CC

July 6-7

First Community Bank Junior

Boys & Girls

Course at river Oaks

July 3-5

War Memorial GC

4th of July Championship

Amateur

Mid-Senior

Senior

Super-Senior

July 4th

Mixed Scramble

Vache Grasse CC

479-996-4191

July 4th

2 person Ryder format

Alt shot/4/Ball/Scramble

Clarksville CC

479-754-3026

July 4th

Cat/Dog Cookout & Fireworks

Coopers Hawk GC

870-368-3280

July 4th

Civil Air Patrol

The Course at eagle Mtn

870-612-8000

July 4th

3-Man Scramble

Milwood landing

870-898-6674

July 4-5

Russellville Country Club 4-ball,

Russellville Ar, Keith Vess

479-857-2520, $380. Great

entertainment Friday Night

(Ernie Biggs dueling pianno),

Dinner Sat, Pool party Sat with

dirnks for the golfer' guest and

lots of good golf.

Shoot out Friday eve,