Quagmire XII - June 11th - 14th

Event Map:  Quagmire

Thursday afternoon 6/11  -  $70
Opening Round - 4 man team competition
- Murphy Creek Golf Course
- 20 minutes from DIA

Some hole at Murphy Creek

Friday 6/12 morning  -  $95
2 man best ball
- Fossil Trace Golf Club

Fossil Trace #12 (signature hole), 585 yard par 5

Friday 6/12 afternoon  -  $49
Yellow ball
- Fox Hollow

Fox Hollow, Canyon #5 (signature hole), 445 yard par 4

Saturday 6/13  -  $63/round ($126 total)
The Race for the Chalice - Defending Champs:  Team Nebraska
- 36 at Riverdale Dunes

Riverdale Dunes #15 (signature hole), 337 yard par 4

Sunday morning 6/14  -  $90
The Singles Championship - Defending Champ:  Rabbi
-Green Valley Ranch Golf Club - Home of the Colorado Open Championship (Men/Women/Senior)
-15 minutes from DIA

Green Valley Ranch #8, 174 yard Par 3

Lodging: Residence Inn by Marriott, Denver Downtown
Rates:
Studio: $169.00 (Double Occupancy)
Penthouse: $194.00 (Triple Occupancy)              
Room Tax (current):     14.75%
Reservation Open Date:         4/27/15
Reservation Cut-Off Date:     5/15/15      
Method of Reservation:     Individual Call in
Phone Number:   (888) 526-7135
NAME OF EVENT:   The Quagmire
All reservations must be accompanied by a first night room deposit or guaranteed with a major credit card.

Airfare:  Southwest - 2 bags free

Ground Transportation:  Sweeny Party Bus

THE PLAYERS:

IN – Team NE/CO Brad Merritt Ross Wasserman Tony Pelz Jim Jones Kevin Bohan John Sweeny Rontana Don Leapley Hatz Mark Fesler (Weekend)	STATE NE CO/NE CO/NE CO/NE CO/KS CO/NY MT ? ? ?	Handicap 16 8 13.2 4 18 10 22 30 ? 26
IN -- Team TN/IN Mike Tyler Josh Barwick Joe Conte Shawn Martin Mike Moya Heyoung Lee Tim Vahale Bryan Roe	STATE TN/IN TN IN IN IN GA ? ?	Handicap 10 18 20 16 12 12 20 24

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2015 Welcome Letter:

Dear Quagmire Participants,

Welcome to Denver, Colorado host of the 2015 Quagmire. Co-hosting cities will be Aurora, Brighton, Golden and Lakewood with all of the events being played in Adams, Arapahoe, Denver and Jefferson Counties.  A wide variety of golf courses will provide a challenge for all golfers while giving everyone a good taste of what the Denver metro area has to offer.

We start off Thursday June 11th with the “Practice Round” at Murphy Creek GC in Aurora, CO.  This “prairie-links” style course has over 80 bunkers. It was the site of the 2008 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship.  The prairie views are spectacular and the golf is equally as challenging.

Friday morning brings a step into the past with a Jim Engh designed course at the base of the foothills in Golden, CO.  Fossil Trace is a popular destination Golf Course that winds you through history as you play.  Mining equipment decorates the golf course bringing out the more recent history of the location but more impressively are 64 million year old fossils found at the course.  Ever seen the fossilized footprints of a Triceratops? You will here.

Friday afternoon brings us to what we believe to be one of the two best “for the price” golf courses in the Denver area, Fox Hollow Golf Club. This Lakewood, CO course is well maintained and challenging.  You will probably see a fox, a deer, a coyote and maybe even an elk.  Of course like any of the courses we will play you may come across a rattle snake. Definitely leave them be and take the unplayable.  Even if it is the “yellow ball” and although there is anti-venom for them,

trust me when I say that your Colorado golf experience will be much better without a trip to the local emergency room thanks to a Rocky Mountain Rattler.

Saturday is the day of “The Chalice”.  This course is definitely #1 in Colorado “for the price”. However, we will argue it is the one of the best if not the best in the area price aside. We will be playing two challenging match-play rounds at the Riverdale Dunes Golf Course in Brighton, CO.  This is a Scottish style links course designed by Pete Dye.  Their website says it all with these accolades:

·       “One of America’s most affordable courses”—Golf Magazine

·       “# 1 Public Course in Colorado”— Colorado Golfer Newspaper

·       “One of America’s Best Courses Everyone Can Play”—Golf Digest

·       “Top 75 Public Courses —Golf Digest Magazine

·       Denver’s most affordable course 2014- Avid Golfer

In addition, Riverdale is the home of the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame!  Riverdale Dunes was the unanimous choice by the

Quagmire committee for hosting the Chalice event. It has hosted the USGA Public Links Championship, numerous CGA

championships and was the site of the Nike Tour Colorado Classic which was once won by a no-name golfer Stewart Cink. This course is always in great shape and it is very challenging but trust me when I say you can score on it, even if it is from a

maintenance road or with the help of the back of a turtle to save you from a water hazard.

Sunday is the “Singles Championship” and what better place to play it than the host of all three Health One Colorado Open Championships, Senior, Women’s and Men’s and the host of the 2016 NCAA Division II National Championships. In fact, we will be playing it only 9 days after the Colorado Senior Open. Green Valley Ranch Golf Club is located in Denver, CO and is only a few minutes from Denver International Airport.  This course is extremely challenging, always very well groomed and

will be an excellent host for the race for the “Goblet”.

Good luck and remember you are at 5,280 feet of elevation so drink lots of water and think twice about your club choice. Sincerely,

Your 2015 Quagmire Host Committee

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GENERAL RULES

1.  USGA rules govern all play with the only exceptions being the ones explicitly outlined in these rules.

2.  Local rules are on each course scorecard and will override any USGA rule.

3.  Rules shall be policed by the group you are playing with and any disputes shall be reviewed and settled by the rules committee after the round. The rules committee will reserve the right to penalize a player or team with strokes in stroke play or loss of a hole in match play.  All rule infractions will be enforced with penalties and no player or team shall ever be disqualified without a unanimous vote by the rules committee and a ¾ vote by all players involved in the round.

4.  Out of bounds and lost ball shall be played as lateral hazards in order to keep up the pace of play.  The entry point of an out of bounds ball or the drop location of a lost ball must be agreed

upon by the player and at least one member of the group. That member must be a player from the opposing team. In 4-man team events the group should decide and should error on

the side of disadvantage to the group. A one-stroke penalty shall apply for lost ball that reasonably should have been in play. A two-stroke penalty for out of bounds.

5.  Every player shall pay in $10 per round for skins, proximities and payouts. This is voluntary but highly encouraged. If you do not pay in you are not eligible to win.

6.  All handicaps will be figured to the low handicap in the game.

7.  All disputes of handicap or other shall be brought to the rules committee and the committee will review and make final binding decisions.

8.  In team events where one team does not have all players for part or all of the round a blind draw from all the other competing players will be done to determine the missing teammate.

9.  “Gimmies”.  Concessions are a part of match play but not stroke play.  Keep in mind we have

skins on the line and other groups playing so, no gimmies for non-match play games.

10. Tie breakers for all rounds except chalice rounds and singles championship round will be a putt-off by one player from each team involved.  The team will choose the player to do the

putt-off.

11. Tie breaker for the singles championship 1st place only shall be determined by sudden death play-off hole(s) if available and a putt off if a play-off hole is not available.  All other ties will

split prizes accordingly.

12. Tie breaker for the chalice shall be a chip-off best two of three with the participating players being chosen by the captains and the matchups and order being decided by the choice of the captains. The captains will flip a coin and the winner of the coin flip will choose if they want to pick the order their players go or who they match-up against for the chip-off. The other captain will then get the other choice.  Each captain will choose three players for the chip-off. The chalice will be awarded to the team which gets closer on two of the chip-offs.

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GAME SPECIFIC RULES

1.  Thursday Practice Round

a.  Game is 4 man teams best high net ball and low net ball on each hole. Team with the lowest score at the end of the round wins.  e.g. Player A has a net 4, player B has a net

6, player C has a net 5 and player D a net 8. The team score for the hole would then be a 12 because of player A and D’s net scores.

b.  The skins pot will be half of the entry fees.  If no skins are won then the skins pot will be split half to the addition of the proxy pot and half to the addition of the payout pot.

c.   Proxies will be one quarter of the entry fees split between 4 proxies.

d.  Payouts will be for 1st and 2nd place.  1st place will receive one quarter of the entry fees plus 2/3 of the complimentary golf shop credits. 2nd place will receive 1/3 of the

complimentary golf shop credits.

2.  Friday Morning Round

a.  Game is 2 man teams best ball stroke play.  The score for each hole for the team will be the best net score.

b.  The skins pot will be half of the entry fees.  If no skins are won then the skins pot will

be split half to the addition of the proxy pot and half to the addition of the payout pot. c.   Proxies will be one quarter of the entry fees split between 4 proxies.

d.  Payouts will be for 1st and 2nd place.  1st place will receive ¾ of one quarter of the entry

fees. 2nd place will receive the remaining ¼ of one quarter of the entry fees.

3.  Friday Afternoon Round

a.  Yellow Ball!  Game is 4 man teams net colored ball and next best net ball on each hole.

b.  The colored ball will cycle in order to the next player on each hole. The order of the

players shall be determined prior to starting the round.

c.   The committee provided yellow ball (or committee provided marked as yellow ball) will be used as the colored ball until it is lost. Once it is lost the committee provided orange

ball (or committee provided marked as orange ball) will be used as the colored ball until

it is lost. Once it is lost the committee provided pink ball (or committee provided marked as pink ball) will be used as the colored ball until it is lost. Once the final

colored ball is lost the virtual colored ball will be put in play. The virtual colored ball is

any ball used by the player that is the player that should be playing the colored ball for that hole.

d.  If your team finishes with the all the committee provided balls then 50 strokes will be subtracted from the team score.  If your team finishes with only two of the committee provided balls then 20 strokes will be subtracted from the team score.  If your team

finishes with just one of the committee provided balls then 10 strokes will be subtracted from the team score. If no committee provided balls make it to the end the team’s

score is what it is.

e.  The skins pot will be half of the entry fees.  If no skins are won then the skins pot will be split half to the addition of the proxy pot and half to the addition of the payout pot.

f.    Proxies will be one quarter of the entry fees split between 4 proxies.  ONLY the colored ball player is eligible for a proxy.

g.  Payouts will be one quarter of the entry fees for 1st place.

4.  Sunday Morning Round

a.  Game is singles stroke play net.

b.  The skins pot will be 5/8 of the entry fees. If no skins are won then the skins pot will be split half to the addition of the proxy pot and half to the addition of the payout pot.

c.   Proxies will be 3/8 of the entry fees split between 4 proxies.

d.  Payouts will be for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.  1st place will receive 5/8 of the complimentary golf shop credits.  2nd place will receive one quarter of the complimentary golf shop

credits.  3rd place will receive 1/8 of the complimentary golf shop credits.

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THE CHALICE SPECIFIC RULES

1.  Matchups

a.  We will draw Friday night for the chalice matchups.

2.  Scoring

a.  Nassau for each match. Three points available for each match.  One point for the winner of the front, one point for the winner of the back and one point for the winner of

the total. Four possibilities exist for final score of each match, 3-0, 2 ½-½, 2-1 or 1 ½-1

½.

3.  Payouts

a.  $5 per point won per player in a match. b.  $10 per player on the winning team.

4.  Morning Round Game

a.  2 man teams match play.

b.  Front nine is modified alternate shot.  Each player tees off on every hole. The best ball for each team is chosen and the person that did not hit that ball hits the next shot.

Their teammate hits the next shot and so on into the hole.

c.   In alternate shot each player may choose to use their own ball but must not improve the lie at all.

d.  Handicaps for alternate shot shall be figured by using 60% of the low handicap teammate’s tourney handicap figured to one decimal place and adding this to 40% of

the high handicap teammate’s tourney handicap figured to one decimal place.  These are added together and then rounded appropriately and this is the team’s handicap for the alternate shot portion.  e.g. Team 1 player A is a 12 and player B is a 21. Team 2

player A is a 16 and player B is a 15. Team 1 is (12*0.6) + (21*0.4) = 7.2 + 8.4 = 15.6

= 16. Team 2 is (16*0.4) + (15*0.6) = 6.4 + 9.0 = 15.4 = 15. The difference between the handicaps is 1 so, Team 1 gets a bump on the hardest handicap hole on the

course. Since we are only playing 9 holes this way then a difference of 2 would still

only allow a bump on the hardest handicap hole. Differences of 3 and 4 will mean a bump on the hardest and third hardest holes and so on.

e.  The back nine will be best ball.

5.  Afternoon Round Game

a.  One on one match play.