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What's New
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Next Event
April  5, 2012
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We have ANOTHER Hole in One!!!

Congratulations to Ev Palmer!!!
No. 5 at Broken Tee 9/1/2011

Congratulations to Stan Bond!!!

No. 14 at CommonGround 6/16/2011

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MARS Golf has implemented a local rule defining some unmarked rough areas as Lateral Hazards
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Membership Fee for 2011 is $70 due to an increase in CGA fees
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The MARS Associates Golf Club accommodates men and women of all levels of golfing ability through the use of the Colorado Golf Association handicap system.  Membership in MARS Retirees is required in order to join the golf club.  Play generally alternates between Broken Tee in Englewood and  CommonGround in Aurora, playing both courses about an equal number of times in the course of a season. Play begins in early April and continues through October.  Numerous formats are used to allow for both individual play and for team events.

Club members can count on playing at least every other week (more, if you wish to volunteer to substitute on your normal off week).  Pairings accommodate the considerable amount of travel and other activities of busy retirees.  If you are unable to play in your scheduled event, just let your co-chairman for that event know and a substitute will be found.

The MARS Golf Member Guide will tell you everything you need to know about the league.  To join the league at any time during the year, contact one of the officers.

2011 Officers


League Rules
Pace of Play Guidance
Golf Discounts Available
See Senior Fare Page!!
 League Roster
Cochair Guidelines

Pace of Play Results through October 13

Our courses expect us to meet their requirements for Pace of Play.

Broken Tee - Expected time for a round is 4:20. The tee time interval is 9 minutes.

CommonGround - Expected time for a round is 4:30. The tee time interval is 10 minutes. 

Given a start time and the number of foursomes, an expected finish time can be calculated.  The chart below shows the number of minutes that we finished before or after the course expected time.  Positive numbers mean we finished early.  Negative numbers mean we finished late. Expected end times are adjusted for delays caused by golfers playing in front of us.
 


Use of Red and White Tee Boxes

The MARS Golf League uses two tee boxes in order to improve our pace of play.  We analyzed results from the last three years to see how this change may have affected the results.  You will find this interesting.  See this  document for the full story.


                                        October 13 - Poor

We need to keep focused on keeping up with the foursome in front. 

Overall we finished 22 minutes late to our scheduled end time  This was based on the finish time of the fifth foursome.  On the 17th hole the non-MARS group behind our 6th group drove around them and played the 18th hole.  This delayed our final group.  There is no excuse for that behavior. It is possible though that our slow play resulted in their frustration and instigated this behavior.  Two groups finished way behind the group in front of them.

     The 3rd group finished 19 minutes behind
     The 5th group finished 23 minutes behind
    
These groups should have picked up and skipped a hole in accordance with our Pace of Play guidelines.

Our fastest group was 4:22
Our slowest group was 4:58 

We need to keep focused on keeping up with the foursome in front.

Please be ready at the first tee at least 10 minutes before your tee time.  Teeing off early helps our Pace of Play!

Review the rules! Review the rules! Review the rules!

Please review the Pace of Play Guidelines!!

League Rules



We can do better


2010 Pace of Play Analysis
2010 was the first year that we collected data on our pace of play. We have analyzed the data.  You can read about it in this  document.

Last Event Results

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October 27
Broken Tee
4 Team Best Ball
Stableford

 
 

                                   
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Last updated October 22, 2011, by Bob Knickerbocker