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		<title>Lew Blakey&#8217;s great website</title>
		<link>http://freedrop.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/lew-blakeys-great-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former member of the USGA&#8217;s Rules of Golf Committee, Lew Blakey, has created a wonderful new website on the rules called throughthegreen.org.  Lew is one of the greatest minds on the Rules in the world.
He is the original author of the quizzes that can be found on this site.
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		<title>USGA releases new decisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The USGA and R&#38;A have released the new and revised decisions for 2010-2011.  There are 28 new decisisons and 51 revised ones.  Only one decision was removed.  In addition to the usual article, there is a discussion of one change and how it cam about.  We got a copy a few days ago and I&#8217;ll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freedrop.wordpress.com&blog=2409793&post=1115&subd=freedrop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Frost</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Officiating Experiences]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m running the NCGA / CIF Northern California Girls High School Championship today. We are at Almaden Country Club in south San Jose.  We had a 30 minute delay due to frost.  The first frost of the season here.  Fortunately this is my next to last tournament of the season.
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		<title>Conflicting Stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interesting Rulings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend at the NCGA Junior Tour&#8217;s Tour Championship we had two examples of conflicting stories about incidents that happened.
The first one came when a parent stopped one of our officials and said that a player had hit a ball that was out of bounds on the 15th hole.  The player had already teed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freedrop.wordpress.com&blog=2409793&post=1111&subd=freedrop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rulings at US Open, Women&#8217;s Open and Senior Ope</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tournaments]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The USGA has put an article about interesting rulings on their website.  The most interesting stuff is on the links at the bottom to the rules pages from the three opens: US Open, US Women&#8217;s Open, US Senior Open.
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		<title>On two days at the President&#8217;s Cup</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Officiating Experiences]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent the weekend being an observer at the President&#8217;s Cup.  On Saturday I was the observer in the morning foursomes match between Tiger Woods / Steve Stricker and Tim Clark / Mike Weir.  If you watched any of it on TV, you know that Tiger made a 20+ foot putt on 17 to square [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freedrop.wordpress.com&blog=2409793&post=1105&subd=freedrop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Altered Lie in a water hazard</title>
		<link>http://freedrop.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/altered-lie-in-a-water-hazard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basic Rules]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the play of the 18th hole in the second round of match play at the US Mid-Amateur, a player hit his second shot way to the left.  It actually was on the far side of the lake from the green.  It was in the hazard.  He and the official got over there and after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freedrop.wordpress.com&blog=2409793&post=1102&subd=freedrop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering to be virtually certain</title>
		<link>http://freedrop.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/remembering-to-be-virtually-certain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the first round of stroke play at this year&#8217;s US Mid-Amateur, I was assigned to work on the 8th and 9th holes at the River Course along with two other officials.  I was on #9 while the other two shared #8.  The eighth hole is a long par 5 with a cape tee shot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freedrop.wordpress.com&blog=2409793&post=1098&subd=freedrop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My last two Mid-Am matches</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Officiating Experiences]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the scheduling worked out, my matches were all in the bottom half of the draw.  Due to that, I was with Nathan Smith in three of my four matches this year.
In the third round, I refereed Nathan Smith and Christopher Marin.  It was an interesting match for me Nathan is from Pittsburgh and Chris [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freedrop.wordpress.com&blog=2409793&post=1094&subd=freedrop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting back on track at the Mid-Am</title>
		<link>http://freedrop.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/getting-back-on-track-at-the-mid-am/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After losing all of Monday to weather, it has been a major scramble to get things back  to a reasonable schedule the last two days.  Yesterday we had the round of 64 and immediately started the round of 32 afterwards.  We knew there was no way to finish it, but we had to get as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freedrop.wordpress.com&blog=2409793&post=1090&subd=freedrop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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