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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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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		<title>At the US Mid-Am</title>
		<link>http://freedrop.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/at-the-us-mid-am/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the stroke play is in the books and I should be at the Putting Clock meeting my players for the 11:10 match that I am to referee.  Unfortunately, the weather has intervened.  We are in a hold with the next announcement coming at 11:00.  It is pouring here and I doubt we&#8217;ll get much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freedrop.wordpress.com&blog=2409793&post=1088&subd=freedrop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pennsylvania Wins State Team</title>
		<link>http://freedrop.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/pennsylvania-wins-state-team/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tournaments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Sean Knapp, Nathan Smith and Mike Van Sickle for winning the USGA&#8217;s State Team Championship last week.  All three are from Western Pennsylvania and played in many WPGA championships while I worked there.  Glad to see them take home the title.
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