Event: JimmIE Connolly
Format: Individual Match Play (please note that future matches must be played within two weeks of conclusion of the previous match)
Format: Individual NET Stroke Play Day #1
Scoring: Official scoring will be done in golf genius. This round is postable.
Record each player’s gross score. The app will calculate applicable handicap strokes and assign the individual score on each hole. Following play, players need to confirm and attest their score at the scoring table. 95% of Tournament Handicap will be used.
NOTE: NET Double Bogey Max
NOTE: Optional Skins Game ($20 for Gross and $20 for NET) $40 total for Both Days
Course: North
Tees: Tournament Tees unless qualified for White or Gold
Closest to the Pin: All Players on All Par 3’s
Standing and Ties: The top 64 finishers will advance to the match play event on Sunday. Ties for the final qualifying spot will go to a sudden death playoff starting on #1.
Format: Individual Match Play Day #2
Scoring: Official scoring will be done in golf genius. This round is postable.
Players tee off from their respective tee box. Play your own ball and record each player’s gross score. The app will calculate applicable handicap strokes and assign the individual score on each hole.The player with the lowest net score wins the hole. You win a match when you are winning by more holes than remain to be played.
If a hole or shot is conceded, record the player’s MOST LIKELY score from that position. Following play, players need to confirm and attest their score at the scoring table. 100% of Tournament Handicap will be used.
NOTE: Skins were paid previous day
Rules: Match play rules. You or your opponent may concede a stroke, a hole, or the match to each other. If your next stroke has been conceded, you are permitted to putt out. If you are unsure how to proceed, you and your opponent can agree on a course of action even if it is against the rules, but you are not allowed to waive a rule. If you and your opponent don’t agree on how to proceed, you should do what you think is correct. Your opponent can then make a request for a ruling, which will later be decided by the Committee.
Course: North
Tees: Tournament Tees unless qualified for White or Gold
Closest to the Pin: All Players on All Par 3’s
Ties: If after 18 holes the match is tied, continue to the next consecutive hole and play until there is a winner.
Format: Individual NET Stroke Play Day #2 (non qualifers for match play)
Scoring: Official scoring will be done in golf genius. This round is postable.
Record each player’s gross score. The app will calculate applicable handicap strokes and assign the individual score on each hole. Following play, players need to confirm and attest their score at the scoring table. 95% of Tournament Handicap will be used.
NOTE: NET Double Bogey Max
NOTE: Skins paid on previous day
Course: North
Tees: Tournament Tees unless qualified for White or Gold
Closest to the Pin: All Players on All Par 3’s
Standing and Ties: Top 4 Finishers will receive Golfer of the Year Points and proshop credit. All ties will be broken using the USGA scorecard playoff rules. Back 9 hole score, last 6, last 3, then 18th hole.
Major: Yes
What is the History of the Jimmie Connolly?
Jimmie Connolly holds a special place in Austin golf history as the “King” of 1953, where he won 3 major local tournaments in the Men’s City Championship, the Firecracker Open, and the Harvey Penick Invitational, as well as the Texas Amateur Championship.
While Connolly’s prime seems to have been in the early 1950s, his first tournament victory came over 20 years before that when he won the first ever Austin Men’s City Championship in 1928. He ousted Lonnie Hornsby 3 and 2 in the finals to capture the title. One hundred golfers participated in the weeklong event in its inaugural year, a number that has increased to 158 in the 2011 edition of the tournament.
Partnering with three-time Masters Champion and Houstonian Jimmy Demaret, Connolly co-founded the Onion Creek Club in the southeastern suburbs of Austin. The course is often described as flat and natural, and the simple manicure of the grounds has made the historical club a must-play for many Texas golfers. Onion Creek hosted the Legends of Golf tournament from 1978-89.
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