Winterwood WaggleOctober 2025
The Winterwood Waggle is published quarterly.
Club Championship
Our next event is the Club Championship being held at BC Muni on October 4-5. The deadline to sign up is 4pm on Wednesday, October 1. This is a two-day gross score event. Your handicap does not come into play except to determine who you will be paired and flighted with. Lunch will be provided at conclusion of play on Sunday. Following lunch will be the chip off to determine the remaining spots for the Shootout which will be held the following weekend. See below.
Shootout
The Shootout will be held October 11-12. As it currently stands there are eight players at net 68 vying for the final six spots. However, the Club Championship is the final qualifier. Any qualifying scores at 67 or better will reduce (or possibly eliminate) the number of spots available for those chipping off at 68. The Shootout begins on Saturday at noon and play continues until sundown with as many holes completed as possible. Play resumes Sunday morning at sunrise and continues until the final hole.
For those who are not familiar with the format of the Shootout, it goes like this: Bruce Mackenzie and Wayne Seaman are the Tournament Committee and will direct play for all nineteen players. Each player will tee off on the first hole. Wayne will direct play as it proceeds up the fairway and will direct each player when it is his turn to hit. Scorekeepers will have a scoresheet with four players listed along with the number of strokes (if any) each player gets based on his handicap. When a player makes a stroke, his scorekeeper will make note of it. Bruce Mackenzie will be on the green marking the balls as they reach the green. Once all players are on the green, the player closest to the pin putts first. Once holed out that player’s score is announced by his scorekeeper. As the scores are announced, the players with the lower net scores will be directed to the next tee box where they will be directed by the Tee Box Monitor. The player with the highest net score will be eliminated. If there is a tie, a chip off will be held, conducted by the Chip Off Monitor, to determine the player to be eliminated. Play will proceed in this fashion on each hole.
The Shootout takes a lot of time and effort on the part of the Tournament Committee to be successful and this year there is a great need for volunteers. Those who have volunteered in the past are unavailable this year. Some are playing in the Shootout and the rest are out of town. Bruce and Wayne do a great job running the Shootout but it can’t be done by just two people. The following volunteers are urgently requested:
• Scorekeepers – we need five members to volunteer as scorekeepers. Each scorekeeper is responsible for four players.
• Chip Off Monitor – This volunteer will select the spot where the chip off will take place and will monitor each individual participating.
• Tee Box Monitor – This volunteer will monitor those teeing off on the next hole while play is concluded on the previous green.
We need a minimum of seven volunteers to help with this year’s tournament. If we get more than that it’s icing on the cake, but without the help of at least seven members it is going to be a challenge conducting this year’s Shootout. To volunteer, please contact Wayne Seaman at 702-497-8073 or by email at sssseaman@aol.com. The Shootout is less than two weeks away, and we’d like to have all volunteers in place as soon as possible. Also an FYI to those who have qualified or are chipping off, please contact Wayne if for any reason you cannot attend.
Posting Scores
Each member of Winterwood is required to post his score for every round played outside of Winterwood events. Our Handicap Director, Mike Brown, keeps a close eye on the handicaps and is concerned when players known to have completed a round fail to post that score with GHIN. All members are reminded that golf is an honorable game, and the honor of each member is expected. That said, if a member is known to have completed a round and fails to post the score, the club will post a penalty score of net 72 for that member.
2026 Schedule
The 2026 schedule will be made available in December once the dates have been confirmed.
