Gold Creek Golf Club was everything a US Open needed to be. Troublesome rough and fast greens offered a pros challenge yet friendly enough for amateurs. Gold Creek, site of the 1997 BCI Invitational, was chosen then to be the US Open course for 1998. "Gold Creek is Atlanta's best kept secret" said John Reilly, an AGC member. I have to agree with John, this course is special and is on the AGC's top ten best course list. The staff members at Gold Creek work very hard to maintain perfect fairways and outstanding greens.

Brian Moure, winner of the 1998 US Open captures his first AGC Major.

Congratulations to Brian who came away with this nice trophy and a $100 gift certificate, which was presented by Matt Freeman, President of The Atlanta Golf Club. Obviously, Brian played great golf, he ended the day with a net 67. WOW!

The AGC Pro Shop is open for business. Please visit our site at theatlantagolfclub.com.

Jim Jenkins has built a beautiful web site and added the AGC Pro Shop for our members to shop for AGC shirts and hats. If you're not already a proud owner of an AGC shirt or hat, please visit our site and be one of the first in the metro area to wear Atlanta Golf Club Gear.

Now you can collect skins for prizes displayed on our web sight, www.theatlantagolfclub.com. That's right, earn skins to purchase golf equipment and accessories while you play AGC golf. The structure is as follows:

  Remaining players will all receive five skins for playing in an event

Most of the time course maintenance takes care of dangerous situations. Obviously, they don't want anyone getting hurt on their property so they exercise every precaution necessary to prevent injury. We do live in a warm climate state and insects can become very uncomfortable to be around. If your ball is lying in an anthill what do you do? Is an anthill a loose impediment? The answer is Yes. A player is entitled to remove an anthill under Rule 23-1. I don’t know about anyone else but I do not want to touch a fire-ant hill at all. An anthill is a loose impediment and may be removed, but there is no other relief without penalty. Some anthills are conical in shape and hard, and removal is not possible, but relief under Rule 25-1b is not available since an ant is not a burrowing animal. If such anthills interfere with the proper playing of the game, would a Local Rule providing relief be authorized?

Yes. A Local Rule stating that such anthills are to be treated as ground under repair would be justified.

Such a Local Rule is also justified on courses where fire-ants' mound or hill is removable, but its removal will cause the fire-ants to swarm out of the ground. When this occurs, anyone in the vicinity is in danger of being bitten by the ants, and the bite of a fire-ant can cause serious illness.

If a Local Rule giving relief from fire-ants has not been adopted and a ball is so close to a fire-ants' mound that the player is in danger, the player is, in equity, entitled to relief. It is unreasonable to expect the player to play from such a dangerous situation and unfair to require the player to incur a penalty under Rule 26 (Water Hazards) or Rule 28 (Ball Unplayable)

In equity (Rule 1-4), as an additional option the player should be permitted, without penalty, to drop a ball on the nearest spot not nearer the hole which is not dangerous.

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