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Sunday, August 23 at 3PM​
– Boys and girls ages 6-15
– All events held at Drake Creek Golf Club
– Parents and volunteers welcome
– Golfers are responsible for their own bags
– No caddies or electric carts
– Tee time starts
– Golfers choose their division for each event
– Based on ability

Entry Fee $20

Financial Assistance Available (call for information)
Includes: Course Fees, Range Balls, Snack Lunch, Prizes, and Side Games

Beginner Tournaments for Beginner Golfers

Have you ever seen a kid hit the baseball and start running the wrong direction around the bases?  Of course you have! And the crazy thing is – that kid may go on to play professional baseball someday.

Everyone starts somewhere!

Whether this is the first time your child is picking up a golf club or they are considering tournament play, this event is for you.
It’s focused on what golf is meant to be — FUN!

No Clubs – No Problem!

We’ll find clubs for you. Invite your non-golfing friends to watch or play!

Details:

– Boys and Girls Ages 6-15
– Held at Drake Creek Golf Club
– Parents and volunteers welcome
– Golfers are responsible for their own bags (no caddies or electric carts)
– Tee time starts
– Golfers choose their division based on ability

Divisions:

4-Hole Division
(Special tees for beginners)
6-Hole Division
(Forward tees for those who know a little)
9-Hole Division
(Red Tees for those who are ready)

Entry Fee $20 Per Event – Financial Assistance Available (call for information)

Includes: Course Fees, Range Balls, Snack Lunch, Prizes, and Side Games

Saturday, September 12th – Shotgun Start 8:00am

$260.00 per team

includes Cart, Green Fee, Lunch,
Some Cold Beverages AND Cash Prizes!

Signing up online is fast and easy.  And there are no surcharges.

Call 270-898-4653 to Book Over the Phone

This event is hosted by the Phelps Creek Association.
It is not affiliated with the PGA Staff at Drake Creek Golf Club.

REGISTER ONLINE TO SECURE YOUR SPOT

Great Western High School Shootout

Saturday, August 29 – Drake Creek Golf Club

Boys and Girls | Teams and Individuals

Boys tee times start at 8:00AM
Girls tee times start immediately following Boys

ENTRY FEE

$50 per player (if paid by August 21)
$60 per player (if paid after August 21)

Entry fee includes golf, prizes, range balls, and a tee gift

Coaches may have 4 or 5 players on their team

1 coach’s cart provided for team entries

Drake Creek Golf Club has hosted numerous high school regional tournaments,

NCAA tournaments, and a KHSAA state championship.  Come play where champions play.

COVID SAFE golf policies are in effect.

Register Online or By Phone

Coaches, call us at (270) 898-4653 to reserve (and pay) for your team’s spot! 

Or make it EASY on yourself and sign up online by clicking below.

CLICK HERE

5 MENTAL MISTAKES YOU SHOULD NEVER MAKE ON THE GOLF COURSE

Most golfers lose way too many shots to poor mental decisions and not knowing how to systematically approach each shot and control their emotions to maintain confidence. This article will show you the 5 most common mental game mistakes that most golfers make and how to eliminate them.

1) Don’t analyze your swing, or think about it while swinging

2) Don’t think about your score (unless you really have to)

3) Don’t beat yourself up, be your own caddy and remember it’s just a game

4) Don’t just aim at the fairway or green – have a very precise target in mind

5) Don’t forget about your routine

 

This is a guest post by David MacKenzie from Golf State of Mind

SOURCE: practical_golf.com

11 KEYS TO ENJOY—AND WIN—YOUR MEMBER-GUEST

Member-guest season is upon us. At many clubs, events have been delayed until a little later in the year, but you might be asked to sign up for yours soon. Member-guests are something we look forward to for months, one we want to fully enjoy, even in these unusual times.

R&A to fill Open Championship void with virtual battle of the ages

Jack Nicklaus never had the opportunity to face world number one Rory McIlroy at the Open Championship but the R&A has brought the champions from different eras together at St Andrews using archive footage and modern technology.

With golf’s oldest major cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the R&A has launched ‘The Open for The Ages’ which will see McIlroy, Nicklaus and other past champions such as Tiger Woods and Seve Ballesteros “compete” over the Old Course.

The virtual tournament will be played through a combination of seamlessly edited archive footage, modern graphics and fresh commentary, with the winner decided through a data model based on career statistics and voting by fans.

The event, which runs from July 16-19 – the original date for this year’s Open – will culminate in a three-hour final round programme that will be broadcast globally through The Open’s social media channels.

“Golf is one of the very few sports where this concept can be created and brought to life,” Martin Slumbers, chief executive of R&A, said in a statement.

“The way in which the sport is filmed allows us a truly unique opportunity to re-imagine history and bring together the greatest players from many different eras on a scale which has not been done before, either in golf or in other sports.”

The Open, which was due to be held at Royal St George’s, is the only one of this year’s four majors to be cancelled because of the pandemic.

SOURCE:  ESPN.com

West Kentucky’s Best Run Golf Tournament

Drake Creek Golf Club

SATURDAY & SUNDAY | AUGUST  1st & 2nd

$125 Amateurs and Senior Amateurs | $250 professionals

Includes green fees, cart fees, prize fund, tee prizes,
two lunches, and unlimited practice rounds week of tournament.

Call 270-898-4653 to sign up with credit card.

REGISTER ONLINE TO SECURE YOUR SPOT

WINNERS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS

AMATEUR CHAMPIONS

2008 Brandon Tucker, Madisonville, KY
2009 Seth Blann, Bowling Green, KY
2010 Josh Rhodes, Paducah, KY
2011 Michael Odenthal, Rockfield, KY
2012 Patrick Newcomb, Benton, KY
2013 Brock Simmons, Murray, KY
2014 Brevin Giebler, Cape Girardeau, MO
2015 Nick Thompson, Paducah, KY
2016 Derek Riley, Calvert City, KY
2017 Gabe Wheeler, Cape Girardeau, MO
2018 Gabe Wheeler, Cape Girardeau, MO
2019 Clayton Bradshaw, Mayfield, KY

PROFESSIONAL CHAMPIONS

2008 Justin Fetcho, Illinois
2009 Brett Jones, Paducah, KY
2010 Rick Cochran, Paducah, KY
2011 Cameron Carrico, Owensboro,KY
2012 Rick Cochran, Paducah, KY
2013 Rick Cochran, Paducah, KY
2014 Rick Cochran, Paducah, KY
2015 Patrick Newcomb, Benton KY
2016 Nick Newcomb, Murray KY
2017 Rick Cochran, Paducah, KY
2018 Tyler Phillips, Clarksville, TN
2019 Gabe Wheeler, Cape Girardeau, MO

SENIOR CHAMPIONS

2012 Sherwood, Paducah, KY
2013 Tommy Thomas, Paducah, KY
2014 Tommy Thomas, Paducah, KY
2015 Eddie Trevathan, Gleason, TN
2016 Eddie Trevathan, Gleason, TN
2017 Ron Underwood, Sikeston, MO
2018 Tommy Fike, Almo, KY
2019 Tommy Fike, Almo, KY

Thursday, July 23 9:00 am shotgun

Pick Your Format · Cash Prizes

2-Man Scramble or Individual Stroke Play

8:15am Sign Up and Pay | 9:00am Shotgun Start

Entry Fee $40 Cash per player

Includes Green Fee, Cart, Lunch, and CASH Prizes ($22 course and cart fee and $18 cold drinks and cash prizes)

We are sorry but COVID restrictions have eliminated lunch for this event.

Field will be flighted after play
Cash payout to 25% of the field

Age 55-64 Yellow Tees
Age 65-74 Red Tees
Age 75+ Forward Tees

JUST CALL to register, Cash required on Thursday to play
CALL NOW AND SIGN UP – – – 270-898-4653

This event is hosted by the Riverside Men’s Golf Association.
It is not affiliated with Drake Creek Golf Club
or the PGA Staff at Drake Creek Golf Club.

Saturday and Sunday | July 25 & 26

Shotgun Starts

Saturday at 1:00 pm | Sunday at 12:30 pm

2 person – 6-hole scramble | 6-hole four ball | 6-hole alternate shot

Open to all Drake Creek Members (men & women) and their guests

$65 per player / $130 per team*

entry fee includes – range balls on tournament days, light lunch both days, tee prizes, prize pool, practice round during week of tournament, cart and green fees. Number of Flights will be determined by the number of entries.  Equal prizes will be awarded in each flight. *plus tax

JUST CALL to register
CALL NOW AND SIGN UP – – 270-898-4653

Justin Thomas trying to get a handle on Muirfield Village ahead of Dublin Double

DUBLIN, Ohio – Justin Thomas has a strange case of the Jekyll and Hyde thing going on at Muirfield Village Golf Club.

In six visits to Jack Nicklaus’s emerald gem for The Memorial, he’s missed the cut in 2015, 2016 and in his most recent visit, in 2019.

In his other three starts, he tied for 37th in 2014 and finally got into contention with ties for fourth in 2017 and eighth in 2018.

Go figure.

We’re talking about the No. 5 player in the world who won the 2017 PGA Championship and the FedEx Cup and was the PGA Tour Player of the Year. Is just one of four players to win five times, including a major, in one PGA Tour season before his 25th birthday, the others being Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth. He’s been No. 1 in the world.

At 26, he’s won 12 Tour titles, including two this season in the CJ Cup at Nine Bridges and the Sentry Tournament of Champions.

But Thomas can’t get a consistent grip on Muirfield.

“There’s obviously some things that I need to figure out about this golf course and things I need to do better,” Thomas said Tuesday at his sometime nemesis.

He hopes he gets things ironed out quickly as the course first hosts this week’s Workday Charity Open and then next week’s Memorial.

Adding to his 7,500-yard equation is the fact the course will play much differently this week than next in an effort to relieve stress on the course that will bear nearly 800 rounds the next two weeks. That means Workday will feature slower green speeds (around 11 on the Stimpmeter) which will allow for new pin placements, some never seen before; shorter rough (3½ inches); and multiple tee boxes.

“I’m taking these practice days probably a little bit more seriously and trying to figure out why I haven’t done as well those years,” Thomas said. “Obviously not playing well is a big part to do with it, but I still feel my game is good enough where I should never miss a cut a couple times at a place that I feel fits my game like this one does.

“But I’m not going to go out there and spend six hours hitting from different places I’ve never hit before. I only have so much time in a day where I can be focused and pay attention and get a lot out of it. The important thing is I’ve played the course enough and I’ve hit it a lot of different places on this course before to where I know a lot of it for the most part, but I’ll just go check out some of the little changes here and there.”

Thomas tied for 10th in the Charles Schwab Challenge when the PGA Tour returned after a 13-week break because of COVID. The following week, he tied for eighth in the RBC Heritage, then missed the cut at The Travelers Championship.

“I didn’t really have many expectations coming into the first three events because I knew I was going to be rusty,” he said. “It was good to play some good golf. I just felt like I had just a bit of a bulky putter and I was disappointed to play so poorly at Travelers. But I just had a week off, got a little rest and tried to just enjoy the time off because I realized pretty quickly how much of a grind golf is, even without fans and all the adrenaline rush. It definitely wears on you, so it’s important to get your rest.

“I expect to play well and have a chance to win, but that being said, I need to get a little bit more comfortable and execute a lot better for that to happen for what’s happened in the past.”

SOURCE:  golfweek.com