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Contents NCGA Golf / Spring 2016


Columns 8 Executive Director’s Letter


10 President’s Message 12 On the Beat 72 Murphy’s Law


Departments 15 Shag Bag 70 Equipment Forum


Around the NCGA 56 NCGA News 57 Poppy Hills/Ridge News 58 Tournament Central 60 Junior Tour of Northern California


62 Rules of Golf 64 Course Rating & Handicapping


66 Allied Associations: PWGA 68 Youth on Course


COVER STORY


Grizzly Ranch Golf Club Tucked into the unspoiled landscape of the high Sierra, Grizzly Ranch offers championship golf in a gated community. . .and just the right amount of remote. BY MARGARET SKILLICORN


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Poppy Hills will host the 2018 U.S. Girls’ Junior, its first USGA Championship.


No. 7 6 / NCGA.ORG / SPRING 2016


PHOTO: JOANN DOST


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