The Shop July 2023

The month of June has flown by! Hello July! With July 4 th right around the corner, it means it’s time for aerification. It also means new merchandise in The Shop! We have a great selection of brands such as Turtleson, Southern Tide, and Adidas. Stop by to check out the new TaylorMade Reserve line of putters! Cherokee Valley is one of 5 golf shops in the area to have early access to them and we are proud to be a TaylorMade partner!

Upcoming Tournaments

For the month of July, we will be hosting two outside tournaments on the course! On July 17th we will be hosting our friends and partners from North Greenville University and on July 25 th we will be hosting the ICC tournament. We will relay more communication on when the tee sheet will open as we get closer to those dates!

Rules of Golf:

It’s aerification season. During this transitional period, you'll likely have to putt through top-dressing sand, a couple of leftover plugs that get missed, and the worst, navigate your ball past thousands of aeration holes.

It might occur to you that aeration holes should be treated as ground under repair, meaning you can move your ball if it gets stuck in one. Sorry. Not so.

The Rules of Golf says aeration holes are a normal part of golf-course conditions. Specifically, they "do not fall within the meaning of a hole made by the maintenance staff, and thus are not ground under repair."

What that translates to is that you can't repair them on the green (or anywhere else on the course) and you can't take relief from them. If you play from the wrong place after moving the ball out of an aeration hole or use your divot tool to repair one on your putting line, it's officially a two-stroke penalty or loss of hole in match play (general penalty).

This might seem really unfair, especially when these holes negatively affect what would otherwise be a good shot. So, what can be done? A committee may choose to use a local rule to give relief (Model Local Rule E-4). If this local rule is in effect, you may take free relief when your ball lies in or touches an aeration hole in the general area or on the putting green. That relief does not apply to any holes that interfere with your stance or line of play.

Meanwhile, if you’re just playing a friendly match with your buddies, you might decide you are your own “committee” and put the MLR in place, too (we won’t tell anybody).

Tip of the Month

How to attack 5 tough bunker shots.

Check out this link below from TaylorMade Golf and Rickie Fowler with their take on how to attack several different bunker shots that you may face during your round!