CLUB NEWSLETTER

MONTHLY ROUND-UP

WGC-HSBC TICKETS COLLECTION & CARPARK MAP

Two more weeks to WGC-HSBC Champions 2011! Equip

yourself with these important information on ticket

collection dates and venue, and the carpark location that

is exclusively for members.

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WGC-HSBC NEWS

With all the excitement about who is going be the winner

of the WGC-HSBC Champions 2011, indulge yourself in

these reads on the weird art of winning and how fickle

winning golf tournaments can be.

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SHESHAN GOLF SCHOOL With the completion of the 3rd Sheshan Junior Tournament on October 15th, we are now at the halfway point of an exciting Fall Series here at Sheshan! Join our Head coach, Cyrus Janssen, as he updates us with the tournament results.

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NOVEMBER TEE TIMES & SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Keep yourself updated on important event dates and tee

timings for the month of November 2011!

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November 2011

With just two weeks to the WGC-HSBC

Champions, we have gathered reads to

keep you informed on the ongoing

speculations as to who will be the next

Champion of the Champions! In this

issue, we get you all hyped up for the

season early this November! So sink your

teeth in, and don't let go.

Cheers!

Ashley Yeo

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

WGC-HSBC CARPARK MAP

WGC-HSBC NEWS

All of the big trophies have pride of place in their winner’s display cabinets, because

none have won at such lofty levels before. Thirteen different players have won the

last 13 Majors, while the last nine World Golf Championships events have been won

by nine different winners; a spell unparalleled since the tournaments were

introduced in 1999. There have also been 12 first-time winners during PGA Tour

regular season and an almost unprecedented parade of rookie winners.

The reason would seem to be obvious: the decline of Tiger Woods. Through to the

end of 2009 Woods had won almost 30 per cent of his starts on the PGA Tour

including 16 of the 29 WGC events in which he competed.

What we’re seeing now, with Tiger so far down the rankings and so far removed

from his last big victory that he hasn’t qualified to play in China, is not just young

talent, but several generations of golfers figuring out how to win?

THE WEIRD ART OF WINNING Written by Tim Maitland

The last global tournament of

the stroke play season will see

an unprecedented number of

newcomers rewarded for their

wins with a place at the WGC-

HSBC Champions. For the first

time in golf history, there’s a

chance the season will end with

all the Major titles and WGC

trophies in the hands of first-

time winners. The world of golf

has never been so wide open.

“People had been telling me for years ‘You’re trying too hard!’ I always thought, how can you try too

hard? It doesn’t make any sense,” says Harrison Frazar, who set a PGA Tour record when he claimed

the FedEx St. Jude Classic in Memphis in his 355th start. The turning point for the now 40-year-old

Texan was when, after starting the season by missing the cuts in six of his first eight events, he decided

it was time to quit.

“In my mind it was over. Everybody was on board; family, friends… everybody knew it,” Frazar says.

“I had just given up on trying to force results. I just said ‘I’m going to stand up, pick my lines and just hit

it and see what happens’.”

There are few examples as extreme as Frazar’s, but Hunter Mahan will attest to how fickle winning golf

tournaments can be.

“Whenever you watch great players play, they never look like they're trying to win; they're just trying

to play the game correctly and hit the right shots at the right time and do all the right things that are

going to enable you to win. You've got to keep working and keep learning and just kind of let it

happen.”

It’s because of these emotional contradictions that so many golfers reach out to sports psychologists

to try and find a framework that allows them to perform to their potential in pressure situations. Thus

the game is full of players who talk, in different ways, of staying process oriented rather than results

focused.

TRY TO WIN AND YOU DON’T

Written by Tim Maitland

WGC-HSBC NEWS

Any hacker will recognize the irony of a

sport where the more you try the worse it

can get; we’ve all played horrendously

until, just when we’re ready to give up, we

finally smack one off the middle of the

club. Another of the qualifiers for the HSBC

Champions coming off a first win on the

PGA Tour has done exactly that, except for

him, it wasn’t one round… it was his whole

career.

Boys 13 & Over (Gross Scores)

Boys 12 & Under (Gross Scores)

Boys 12 & Under (Net Scores)

Girls All Ages (Gross Scores)

Girls All Ages (Net Scores)

1 Harrison Hsieh David Wang He Xiao Tian Daphne Chao Lu Jin Wen

2 Victor Zhou Hiroshi Tai Kenneth Wu Yoko Tai Lu Yu Wen

Where passion fuels

better training

THE SHESHAN GOLF SCHOOL

Sheshan Junior Fall

Series

With the completion of the 3rd Sheshan Junior Tournament on October 15th, we are now at

the halfway point of an exciting Fall Series here at Sheshan. Each event attracts more

players than the previous one and juniors are coming out in maximum numbers to all

compete for the title of “2011 Sheshan Junior Champion”. Players are rewarded points

based on their respective finish in each tournament and all players are working hard on

qualifying for the Sheshan Junior Championship on Dec 10th which will determine the Junior

Champion Golfer of the year! Through three tournaments here are the current leaders for

the 5 respective divisions:

Every month the Sheshan Golf School will feature a

different student and highlight one of their outstanding

rounds they recently posted. This month’s “Round of the

Month” features 9-year old Sheshan member Ye Lei.

Known for having one of the best games of any Sheshan

Junior, Ye Lei recently took her game to the next level by

competing in the 36-hole Club Championship. Competing

in her first Ladies Club Championship, Ye Lei not only shot

the lowest round of any lady she shot the lowest round of

the entire field including all men when she began the

tournament with a 77. Ye Lei followed her impressive

round the next day with a round of 82 to win the Ladies

Club Championship by one shot. Congratulations to Ye Lei

on her excellent round and winning the Ladies Club

Championship!

Round of the Month

Golf; A game of 34 rules

but many variables

THE SHESHAN GOLF SCHOOL

SCENARIO #1

SCENARIO #2

The ground between the tee markers is not level, so you have to tee the ball slightly below your feet. You then slice your shot out-of-bounds. What you could have done You could've looked for a level spot because the teeing area extends two club-lengths behind the front of the markers (Definition, Teeing Ground).

You see a ball plugged in a hazard. You think the ball is yours and attempt to play it to save a penalty stroke. Turns out it was the wrong ball, and you incur a two-stroke penalty. Plus, you have to abandon that ball and proceed with your own ball. What you could have done A revision to Rule 12-2 in 2008 allows you to mark and lift the ball in a hazard, without penalty, to identify it, after announcing your intention to a fellow-competitor. (If it's yours, you must replace it in the same lie.)

SCENARIO #3

Your ball is on a cart path that is surrounded by gnarly rough, and you prepare to take relief. You measure one club-length from the path and drop the ball, but even a club-length of relief leaves you in a nasty lie. What you could have done The "nearest point of relief" doesn't mean an area within one club-length of the path. It's the spot closest to where the ball lies, no nearer the hole, where the cart path (or whatever condition from which you're taking relief) would no longer interfere with your stance (Definition, Nearest Point of Relief). So the drop area could be farther from the path than one club-length.

Rules of Golf

GOOD TO KNOW

NOVEMBER TEE TIMES

Weekdays

First Tee Time – 07:00

Last Tee Time – 15:00 (9-Holes),

12:36 (18-Holes)

Weekends/Holidays

First Tee Time – 07:00 – 08:36 /

11:00 – 12:36

Last Tee Time – 15:00 (9-Holes),

12:36 (18-Holes)

COURSE OPEN

November 14th, 21st, 28th 2011 (Every Monday)

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

WGC-HSBC ADVANCED PREPARTION

October 24th – 30th 2011

(COURSE & DRIVING RANGE CLOSURE)

PRACTICE ROUNDS & PRO-AM DAY

November 1st – 2nd 2011 (COURSE & DRIVING RANGE CLOSURE)

WGC-HSBC CHAMPIONS

November 3rd – 6th 2011 (COURSE & DRIVING RANGE CLOSURE)

SPONSORS’ DAY November 7th 2011 (COURSE & DRIVING RANGE CLOSURE)

TAKE-DOWN DAY November 8th 2011 (COURSE & DRIVING RANGE CLOSURE)