Sunday, May 18, 2014

Shore Gate Rules, Local Rules, and Course Information

Please read and print for reference on the course.

SCRAMBLE RULES
1. You must use 7 tee shots from each player (par 3 holes included).
2. Each player tees off on each hole. Select one tee shot and both players play their second shots from that spot, and so on, until the ball is holed. Once the ball is holed, the score for that hole is final.
3. Once you select the shot to be used, place a marker on the ground. The next shot by both players must be hit from within 12 inches of that marker, no closer to the hole. You may not use the 12 inches to improve your condition. Once the ball is on the green, both players must putt from the exact same spot.
4. Record one score for each hole.
5. There are no “gimmies;” hole every ball.

Return completed scorecard in person to official scorer.
• Maintain a good pace of play. Keep up with the players in front of you.
• Tipping is optional. $2 of your tournament fee will be used to tip the bag handlers.

Local Rules
• Repair divots with divot mix stored on cart.
• Environmentally sensitive areas are marked by red posts with green tops. Do not enter. Play as lateral hazards.
• Natural sand areas (no rakes provided) are played as through the green. You may ground your club.
• Flags on greens for hole location: Red (front), White (middle), Blue (back).
• Yardage measured to center of green: sprinkler heads, cart path, disks (Red=100, White=150, Blue=200, Yellow=250).
• Cart rules: For those holes where carts are permitted on the fairway, cart must be driven only on the fairway. Do not drive or park in the rough. If you have a health issue, the course will provide a handicap flag.
• Barber poles are placed on several holes at the 150-yard marker to let you know where to aim your drive.

Tees
Men who chose the Standard tees will play from the Gold tees. Men who chose the Forward tees will play from the Gold tees except on the following holes, where they will play from the Red tees: 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 17, and 18. If you forget to move up to the Red tees, your ball is in play from the Gold – you may not move up and hit a second tee shot.
Women will compete from the Red tees.

Specific hole information 
#1: Dogleg left. 230 yards to bunker (193 from Red).
#4: 200 yards to twin bunkers on right (170 from Red). 234 yards to bunker on left (202 from Red). Environmental hazard on left–play as lateral hazard.
#5: Full-service bathroom to left of green.
#6: Series of bunkers on left, starting 100 yards from green. Near the green, a thin strip of fairway runs along the right side of the bunkers all the way to the green.
#9: 209 yards to lake on left (178 from Red). Plenty of fairway right of lake.
#10: 168 yards to left bunker, 182 to carry. (Red: 124 to bunker, 138 to carry.) 205 yards to right bunker (161 from Red).
#11: Dogleg left. Left side lined with bunkers, tee to 100-yard marker. Maximum distance for drive must be 90 yards short of green – any further and ball will be in troublesome grass bunker. Look to land your ball near the 100-yard marker. The grass bunker is 15 yards past the 100-yard marker. The entire left side is an environmental hazard that starts at the tree line – do not enter, drop a ball within two club-lengths or hit a ball from where you hit your previous shot, one-stroke penalty.
#12: 219 yards to lateral water hazard on right (208 from Red). The entire left side is an environmental hazard that starts at the tree line (see #11).
#13: 300 yards to bunker on right (250 from Red). Bunkers on left side, tee to green. A section of rough 32 yards wide crosses the fairway 250 yards from the green.
#14: Full-service bathroom to right of green.
#15: 185 yards to lake (160 from Red). If you want to hit a longer drive, aim drive over barber pole.
#18: 189 yards to carry bunker on right (158 from Red).