Wednesday, September 14, 2016

RiverWinds Ryder Cup Rules and Course Information

Please print a copy for reference at the tournament.

This is a team net and gross tournament. Men will play the standard White tees (70.9/126) or the forward Gold tees (67.4/120). Women will play the Red tees (71.2/126). 

Return scorecard with two signatures in person to the official scorer.

Start your trip to the first tee at least 15 minutes before your tee time, earlier if you want to use the putting green and chipping area near first tee.

Food: Roving cart with hot dogs, sandwiches, snacks, and drinks. Snack stand accessible from first and tenth tees.

Format
• Better ball, holes #1-6. Each competitor plays his own ball. Record both scores unless you pick up because you are out of a hole (strongly recommended). Play the ball down.

• Scramble, holes #7-12. Both players tee off. Select the shot you want to play, and both players hit from that spot. Continue in this manner until the ball is holed. Once the ball is holed your score is official, so be sure to mark your ball on the green if your partner has not yet putted.
After you decide which shot you will play, mark the spot with a tee or ball marker. Each player must place the ball within 12” of that tee no closer to the hole and play his next shot. YOU MAY NOT USE THE 12” TO IMPROVE YOUR CONDITION (stay in the rough, in a bunker, behind a tree, OB, on the apron of the green, etc.).

• Selected drive–alternate shot, holes #13-18. Both partners tee off. Select which drive you will play, and alternate hitting that ball to the hole. If you select A’s drive, then B will hit the next shot, A will hit the third shot, etc. Note: You MAY NOT switch balls to play your own preferred brand, including for putting. Play the ball down.

Disqualification: If you play the wrong format on any hole the team will be disqualified. The format for each six holes is noted on your scorecard. Signs on the seventh and thirteenth holes will remind you of the format.

Time of starting: If your partner is late, you must start without him at your assigned tee time. Your partner may join you as late as the start of Hole #13. If you have begun play of a hole, your partner will begin play at the start of the next hole.

Local Rules
• Replace large divots; use sand bottles for divot repair.
• If dry conditions, carts ride on fairways. Do not ride in rough or on mounds.
• Environmentally Sensitive areas restricted. Abandon ball; play as Water hazard.
• Hole location: Red/White, Black/White, and Blue/White flags on green.
• Distance markers: 100 on side (white stake with red top); 150 in middle of fairway (white with black top); 200 on side (white with blue top).

Specific hole information:
Bathrooms (portables): Near #1 and #10 tee; near #4 maintenance shed; right of  #6 White tee; right of #10 Red tee.
Water available at Holes #4, 8, 10, 14, 16.
#1: Drop area for tee shots that do not carry the hazard is located across the hazard on the right, near the cart path. The carry across the hazard is approximately 160 yards from the front of the teeing ground. Bunker guards right front of green.
#2: Hidden bunker in front of left half of green. Bunker guards right front of green.
#3: Note OB fence on right side.
#4: Dogleg right. Wooded area on right side is a lateral hazard.
#5: Keep tee shot short of the 150 marker.
No drop area. Tee shots from the White tees must be replayed (1 stroke penalty) if they do not carry the hazard. Lateral hazard on left 200 yards from White tee.
Optimum tee shot from Gold tees is 170 yards. There is a large bunker crossing the fairway at the 150-yard marker that you will want to avoid.
#6: Slight dogleg left.
#9: Gold/Red aim tee shot no further than 150 marker. White aim right of marker.
Environmental hazard begins 135 yards before the green. Entry is prohibited. Drop behind hazard and add one penalty stroke.
#10: Distance from the 100-yard marker to the end of the fairway, short of the burn, is 57 yards.
#11: There is a hazard that crosses the fairway 231 yards from the White tees, 193 yards from the Gold tees. Distance from 150 yard marker to end of fairway is 25 yards. The reeds along the left side are a lateral hazard. You may drop (one stroke penalty) on the right side of the cart path.
#14: Lateral hazard on right is the Delaware River. Two bunkers right of green, one behind the other.
#16: Hidden fairway bunker 255 yards from White tees, 180 yards from Gold tees.
#17: You may use the drop area left of the green or re-tee if your ball is in the hazard. One stroke penalty.
#18: OB on the right – note white stakes.